The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1894-11-08
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
An improved farm invites industry
and the love of agriculture, while
money invites expenditures and bad
habits.
If fowls have plenty of good, sharp
will get on very well without charcoal.
Grit is prevention, charcoal is cure.
Fill your hotbeds with litter in the
fall SO that the ground will not freeze.
Replace this with manure in the spring
and the planting can proceed without
delay.
Do not forget the dust bath. This
is to poultry what the bath is to per
sons. With dust the fowls clean their
bodies, drive away vermin and exer-
else themselves.
Cattle will eat almost any amount
of grain if given chance, but there
is limit to the amount they can di-
gest, and this marks the limit of profit
in grain feeding.
The Manuscript record of the great
dairy test consists of about twenty
four Thousand columns, containing two
and one half millions of figures, &C
cording to Alvord.
If not already done, it is now time
to cut out all the old stalks among the
raspberries and blackberries. Leave
but three or four of the strongest of
the new canes and treat the rest as
weeds.
The producer should carefully
study Just what the market demands
and try to excel in conforming to that
demand and put the product on the
market with the most attractive APP
pearance.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
white pine of the Northwest is SO
nearly exhausted that there is practi-
cally no further supply for timber.
We have certainly reached the point
where timber culture holds out fair
promise of profit.
The benefit resulting from the prun-
ming of trees and vines, and the pinch
ing back of melons and tomatoes, has
led to experiments with potatoes. 1t
is said that pruning them to two stalks
in each hill has produced larger tub
ers and a greater yield.
Some dairymen practice packing di-
rect from the churn, doing away with
the working. More moisture is re-
tanned in the butter when this is done,
also more casein; consequently the
butter develops flavor quicker; it al
SO become rancid sooner.
The wild chestnut is rich in flavor
and sweet. A number of varieties are
propagated by budding and grating
and show much Improvement. Why
not devote large tracts to them, and
have valuable product in the nuts,
and still further value i'll the timber?
A pinched-back raspberry becomes
self-supporting and needs no stalking,
if the work be done as soon as the
young cane reaches the proper height
1t is probable that if pinched off late
e in the season, a few branches only
would come out near the top, which
would make it top-heavy.
To prevent head lettuces from 60
ing to seed prematurely German
paper advises to cut half through the
stalk, just at the surface of the
ground, with a sharp knife. The re-
naming half of the stalk allows the
passage of sufficient sap to keep the
plant alive, but not enough for much
future growth
Judicious rotation of crops is
thought to be the best precaution
against club-root. Cabbage or any
, allied crops should not be put on the
same soil oftener than once in three
years. If lime Is frequently applied,
or ii the soil abounds in it, this ques-
} ton of rotation will not need to be so
/ strictly regarded.
The tin cans filed with sweetened
water, and placed at various points in
the orchard of the Oklahoma Expert
ment Station, proved very efficient
a bug traps. Several hundred May
S beetles, crickets and grasshoppers
a were caught. This plan of utilizing
i, these hitherto useless articles is fully
{ justified by results.