FARM AND GARDEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4515, 5 September 1893, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

SEPTEMBER.

Plant broad beanß and sow peas; those ■ sown may be depended on to yield large crops, After this peas may be sown (if succesnion is required) every two weeks until January, Sow cabbage and cauliflower; unless large quantities are wanted, it is more profitable to purchase plants when required. Sow spinach, Borne carrot, and parsnip. Finish the sowing of onions for general crop, but a few may be sown with lettuce and radish overy four weeks through the summer, if required to use for salad, Sow mustard and cress fortnightly, Pareley may be sown nt any time between November and March, but this will be found to be the best season, Celery should now be sown on a slight hot bed, and sheltered Irorn cold rains and frost. A few Whito Stone or early six weeks turnips may bo sown for early use, but defer the general sowing until next month.

This is the proper season for inCreasing fruit and many other trees by grafting, but the exact moment to ensure success can only be ascertained by observation and experience, All kinds of flower seeds may bo sown towards the end of this month, as tho weather now gets warmer and some-what settled,

Jottings, Do not use soft soap about the heels ofahoree; hard soap is preferwashing, dry the legs thoroughly, as cracked heels aro a result of omitting to do this. Common hens will not hatch eggs of pea fowls; and eggs that come from a great distance seldom hatch. The surest way to raise a stock o these fowls is to secure a pair and 1 raise tho chicks yourself.

Boiled' oals are said fo he extraordinarily good for poultry. Dry oats are not the proper feed for fowls; but by boiling all the objections aro obviated, and the hens thrive on it, An hour's boiling makes quite a new feed for them,

In speaking of "Tbe Dairy Cow," Michigan Dairymen's AaocumoD, Mr Lockwood said:"How any wan who oyer milked could teach that you should wash a cow's teats before beginning to milk I can't understand, As soon as you begin to rub or minipulate the bag tho cow responds by letting down her rniik. ttww nre not ready to take it she is iii-pi and holds it up: this skims it every time, and, if pursued, would make tho cow wholly unprofitable. Chafe tho dry teats with tho dry hand or cloth as rapidly and as hard as possible without starting tho milk; paBS your band over the bag and flank, rubbing and brushing off everything that is loose; bring the pail around between your knees j take tho milk as clean and as quick an you cod ; apply your nose to the steam rising from tbe Wfttin milk for any 1 bad odour'—evidence of disease. Do not take such milk to the dairy, tbore is no profit in it, but there iB more or loss death,