Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-03
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Cream should be stirred every day.
Have you got the COW stable fixed up
tight and snug9
Good drainage is an important requis-
ite for an icehouse.
The Countess of Aberdeen is a pure
white fuchsia with handsome foliage.
Farmers who have used heavy muscu.
lar teams have found them satisfactory.
1t is good plan to aerate the cream
every time fresh skimming is added to
the can.
A moist atm osphere, shade, an ordi-
nary warm temperature are the special
needs of the fuchsia.
There is some prejudice in certain Sec
tions against the use OF very heavy
horses for farm work.
If the butter won't come because the
cream is too cold, little warm, weak
brine may be the best remedy.
If you sell milk aud it is favored with
turnips, aerating it will rid it of most,
if not all, of the obnoxious flavor.
Sawdust makes about the best pack.
ing for ice, but If it is not convenient
to get that, chaff, straw or leaves will
do.
BY pouring slowly from one can or
pail into another the cream will be aired
and thoroughly mixed and will ripen
evenly.
The efficacy of the Bordeaux mixture
as preventive of the leaf blight has
been proved at the New York Expert
ment Station.
If you churn in very cold room the
cream in the churn may yet too cold; If
the butter is long in coming test the
cream with the thermometer.
The Royal Church raspberry is larger
than Cuthbert, ripens early and con-
tinues to ripen through long season.
The plants are said to be hardy.
If you warm the churn thoroughly by
means of hot water before you put the
cream into it, there will be little danger
of the outside cold temperature affecting
the cream.
German sIgar-beet growers and man
ufacturers use oxen instead of horses for
their working stock, and then fatten
them for beef upon the beet-pulp refuse.
There's economy
As the tillage of wheat, :,a,ier our
present methods, must consist almost
wholly in the proper preparation of the
secd.bed, no effort or labor should be
spared that will help to make that prep.
aration complete.
The money received for cattle sold Is
easily enough calculated. But the ben-
eft to the land which results from their
proper handling can never be told in
dollars and cents. Usually one estimates
it too low rather than too high.
Fruit.growing pays, but don't 60 into
it all at once. Start with small amount
of land and plant good variety. Then
while learning practically the methods
of culture you can also find what branch
of the work is best suited to your needs.
The purpose of all agriculture is to
make plant (or an animaD grow to the
best advantage under the conditions sur
rounding it, and to surround 1t with the
conditions that will best minister to such
growth. You are all right if you are
working along this line.
One thousand bushels of potatoes per
acre, 255 bushels sheIled corn aud los
bushels of wheat have shown what the
possibilities of the soil are. Aud the
average yield of about one-tenth these
amounts shows how far farmers usually
como from achieving these possibilities.
1t is surprising how lightly most farm
ers treat their poultry interest and how
persistently they continue to regard it
as small affair. Yet in this business
lie great possibilities to every farmer,
for on every farm the conditions are such
as to make poultry profitable if they are
handled in common sense manner.
A practical orchardist will generally
conine his list of varieties to small
number. But on the other hand he
must keep abreast of the times and know
something of the new fruits that are
constantly being evolved. BY grating
he may make one or two trees answer
for testing any number of new sorts.
Farmers sharpen their intellect by
reading. They get new ideas, learn all
about new methods and improvements
in agriculture, and the literary part of
their reading makes them better writers
aud talkcrs-sonething greatly to be de-
sired in this age, when our farmers arc
coming to tho front in public affairs.
An Eastern grape-grower claims that
giapcs may be kept from September to
February by following these directions:
Pick the clusters carefully, place in trays
and let stand IN tho packing house few
days to allow the stems to wilt and the
moisture to evaporate. Line the basket
with paratfincd paper So that it will lap
over the top of tho basket. Place cover
on and iasten down tightly to exclude
the air as much as possible,