Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
All Around the Place.

All AfOunu Ine race.
Insect pests can be reduced by de-
stroying the rubbish of dead plants
and weeds along the garden fence.
Sweep the shrubbery clean with a
broom, brush the under lodges Of the
fence, sweep the house wall. shake
and vines, dislodge sparrows' nests, and
clean up.
Some little burrows or bitches may
be needed to facilitate drainage in the
berry patch this winter, even though
you have tile drains. When ground is
frozen water cannot get into under
ground drains.
The soil is a very important factor
in gardening. Sandy soils are adpated
to early vegetables: the loan soils to
tomatoes and muSkmelonS. and the
muck soils to the nitrogen 1eeders-let-
tuce. cabbage, celery and onions.
Enormous numbers of cabbage and
onion plants of different varieties are
now grown along the seacoast of
North and South Carolina. where the
cold winds make them hardy. and are
sent north for early spring planting.
They are called frostproof, and are
undoubtedly able to resist somewhat
our late spring frosts. One grower
tnlnkS ne gains Two weeks with CdD-
bage by this method.
Truck crops suffer least from fungi in
seasons that open with cool spring and
end with a very hot summer. with a
rainfall below the average.
A big spoon comes handy for many
purposes. With it you can stir up
mashes for the hens, mix the feed for
measure out tonics for the stock And
1t costs but a trifie.
your land? This is especially important
to the fruit and vegeta BILE grower. Stud.-
your fertilizer problem this winter and
get ready to act next spring. 1t will Fay.
If you are not busy now is a good time
to go through the orchard and pick up
and burn all fallen twigs and branches,
since these may be harboring injurious
insects.
A writer in a recent issue of a house.
hold magazine gives some ingenious
ways to identify poison bottles in the
dark and to eliminate all chance of
accident from mistaking drugs.
The safest method is to run a cord
through the cork, leaving about eight
inches of string on opposite sides of the
cork. Then drive the cork in as tightly
as possible, and wrap the string around
the neck of the bottle in opposite di-
rections and tie securely. If that bot
tie is opened it will be opened inten-
tionally.
IF there are no babies on the place
an easier method is to run three or four
pins crisscross through the cork. The
pins sticking into the fingers will pre-
vent accidental use of the contents"
Three or four acres of alfalfa, with
an acre devoted to garden truck, and
another acre to poultry. and COW pas
ture. with a few cows, a hundred
chickens, and three or four brood sows
will support the ordinary family of
five. with enough left over to pay
taxes.
When land begins to need lime it
is a waste of time and money to con-
tinue cultivating it until this need is
supplied. for the economical use of
every fertilizing material. including
manure, depends upon the lime supply.
If this is deficient, everything else must
fall short of it's possible attainment.
Lime neutralizes acid soil and sweetens
it.
Lime builds up soil-it restores i'm
poverished lands.
Lime when used intelligently with
other fertilizers increases productivity to
a remarkable extent.
Lime may be spread to advantage any
time of the year.
Lime and fertilizers should be ap-
plieu dCCoFulHS 10 the experience Oh
the agricultural experiment station,
whose help is always available.
All success in the cultivation of the
scientific methods. The application of
scientific methods in practical agricul-
ture makes of US progressive farmers.
We are progressive to the extent of
applying scientific methods to our ag
work. The application Of
sclentlhc methods makes US practical
1t is economy to use a heavy grade of
woven-wire fabric for permanent farm
fences. The cost of woven wire is
based upon its weight. and a reduction
style of fencing that has the wire
spaced only as close together as is
needed to meet the requirements 1t is
false economy to reduce the first cost
or the renee by using light grade of
wire.
There is no better time to get rid of
the winter months. So long as stumps
remain In the field, one will not be able
to use there the improved machinery
that ne should use He will continual
the binder and other machin-
cry around so that he can get by,
whereas II the stumps were removed.
one could go straight ahead without
Stumps also occupy land that
could be used for crops if the stumps
were removed.
There are several ways Of getting
rid Of stumps If you or your neigh
bors have not a stump puller and you
do not feel able to buy one, YOU NAV
use dynamite. Or. if you do not care
to use either of these methods, you can
dig them out. By all means, clear the
land of stumps now. so that you can
crop it early next spring.
Farm manure is one of the products Of
the farm that is often neglected Manure
when properly applied gives good returns.
1t has been found at experiment stations
that manure has given return of $40
per load on heavy soils. To secure this
result it was applied to a corn crop.
which it increased. as well as the wheat
crops that followed it. Had it been an
piled directly to the wheat these good
results would likely not have been Sc
cured In fact, it might have brought in
the first crop a decrease instead Of the
Is per cent increase.
At the Langdon, N. D., substation n
was found that wheat following corn.
ten loads to the acre, was in
creased seven bushels more than wheat
on similar corn ground, but not manured
And the next year barley grown on the
same land was increased seven and one