Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-12-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

AMI dhhDEN NUTES.
It pays to consider mutton first and
wool afterward.
Potash may be had in wood ashes
and muriate of potash.
Tillage should be begun Just as soon
as the ground is dry enough in spring.
A stable should be so built that a
horse would not need to stand blan.
keted. /
Good drainage, natural or artificial,
is essential to success. Trees are i'm
patient of wet feet.
1t is not wise to make horse so
tender that he will be liable to colds
and discomfort when taken out.
Well-drained lands are dryer in wet
spells and moster in dry spells than
other lands They can be worked
earlier in spring.
II man is good grass and grain
grower, he would better manufacture
these products into meat upon his
farm, that he may have the ultimate
profit from both branches of his busi-
ness.
Stock raisers have the matter of
prices in their own hands to greater
degree than any other class of farmers,
| for by good selection and feeding they
can produce just what the market
wants.
There is danger that more head of
cattle will be kept than can be well
fed. Only the farmer who has outside
range of lands in excess of his needs.
for tillage should endeavor to raise all
his calves.
When all orchardists recognize the
necessity of spraying the fruit trees,
the large crops of fruit will be had
again which we were accustomed to
before fungi, Goblin moths, ETC., were
as destructive as they are at the pres
ent day.
Geraniums not required IN pots
through the winter may be turned out
of them, packed closely in box Of.
earth and kept in cool cellar all win
ter. Give them scarcely any water, or
it will start them growing. which is
not desirable.
Do not trim the shrubs after mid
summer or there will be no flowers
next year. It is the wood of this sea-
son which flowers next year, and this
must not be lost. Pruning should be
done Immediately after it has COM
menced Towering,
If one plant among many more of
the same kind shows disposition to
bloom earlier than the others, seeds
should be saved from it, as it is often
possible to fix character such plants
seem inclined to assume. Many val
liable race has been started in this
manner.
In the attempt to renovate an old
farm which one has recently bought,
on which there may be many washed
and impoverished spots, do not put
the available manure on these, but go
to work systematically and improve
one field at q time, SO that it will yield
paying crop. Fertilize one field
we'll and then extend to other fields.
Much garden work done in the fall
is SO much saved from spring. One Of
the important operations is the appli-
cation of manure to fruit and orna-
mental trees, small fruit, asparagus,
rhubarb, etc. Manure is cheaper and
in less demand than it will be in the
spring. Furthermore, the fall is really
the most fitting season to put it on.
A colt four months old should be
taught to eat oats and bran with the
dam, then weaned. His ration after
weaving may be three pounds cut
clover hay, one pound good oats,
, three pounds wheat bran, one. fourth
! pound linseed meal. Moisten the cut
! clover, then mix all together, and feed
, half morning, the other half at night.
, Many gardens with heavy soil will
/ be improved by fall plowing 1t is dry
' now and the work can be we'll done.
' The ground will be left loose, SO that
: it can be worked earlier in the spring
3 than otherwise. OF course a thorough
: cleaning should be given the garden.
s All the weeds, trimmings of trees, etc.
g should be collected in heap and
s burned, for it is we'll known that the
k eggs and larya of insects harbor in
Q such truck.