Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-03
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Keep the raspberries free from
weeds.
Pumpkins and squashes in the corn
rows are clear profit.
Turkeys do best if kept and fed
separate from other fowls.
Do not kill or sell the best pullets.
Keep them for winter eggs.
All straw and 10 hay will turn q
bright heifer into dull COW.
Continue with seed sowing if you
would have continuous crops.
In summer sixty degrees is about
the right temperature at which to
churn.
Mulch the celery bed heavily be-
tween the plants with fine compost
of cut straw.
Buckwheat is a good crop to grow
and pillow under to increase the fertil-
ity of the soil.
One of the greatest leaks in dairying
is the great loss of butter-fat lost by
careless handling.
Take good care of the young COWS,
that they may continue profitable
when they are old.
Berries planted year ago should
be allowed to bear but little fruit, but
of extra fine quality.
Long continued cutting of asparn-
gus weakens the vines, which should
be given a rest until next season.
In experiments made by the
Arkansas experiment station Bordeaux
mixture proved the best preventative
of apple scab.
A few gooseberry plants should find
a place in every fruit garden, as they
give variety and add to the list of
really valuable fruits.
Tomato plants when pruned and
carefully tied back ripen their fruit
in advance of those neglected, because
the sun can get to them.
If currants or gooseberries have
been injured by the borer, cut the af-
sected canes out, and do it thoroughly,
then burn them Immediately.
A strawberry grower says that the
first plant that forms upon straw.
berry runner is the best, and should
be selected for transplanting.
Dwarf limas are valuable acquisi-
ton to the garden crops. They are
much surer under adverse conditions
than the pole kinds, beside needing
no poles.
If you keep your milk and cream in
the cellar along with turnips, potatoes
and rotten pumpkins, and have no
other place to keep milk and cream,
sell your cows.
The mouths of plant are its fine
white roots. They take up food just
as young animal, and if this is not
supplied they die for the same reas ons
an animal would starve or die.
Apple trees should be pruned so
that all parts may easily be reached
by a spray; well-pruned trees allow
free access Of light aud air among
their branches, which prevent fungi
from obtaining SO strong a foothold.
Tomatoes and eggplant in the green
houses or cold frames, should have
been out two weeks ago. Carefully
watch the elephants and keep the bugs
picked off of them until they are out
of danger.
A dairy writer says that you better
begin dairying with two COWS and
strong desire to thoroughly learn tho
business, then with ten COWS and
confident feeling that you can succeed
as we'll rs old heads in the business.
Improvement in the quality of beets
and i'll the processes Of manufacture is
so great that in Germany the root
will produce ten per cent. of its
weight in sugar. This is encouraging
to those who are experimenting in
this line in this country.
Asparagus may be grown with the
use of fertilizers as we'll as by the ap-
plication of manure. Experiments
made during the past two years are
very favorable to fertilizers, applica-
tions being made lato in the fall and
carly in the spring. A hen with
brood of chicks is the best protection
against the asparagus beetle.
A Kalamazoo mich. health officer
took tramp suffering from smallpox
to the jail, growled because the jaiTer