Garden Notes for April and Early Spring Planting
April gardening guide covers soil prep, manures, and seed choices. Advice on ridges, transplanting, cucumbers, beets, beans, corn, lettuce, and peas, with notes on early crops, irrigation, and framing frames. April tasks also include pruning, grafting, and orchard care for peaches, pears, and apples.
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Crystal City
Crescent
Triumph of
Cumberland
Windsor Chief
Sharpless
Glendale
Kentucky
Gregg
Snyder and
Taylor
Canada
New Brunswick
United States
Orchard Spring Care for Canker Worms and Borers
The article outlines orchard care after frost, urging immediate protection of apple trees from canker worm larvae and borers. It advises tarred paper bands with tar or resin oil around trunks, inspecting patent protectors, and cautions against overwhitewashing. It also recommends removing worms, applying soap, and considering gravel or coarse sand around trunks as a protector.
Poultry Yard Hints on Raising Chickens and Geese
A detailed guide on breeding for profit, stressing pure breeds, market timing, and fattening. It covers choosing quick-maturing chickens like game and dominique types, egg laying practices, plucking, and general care. It also advises on goose feather profits, proper feather drying, and alternating hatching, plus horse and garden tips and disease prevention.
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New Yorker
Plymouth Rocks
Insects and their metamorphosis in field pests
A detailed survey of six legged insects and their life cycles, noting complete and incomplete metamorphosis, and describing how beetles, plant lice, squash bugs, caterpillars, and pests like the rose bug and tomato worm affect crops. Includes methods of control and notes on natural predators such as lady beetles, lacewings, and ichneumon wasps.
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Coccinellida
Harris
The
Lowell Journal and Daily Courier
Journal
Colorado
Packard, Jr
Massachusetts
Packard
J. A. Stewart
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Prom Our Agricultural
W. D. Philbrick
New England
Dreer’s Lima
Dreer
York
Winningstadt
Jersey
McLean
Champion
England
Hiram A. Cutting
N. H. Board of Agriculture
American Agriculturist
Redding
Russia
A. D. Bullock
Providence
R. L
Nephaeticum
Bright
Bullock
Robertson
GEO. C. Goodwin & CO
Hanover St
Soston
Whitney
Whitney Chemical CO
Washington St
Boston
U.S.A
Arkansas
Louisiana
Texas
Southwestern Immigration Co
Southwest
William W. Lang
Texas State Grange
BR. G. Duval
Austin
J.N. Victor
Apo Wyl
Broadway
New York
Winter Street
MEG. CO
Convinees
C.goodwin & CO. N. E. Patent Medicine Warehouse
Masambho
Massa
Luster
Dey St
C. Bohannan
Fifth Street
St. Lows
Mowgly
America
American Card Co
Northf Ct
Dil—Ly
J. H. Reeves
Chatham St
Peck
H. P. K. Peck
Dr. Peck
Lie
E. Nason & CO
Nassau St
Price
EW England Medical Inst
Tremont Row
Boston Mass
WssuMa&wyly Jy2
Te. Sand
BrePree
Nashville
W. Fox
Fultonville
M.young
Greenwichst
Cann Factory
Northford
OPIU
D. Curer
A. R
Dwight
Star Books
Linsly & Co
Conn
S.M. Spencer
Mase
Lywy
Card Mills
Star Novelty Co
New Haven
Sizer
Rgents
G. M. Hanson
Chicago
Gans Janos
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington
N. J
Outfit
P. O. Vickery
Augusta
Mewyly
Royal Card Co
Cowétird
Uagr
Globe Card Co
Nassau
N.Y
Victor Co
G.a.spring
Tauiars
Goran Ee
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