The record-union., 1895-03-20
FARM And ORCHARD.
Importance of the Garden on
the Farm.

How Farmers Deprive Themselves OF
Luxuries They Could Easily Enjoy
-Parsnfps and Salsify-Treat Cows
With Kindness Planting Sweet
Peas-General Farm Notes.
The garden on the farm is the most inn
portant of all, yet there are tnousanos oi
farmers who do not have gardens.
They deprive themselves OF luxufles
which they could easily grow, and go 10
stores to purchase fruits and vegetables
that are sent from the cities. The farmer
looks upon the garden as cosby, the
work required to produce the fruits ana
vegetables being more than he is Wiling
to bestow. The strawberries, raspper-
ries, currants, gooseberries, early peas,
rsdishes, kale, asparagus, onions, celery
beets, melons and other garden products,
which provide variety for the table, are
no inducement to the farmer VINO makes
wheat, corn, potatoes and nay MS main
crops. There are farmers, however, VINO
know the value of gardens, but the
farmers as class produce but Limited
variety and are satisfied TO either buy or
limit themselves to the same fare III sum-
mer that they subsist upon during the
winter which is not conducive to health
or pleasure. Garden implements. such as
the hoe, rake, spade and spaulug FORK,
are now being superseded. Seeds can be
sown with small drill and the wheel
hoe and hand cultivator will keep the
weeds and grass down. The proper plan
for q garden on the farm is TO grow every
thing in long rows, using the horse noe
for cultivation. By this method there is
q saving of labor, but more space Is re-
Quired and more manure must be used
than when the area is smaller and the
hand tools used.
Seed sowing and covering, which was
formerly very tedious operation, can be
quickly done with d seed drill. 1t Is SIM
ply matter OF pushing the drill at slow
walk, and the entire work OF planting d
large garden can be done in day. The
main work Is In ploWing the land and
narrowing the soil tine, SO as TO form
seed bed ut to receive the finest seeds and
properly cover them. While the farmer
may possibly be able TO purchase some
vegetables as cheap as he can produce
them, yet he can never have them as fresh
and wholesome as he can grow them.
There is difference in the flavor of Iruit
picked ripe and carried to the table and
LudL plCheu pdItlSAly SLeSA aIo t4cAS-
ported a long distance to market. The
same may be claimed of vegetables, both
early and late. When grown on the farm
they are never stale, and 8 selection can
be made OF the best and choicest. The
value OF the articles produced in gar
den is greater IN proportion to cost than
the staple crops, and it does not pay the
farmer 10 grow the cheaper articles and
purchase the dearest. He should apply
his labor where it will give him the great
est return for the outlay, and he cannot
do this 10 better advantage than TO culti-
vate a well stocked garden.-PAlladeIph phla
Record.
PARsNIPS AND Satisfy.
These two vegetables are hardy, and
can remain in the ground where they
grow all winter, without injury from
frost-in fact, a good freeze rather i'm
proves their flavor. The only difficulty
in leaving them in the ground is that
after the ground becomes frozen 1t is a
hard job TO get them out. Most of the
market gardeners plow them out just be-
fore freezing weather in the following
manner: a strong, steady team Is at
tached TO lifting subsoil plow; this plow
Is run right under the roots, and boys
then follow and pick them up. Every
other row is tirst pl0wed out, SO as not TO
tramp the plowed roots. After they are
all picked up the plowman returns and
..
Carrots, long blood beets, satisfy and
horseradish can be plowed out in the
same manner, and at one-tenth the cost of
hand-digging. This is the best way to
winter them: PloW single furrow, run
ming twice IN row with the light two
horse plow. Now, place the roots. each
kind by themselves, in the furrow, the
tops of the roots even with the surface of
the ground. They should not be placed
thicker than four roots deep. Throw q
single furrCw against these roots with
one-horse plow, and then make another
row OF roots, and go continue until all Of
them are packed away.
After they are all put away run fur
row round the root bed to draw Off the
surface water. Upon the approach OF
cold, freezing weather, say about the
middle of Decem ber, cover the bed with
six inches of leaves, and pack evergreen
boughs or brush OF some kind over them.
The advantages of this plan of burying
such vegetables are that they can be got
ten at quickly; they are fresh, being
buried in the earth, and the tops being
on they are kept from willing. They are
kept crisp, and are OF very fine flavor
when cooked.
Where only a few roots are grown for
family use, they can be quickly gotten
out with the spade, and pitted by throwing
out lew spadefulS of earth to make the
trench in which 10 place the roots. Don't
make the trench deeper than the roots
are long. Let the root tops remain on,
and place roots just even with the sur
face of the ground. This is the best,
cheapest and most practical way TO win
ter all the vegetable roots for family
use.-Baltimore American.
TREAT COWS WITH KINDNESS.
The cold rain of recent October storm
began late in the afternoon. One of NV
a 0f
twenty cows, sent one of his hired men
to the pasture for them. At dark the
man returned without two of the animals
which he said could not be found. The
next morning the same man was sent to
find and bring home the estrays, to be
sheltered with their companions. The
owner, kind and humane himself would
not be swift TO suspect cruelty or decep-
ton In others. At this time something
he saw or heard aroused his suspicion
He followed the man at a distance and
unobserved by him. The fellow disap-
peared behind a hill in the pasture
When his employer reached the brow of
the hill he saw that the herdsman had
tied one of the missing cows to fence
and the wretch was beating the poor ami
NAL cruelty with a club. OF course the
unot1ending brute was at once released
and cared for, and the other miserable
brute promptly discharged. / do not
know whether or not his conduct has
been brought to the notice of tho HUI
name Society. But no merited punish
ment will undo the harm this man may
have done to the herd of cows, for it is
probable that he has treated them in
humanity for long time, when out OF
peoples sight.
Cows are susceptible to kindness, and
easily injured by fright and rough treat
ment. A cur yelping at their heels may
do no small amount of harm, but brutal
driver with q switch or clnh may be vat