The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-03-15
EARN AND GARDEN NOTES.

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The Dakota Red potato is gaining
favor in Ohio.
Lack of ventilation isethe cause of
dampness in many hives.
Italian bees may be distinguished by
their three yellow bands.
The best stock build up earliest,
swarm first and are the best togather
honey.
Swarming is an important'facfor in
the production of comb honey inper-
lection.
The number OF advocates of level
cultivation of potatoes seems.to be In.
creasing.
In England acorns mixediwithhgras
are considered good food afor sheep
and pigs.
When colonies begin to breed
rapidly, supplies will disappear as If
by magic.
Italians produce a larger number 81
bees than blacks, and SO, indirectly,
more honey.
Frames of sealed honey can be given
on any warm day to colonies that seem
likely to fall short.
Bees will ball their own queen just
as quickly as u strange one when she
has sting poison on her.
Well-drained land makes the soil
better. and manures act more readily
and with better results.
OF late years more improvement has
taken place i'll the dairy than III any
other part of farm work.
Freezing Injuries butter, but if it is
to be held long in storage 1t Will be
more damaged if kept unfrozen.
Aim high and breed upward. There
is far less competition ut the top, and
consequently prices arc much better.
Salt mixed with stable manure will
hasten decomposition and render it
more quickly available for the use of
crops.
There is no objection to people buy
ing oleomargarine if they want it,
The fraud comes in when it is sold as
butter.
In the greenhouses where lettuce is
grown for the market sowings are
made every ten days to keep up sue
cession.
1t is a mistaken idea that starving
stock and exposing them to cold will
harden them. 1t will either stunt or
kill them.
A new variety of wheat is reported
at LIE Roy, N. Y. 1t is cross of the
Clawson, and is expected to out-yield
any other.
This is the time to make plans for
spring work, ana to determine to plant
only as much land as can be properly
cultivated.
{ Gather up and burn all rubbish. 1t
, will contain some kind of injurious
| insects which, if not destroyed now,
' will spoil crops next season.
1t is thought by many that winter
is the right time to manure the straw
s berry bed, and that the frozen ground
is no draw back to the work.
The gardener who uses greenhouses
generally plants his first cucumber
seed in the latter part of August these,
of course, are followed by later plant
> ing during the winter.
The Royal Institute for fruit and
o vine culture at Geisenheim, Germany,
p has experimental successfully in tho
), use of copperas as stimulant fol
# plants that lack green color in theil
!, leaves. The copperas should be dis
solved in water and applied near thu
roots in early spring.
4 Sheep are docile, easily HANDLED
>. animals, which will thrive ON grea
r. diversity of food and require less grail
o than any other stock. But all thes'
" points become positive disadvantage
"a if the owner goes to the other extrem,
v and bestows neither food nor care
4 Because the sheep ask little is NJ
q reason why they should get nothing
,e In feeding cattle for growth rough
j. ness can be largely used, but in fat
it tening the ration must consist of
G. much larger portion of grains, and tn
1t grain should be fattening one. L
AZ feeding for growth the cost can b
m lessened by using more roughness
ID But whether feeding for growth or t
s. fatten, care should be taken to give
st sufficient amount to maintain stead
gain.