THE GARDEN. Kitchen Garden.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 187, 15 January 1887, Page 1

THE GARDEN. Kitchen Garden.

water;let it stand in such for a few minutes. Look after insects, keep them under, still continue the shading of the house every day. Garden Notes. Deep tillage tneane enla'ged resources when practised in heavy lands. In putting up fruit for the market it is wise to have character uniform from top to bottom of package. Heavy winds that shake off a great deal of fruit do not always diminish yield, for what is left grows larger, sometime so much superior in size and appearance as to overbalance all apparent loss. Weed and hoe the onions, peas and all of the garden vegetables, harrow the potatoes again, replant the corn and commence ploughing it the ve»y day it is large enough. Keep the ground which the crops occupy free from weeds, loose and mellow. When prices of farm products are low through a long period of time farmers get disheartened and offer their lands for sale, but when these conditions prevail there are few buyers, and this is fortunate, because the upward turn is sure to come when perseverance is rewarded. The public would be greatly accommodated if every farmer would erect in a conspicuous place on the farm his name in order that travellers might be guided thereby. This would save every husbandman thethankles3 and arduous task of answering hundreds of questious, aui would direct persons to them who had business to transact. If a farmer had bat five or six inches of soil lying ou smooth rock hard and impervious, ho would expect only moderate crops and exhaustion would soon be reachedBut it is not much better to have such shallow soil on compact earth never penetrated by the plough. Break the earth below, at least enough to test it, for it may be a mine of wealth. Kerosene oil applied to the roosts in small quantities will kill parasite?. Plaster of Paris scatteied over the floors of fowlhouses is a purifying absorbent, preventing the smell which aiise3. The neats must be occasionally renewed and kept clean. Straw is better than hay. Tobacco stems covered with straw are an excellent preventive of inBOCt breeding, especially when the hens are setting. Hortus, in Auckland " Star."