The record-union., 1893-11-22
FARM AND ORCHARD.
Rules for Preparing the Soil for Onion
Culture and Harvesting.
The Largest Creamery in the World
Mixed Farming-Wood Ashes
Methods of ManurIng.

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onions, without large per cent. Of scul-
lions. 1t requires very ricn ground, good
seed, shallow cultivation and clean tilth.
will give you two methods for field
and garden, and if you follow the few
simple instructions given for both you
will have no trouble in raising fine crops.
For field culture, top dress very heavy
with weil-rotted manure in the fall, plow
down and roll down very solid. AS soon
as the frost is out of the grounnd in the
spring drill in your seed and when they
are about three inches high broadcast
phosphate of some standard make at the
rate of LOCO pounds to the acre; give shall
low cultivation and do not allow a weed
to show its head. Keep the dirt away
from the bulbs when they commence to
bottom up, watch them grow and be
thankful.
For garden, prepare your ground in the
fall. Either plow or spade in well-rotted
manure-do not be afraid of getting it too
rich. In the spring roll or tramp it down
very solid; prepare lot of road sand or
very light soil, by running it through a
wire screen to take out the small stones;
mix about one quart of phosphate TO a
DQSi1Si, UOM OIdW Jdub TOJO dCIOSS ZIG
bed, make small mark along the rope
with the sharp end of broom-stick; SOW
the seed in this little channel, which
should not be over a quarter OF an inch
deep; now fill tin pail with some pre-
pared earth and cover the seed with it.
just even with the surface of the ground;
move your rope one foot from first row
and proceed as before until your bed is
sown. Take piece of two-inch plank
one foot square. bore hole in the center,
drive in handle and stamp down each
row solid. When about three or four
inches high, broadcast your sulphate, as
IN field culture. When they commence
to bottom, thin out to four inches apart.
Take common table knife heat, bend
the end around, making a half-circle,
sharpen the edge with file, hoe in the
center of your rows and get down on
your knees and 90 for the weeds around
your onions with your knife. Keep down
all weeds and grass, harvest, take to the
fair and get the prize. This is what 1
did.-A. b. Harrington in EpItomist.
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
The farmers of this country annually
use $4,000 tons of twine upon the self
enough to go more than six times around
the earth.
Whenever farmer gets labor-saYing
implement for himself, let him think if
something to save his wife from kitchen
work cannot also be secured.
The farmer that depends on his guess
ing the weight of anything that he may
have to dispose of is sure TO be left.
Pay your daughters wages. Should
they serve half so faithfully in your
neighbours house as they do in yours, you
would consider them worthy of their
hire.
ITad - ,,ot Iooo,, fo,. ,o,.,c,i e.:. -,
ers for the past score of years the markets
would still be filled with the old razor
back hogs that required from one to three
years 10 mature.-National Stock
1t is not good plan to permit the cows
to stay out in the pasture now that the
nights are grown chilly. They are apt to
get pretty cold, and this causes direct
shrinkage in their milk. Avoid all sud-
den changes of temperature, exposure to
storms, etc., If you wish to maintain
full flow of milk.
The habit of eating mutton seems to be
one which must be acquired, not because
people have really prejudice against
the taste OF good mutton, but because
they DO not know what it is-Indiana
Farmer.
The fence law which works the greatest
good to the greatest number is that which
compels man to fence his own cattle in.
rather than to fence other peoples out.
Where this is once tried it is not easy to
pursuade people to go back to the old
way.
There cannot be a thoroughly good
farm unless there is a good water supply.
IL your farm is wanting in this, spare no
effort to correct it.
1t is reported that in a certain district
in Colorado dairy COWS which could have
been bought short time ago for $50 a
head are now worth $40, owing to the
establishment OF a creamery and cheese
factory.
When the mills send out bran that has
been damaged by packing in the bins
While hot and allowing it TO sour. it is
about time Tor the farmers to try to grow
their own grain feed. Wheat and oats
ground together make good grain for
growing stock, and if very fat stock is
wanted a few weeks upon corn meal will
do it.
Straw is not very valuable as food when
led alone, but cut straw and ground
grain, or little oil meal added, makes a
ration superior to either the straw or the
grain.
The man who manages the dairy viii
sometimes complain of his failure to Sc
cure profit and ascribe his lack of sue
cess to his stock, when he is at fault in
lacking knowledge of his business. y ears
spent in following old methods are some
times wasted. II is the man who is not
afraid to learn and who does not 'know
1t alp who succeeds.
The manure from a horse or COW. ac-
cording to experiments made at Cornell
University, is estimated at about eight
cents per day, or S229 20 per year. In esti-
mating the receipts from each animal the
value of the manure should be included.
and 1t may change supposed loss into
profit, as the manure is as valuable as the
crops.
Experiments made show that the grow
ing Of raspberries for drying is very prof
liable. as much as 500 per acre being
obtained. Would it not be well for fruit
growers 10 procure evaporators and dry
all fruit that cannot be sold at profit?
An exchange says that a man VINO has
seventy cows ard 400 hens finds his hens
pay him the greatest profit, but that does
not prove that it would be advisable for
him TO sell his cows and put the money
all into hens. Ii is better TO have several
sails and all drawing little than TO have
only one large sail.
1t is a common practice to put some
saltpeter In the pickle for preserving
meats. 1t has not itself any preservative
quality. but 1t has the effect of hardening
the surface OF meats and thus preventing
them from absorbing the excess of salt
they are sure to take in when picked in
brine alone.
a person cannot expect to do every
thing and do it as well as the require
ments demand. The time was when the
farmer boasted of the number of acres he
had under cultivation, but now it is more.
how many bushels he can raise to the
acre and Of the high state of cultivation of
his farm.
A man who has not the most absolute
control of his temper has no business to
handle horses. IT your farm hand gets
mad and swears at or strikes horse YOU
do not want him. He will do yoll mora