building the greenhouse
What Points Are Well to Remember
— Straight R-oof Better Than
Hip-Roof.
*
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker writes that he is going to build
* greenhouse to grow plants for early
setting without heating. He says he
has been told by an expert carpenter
that a hip roof would give more heat
In early spring than a straight one.
There would lie no special advan
tage in regard to sun heat to be had
from building your greenhouse with a
VENTIL /) TOf VEH TIL A TOR.
nmn-m
hip roof, as indicated in your letter,
replies the Rural New Yorker. In
addition to this, it would probably
cost more, owing to the extra labor in
construction, and the joints are more
likely to prove leaky than those on a
straight roof. A straight roof with a
rise of about eight inches to the foot
Is the most practical way to build a
greenhouse, though a leaa-t® house
(as the one slope structure is com
monly called) would not require so
steep a roof unless the front wall were
very low. A very light and easily con
structed greenhouse may be made
after the plan roughly indicated in
diagram in which part of the front
wall is of glass and part of hoards.
STOCK IN THE ORCHARD.
A Questionable Practice—Even Hogs
Are Apt to Do More Harm
Than Good.
A correspondent of the .Farmers'
Review says that one of the greatest
causes of damage to orchards is the
practice of farmers turning their
*tock into the orchards. He says that
he has known farms where this did
more damage than all other causes
combined. We believe the conditions
are only occasional in which it is safe
to turn stock into orchards. The
condition where this might he done
would be where the laud is so sandy
that it will not pack under the feet of
the animals and the trees are headed
so high that the animals could not
browse the limbs. But this condition
is met with but rarely and not often
in the middle west. Our prairie soil
has in it a great deal of clay mixed
with humus and this when wet packs
readily. On our hillsides we often
find bowlder clay, and also in our roll
ing land that has been timbered with
hardwood we find a clay that is very
retentive of moisture and will pack
down as hard as a rock. There is no
surer wav of killing a tree than by
packing the ground around it. We
have known of hogs collecting around
a single apple tree more than around
others and killing that apple tree.
Hogs, however, are less objectionable
in the orchards than other kinds of
stock, for the reason that thpy root up
the ground and this improves the soil
rather than injures it. A small num
ber of hogs may he given the run of
a large orchard and not do any great
amount of damage unless they collect
too much around one or two trees,
w'hich if in clay soil are about sure to
he killed. We do not believe that, as
a general proposition, it is safe to
permit stock to run in our orchards
in the middle west.
trimming berry bushes.
Some Suggestions for the Thinning
Out of the Old Brush—The
Time to Do It.
^ When 1 began raising blackberries
1 cut out the old brush as soon as the
^ crop was all picked. Hut 1 found this
was not the best way, as the wind
often breaks down the young plants
•when nothing is left to support them.
Also there is much work at that time,
the weather is hot, and the work is
disagieeable, as I am wearing thin
clothes and get badly scratched.
1 now avoid all these difficulties by
waiting until winter, says a corre
spondent of the Farm and Home. The
m w ulants are so hardened that the
wind will not destroy them; I have
plenty of time and can put on my
heavy coat and gloves and remove the
old brush without being scratched. I
eelect a tir when the temperature is
rising and the ground frozen. I use
a short Iron hook with a handle
about four feet long. Place the hook
hark of an old stalk about a foot
^bove lhe ground, theu give a quick
vrk, £.mi it wreaks ciose 'to tne rrozen
soil.
Brown Tail Moth Spreading.
“The brown-tail moth Is rapidly
spreading. It is present in nearly all
parts of Massachusetts, Is abundant in
portions of Maine, New Hampshire
and Rhode Island, and is probably to
be found in northeastern Connecticut
and southeastern Vermont. Within
ten years it will probably be found in
New York, New Jersey, and perhaps
in Pennsylvania, and may be even
more widely distributed," gays Prof.
T. H. Fernald.
SEED POTATO CUTTER.
Home-Made Contrivance Which Will
Facilitate the Work of Prepar
ing for Planting.
Many machines have been devised
for cutting potatoes into sections pre
paratory to planting. However, com
paratively few of these have proved
eminently successful. In an article on
Colorado potato culture In the last
year book of the United States de
partment of agriculture, J. Max Clark
describes a machine used in the Gree
ley district of that state which comes
very near meeting all purposes for
which designed. The accompanying
illustration shows how this potato
'“titter may be built. Any farmer with
a mechanical turn might easily con
struct this at home during slack hours
and thus save himself time when most
needed in the spring.
A wide bench is boxed in on both
i ends and one side. It is divided into
two or throe comparments. these
being open in the front which corre
| sponds to the side boxed in. To each
! of these compartments Is attached a
! sack on hooks, and along one side of
the bench in the middle of each com
partment and right over the opening
j of the sack is fixed, in an upright po
j sit ion. a shoemaker's or common
steel table knife.
Potatoes to be cut for planting are
shoveled into the compartments of
the box and In front of each com
partment a man takes his positon.
j being seated on a box or stool for
comfort’s sake. He seizes the tubers
1 PRACTICAL SKKD POTATO Cl'TTKR.
In rapid succession and by pulling
them against the blade quickly cuts
cccb one into as many pieces as de
sired; the pieces are then dropped
into the open sack. It is claimed,
says the Orange Judd Farmer, that by
this indirect method of using the knife
two fairly good cutters can cut each
day all the potatoes ordinarily re
quired for the use of one planter.
Most farmers in the Greeley district
care very little how small their seed
, potatoes may be just as long as they
are perfect in form and true to type.
A very small potato is often planted
whole, but generally even the small
ones are halved. Those coming next
in size are cut into quarters, while the
potato that is just below the shipping
sizes usually cut into eight pieces.
HORTICULTURAL NOTES.
