Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-08

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lated houses are in use the planting
is better deferred until quite late. A
good economical way to grow ferns
for cut green during the winter is to
plant some roots along the edges of
the walks in the greenhouse.
Mildew Is the hardest to fight right:
now indeed there are more inside rose
crops ruined during July and August
than in all the rest of the year. The
rose plants mus be sprayed or they
will be destroyed by red spider, but
the spraying must be attended to
sufficiently early in the day to in
sure perfectly dry air in the house
by night or during dark, dull weather.
This is the time to try summer
pruning. If you never make a start
you will never know how efficacious
summer pruning in the orchard is in
the production of fruit, and 1t is not
very hard. Keep after the mildew
on your gooseberries, with a copper
mixture of bordeaux. Cut the dead
flowers from climbing roses just as
soon as the plants are through flower
ing.
It is better to salt the COWS every
day. Two or three ounces to each
cow is enough.
The man who comes to a dairy
farm and wants to buy heifers from
the best cows is not always your best
friend. Be careful before you sell
them to him. 1t is going backwards
in the dairy industry to let these go.
20 to 60 ~. nd
raising for sale large milking or but
ter producing COWS. AS an industry
there Is no more profitable line of
stock growing than raising good
cows and selling them to the dairy
men who are making a speciality of
producing market milk or selling
their milk to condensery plants
where they do not have the y-prod-
uct returned to their farms to feed
out to the calves that are being
raised to replace the cows that are
annually discarded from their herds
Since common weeds are not di-
rectly useful plants and cannot be
grown for food, feed and other useful
purposes, we cannot tolerate them
with our cultivated crops. A weedy
cultivated crop usually indicates a
careless or an Ignorant farmer
Experiments have shown that the
immediate and thorough cooling of
fresh milk or cream greatly retards
souring and the development of OBJ
jectionable fiavors which are in a
large measure responsible for the
poor quality of butter made in
creameries throughout the country.
No greater mistake can be made
than to assume that the season will
determine the yield of crops, regard
less of the cultivation given. Such
assumption is false. The season will
be a great factor in determining the
yield, but cultivation will also be a
factor. Cultivation may be the means
of overcoming some of the faults of a
poor season or 1t may be the means
of helping a favorable season.
1t is notable fact that a majority
of our farming is done too hurriedly
and carelessly. Most ploughmen set
their aim for wide furrow, to cover
a large area each day. They con-
slider horizontal distance covered in
a given time of more Importance than
vertical distance. Extra time spent
in ploughing deep and well will give
better results in crop growth than
extra time spent in cultivation
When first turning a horse on pas
ture after it has been on dry feed for
some time, it should never be turned
out early in the morning when the
dew is on the grass, and should not
for several days be allowed to stay in
the pasture until it has had all 1t
wants There Is always danger of
collie under such circumstances.
For the beginner to start out on a
large scale, on ideas foreign to those
who are successful in poultry. dooms
him to failure from the start. Follow
the beaten path OF success--there are
Union--start modestly, and, as ex-
perience comes, gradually increase the
flock. Two hundred fowls well
handled will give good profit. Later,
200 more, given the same care, can
be made as profitable; then 200 or
300 can be added until the beginner
has a flock that is a money maker.
Poison ivy may be either a low
shrub or a climbing vine. Study 1t
till you know it. At one time you
may be very sensitive to it, at an
o her immune.
Bookkeeping for pleasure and profit
is carried on by many thousands OF
people in all parts of the United
States. There are many places where
an experienced beekeeper can make
a good living by devoting his entire
time and attention to this line of
work 1t is usually unwise, however,
to undertake extensive beekeeping,
the United States Department Of
Agriculture says, without consider
able previous experience on small
scale, since there are so many minor
details which go to make up sue
cess.