ARTHUR HUDSON

Farm and Fireside, March 29, 1913

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Herbs of the Old-Time Garden

By H. F. Grmstead /~\F A score or more common garden herbs, used for culinary and medicinal purposes by the housewives of old, and yet popular in Europe, there are not more than four varieties that are commonly grown by the American gardener. That many of these have no economic value is a fact, yet there are many of them that are considered indis- pensable by those who have used them.

We have the sage, to be found in every garden and used for seasoning sausage and dressing, and parsley, for garnishing meats and for flavoring soup. It would be a sur- prise to many to know that there are garden herbs to take the place of either of these, and in some cases superior to either.

Thyme is a perennial, but may easily be started from seed. Its value lies chiefly in its fine flavor for seasoning soups and meats. A tea made by infusing the dried leaves is used for sick headache.

Savory, both summer and winter, is one of the most desirable of garden herbs, the leaves being used in dressing of fowls and on fish. They may be used either fresh or dried- Balm, tarragon, marjoram, basU and fen- nel are all aromatic annuals, and the leaves are used for a variety of purposes, chiefly on account of their delightful flavor.

Lavender is grown for its pleasant odor, and the leaves kept in drawers and ward- robes impart a pleasing odor that remains for a long time after they have been re- moved. A tea to use for sleeplessness is made by pouring hot water over a teaspoon- ful of the dried leaves and allowing to set for an hour.

Dili derives its chief value when used in pickles and to flavor kraut The seed of dill is the desirable part.

Caraway and coriander are easBy grown, the seed being used to flavor cakes and cookies, as well as candies and liquors. Anise is used for the same purpose.

Horehound for cough-syrup, tansy for a number of common ailments, and catnip are some of the old favorites of those who make home remedies.

All of these may be grown from seed planted in drills in early spring, though some of them, as sage, thyme, horehound and tansy, are usually propagated from sets or roots. Parsley and a few others are bi- ennial and will need to be seeded every two years. Nearly all the annuals will reseed voluntarily when once started.

In saving leaves to dry they should be picked when the dew has gone off in the mornmg and dried in the shade where there is a good circulation of air. Leaves and blossoms should be gathered when the blos- soms appear, as the foliage then has a maximum of strength. The leaves should be perfectly dry before bulking. A very good place to keep them so that they will retain their strength is in glass jars.

Mint, dill and tarragon are more fre- quently used as infusion. To make this, fill a jar with the fresh green leaves and add strong vinegar. Other herbs may be pre- pared in the same way.

The seed of dill, coriander, anise, caraway, etc., should be gathered when perfectly dry and kept in sealed jars or packages.

Land-Marking T)evices

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(A), by sawing from a Ikt-inch board a disk 16 inches in diameter, and from a 2-inch plank two other wheels each 1 foot in diameter ; fasten the two 1-foot wheels on sides of the 16-inch wheel and put on axle of about 2x2-inch material 7 or 8 inches long. Drive pins in ends of axle, as in cross-section (B). Make a frame of handles and crosspieces to hang the wheel in, and

Fig. 4 — A simple single-row marker

if desired put a floor on like a wheelbarrow. When ground is well harrowed or rolled, the marker will make a tapering track in which plants can be set rapidly ; the center wheel (A) is sharpened on projecting edge, and the outside wheels keep it from entering too deep, and also serve to compact the ground around the track. Weight it with stones. If you wish to indicate the distance apart to set plants, nail small cleats on edges of one or both outside wheels, to make indentations the required distance apart along the row.

Success with Tomatoes

By J. F. Williams AVIXG grown tomatoes with almost uni- form success for some ten or twelve years, I take keen delight in giving some of my experiences with this vine fruit.

Contrary to 'he too common advice I have found by repeated trials that stable manure is a good thing for tomatoes.

I used to put a large shovelful of well- rotted manure under each plant, thoroughly mixing it with soil. I now prefer thoroughly manuring my soil for sweet corn or cabbage

and plant to tomatoes the following season, using a liberal dressing of commercial fer- tilizer strong in acid phosphate, broadcasted before setting plants.

I usually get potted plants of a florist, set early in May, and give good, deep culti- \ation. often spading all the space between rows and hills.

For early market I like the Earliana type ; June Pink best of all. For the main crop of medium and late sorts nothing suits me quite so well as Matchless.

