| Show I 1 FARM AND GARDEN 11 BRIEF HINTS AS TO THEIR successful management im improvement provement pro in currants directions for planting trees plow corn ground early ad vanta cc ot of wide tires tire and low wheels A new currant while for many years there has been but little improvement lu in currants an and d this came almost exclusively from tio t to other side of the atlantic within recent years american fruit growers have realized tho the I 1 great importance of 0 this fruit as a market crop sever al intelligent experimenters ru have made I 1 I 1 a specialty of ouri currants and a n d have succeeded in producing some new varieties of unusual excellence mr I 1 jacob J a c a b moore of I 1 wyoming county N Y the orl originator ina of the brighton 9 grape the bartlett pear and other v valuable a I 1 u a b I 1 a I 1 ill fruits has in recent years devoted himself particularly to the t 11 a improvement RED CROSS CURRANT of the currant of which by judicious crossing lie he nas produced several excellent varieties the best of which lie considers the red cross As seen in our illustration the HIP clusters are long ind and well necked and the berries very large prof beach of the now new york experiment station describes the fruit as of large size stent stem long between cane ind and bunch fruit a shade darker than fay but lighter than chatry cheiry averaging larger than fay ery cry inird sub add tor for a 1 I 1 aed ed currant cluster barg larger er than cherry the flavor is less sprightly than cither fay or cherry Ilai tins trea As many trees are destroyed each year through carelessness in ili transplanting them it is in order to say a few words on ell till this subject in the first place ill all the bruised roots foots as well nell is as alloe turn torn apart and left rough should be cut off leaving a clean straight cut if the roots have been ex exposed loed to the air their ends should also be cut as the line points will lie ile dried so that they cannot take up ill the lie water which they should As little time lime is as possible should elapse after the trees are taken I 1 front from the soil before they are arc sf sit t into it again have the holes into which they are arc to be placed dug a little lower that the trees are to be set alie loose caioli rhon d bo be thrown back again so that the tice roots may bo be left with a few inches of loose soil under them thein as well as above them it takes take wo two to properly set a tree one holds the tree in place while the other ca carefully throws tine fine soil among its roots packing and pres pressing sinz it 11 down it after enough eat eaith has been put on oil to cover the roots even with the tree routs roots in ili place it will le ie necessary y to secure sonie some other soil oil I 1 than that dug flom the hole liola to fill 1111 it up again it should be slightly mounded I 1 BO as to allow for settling as the soil I 1 becomes more compact the tree should be watered by sprinkling liag lowly a 11 whole pillI ful of water for oaf carh it ti tro e it should not be poured in as it will wash the soil and make vacant spaces around the roots after watering mulch the soil and cut back the top toll of the tree to the few buds that ale aie needed to form its first branches S starting Stor tine ig pant although the egg plant is generally considered a difficult crop to raise it Is on the contrary quite as easily grown as the tomato if rightly lightly managed and persons having a surplus over and above what is required for their own use will find the sale of the eggs quite profitable in most markets they bring from 5 cents to 25 cents apiece in ill a small way the seed should be sown in flats about 15 inches square by 3 or 4 inches deep fill the boxes nearly full till of rich finely pulverized soil sow one cl eighth of au an ounce of seed to tile tho square toot foot and cover down firmly upon the seed they require to be kept in a temperature of 70 to SO 80 degrees during the day and about 10 degrees lower at night when they begin to crowd thin to 2 inches apart they should be set boxes and all in ill a cold frame to harden off before planting out of doors I 1 it is not best to plant too caily in the beason pull the plants up with plenty of soil adhering to the roots and set in rows avs 21 feet apart and IS 18 inches between the plants in the row pressing kressh ag plenty of fine moist dirt firmly around the plants and they will grow off nicely with very little check from the operation amerlean american agriculturist I 1 timothy for lawns I iowna timothy grass la Is reckoned rather coarse for lawris lawn j but it makes a sol so BO in uch quicker than do the liner finer grasses that it should always be sown to hold the soil while the other grasses are coming in by cutting frequently with the lawn mower the timothy will be kept from growing too rank in a year or two under such treatment thu the timothy will have run out and the lawn will be much better than as if f it had not been sown at first it Is very hard bard to get lawn seed that Is free from froin seeds of weeds while it is not difficult to secure pure timothy seed seed potatoes there are more than the usual asual number of now new varieties of potatoes offered this season and it Is safe to claim that the majority of them will drop out of fit bight next year to give to another batch ot of new varieties all of which are the best beat introduced it Is well for farmers to test now new varieties but this may be done to advantage with one or two potatoes for your general