The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-06-04
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

cry pldutS may pS oSt iaeS ti'o
month.
Don't hoe beans while they are
vet. 1t spots the leaves. Wait till
they are dry.
Make three successive paintings
of sweet corn this month, at ten
day intervals.
Get ready for the strawberry
crop. Provide carriers, boxes,
crates, stencils, packing shed, etc.
Do not pick berries when they
are wet; when picked, hurry them
to cool place out of the sun.
For grape-rot and mildew, begin
early and spray the vines with Bor-
deaux mixture at intervals Of about
two weeks.
To destroy squash-bugs, lay
cloth or shingle by the plants. The
bugs go under it and can be collect
ed and killed in the morning.
Remember the neighbor who has
no berries on his farm. Send down
a nice basket of them once in
while. Makes your own taste SO
much better.
Muzzle the horses and pad the
outside portions of whiffletrees and
harrow when cultivating the Or
chard; thus avoiding all bruised and
parked" trees.
File the hoes and keep them
sharp. Stir the soil frequently;
and always remember that hard
crust will form after rain if you
don't loosen up the soil promptly.
Sow cucumbers now for picking.
When the vines begin to bear, pick
all the fruit every day or so. Let
none go to seed (ripen) if you want
the vines to continue bearing.
Frequent and shallow cultivation
should be the rule in the new straw
berry bed; and also in the raspber-
ry, blackberry, currant and goose
berry patches, if the last four are
not mulched.
No grain or grass crops in the
young orchard, please. Cultivation
is best. Stir the soil every two
weeks until August. 'Tis good
plan to throw two or three forkfuls
of manure around each tree, after
rain.
To prevent scabby crop of po-
tatoes, soak the seed for two hours
in a solution of half pint of for
malin Gormaldehyde) in fifteen
gallons of water. Then plant the
seed in soil which has not recently
grown a crop of scabby tubers. 4:
aWatch for the little slugs-dark-
ish, Shiny fellows-that are likely
10 be on pear or cherry leaves now.
Fine, dry dust, if thrown in the
trees, will kill every slug it covers.
DR. almost any of the regulation or
,hard sprays will exterminate this
pest.
Pumpkins planted among the
corn hills are no special hindrance
20 the crop if the ground is very
rich. They are sometimes a great
benefit in dry season; the leaves
and vines cover the ground and
keep it from drying up after culti-
vation ceases.
Cabbage and tomato plants can
be safely guarded against cutworms
oy inserting a circular paper fence
in the soil around each stem. Any
stiff paper will do. Have each fence
about one and one-half inches above
ground, and the same distance
away from the plant.
A gentleman who made the ex-
pertinent the past season, recon-
nends moth balls as an effective
means of keeping the striped beetle
If the cucumber, melon and squash
vines. The remedy is not only in
expensive but easily applied, only
,ne ball being required for each
ill.
The Bordeaux mixture is the
proper remedy to use for all fun.
5ous troubles; viz, mildew and
rust of beans, potato and tomato
lot and leaf blight; melon and Gu
cumber diseases; asparagus rust;
celery leaf blight and rust, etc. The
1alf-strength mixture (two pounds
copper sulphate, two pounds quick
lime, fifty gallons water) is strong
enough to use in the vegetable gar
len, except for potatoes.
-Farm Journal.