Whether to stake or let spread depends much upon the season. In 1911 I made the best money per plant I have ever made, with- out any stakes or trellises. Last season I staked most of my crop, and was fortunate again, for the spreading vines made almost nothing. I expect to stake them all here- after.

Bean- Vines as Screens

By Cora J. Sheppard 'T'O THE east of our garden was an unused brick building which we did not consider very attractive, and I secured permission from the owner of the land near it to use it for Limas. There was room for about fifty hills. And who ever had too many Lima beans ? We want them very early, and this is the way we get them ahead of other people.

We melt the tops and bottoms off old tin cans, place them in the cold-frame, fill with

The bean-vines described, ornamental and profitable

dirt and plant our beans very early. They have a good start by the time all danger from frost is over and it is safe to set them in the garden. These very early beans are greatly enjoyed at the home table.

We have sold the surplus of our very early beans for as high as fifty cents a quart. We never tire of them on the home table and are sorry when the fall frosts come to kill them.

^^ hen we are sure there is going to be a heavy frost, we pull the vines and put them under cover and finish picking the beans as we need them.

Bean-vines, as shown in the picture, are graceful and pretty and make good screens for unsightly places.

By T. Greiner 'T'HE old Wilson is the strawberry which the canners prefer. Warfield is much like the Wilson, and may go under that name. Climax, Superior, Parson's Beauty and Candy are used to some extent. Senator Dunlap is good. Brandywine, one of the finest, does not stand up well in the can.

Among raspberries, the canners call for Cuthbert, for fancy trade, and Columbian, for the cheaper trade. Cumberland and Plum Farmer are preferred among the black- caps, and Erie among blackberries.

Lice on roosts can be killed by spraying with kerosene.

We hear of this or that public man being given an ovation, but few ovations arc out- and-out gifts any more.

The Tent Caterpillar

By Clarence M. Weed

'HE apple-tree tent cater- pillar is one of the most abundant insect pests in the Middle and Eastern States. During April and May it is found along roadsides and in orchards on apple and wild cherry trees, making un- sightly tent-like nests and eating the foliage ravenously. During the winter these cater- pillars are on the tree-twigs. Early in spring they hatch and begin feeding on the buds or young leaves, making also a silken tent in the fork of a branch for protectiorL As they grow the tent is made larger. The caterpillars remain in it when not feeding. The illustration shows the moth of the tent caterpillar, about half-size.

These caterpillars have rather regular times for their meals, leaving the nest and returning to it in processions. They feed for about six weeks before becoming full- grown caterpillars, and when abundant will defoliate whole trees. At this time they are about two inches long, with a hairy body, ornamented with a distinct white stripe along the middle of the back. Along each side there are many yellow lines as well as numerous spots and streaks of blue.

From Cocoon to Moth

Most of the full-grown caterpillars leave the tree and crawl about till they find shel- ter beneath a board or stone or something else. Here each spins an oval silken cocoon, and then, on the inside of the cocoon, it changes to a pupa, or chrysalis. Two or three weeks later it changes again from a pupa into a brown moth that lays eggs in clusters on the tw-igs. These eggs remain unhatched until the following spring.

These tent-caterpillar nests are readily seen. When small the nests and caterpillars are easily crushed with a swab of cloth on the end of a stick. Later the operation is a little more troublesome, but still easily done. This is really better than burning them, because the burning often causes manj' to fall to the ground and escape, and also often injures the bark of the tree. In orchards that are regularly sprayed with arsenate of lead for the coddling-moth, these and other leaf-eating caterpillars will be killed.

The Canker or "Measuring" Worm

By Clarence M. Weed nPHE canker-worm has lotig been known as one of the most destructive orchard in- sects. It often ruins the leaves of apple- trees by feeding upon the green surfaces. The young worms hatch in spring from eggs laid upon the bark of the twigs, branches or trunk. They are green or brown, striped with darker lines. On the under side ^ust back of the head there are six jointed legs with sharp claws. Near the hind end of the body are four or six blunt legs. There are no legs whatever on the middle of the body.

Consequently, when the worm moves, its body assumes the shape of a hump or hook, so that it is often called a looping cater- pillar or a measuring-worm.

These canker-worms have the power of spinning a silken thread from the mouth. If you jar a twig on which they are feeding, they drop toward the ground, each hanging by a thread.

The worms that hatch from eggs as the leaves open continue feeding for about six weeks, when they become full-grown cater- pillars and change to the pupa state.

