Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-10-05


Gather egg-plants before they turn
color, and keep potatoo-bugs away by
hand-picking.
Good butter will always find ready
market no matter how abundant or
cheap the butterine or .oleo may be.
Attend to the cutting of all sprouts,
briars and shrubs, which are undesir-
able and should be killed out. during
this month.
The first plant which forms upon
the runner of strawberry plant is
said to be the best, and should always
be saved for transplanting.
1t is, of course, pleasant not to have
too many irons in the fire" at once.
but it will not be for the best interests
Of the farmers to be of the one-idea
class.
If you have abundance of straw
you have only TO obtain oil meal to
mix with it and add fair proportion of
wheat bran and you have feed which
will bring good returns.
Too much cultivation cannot be
given the cabbage and caulifower.
Keep the green worms off with hot
washing suds, or tobacco tea, before
they reach into the heart, where YOU
cannot get at them.
All the vegetable rubbish on the
farm can be proftably used for mulch
ing the orchards and berry patches.
Thousands of tons of such material
are wasted each year simply because
the value of a mulch is not appre-
ciated.
The Virginia creeper is an excellent
vine for covering fences and outbuild.
ings. The plants should be cut down
to the ground when planted, that the
young shoots may cling as they grow
In the fall the foliage becomes a bril-
liant red and yollow.
Recent experiments made by the
United States department of Asricul
ture lead to the conclusion that the
Bartlett, Anjou and winter Nelis pears
were incapable of Standardization, re-
quiring pollen from flowers of othes
varieties to produce fruit.
One COW to the acre is the old rule.
A writer in the Epitomist deplores the
too large pastures. He advises large
fodder crops for winter feeding, and
holds that as dairy products bring far
better prices in the winter, it would
be better tor farmers to plan for win
ter dairying.
Mulching strawberries to retard
them is done by placing manure over
the ground when it is frozen, aud then
scattering straw over it. Care must
be taken that the manure does not
cover the crowns of the plants. Leave
the covering of straw on quite late in
the spring. The manure can remain
permanently.
If You have large fruit trees you
wish transplanted, dig around them
towards tina close of summer, cutting
off the larger roots at from three to
five feet from the body, according to
the size of the tree. Twelve months
later they will have made so many
small roots to replace the larger ones
that transplanting can be attempted
safely.
In trimming tree the general SYM
metry should always be maintained.
There is often choice in limbs to be
cut away. In such cases the ideal
form of the top should be kept in
mind, and prune with that in view.
As to the time the work should lie
done, it is largely matter of con
venience, but the dormant season Is
probably the more appropriate.
A good crop from ten-acre clover
field would be about twenty tons Iof
hay from the first cutting, and forty
bushels of seed from the second. The
straw from the second crop is of some
value if well kept; and then comes the
fall pasture, after which the roots and
remaining top of the ground crop will
furnish excellent fertilizer for a corn
crop. Cover is certainly one Of our
best paying crops.