The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-04-13

gain now by getting the early market.
& 1T says: The excellent quality of the
potatoes that are kept over winter. and
the usual abundance that is Sent here
from Southern points. usually hast
brought them of late years to as low a
price when the first natives come in
as they are likely to be three or four
weeks later; and they grow faster il
the ground has become Il little warmer
before the seed is put in than do the
earlier paintings. AS regards escaping
drOughtS, chances are about equal
which planting may escape them We
have seen the early crop injured by
drought in May or June, while later
paintings escaped; and we have seen
early paintings mature, and later
drought reduce the later paintings to
half crop. 1t may be wise for the
farmer to plant both early and late,
with the chance Of one yielding good
crop if both do not. Those who use fer
filters for potatoes, either with ma
nure ploWed in or without it, are get
ting to calling for a fertilizer strong in
the potash element, and are using it
much more freely than they did few
years ago, even going to the extent Of
using a ton to the acre in the drill, with
light dressing of barn manure plowed
under to make the soil more light and
friable, and enable it to hold moisture
longer. Upon land that is heavy and
inclined to bake UP in a dry time we
think that the manure plOWed in is an
Important part Of the work, and we
should not omit it, though we depend
upon the fertilizer for feeding the crop.
The object being to tighten up the soil,
1t should be coarse and StraWy.
Celery and Celerinc, .s
Except for those who want these
crops as soon as they can be got in,
when the seed is sown in hot-beds and
treated as the foregoing, the seed is
sown when the weather: has become set
tied down, springlike. A very small
space will grow enough for family use,
but, if possible, select low, moist soil
The seed should be sown in drills foot
apart, for the convenience of clearing
weeds from the plants The young
plants are rather slow growing at first,
and if the land is at all weedy, particu-
larly the miserable chick-weed, which,
by the way, troubles only the old gar
den spots, it. will take considerable
handwriting until the plants get some
| size. The celeriac, or turnip-rooted Gel
cry, is mainly used for soup favoring,
salads, etc., although the Germans
! make quite a vegetable of them by
enough to set out into the permanent
beds, a foot apart each way will be
about the thing. Those who have the
time transplant once in the seed bed,
the object being to obtain stocky plants,
and well rooted. Any plant allowed to
grow where it seeded sends out strong
| tap-roots. In transplanting, these, Of
course, get broken off and Il multitude
| Of hbers take their place. The more
| Of these at transplanting finally, tho
! less check occurs in the operation.
=. The Corn Worm.
In the January number of Entolno-
| logical News, in the department of
Economic Entomology conducted by
Prof. J. B. Smith, reference is made to
the corn worm which is a very widely
distributed pest, injuling corn, toma-
/ toes and other plants throughout the
country and in the South, doing great
4 amount Of damage to cotton where it
is known as the boil worm'' This in
sect is stated to have been particularly
| destructive to corn and tomatoes the
past season in New Jersey In the
Western states the loss is mainly on
early sweet corn. Corn very seldom
| suffers any serious injury.
1 Prof. Smith states that on the to-
/ matO it is very difficult to externlinate,
! but for corn fields he suggests turning
the chrysalids out by thorough blowing
/ in late autumn, as the pupae are found
/ four to six inches under ground at that
time. This could be practiced in our
fields of early and sweet corn, but
would manifestly be tmpracticable for
| the large fields which are many of
them not harvested till after the ground
is frozen.
l.. Palestine Dairying.
! A traveller thus writes to an ex-
change: Zone Of the oldest things en-
| countered in Palestine is IA woman at
was once animated, having been a goat
in it's better days. Now the goat has
vanished from it. and the good Wife
hangs up to a spike on the ceiling his
skin by the neck and pours into the IN
canny vessel her wooden trays of milk
1 Then she churns by selling the CHASTITY
thing by the dropsical hind legs and
swinging it half around her and back
a gain in Hresome oscillation, as monot-
onous as any old wooden churn in a
! Yankee kitchen. When the butter
"sets" she rests her weary arms and
rejoices, and then she carefully llnites
the hind foot which has served for a
handle, and draws out the buttermilk,
| afterwards removing the butter by
way of the sitted brisket. This seems
to be the universal churn Of the Orient
Whose milk is it? A goats, probably
A sleeps perhaps. A camel's occa-
sionally. I am tired of goats cheese,
sleeps milk and cancels butter, and
when get home shall hug the COW I
see. Dairy England. g. Is. p
H. Il Advantage OF a Sllo. r. ~
A farmer who has silo is about a@
independent Of the weather as man
can be. Aside from heavy rains, notll-
ing interrupts this kind of harvesting
Light rains and showers, while making
the work disagreeable, do not stop it,