Purchase the spraying outfit before
the time comes to use it.
First-class fruit always has a mar
ket. Only poor fruit is hard to sell.
Spraying is necessary for the con
trol of fungous diseases.—Farmers' Re
j view.
This is the month of months to trim
1 the grapevine. Out off all of last
year's wood down to two eyes.
Get ready for spraying operations,
i Overhaul that old pump, or buy a new
one. Order supplies and "fixings.”
Why not club together witii sev
eral of the neighbors and order
nursery trees, spraying materials, etc.,
iu wholesale lots?
Good idea, now, to scrape and white
wash the tree trunks. If you see any
black knots on the plum tree, cut out
the warty places at once.—Farm Jour
nal.
Better Goods.
It is not thr* relative cost of a dozen
j quarts of tomatoes or peaches or pears
which are home-canned or purchased
from the grocer that so much concerns
; the consumer. It is a question of get
j ting stuff to eat that you have put up
! yourself, know what constitutes it and
| that it is pure and wholesome instead
of probably half-green material, likely
\ colored with coal tar dyes, and all in
all unnutritious, if not actually hurt
ful to the digestive system. The
I chances are, says the Michigan Farmer,
! tha’ i ■■.. figure your time and trouble
as .; y . ,:g, the home product will
j cost a good deal more than the store
goods, but the comparison of the values
j of the two is as night is to day.
Lady Frederick Cavendish recently
j told a story in illustration of the pre
vailing ignorance in »-ertaiu classes in
England. A poor woman, in discuss
j ii'K the propriety of washing her
child’s head, said: “I know better
1 than to do that; I’ve heard enough of
water on the brain.”
NURSERY FERTILIZATION.
Hardly Any Kind of Land Which
Does Not Need Some Kind
of Treatment.
There is hardly any kind of
laud but what some kind of fertilizer
would benefit for growing nursery i
stock. Chemists say the chief ele- j
ments the plants or trees receive from |
the soil are nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash. Roberts, in bulletin 103, |
Cornell experiment station, gives us
these figures:
PLANT POOD FOR AN ACRE OF FRUIT
TREES IN THREE YEARS.
Apples Lbs
lbs Values elements Values
Nitrogen . ..2,9t/7 $4.3li 24.So $3.73
Phospho ric
acid.10.13 .71 7.83 .54
Potash .19.73 .87 13.33 .<k»
Total .$5.9*5 $4.87
Peaches Lb
lbs Values elements Values
Nitrogen ...22.42 $3.3(5 19.75 $2.90
Phosphoric
acid .5.42 .38 4.42 .31
Potash .11.75 .53 11.50 .52
Total .$4.27
$9.70
The above results show conclusive
ly that only a small amount of plant
food is removed from the soil by
nursery stock in three years. They
also show that more of each of these
ingredients are removed by the apple
and pear than by the peach and plum
I quote the above to show the ingre
dients for a perfect fertilizer for tree
growth. Understand, says the Orange
Judd Farmer, this is not a formula
suited to any particular section, or
soils, as soils vary; and some soils
might possess a sufficiency of one or
more of these ingredients, hence judg
ment is necessary to formulate it.
Nitrogen Is the principal ingredient
in plant or tree growth, yet it is
more soluble than either of the oth
ers mentioned, and is much easier
washed out of the soil and carried ofT
by the heavy rains. Nitrogen causes
the plant growth, and the two other
ingredients strengthen the tissue, giv
ing health and hastening maturity of
the plant and also producing the fruit
on plants or trees of sufficient age.
Barnyard manure makes a good fer
tilizer. and when it is composted with
acid phosphate and German kanit, or
some other form of potash, it is bet
ter. CotVin seed is a good fertilizer
for nursery slock. Cottonseed meal
is most generally used in east Texas,
and gives very satisfactory results, but
it contains a very small per cent, of
phosphoric acid and potash.
In bulletin No. 70 of 1904, Texas
agricultural and experiment station,
are the figures showing the value per
ton as follows:
VALUE OF PLANT FOOD.
Nitrogen ...$17.ns
Phosphoric acid... 3. S3
Potasli . 2.12
Aggregate.$22.70
This shows it does not contain as
much phosphoric acid and potash as
should be used. The quantity of cot
tonseed meal and other commercial
fertilizers to be used per acre in nur
sery should be governed by the fertil
ity of the soil. Most generally on or
dinary or poor land from 400 to 700
pounds Is a sufficiency to make flrst
class June budded trees. Most any
land will make as large dormant
budded trees as is needed without the
used of a fertilizer. The fertilizer is
usually applied by barring off the
stock and depositing it in the drills,
covering immediately.
PLACE TO START PLANTS.
How a Little House May Be Fitted
Up to Sprout the Seeds for
the Garden.
, The kitchen window is not a suit
able place for starting a variety ot
garden plants. The accommodations
are not sufficiently
ample, and the
boxes are more or
less of a nuisance
in the kitchen. A
little house, such
as is figured In the cut, just fills the
bll for a place to start all kinds of
garden plants. The plan of the house
is sufficiently shown in the two cuts.
A little stove can he used to keep up
the needed warmth at night, or a
small hot water heater can he put in
with pipes running along beneath the
each, as suggested.
The seeds should
all be sown in box
es. that the latter
may be turned end
for end, as the sun
“draws” the plants
toward the light,s ays the Farm
, Journal. The house should face a lit
tie east of south, and need not be
more than six feet wide, with such
length as is desired. Have some ot
the windows made so that they can be
opened; then the room may not be
overheated at. midday.
Milk of Sick Cow.
When the cow is temporarily out of
condition her milk should be rejected.
The first few messes after the birth
of the calf are unfit for consumption,
and so she should go dry for a few
weeks before the birth of the next call
I for the same reason.
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