Sixth month T 11 H C 1914 Thirty days 
Morning star—Saturn J ’ Evening stars — Jupiter, Venus, Mars 
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This calendar is for the 
latitude of the Middle 
States, but it is available 
for the whole country if it 
be noted that for every one 
hundred miles north or south 
there is a difference of 
from five to seven days later 
or earlier. 
7. Trinity Sunday. 
Resolution for Ind., 1776. 
Watch for currant 
worms, rose beetles and 
plant lice or aphids. Hel¬ 
lebore, handpicking and 
soapsuds are the reme¬ 
dies in order. 
14. © Flag Day. 
Look everything over 
for borers. Castings that 
look like sawdust on bark 
of trees or shrubs reveal 
their whereabouts. Kill 
them with long wire 
probe. 
21. Dig out weeds 
persistently also. It is 
getting tired of such work 
that causes failure; 
weeds are not ineradic¬ 
able but they are more 
persistent than man. 
I. 3 ^ First quar. 9b. 
3m. A. M. 
Everything is to be 
guarded against cut¬ 
worms now. Rub all ad¬ 
ventitious and unwanted 
buds from trunks of 
trees, etc., as soon as 
they appear. 
8. © Full moon oh. 
18m. A. M. 
Tie things up as fast 
as they grow, otherwise 
they become twisted and 
hopelessly out of shape. 
Use Bordeaux on potato 
plants to forestall scab. 
15. Last quar. gh. 
20m. A. M. Franklin first 
drew electricity from 
clouds 1752. 
Keep tomatoes off the 
ground and so free from 
wireworms. 
22. Sun enters 
Cancer ih. 55m. A. M., 
and summer begins. 
Insecticides may be 
bought ready mixed, and 
these are better than 
home mixing if you buy 
only from the best deal¬ 
ers. 
2. J) Till ground sur¬ 
face everywhere twice a 
week. Spray roses with 
potassium sulphide; use 
this also on hollyhocks, 
phlox and everything 
subj ect to fungous 
troubles. Watch for 
aphids; use soapsuds. 
9. ©Till to-day. Spray 
roses as above, and 
everything else that may 
be subject to fungous. 
16. Till to-day. Spray 
roses with potassium sul¬ 
phide, and with soapsuds 
if aphids are in evidence. 
23. © New moon ih. 
33m. A. M. 
Till to-day. Spray 
roses, etc. Cut roses early 
in the morning as fast 
as they bloom ; this is the 
only way to have plenty, 
and to get the most out 
of them. 
3. 31 Hobson sank 
Merrimac 1898. 
Planting day; sow suc¬ 
cession of anything de¬ 
sired, using early varie¬ 
ties of corn, beets, etc. 
10. © Trim evergreen 
hedges. 
About now it will prob¬ 
ably be time to spray 
with arsenate of lead for 
codling moth. Keep a 
close watch daily for its 
arrival. 
17. Battle of Bunker 
Hill 1775. 
Pick seed pods from 
flowers as fast as they 
begin to form; or better, 
cut the flowers as they 
fade. This promotes 
bloom. 
24. © A planting day. 
Sow succession crops as 
wanted. Pot up straw¬ 
berry runners for plants 
to set out next month. 
4. 3 Sowing may be 
done to-day also. Thin 
out everything constant¬ 
ly. Layer melon and 
squash vines as protec¬ 
tion against loss by 
borers. Tie up tall-grow¬ 
ing things as fast as they 
grow. 
11. © Apply nitrate of 
soda to top crop vege¬ 
tables. Dig a little bone 
meal in around roses 
and all perennials that 
are beginning to flower. 
18. War of 1812 be¬ 
gan. 
Watch for cutworms. 
Prune all early blooming 
shrubs now, if they need 
it. Always prune with 
restraint, however, elimi¬ 
nating only weak and un¬ 
sightly wood. 
25 - # Plant potatoes 
for late crop; such will 
often avoid blight alto¬ 
gether. Plant now New 
Zealand spinach, summer 
radishes and endive—all 
heat resisters. 
5. 3 Till to-day. The 
exact date of spraying 
for codling moth, pear 
slug and psylla cannot be 
fixed. Watch all fruits 
from now on closely, 
and be ready when the 
time arrives to do the 
work at once. 
12. © Till to-day. 
Trim tomatoes and stake 
up, or fasten according 
to method you have se¬ 
lected for training. 
r 9-® Till to-day. Trim 
deciduous hedges. Pick¬ 
ing the rose-bugs by 
hand is, of course, much 
surer than any spray. 
26. © Custer defeated 
by Sioux 1876. 
Till to-day. Soot, kai- 
nit, tobacco dust and 
stems are excellent for 
the soil as well as being 
maggot preventives; sift 
on. 
6. 31 Apples may re¬ 
quire all told 7 spray¬ 
ings, plums, peaches and 
apricots 6, cherries 4, 
pears 3, small fruits, 
shrubs and shade trees 
2, roses one a week from 
April to end of summer. 
13. ® Saturn becomes 
Morning Star. 
Spray elms for leaf 
beetle; enlist neighbor¬ 
hood co-operation in this 
work, else it will avail 
little. 
20. Mow lawns often 
but never very close. 
Seed bare spots persist¬ 
ently, and they will ulti¬ 
mately yield and become 
grass-grown. 
27. @ Make a seedbed 
for fall and winter vege¬ 
tables and flowers, and 
sow now whatever you 
may wish to have then. 
28. © Consider keep¬ 
ing bees if you have none 
already. Honey is a won¬ 
derful antiseptic, food 
and medicine. Use it in¬ 
stead of sugar for every¬ 
thing, including preserv¬ 
ing. 
29. © Keep grapevine 
suckers rubbed off and 
the ground around the 
vines clean. Also keep 
suckers rubbed off from 
all trees, especially newly- 
planted specimens. 
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30. 31 First quar. 2h. 
25m. P. M. 
Till to-day. Spray 
roses, etc. A mulch of 
lawn cuttings above the 
roots of young trees and 
shrubs is an excellent 
thing for conserving 
gtound moisture. 
‘Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying."- 
“A dripping June brings all things in tune.” 
-Herricfy. 
Generally fine and warm, though a bit freaky; hot at end of month 
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