Fortunately these canker-worms are readily poisoned by spraying and cause no damage in orchards that are sprayed.

Now for an Asparagus-Patch

By T. Greiner

fY ASPAR.\GUS has never failed, and it yields plentifully during its season, year after year. If you never had a patch of asparagus, you can hardly know how much j-ou have been missing. Select your spot for a long row, say at least fifty plants eighteen to twenty-four inches apart, oif one side of the garden. Make it rich. Dig it deep. And next fall or in early sprins set good strong, one-year plants, which you can procure at small cost from a near nursery- man or plantsman.

Set them six to eight inches deep, gradu- ally filling the furrow until on a level with the general surface. Keep free from weeds right along, cut no stalks the next season, and you will have a full allowance the year after ! My own new asparagus-bed gave its first full crop last year. .As it is just in a straight single row, several hundred feet long, it was an easy matter to keep it free from weeds by occasional violent cultivation with one-horse plow and horse cultivator, helping out with the hoe when needed. The next thing now is to pile on the manure, good old manure, and plenty of it, so as to stimulate the growth from now to the end of the growing season as much as possible, and get the plants in shape to give us a big yield of fat stalks next spring.

The Copenhagen Market Cabbage

By J. R. Bechtel T^HE Department of Horticulture of the * Pennsylvania State Experiment Station has during the past few years been carrying on extensive strain tests in a number of varieties of cabbage. Prof. C. E. .Meyers, who has been in charge of this work, has secured results which will be of great benefit to the cabbage-growers of the country.

In this connection a new variety of "early cabbage called "Copenhagen Market"' was tried out. A comparative test was under- taken by Professor Meyers i> 1912 to deter- mine the relative yields of the best strains of Early Jersey Wakefield, which were deter- mined in a previous experiment, and the Copenhagen Market. The results showed that the Copenhagen Market yielded over five tons per acre at first cutting, which was over a ton more than the best strain of Early Jersey Wakefield, a fact which no grower of early cabbage can idly pass by.

Copenhagen Market is just as early as Jersey Wakefield, has a large, round, hard, solid head, with a short stem. The average weight per head is about eight pounds, and, unlike Wakefield, it seldom bursts.

Professor Meyers thinks that the excep- tional characteristics of the Copenhagen Market with respect to yield, size of head and quality place it foremost in the list of early cabbages, and that it will soon be regarded so by the growers of the country.

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I Live Stock and Dairy |

Feeding Ewes for Milk Production

By J. Robt. Hall

FEEDING ewes to produce a sufficient quantity of milk for lambs is no easy task on the part of both the manager and the feeder of a flock of ewes to pro- duce early Iambs. The late lambs can easily be provided for if there is sufficient quantity of grass for the mother, but when the lambs come early and there is no succulent food growing and nothing to take its place the conditions are serious if the weather is severe.

Last spring we lost many ewes just on account of too much dry food and a lack of exercise, as little range could be pro- vided in such adverse weather. The fetus grew, and the abdominal cavity became smaller near lambing-time. Then the lack of succulent food caused impaction of the lower bowel, and death ensued. Some that did not die before parturition took place brought small, weak or dead lambs.

The Ewes Had Little Milk

These weak ones were often hard to get to nurse, as the mother did not see the need of it and would not stand still for the opera- tion, as she had little or no milk, and con- sequently there was no pressure in the udder to be relieved. Often the last resort was to take the little ones to the house or warm room in the barn and feed them a quantity from the bottle to strengthen them. Some of them never would be owned again, so the nourishment had to be administered in this manner till grass came or the lambs died, which happened in many cases.

If the mother has been fed and cared for properly, she will have a well-filled udder which when emptied by the lamb will be quite a relief, and she will be glad to let it nurse without resistance. This is the cause of fifty per cent, of the cases where the ewe will not own her offspring. To see such cases is very unsatisfactory and provoking, and often we blame the ewe when the blame should rest on the feeder. Often if she does own it she will not be glad to, and it will die if not exceptionally strong at birth.

Some Good Root Feeds

As to the feed, many have been success- . ful without the use of a supplement for the grass, but better success has been attained where it has been used. The feed that will supplement the cooling grass that gives free action to the bowels and entire system is a root crop. Some of the best are the ruta- baga, mangel-wurzel and the fall turnip. Of these probably the rutabaga is the most readily eaten, but on the other hand the mangel-wurzel is more easily grown and harvested. These must be chopped up welj and fed on some smooth surface near the floor, as a sheep may become choked if fed from a trough too high. Each ewe may be allowed as much as four pounds.

