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Show FARM AN 1) GARDEN. not meet the demands of the roots. the soil so far as it has been disCurrants for Market and the Home Cover turbed by the spade with a layer of Oarden. We have lor many years grown cur- three or four inches of coal ashes, or rants in a large way both for fruit and .saw dust, or loose, strawy manure. Avoid using rich and raw manure plants, and haye on hand at present thoustime something like seventy-fiv- e d and plants. About this number are fruiting bushes or the coming season. The reader will easily realize why we should be interested in this braueh of horticulture, and this interest prompts us to request American Gardening to give puolicy to these notes. Our time has been well occupied for many days past pruning the bushes that will bear fruit this year and we are pleased to be able to say that the plants never looked more promising. They seem to be in splendid condition and a large crop of fruit is almost a certainty. We are at this writing preparing to spray every tree, plant, bush and vine on our grounds, and the currant bushes will certainly be attended to with extra care. They will be sprayed again just as the buds are breaking through. Currants are about the cheapest and earliest crop of fruit to produce, requiring very little time and labor as compared with many others. For fillers, or what might be termed a catch crop, they are indispensable, when grown between plum, pear, peach, cherry and quince trees. They can be grown in an orchard of any of these fruits without retarding or injuring the trees. When currants are fruited in this way it is merely a question of more manure or fertilizer. Every intelligent fruit grower will understand this at once. Under this system of intensive .gardening you have aniee dneome from .your currants, while your fruit trees .are developing and getting ready for fruiting. It depends entirely upon yourself as to how long these bushes will bear one-thir- . w growth one-thi- rd to one-hal- f. labor. It may j tained the result from many hundreds of bushes. We will not go at this time into any lengthy details in relation to planting distances and cultivating, but pass on to briefly describe the popular plications at from five to seven, varieties, selecting those best for mar- ican Cultivator. w f 1PLEHTS ft ifv vh (iv (iv vi (v (IV (IV v! (IV (IV i vi (IV lj (IV $ DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, t it We handle j BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, &c. VS nothing but Good Goods, and Guarantee Entire Satisfaction. Prices Bed Rock. $m (IV (IV dV (IV (IV h Try the Old and Reliable 5 7jS 5 (fV Co-o- p. 5 1J lii liiUlUUMilUUUUUIlUUUUlUlliMiiUliUUiailUilUUtl I WE LEAD A In Ladies Suits, Sailor Hats and Shoes. j , ff Choice patterns in Dress Goods at LOW prices. Call and see them. FURNITURE MACHINE and WALL PAPER, & WAGON EXTRAS, OSBORNE MOWERS & RAKES and Undertakers Supplies. PRICES REASONABLE. Amer- Plenty of Space Between Crops. If a new variety of corn, melon, cu- Care of Transplanted Trees. cumber or tomato is to be preserved in Enough cannot oe said in favor of their purity the plants of one variety mulching trees as soon as they are should not be grown near another. A planted. It is all important to protect highly pized novelty of a melon will the roots from evaporation for at least oe ruined if other melons are grown ,six months after planting. The small several hundred feet of it, or even a fibers must be allowed to form and get greater distance, as bees and insects & good hold of the soil, and large feed-- i carry pollen from one plant to anng roots must be able to reach out, so other. The fact that varieties of corn as to make sure of a supply of food and will mix even when two or more kinds drink for the growth that takes place are in distant fields, is well known. If in the limbs. It is not enough to pour seed is to be saved it is better to grow o n water from above. This, of course, only one variety of each kind of crop must be done in very dry weather, but and then select the seed from the most an irregular supply of this sort doe - 2 Mrs. Addle E. Price. f j E. B. SNOW. American Gardening. . m is now making a specialty of m and those best for home use. perfect-specimens- v v! vi . . Co-o- p i! people advocate pinching in the growth, during summer, in order to retard the flow of sap and hasten the formation of fruit buds. This can be done, but in .the production of healthy long lived trees it is unwise. By following these simple rules anyone can make a success of tree planting. It is very seldom that trees come from any nursery in such a condition that they will not thrive under this management. E. P. P., in New York Tribune. two-thir- ds The Si. Geerge i Some Potato blight. It is not yet fully decided, or at least parties are not all agreed, whethe the leaf blight is the cause of the potato rot, or whether they are entirely different fungus resulting from similar We incline to the latter conditions. we have found rotten because opinion, potatoes where we saw no leaf blight. But it is surely the case that when the leaf is badly blighted the crop is damaged, and there is likely to be rotten potatoes in the hill. It is, therefore, better to prevent the blight by spraying with the Bordeaux mixture. It is mot claimed that this will cure the blight when it has once got a foothold, but it is a preventative and even may check its spread wuen it has appeared in a part of the field. The directions given by the experiment stations for effectual work in this is to begin spraying when the vines are two inches high, and repeat once in ten days or two weeks, as long as the vines remain green, which they are said to do much longer than when not sprayed. This gives a longer season of growth, even on fields whore the blight would not have come, and this result is a neavier crop, A case has been reported where part of a field was sprayed and part left without the treatment. The blight did not appear in either part, but the sprayed part kept green longer and yielded more. The cost of material to spray an acre is placed at about 50 cents each time, and the number of ap- l! SS & ground is to baking and Deeoming impervious to a natural circulation of moisture. Above all, avoid sprinkling the soil with a slight supply of water The care of trees for the first year after setting consists in pinching out every bud that starts out of place. Besides keeping out the superfluous shoots, in October cut back the years No matter how much of a sacrafice it may seem, you should remove of the new wood - each season Failing to do this, you will soon have a lot of overgrown bushes on your hands, and the fruit will soon dwindle in size .and be imperfect in many ways'. On the other hand, if you prune judiciously,, rspray as often as is necessary, manure well and cultivate tnoroughly you ean keep your plantation of currants in perfect order for at least ten years, and one year with another, you will be well recompensed for your investment and ket, 5 Tan bark is in some cases available and where nothing else can be obtained use weeds or fresh cut hay. Tuk application will retain the moisture in the soil, and, what is equally important, will keep the roots at au equalized temperature. Without a mulch, the more you pour ou water the more liable the large, marketable fruit. not be out of place for me to from young bushes that were fsay that planted two years ago (and in a young pear orchard) we picked last summer four and five quarts of fruit, and we ob- fi f j j ; j , ; 0 Wheat $ ei Have you ever used Whole Flour for Breakfast rolls? If not you ss have missed half your life. Try it once and youll never be without it. Give us your order novr for Choice Family Flour, Graham, Germade, Crack-e- d Wheat, and Whole Wheat Flour its delicious and wholesome for the invalad as well as the Healthy, WASHINGTON MILL CO. & a |
