+ ASPARAGUS CULTURE.
The following is part
read by Edward Y. Teas, of Center
ville, at a recent meeting of the
Wayne Oounty Horticultural Society:
1 consider asparagus the most
Heious product of the garden, as well
as the most healthful,
stood and most neglected.
My first attempt to make
agus bed was more than
ago; to be exact, in 1853
trench three feet de
tom of this we laid
foot deep and then
and manure and in
roots. In spite of this
pense, we had in
gus for table.
have planted
ralse plants in the
general nursery trade,
plants that are grown by
seed, like you would
yield quite a cutting
the second year from seed, and there
after, enough for all pra
purposes. If the plants do not
too thick in the row the yi
satisfactory for twenty
Rich soll is essent
tion of fancy stem,
pliant should be a
apart for the prope
each. If I were making a
bed in the family garden, ;
have the rows two feet
plants one foot apart in
ting the crown of the
three inches deep. Cultivate tl
as you would other garden
first year. In November
the tops and cover the bed with
inch or two of stable ms
to be lightly forked under the
ing spring. After this, little
vation required, only
the weeds as
casional mulch of
ble, but not every
Mr. Conover,
dener of Long ls
to asparagus
the plants
cultivating
was
markets wi
termed, of such extraol
to command fal
Conover i
his famous
Joasa I, and thi
fead! ne
others
of a paper
de-
least
an
fifty
azpar
ap. in
boulders
bot-
about a
filled in wt
planted the
and ex-
aspara
fe
{he
this
labor
ason
later
dua sf
In
asparagus
our year
1
seeds
nursery for
and
beets or
of young
good
stand
will
more.
ial to the produc
and X
that the
reaonable dis
eld be
years or
ance
development of
ermanent
would
vd the
row sel.
apa mn
the
plant about
remove
itr
nure
iN
they appear.
manure fs
aston:
’
that he
th shoo
$01
we
and Columbi
latter of
OL
green.
bed
g0.
last
middie July.
plants to make
the latter part
recuperate
next sp
Our first cutting
YORI was on April 4
tc have a
months,
id pls
of
A Pri,
of
of
SO as 1
Ins wor
supply
from our rows {
Farmer
POPULAR TOULOI
By far the
rieties
nts. —Indiana
SE
ar
GEESE.
most of the
of geese is
bas been longer
other useful kinds
and is a very re
reaches a
The stand
pounds for ful
olghi teem pounds
ig we ih * is ©
color is gray—in
Hght gray }
rts and fluff
redish orang
As layers
dium, being
African, but
Emden. ie season's
twenty to forty eggs per
two or three years old
than very young geese,
Their disposition is
are lesa troubl
some other
very well
water. A cross of the
Toulouse has been
best all-round cross for goneral
ket purposes for both early and
markets and for the production of
large geese for the holliday markets
The aross breeds are large, rapid-grow-
ing and make a good-looking carcass
Geese are generally considered
more profitable than duck, although
PO pL
the Toulous«
nn exceod
the To
rather
me
than
the
LOUSe raik
3 ralifio
lesa prolific
the more so than
output is from
bird, geese
and
to care for
qu FL tney
esome than
and will get
in a fleld
breeds along
auch
Emden and
nar
late
but
pas.
cause they require wider range,
when provided with sufficient
or small stream. Sometime they bee
gin to lay as early a« January, but us
ually not to any extent until March.
At nesting time they should be pro
vided wtih barrels containing straw
or hay, so that they will nest where
they ean be kept in sight. The first
iitter may be taken away and hatched
under hens or by incubator, after
which the goose will lay another Ms.
ter. Breeders usually keep the geese
laying as long as possible, haiching
mot of the eggs with hen. The eggs
thirty days, and a goose of
will about fifteen
few dave the lable
a
Ble cover
first
chilled, but
For
0 be
Y Are
the
after the first
they are more nardy and require
care
The u al plat 0 Con
small
moved to fre
CAUSE they requir
Besides
fed
are on
1e6Z
s4(]
fore feed:
weeks old
range,
When
and
with
fattening,
fed a mixture ground
Frings 3 {hs} we. ts
beef scrpps, gral
tion
are
diay
propor
1d n Reese reach
ght of
e, and
ten weeks
as a sold
at
The
marke or egin
Lil March. —G.
tia P
BROODING
lasts
and
AAC HUSH yusihiman,
HENS
THE
k breed
2 1 the ”
eps 14 y
ps Ul on
is difficulty
Dear
Wer
grat hn
Marx,
gafe place 80 shou
troved. you would
Indiana Farmer.
COURS IN
HORSES
of. ten the
due to
bad al a se
urd work is expect
horses
Some
is doi
have whole
quantity
Work
with a
main gr
'
ik
food
at he
what
n, and then
quantity
proper for
The same
in half
wants
rain making
experience
the particu
feed should
poon and at night, but
the quantity of water may be increas
ed at night. In working a horse lia
ble to attacks of scours, begin the
day wtih him in an easy manner, and
for the first two or three hours do not
him. Handled in this manner
he wiil probably go through the rest
of the day in good shape, and do a
Such horses should
will eat an
water he with-
the
ration the
has shown is
lar animal
w given at
$
LO
keep up the circulation of the
skin, and the bedding should be
and plentifu: — ludianapolis
A safe now being made for the
Premier Diamond Mining Company is
intended to hold $10,000,000 worth of
diamonds.
The spider bas a tremendous appe
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numan competition.
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er 300 square feet
i y than
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Charles Elliot of East Barnet, Vt,
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of the river ag a start in the business
woven wire will keep the animals
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