Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1895 — FARMS AND FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

FARMS AND FARMERS.

PLANTING STRAWBERRIES. Get the new strawberry land in condition. New beds should have the plants in position before April 15, if possible, so as to give them the spring in which to get a start ind become well established before the dry season sets in. A week or two is quite,an advantage to strawberries. After plowing the land and harrowing it well, apply wood ashes Ind ground bone, and then harrow it tgain before putting out the new plants. ~—yoT ALL THE SAME. There never was a stable where all the creatures should be fed exactly alike. Some run to fat, others to milk.one is dainty, another is hearty, or there is a thief bound to steal all she can reach before she cleans her her own, some are. cutting teeth, others are shedding them, this one is excitable, another naturally quiet. Io many, a cow is a cow, but there is much-more, we find, when we attempt to keep ehch doing her best at the milk pail. —————- SPRAYING. • * As to spraying apple trees, all depends on what they are to be sprayed for. If for the scab, which of late has proved so damaging to the apple crop, they should be sprayed twice before the leaf buds open, and with Bordeaux mixture. If they are to be sprayed to destroy the codling moth, this should be done soon after the blossoms fall, and with Bordeaux mixture, adding about pounds of London purple to 300 gallons of the water, mixing the purple first in a'small dish into a thin paste, before putting it into the tank of water. London purple is better than Paris green, for the reason that wheo mixed into the water it does not settle as Paris green does. Once spraying thoroughly for the codling moth, if well done, will do, except when a rain follows the spraying very soon, in which case it should be repeated. A light spray, just enough to wet every part of the tree, is sufficient.