Sheep fed on root crops do not require much water, but a little is necessary and should be available at all times.

Grain and Roughage

As to grain, each ewe should be allowed about one-half pound daily. Bran, oats, corn, oil-meal or some grain of their nature may be used, but corn should constitute a very small part of it, as it is a carbonaceous food producing fat, of which a small amount is desired. Yet the ewe must be in extra good condition just before lambing-time. Their appearance at this time is very de- ceiving, as they look full and rounded when they are really poor.

Roughage may be supplied by feeding clover, alfalfa or cow-pea hay. If the cow- peas have been cut when very ripe, less grain will be required, as the ripe beans will afford some rich feed, which is very much desired, in small quantities of course.

Feeding Points Worth Remembering

Fodder may be supplied in the ration, but should not be used to take the place of any of the legumes. It is very good to scatter in the field near by for them to pick over in order to get the desired amount of exercise. Corn-fodder alone will cause the produc- tion of small weak lambs and a small amount of milk ; while on the other hand bran will produce large flabby lambs which will cause much labor pain at parturition and fre- quently the death of the lamb. A small amount of salt should be given at regular intervals.

Above all things have the quarters dry and well ventilated so the flock may not have wet feet or a wet coat. Cut away all tags ^before the lambs drop so that they may not experience any difficulty in getting their first meal.

At the time the lamb is dropped have the ewe to herself so the lamb will not be dis- turbed or lost, and the mother will be more likely to own it. Withhold the feed for a feeding period or so. Then feed her as be- fore, only with a slight increase in the

amount. Give her all the exercise the Iamb will permit her to take, but don't expose them to severe weather till the Iamb has a few days' growth of wool.

In taking care of and feeding one hun- dred ewes each season we use the above method and get results which are pleasing. The results are much like the lambs shown in the illustration.

Many feed them on corn-fodder and de- pend on rye or wheat, but at the time that we need the latter most it is not available, and under such conditions I would advise the purchasing of the grain and leguminous hay if the best of success is expected. The

Lambs at market, bought at top prices

beets will not be on the market, but prepare to have them next winter by planting a patch this spring.

The Result of Inadequate Feeding

Owing to a lack of grain and haj- with the proper nitrogen content and our hesita- tion when it came to paying the high price of a previous season for it, we received the following results: 120 ewes brought 148 lambs, saving only 43 of them. Sixteen of the ewes died. About all that the ewes needed was good hay in a sufficient quantity and the succulent food, the beets. After this disastrous affair we decided the only way we could make the sheep account show a balance on the credit side was to feed a car-load of lambs on cow-peas in the corn. This was done, and the sheep account showed a balance on the credit side of $30.

Had we been wise enough at the time to have invested in a few tons of alfalfa our returns would have been much larger and our satisfaction greater. Sometimes our experience costs us a great deal so let us not fail to remember and profit by it each time.

Mares or Geldings?

By John P. Ross N NEARLY every business there are apt to be certain economies and sources of profit or loss which, seemingly from their very obviousness, are overlooked. On most farms some such lapses from intelligent management are to be found, and among them none is more productive of loss than

of mares.

It is quite certain that without an ade- quate amount of live stock it is impossible to obtain the best results from the cultiva- tion of any description of soil ; and it seems a platitude to say that wherever horse- power is required mares will be preferred by the intelligent farmer, since at very little additional cost they will, if put to breeding, add a m.ost valuable item to the farm's live stock, at the same time doing its work as well and often better than geldings.

Light Work is Beneficial

Among those who have had but little experience in horse-breeding there is often to be found the idea that mares when bred are for a considerable period rendered in- capable of performing their regular farm work. As a matter of fact, if due foresight has been used so that parturition shall take place after the heavy work of the farm is over for the winter, say in November or early December, the mare will be profitably employed in caring for her offspring until spring opens. Light work is beneficial rather than injurious to tht pregnant mare almost up to the day of foaling. In careful hands she may even be used for any slow, heavy work to which she is accustomed to within a month of that time.

Love of Animals vs. Love of City

There is a good reason for saying that breeding of colts is a source of pleasure as well as profit. It may be regarded as a sentimental one, but it has a solid foundation of real value. Did you ever meet an Ameri- can lad or lassie who could resist the charm of possessing and caring for a young colt if the chance was offered them ? I have even known a bright little girl to be des- perately fond of a small pig.

