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Show FARM AND GARDEN MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. Blqti rp-to-D- A boot TO Csltlvs-tlo- a Klorl-ealta- ra. Cherry Caltnre. bulletin iBRued wi Nt by tbe nelaw&re if? Z experiment station G. H. Powell sayi: Cultivation oi the Orchard. It la essential to the highest success In cherry culture that the orchard receive thorough e ultiva-tlo- n during Its later when the growIs no ob ing season. There jection to growing small trults, or some other crop requiring frequent cultivation, between the rows for a few years, provided the land Is given enough plant food to keep the trees In vigorous growth, and to maintain the crop between the trees. The mistake Is frequently made of supplying the land with food enough only for tbe growing trees or for the secondary crop. The sweet cherry, however, is a coarse feeder and will thrive on less applied fertilizer than other fruits. When the land is too rich, or when too much stimulating fertilizer Is applied, the entire energy of the tree may be deflected Into wood growth. It Is not uncommon to see cherry trees In garden spots that produce only annual crops of wood. Abundance of moisture is essential to the cherry during the bearing season, especially just preceding and during the ripening of tbe fruit. In a rational system of culture in bearing orchards, the land la plowed early in the spring and light cultivations follow every ten days, or whenever the land becomes baked, and after every rain, till the first or middle of July. The mechanical condition of the soil can be improved and its water holding power increased by turning under annual crops of crimson clover, or some other less nitrogenous cover crop. At the last cultivation, the crimson clover should be seeded at the rate of 1U to 12 lbs. per acre, but not till after the ground Is put In as fine condition as the grower would like to have it preceding a wheat crop. Sufficient humus will be supplied the orchard In the fall growth of the clover, which should be plowed under as soon as the land Is In condition to work In the spring. It is more essential to retain the moisture In the ground in the spring by early plowing and subsequent cultivation than to get the added amount of humus In the spring growth of the clover plant Furthermore, the late plowing under of the clover may extend the growth of the wood beyond its natural period, and result in weak fruit buds for the coming year and unripened immature wood. Where the trees are making too vigorous growth, they may be checked by seeding the orchard down one year, or the crimson clover may be replaced by rye, buckwheat or winter oats. Phosphoric acid is of particular value in connection with nitrogenous fertilizers, as It seems to aid In maturing the wood In the fall. Besides the nitrogen In the crimson clover, 150 to 250 lbs. of muriate of potash, and 800 to 500 lbs. of dissolved rock, may be considered a liberal dressing per acre for the sweet cherry. For the sour cherry, the writer Is Informed by C. K. Scoon, of Geneva, one of the most extensive growers in western New York, that he applies 3 lbs. of an 80 per cent muriate, and 2 lbs of a 14 per cent phosphoric acid per tree either in the spring, or when seeding with crimson clover. pro-throu- gh nr the Way. 4 The drouth across the entire width of southern Iowa has been exceedingly severe. The water supply Is a serious question. Said a leading farmer today: "A rain which would fill the holes in the draws would be worth many dollars to me. I have but one pasture out of four which has any water in It, save as It Is pumped." Farmers are deepening their ponds, and adding to the strength of the dams. In . Many of the young trees planted stones. as Quite the spring are as dead a good many plants, shrubs and trees which are Ironclad, so far as cold weather is concerned, cannot endure a drouth. Cherry trees are much more tender In drouth than the plum. Among the shrubs the hardy hydrangea must be watered or It will die. That fine shrub, the Japanese snowball. Is a dear lover of water, must drink It or It too will perish. So must the evergreen shrub, the Siberian arbor vitae. This habit of these plants I learned by sad experience. Apples in every direction have about all dropped off the trees. They are nearly all wormy, which must be the cause.. The hot sun burned the south side of the fruit and In many cases caused It to rot on the trees. Many of the early potatoes have also suffered from the Intense, persistent heat and re shriveled and leathery. At the The buckwheat crop, though short in stalk, is quite well filled. It is mostly cut The youngsters are anticipating buckwheat cakes this winter with sorghum molasses on both sides, for d nearly every farm has a patch of cane. It la being made at 20 cents a gallon, or on the halves. The high price of wheat has caused Quite a stir on the farms and a large breadth la sown to that grain. It was cultivated In and harrowed a couple of times. Spring wheat does not meet with much favor with us. Chinch bugs are hard on spring wheat There are large droveq of cattle being fed. Two men, whose lands Join mine, one nearly so, are each feeding 100 head and upwards, and there are numbers of others feeding less. A great are many yearlings and shipped Into these parts from the north and are known as northern cattle. 