The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-31
FARM AND GARDEN.
Points of Interest for Agrieuiturists and others.

Toints or Interest Tor AErtcuitufists ana others.
 For the white grub that is so destrue-
 tive to young cabbage some one says
 Mix one pound flour of sulphur thor oughiy through bushei of hard wood ashes. and give three spoonfuls to each plant.
 Glass cylinders i've and one-haif
 inches long and an inch in diameter.
 known as grating tubes. are in use at the Swedish Agricultural college for gratis and for starting slips and cut tings. and the use of grating wax has been entirely abandoned In their favor,
 The Iowa station discloses of n few old-time notions when 1t asserts that pumpkins may be grown ia the same garden with squashes. watermelons. and mushmelons without mixing. but each-sauashes and pumpkins of differ- ent kinds-must be grown In different fields If purity is an object.
 The National Farmers congress will hold its fourteenth annual session in Parkerburg. W. Va. October 3-i. The congress is composed of delegates from each state and territory. named by the governor thereof. each state and terri tory being entitled to as many dele gates as it has United States senators and congressman. Besides these each state board of agriculture sends dele gate.
 Professor Bailey of Cornell thinks heavy dressings of stable manure or of straw mulch are conducive to tomato rot. The remedy is to avoid these and to spray with the Bordeax mixture, or with ammoniacal carbonate of copper. It is his experience that dwarf toma- toes and those trained to wires or stakes are less subject to the rot and are more conveniently treated with the spray.
 Professor Bailey of Cornell says: Seed saved from late tomatoes Is more productive than from the first fruit Seed should be selected from plants that bear early but not from the earli- est fruits from ordinary plants. Seed from ripe fruit gives better and earlier fruit than when taken from unripe fruit. Plants do not bear 80 early when sheared. Nothing is gained by milling up."
 A study in corn growing at the Mary land station had these results: "The yield of grain where the rows were 3 feet inches apart, and the plants 15 inches apart in the row, was 50 bushels 50 pounds per acre; where rows were feet apart and the stalks 12 inches in the row, it was 46 bushels, 3S pounds The stover on the narrow rows was 5,443 pounds per acre; on the wide it was 3,37S pounds. Where cultivation did not exceed a depth of BE inches, the yield per acre was A bushels, 31 pounds of grain and 3,212 pounds of stover; where the depth was to inches, it was SS bushels. 46 pounds of grain and 3,050 pounds of stover."
 The Iowa station has found out that CD the stover of corn crop is at its best when the kernel is we'll dented and the blades are beginning to dry; (9that the grain is at its best stage of yield and utility when the ear is well ripened and the blade is half dried; (3 the time for cutting, when the blade and the ear must be ,considered togeth- CT, is at stage of growth between the two; D the loss of stover left in the field two months after ripening is one half the dry matter and more than one-half the total feeding value; 5) af- ter the stover has reached the condition described above there is rapid decline in both yield or feeding value of the grain after the denting period is reach ed, nor is there much grain; (6) no ma terial change occurs in the composition of the cob during the stages of ripen- ing.
 Miss Carter, the successful farmer of Holliston, Mass, says of the work in her peach orchard: "The soil is plowed in the spring and kept loose with the cultivator until August, when the seas- on of rest begins. Work after this will produce late growth and the trees will be winter killed. Last year we fed the 1,40O trees with 1000 pounds of ground bone and 800 pounds muriate of potash. In May we trimmed the trees and headed in the tops from four to six inches. This was to prevent their growing out of reach and to increase the fruitfulness. At the same time we pinched off all the fruit buds except four or five on, each branch. This is to increase the size of the fruit and to save the trees from injury in being overburdened. In harvesting the beach, es we handle them as carefully as we would eggs, and sort into first and sec- ond grades"
 Casper Hitler of Lancaster county. Pa., says: To counteraet the effects of drought economically is to utilize our rainfall. This in summer time comes principally from thunder storms. and which, in the majority of years, are frequent enough to prevent drought if the water could be absorbed by the earth as fast as it falls. But, when a fall of two or three inches occurs in a few minutes. the surfaak becomes so compact that the greater part of the water rushes off, and in a day or two the orchard Is in worse condition than before, for the moisture which did not penetrate the soil for more than an inch or two evaporated, and the sur face becomes compact and baked. By making two or three wide shallow basins few feet from the trunk of the tree we can save all the water that falls in them. and by making a few iitches much of the water that falls outside could be led in and saved"
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