English farmers take advantage of this and leave the care and training of the colts, some of which are to be found on every farm over there, to the younger members of the family. They know that the love for animals thus encouraged does much to as- suage the desire for city life, which, with us, amounts to a real danger to the country's welfare and is a problem still unsolved.

Curing Hams and Bacon

By H. F.Grinstead "THE average country bacon is not good enough for the most fastidious, yet an article much better than the average may be made at home by the farmer and house- keeper. When a hog is killed, the weather should be barely freezing of nights if this is practicable. It is a common practice to pick the coldest weather for butchering, when a light freeze will cool the meat sufficiently, and thus it is more pleasant to trim the meat the morning after. If extremely cold, the meat will have to be trimmed and salted at once before frozen. When trimmed, salt at once.

I have never found it necessary to weigh the meat, but mix the salt with saltpeter and brown sugar in the proportion of two pounds of sugar and two ounces of saltpeter to every ten pounds of salt. Rub each piece of meat well with this, and place in a box or on a table. In a day or two take it up and apply more salt, covering the flesh side of each piece with salt till it is white. If there is no cold weather sufficient to freeze the meat hard, it will take salt in three weeks, th 5Ugh if the weather is severe it will take longer. It may be tried by cutting one of the shoulders, which are usually eaten first. When taken out of the salt, it should be dipped in boiling water for half a minute, then hung and smoked with chips or corn- cobs. When smoked, dip each piece again to destroy the eggs of any insects that may have been deposited, then powder with borax, and put away in clean hay or shelled oats or ashes. Keep in a cool, dry place, and you will have bacon that will keep sweet a year. It is important that the meat is taken out of the salt in time and that it is kept dry. It may be kept in sacks hung in the smoke-house, but a dry substance like hay is preferred, as it takes up all surplus moisture.

When sausage is ground, it may be kept SAfeet till midsummer by frying till done and packing in jarS, pouring melted lard oved it. Do not use the grease in which it has been fried, since this contains some water and will cause it to become strong.

The soil ought to be a bank, not a mine ; a place where we can make deposits in order that we may get interest. We can't get the interest otherwise.

Provide a box of dust for the hens when the ground is wet or frozen, and a little sulphur added to the dust will enable Biddy to taKe a sulphur bath at home.

Live-Stock Facts and Fads

By John P. Ross

T IS sad to think of the number of speak- ers and writers who have become gray- headed while urging, with little apparent effect, the absolute necessity of live stock if the fertility of the soil is to be main- tained. The simple truth that the corn and the oats and the hay pay best when carried off the farm on the hoof instead of in the wagon has met with but scanty belief up to the present time, and that the supply of hum.us cannot be maintained by artificial fertilizers aione has too often been regarded as a scientific fad fit only for the ears of the effete nations of Europe.

But a brighter day is dawning, for no man in his senses will now, in face of pres- ent prices, contend that he cannot aft'ord to keep cattle and sheep on high-priced land, nor will the farmers of the corn belt or of the Eastern States be able any longer to plead that they cannot compete with the range men in feeding and breeding sheep and cattle. The "tables have turned." and the homesteader is rapidly turning the great free pastures into farms. It is certain, too. that the farmer who fails to keep a fair amount of live stock will be regarded as a back number, and his farm will be in danger of returning to the wilderness.

Cheapest As Well As Best

Every sensible person wants the best of everything, but in many things the best is beyond their means and they must necessarily be content with something less. In the case of the Cream Separa- tor, however, the best is fortunate- ly the cheapest as well, and it is of the greatest im- portance that every buyer of a separator should know this.

Moreover, the best is of more importance in the case of the Cream Separator than in an3rthing else, since it means a saving or a waste twice a day every day in tlie year for many years.

It is true that DE LAVAL Sepa- rators cost a httle more in first price than some inferior separators, but that counts for nothing against the fact that they save tlieir cost every year over any other sepa- rator, while they last an average twenty years as compared with an average two years in the case of other separators.

And if first cost is a serious con- sideration a DE LAVAL machine may be bought on such hberal terms that it will actually save and pay for itself.

These are all important facts which every buyer of a Cream Separator shotild understand and which every local DE LAVAL agent is glad to explain and demon- strate to the satisfaction of the intending buyer.

If you don't know the nearest DE LAVAL agent please simply address the nearest of our main offices as below.