crop stick to the kinds that you know are am adapted to your soil and climate until you ate aie sure that some new variety Is better I 1 wide tires and low wheels the farmer who has never use used d a low wheeled wagon cannot understand how much inore convenient they are than a high wheeled wagon to husk busk corn in haul baul manure or hay bay they itro anro right down by tho the side of you and not up as high as your licad lead everybody knows how handy it to la to load a n sled it 11 Is the same with a low wagon some contend that they pull heavier than high wheels but my experience Is that they pull just as easy with the same kind of a load even up hill bill on oil very rough ground the high wheels may be pest best it if wide tires wore were used our iowa roads would be improved by every vehicle that went over them we use a four inch tire on one wagon wago n and and id in baubin hauling loads through the fields instead of cutting ruts in the soft ill places aces and leaving lumps to pull over in hard places it makes a broad smooth track if a road has ruts it Is like the rails of a streetcar street car track and a team has to walk just so BO to pull easy or else give an extra pull to get out while a wide tiro tire runs on top and follows the team easily and does not have any ruts to keep it exactly in the same track it makes a wider track in proportion than narrow wheels correspondence spon spoil dence wallaces farm work for hens while fating one of the advantages of giving hens a wide range is that they get a greater variety of oe food and have to eat cat more slowly they are also obliged to take a good deal of exercise to secure what they want both of chesi advantages can call be secured to liens hens confined in ya yards rd in winter grain of different 1 kins ins oats oata and wheat may be mixed with cut straw and the hens be allowed to scratch tor for it in the ben house in spring and summer a small place should be plowed sown with will grain and t the lie grain harr harrowed owea in here the liens hens should be allowed to exorcise exercise themselves until they get all the grain sown or so nearly so that scarcely a spear appears above the surface the insects find and worms the hens will pick up on this plowed piece of ground will make a welcome addition and variety in their diet ilens hens so managed will keep on iab ing until hot weather who when the boulting moul ting season comes on which every hen must pass through once a year the earlier it is over the better it will be for the poulter ers profits I 1 arly plowing for corn corn ground should always be plowed caily and left in the furrow a few daa das s to be warmed by the sun and air before being harrowed down if however it lia has s been plowed too wet the harrowing should be done before it has thoroughly dried some farmers put ON off plowing their corn ground thinking to pet get a larger growth of grass or clover to turn under but the warming of the furrow Is worth more than the lie small amount of green manure that can DO be grown gronn before a later plowing besides Eos idos on any old sod it is very important to have it begin to rot as early as possible ble this Is best secured by early plowing and thorough surface cultivation when the sod be begins ins TO rot it furnishes considerable sid erable warmth to the soil above it which Is just what the corn plant wants blonic clude cheese Clice it has always boon been a surprise to its in that more cheese was rot not made by farmers with small dairies for use by their own families there Is no more nourishing food than choose cheese especially for furnishing strength with two good cows in III full flow of milk a fair sized cheese can call be made mixing the night and morning milk together with vat and press there is no more labor about this than there Is in butter making nna and in hot weather the choose cheese will be of better quality than the butter and bring more it if put ou on the market ux ex cl change iange feed for the yonel yonne pie sows bows do not give large amounts of milk but what they do give is very rich by the time pigs are two weeks old they will need additional rations and these should bo be provided in a trough NN where here the young pigs can feed by themselves give only what can lie ile eaten quickly and entirely if milk is used make it warm as now new milk from froin their dam sweet milk thus warmed will be quite as good for them as would new milk as the last with vill what the they Y get from their dam will vill tend to fatten them 11 a 11 too mu much c I 1 enriching the garden the garden is never so rich that it will not be benefited with more manure or fertilizer keep it always up tip to the hig highest liest de degree tee of fertility arid and begin the war on weeds as soon as they begin to appear out of the ground never use poor seed in ili a garden as you cannot afford to take the risk of failure in germination and as early vegetables should be an object every week is important in the spring for the cropf should get a good start before the dry season sets in It ebing the art of etching from glass was discovered by a nuremberg glass cutter by accident a few drops of aqua fortis tell fell upon ills his spectacles ile he noticed that they became corroded and softened where the acid had bad touched that was hint bint eno enough ile he drew figures upon glass with varnish applied corroding fluid then cut away the ginar around the drawing when IN tile the varnish nish was removed the figures appeared raised upon a lark dark ground |