8o far as I can see they compare well with those which we ourselves raise. Tbe Angora goat Is also making a slow headway with us. Men buy them who have hazel land. It is claimed for them that they will quickly kill that underbrush. However, It takes eight wires to confine them to the pasture. Since last fall several flocks of sheep have come into these parts. It is a cheering fact that so many are turning, In a measure, away from corn and hogs alone to other departments of farm work. Hereafter It will not be hogs and corn, and corn and hogs, as It hitherto has been. The creameries, too, are aiding. Within five miles of my table are three creameries, and others come Into that radius for milk. The Industry is largeThe stockly becoming holders are enthusiastic over 1L The secretary of one told me that theirs paid 13 per cent annual dividends; In addition to the milk returned. Perhaps this business Is the first link in the chain which will bind farmers together In a community of action. It Is a waste of the public funds to h buy pine planks for culverts and bridges. As a rule, the lumber Itself is from old, dead trees and is knotty and brittle. I never take a trip nowadays but what I have to drive around some uncrossable affair over a gully or dry creek channel. The floor. should be If It be plank. One three-inc- h or else of three-inc- h h outlast three will plank h floors. To put plank on a bridge Is saving at the spigot and wasting at the bunghole. Farmers should see to It that their taxes are economically expended. Good roads are blessings in various ways. So many farmers would not leave their old homes for town could they always have good roads on which to travel when they visit, or go to the postofllce, or to church, or other gathering. It is a positive pleasure to buggy ride over good roads behind a first-claspan of roadsters. In most cases the country roads have too wide grades. Narrow grades are the things. The ditches, too, on either side should be deep enough to keep the grades well drained. I suppose that I In this townam an average ship, and I have reached the conclusion that the county should do all the road work. This county Is doing quite a good deal, and the roads thus worked are by odds the best. Edward B. Heaton. good-size- ds BmmI Dbwurr That la Wsrklsg Wosdora. The most prevailing afflictions that for a century have been engaging the most scientific skill of the medical world are rheumatism, neuralgia, catarrh, asthma, la grippe and their kindred ailments. The country Is full of sufferers from these complaints. Although the most learned experts of the medical profession have labored for a century to produce a curative, until quite recently no positive results were effected. To the Swanson Rheumatic 9 Dearborn street, ChiCure Co., credit for having the cago, belongs produced the new remedy. It Is being under the advertised extensively trade mark of "Five Drops." The Five trade mark Is Is effect magThe dose. a make drops ical. In days gone by other alleged cures have been marketed with the promise to take effect in thirty days or more. Five Drops begins to cure at once. Immediate relief Is felt In order to more effectively advertise Its merits the company will for the next thirty days send out 100,000 of their sample bottles of this positive cure for 25 cents a bottle by mail prepaid. Large bottle, 300 doses, $1 (for 12.50.) Those sufthirty days 3 bottlesImmediate advanttake should fering age of this generous offer and write them 167-6- to-da- half-sole- d, two-inc- two-inc- ss tax-pay- er nblta of tha Bonse Fly. That we may know the least about what we commonly see Is well Illustrated In the life history of the house fly. They are always with us, but we know very little of their comings in and goings out. The University of Minnesota has recently Issued a paper on the subject not telling us all we would like to know, but still adding considerably to the little we have.- It Is not certain that It Is a real native of Amery ica, or whether It came as a In some early vessel from the old world. They were very active In Minnesota during the month of August Between 6 p. m. and 8 a, m. next day one fly had laid 120. eggs. This was August 12; on August 14 the eggs were hatched, and minute fly maggots were crawling about. The eggs usually hourn after hatch In about twenty-fou- r being laid. The fly usually deposits Its eggs in manure. The maggots moult twice. The larva is full grown in six days, when It becomes a pupa, and, in five or six days, emerges from Its case a full grown fly. Each female fly Is capable of laying 1,000 eggs In a season; a few of the stronger live through the winter as flies, and start the brood next season. Many die In the fall from parasite fungus, and may be seen fast to the window glass. Meehans Monthly. - stow-awa- Indexes of Good Farming. We Judgft of a farmer by his farm, and of a farm by what we see In passing it, says a contemporary. If all Is neat and tidy, fences and outbuildings, as well as dwelling house In good repair, if tools, wagons and machinery are housed and painted, and animals sleek and contented, we are satlsled that the owner (a good farmer and la prosperous. Ex. y. City Man This mnst be a very healthy place, judging from the number of old people I have seen here! Native Healthy? Its so blamed healthy that I guess a guod many of em will have to be shut on the iudgment day Puch. t200cr Brown ticket in every package of Schillings Best baking powder. Yellow ticket in every package of Schil- lings Best tea. Schilling's Best baking powder and tea are because they are What is the missing word? not SAFE, although powder and tea are safe. . money-bac- k Stitfugi Beit baking Get Schilling' i Beit baking powder or tea at your grocers; lake out the ticket (brown ticket in every package of baking powder ; yellow ticket in tbo tee); seed a ticket with each word to addrcaa below before December jut. Until October 15th two words allowed for every ticket ; after that only one word for every ticket. If only one person finds the word, that person gets $ 2000.00; if several find it, f xxxxoo will be equally divided among them. Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard creeping babies at the end of the contest Those sending three or more in one envelope will receive an 1898 pocket calendar no advertising on iL These creeping babies and pocket calendars will be different fiotn the ones offered ia the last contest Better cut these rules out. 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