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FARMERS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY PA
1886 FARMER TO DO LIST
from The Daily News Frederick Maryland June
17, 1886
The Daily News Frederick Maryland June 17, 1886 |
THINGS TO DO AND TO KNOW.
Keep the weeds down.
June is the weed month.
My son...
Pork packers are beginning to use honey instead of molasses to cure
hams with and Mr. Charles MUTH says: It goes father and is more
reliable.
The family wants choice sweet corn all summer. Of course you
planted some of STOWELL's evergreen the first of May. Now plant
some more every month, June, July and first of August.
Never salt butter more than at the rate of three ounces t ten
pounds--not quite a third of an ounce to the pound. Much so-called
butter comes to the city markets that tastes more like pickled pork.
Many farmers continue to keep shoes on their horses during the
plowing and corn cultivating season. It will be a relief to the
horse and benefit his feet to be relieved of shoes for the plowing
season.
Successful winter dairying is carried on by the use of roots for cow
feed. Plant them in time. There are carrots, mangolds, sugar
beets, etc., anything but turnips. These make the milk
taste. Juicy foods keep up the flow of milk.
A would-be-farmer set out a year ago three acres of strawberries, and
never got a berry. The reason was he set out only pistillate or
male plants. He did not know that some varieties of strawberries
are imperfect, and must have rows of another variety planted along with
them.
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