San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-05-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
Cabbage and Tomato Plants.

From Meehsn's Monthly.
Many persons set out plants OF
this character in a comparatively
dry time, and in order to prevent
their whiting pour water around the
plants after they are planted. A
much better plan is to make the
holes first with a dibble, and then
fill water into the holes, allowing
the water to fully soak away, and
then put the plant into the hole,
pressing the earth firmly against
it. Plants will then need no sur
face watering, and do much better
than if they had it. Some people
in order to prevent whiting cover
the plants with an inverted flower
pot for some twenty four hours,
which is also an excellent practice.
CUTWORMS.
In preparing land for melons in
the future, the Department of Ag-
riculture says, growers will find it
of great advantage to pillow in the
fall-early rather than late and
leave the land bare during the
winter. Then, in the early spring,
as soon as the grass begins to come
up in adjoining fields, sprinkle here
and there throughout the field
which is to be planted to melons
punches of grass or any other green
vegetation which has previously
been poisoned by sprinkling with
Paris green in solution. Such of
the cutworms as may be present
in the land will feed upon this veg
citation and will be killed. 1t will
slso have the effect of destroying
many of the worms.
PRESERVING HARNESS
From the Rural Mechanic.
Whether harness is in good con-
dition after six or eight years of
hard service or is good for nothing
after two years, depends on the care
taken Of it. If we'll oiled and
cleaned after exposure to storms,
the harness lasts until enough is
made out or it to buy another. 1t
is good plan to keep two harnes
Ses, one for fine weather and the
other for use when it is rough and
wet. We saw only the other day
a harness that its owner assured us
had been used for the best weather
during eighteen years and it was
still in good condition. In that time
many farmers would be obliged to
buy two if not three harnesses. 1t
is possibly in fact like this that
some farmers may find abundant
reason for their complaint that
farming does not pay,
BRUISES AND WOUNDS OF TREES.
From the Rural New Yorker.
Nothing is better for covering
the bruises of trees than oil shellac
with, perhaps, little flower of sui
phur and few drops of carbolic
acid, which last ingredient should
be used very sparingly. The mix
ture can be applied with a paint
brush. For the exclusion of the
air from wounds, it is suggested
that grating wax, made of four
parts of rosin, two parts of beeswax
and one of tallow, melted together,
poured into water and Immediately
worked aud made up into half
pound rolls is convenient to have
ready for use. Hold in the hands
50 that it is softened, a small lump
of it may be spread over a wound,
and it will remain for some time
and keep out air and germs of dis
ease. II the wound is large the
application may need to be repeat
ed.
PRUNING FRUIT TREES.
In pruning fruit trees attention
has to be given to the manner in
which the particular kind bears
its fruit The cherry and the pear
both bear their fruit on short spurs,
and in trimming, therefore, the eff
ort should be to produce a large
quantity of healthy fruit spurs.
Summer pruning does this admir-