The record-union., 1895-08-16

Is properly uralnou. MAKE up JouI iiihU
to attend to it this summer.
Egg plants are very tender. and moth
ing is gained by transplanting them too
early. They are special luxurle5 to the
potato beetle, which attacks them In
preference to anything else. and for that
reason egg plants are discarded from
many gardens.
From 90 10 so bushels of barley is
grown per acre in Canada, and its price
is often higher than that oil wheat. Barley
can be grown in any o. the States IN tins
region, and should prove an excellent
crop to those who have been able to make @
profit from wheat.
For circle in lawn use in the center
bunch of pampas grass. surrounded by
cannas. and larger circle of dwarf n as
turtium surrounding the cannas. The
effect is very beautiful. and the plants
will be green until frost comes in the
fall.
Do not set the mower to cut too loose.
a dry spell will do great damage to the
meadow that is thus snorn. Better have
longer stubble; it helps shade the
ground and causes moisture to be re-
tanned longer. Knives will be saved
also by making higher cut.
The attendant who enters stable to
milk a COW with pipe III his mouth IS
not the proper man to perform that duty.
Milking should be regarded as the clean
est and most important work on dairy
farm, as milk not only absorbs doors,
but is also quickly affected by any foreign
substance
Plaster is excellent in the hills for corn
as starter, ana costs but little. 1t Is
claimed for it that it attracts both moist
ure and ammonia, and, as it gives young
plants a green appearance, there is no
dOnb that hanaIIpi2l
ner. It's cheapness puts it within the
reach of all, and 100 pounds is sufficient
for one acre.
The Dixie watermelon is one that
stands drought well, and is also an excel
lent variety to use. OF the various kinds
offered by seedsmen. their shipping quail
tiles are first considered. The best mol
ons are not always the largest. Thin
rind, stringless flesh and fair proper
ton of sugar are the qualities sought in q
melon.
Inc plst1llate varieties OF straw berries
produce more runners and greater
amount of fruit than the varieties with
perfect flowers (bi-sex uaU. This fact
should be kept in view in selecting the
kinds that are to be used. Some varieties
produce large berries. but few of them,
and also fail to fill out the rows from
scarcity of runners.
Hundreds of horses are ruined every
year because they are not given water
when they require it. There may be reg
uiar times for watering, but rules cannot
safely be made to govern the duty. On
warm days, when the horses perspire
freely, they give off from their bodies
large quantities of moisture, and should
be watered frequently, even if allowed
but small quantity at time.
Lime has been used at some of the ex-
pertinent stations on land intended for
clover, with most excellent results. The
crops OF clover on some plots have been
increased over one-third in comparison
with land that received no lime. AS lime
is the cheapest substance that can be APP
piled to land, and gives good results on
all classes of soils, lts use should be more
general.
a smart team, with plow turning ten
inch wide furrows. will plow one and
half to two acres in ten hours if there are
no stumps TO throw the plow out. But on
rough land good deal less than this can
be expected. More can be plowed in
spring than after summer heats have
dried out the soil, and very slight OBJ
struction imbedded in solid earth will
throw the plow out. We have seen oat
and barley stubble plowed In August for
wheat sowing when an acre day would
be all that good team could do, and the
plow would need new point every day.
One advantage of early planting of po-
tatoes is that the potato sets used for
planting are then at their best. Late in
the season the eyes have been weakened
by sprouting, each sprout taken off rep
resenting large share of the vigor of the
plant. But the early planted potatoes re-
quire much more labor to keep them
free from bugs. The old hard-shell bugs
begin to lay their eggs when the potato is
just out Of the ground, and the first
warm weather that comes the leaves will
be eaten down while the plant is yet
small. Late-planted potatoes grow up
more rapidly and can be kept free from
bugs much more easily.
A pig a: its birth should weigh about
three pounds. At the end of the first
month the weight should have increased
to 10, and it should continue to grow un-
til at the tenth month it has attained a
weight OF 300 pounds. That is, if it is
kept so long, but the most profitable hog
is the one mark eted when seven or eight
months old. The cost of pork is so per
cent. greater if made in the tenth month
than in the fifth month in the food con-
sumed. Quick returns and quick profits
should be the aim of the swine BREEDER
Field and Farm.
The whole host of leaf-eating insects
which feed on the apple-tree, such as the
tent caterpillar, red-humped apple-tree
caterpillar, yellow-necked apple-tree
caterpillar. fall web worm, tussock moth,
canker-Worms, ETC., must be fought with
paris green used at the rate Of one pound
10 200 gallons of water. Other insects
which suck the juices from the leaves and
young wood, such as the aphis, tree
cricket and bark louise. must be destroyed
by the Kerosene emulsion. This is made
tn fhaf fnJl/ e.
soap. one-halt pound (or soap about one
half gailon); bot water, one gallon; coal
oil, two gallons.
sandy soil could good carly gardens be
made. 1t is true that the sandy soil is
easily permeable to the air and is soon
warmed, and it is also well drained. But
it has too little vegetable matter, and the
soil dries out in hot weather, SO that how
ever promising the vegetables may be in
early spring, they prove a failure. Well
drained heavy land, thoroughly culti
vated to fine tllth, is best for most gar
den crops. There are few, however,
that do best on sand. but it requires
heavy and frequent manuring to make
such land produce best results.
The large amount of labor required in
cultlvatlng hoed crops makes it all the
more important that they should be
pushed forward as rapidly as possible
and also in ways that will not lessen the
moisture in the soil. For this reason the
concentrated fertilizers containing avail
able nitrogen are preferable to stable
manure. There is always in course
manure great amount of vegetable mat
ter, which will only rot when the soil is
wet. Under the furrow this manure
holds up the soil, creating air spaces
which dry out both the manure and soil
SO that the manure will not rot. The
commercial fertilizer furnishes nitrogen
without making the soil dryer. This
often means with hced crop the differ
ence between failure and success.