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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Growing Wheat After Corn.
By planting early of an early-ripening
corn, the crop may be got off in time to
sow with wheat, thus getting land seeded
again in the shortest time after the sod
has been broken up, and providing a
covering following for it in the winter wheat the
winter. The corn (iei>i so
managed .should be near some, grass land,
to which the ripened corn may be drawn
“ f"; :,s ... a-ft imt.I dry , <M.ou S , b
tohn.sk. 1 his, though involving more
labor, is a better plan than the old-time
practice of plowing A/r cultivating be¬
tween the rows of stunes and leaving the
latter to be seeded just at the beginning
of winter. In these times this late-sown
wheat will not amount to much; but by
clearing off early the wheat may be suc¬
cessfully grown after the corn. The
practice of sowing wheat among the
corn stalks or corn shocks is a slovenly
one.
Swine as Weed-Eradieators.
Colonel ~ hi antis, Charlton, N. „ Y.,
.
tcl.s the blnma Jinx Hindman he has
known an acre of Iiveforever to be ex
terminated by one season s efforts of
hogs, and they are equally
against other persistent plants that
cumber the ground:
I he best way is to fence off all spots
infested with noxious weeds hard to kill,
ami turn in hogs. Shelled com should
be scatteied about to induce them to
root and they should not be fed so much
but that they will have keen appetites,
1 he little puggy breeds are good for
not n mg'as leformed. Mr. Hot) man has
a bleed that is genuine, i hey take
naturally to nature s food and .will thrive
on grass and roots. Wild morning glory
can be eradicated in the same way, and [
h.i\e . . , no doubt , , . quaj k . also. , Ithasa w. i veiy
sweet root and i the hogs are pinched a
1. n ^ shut, until they got a taste,
they would also destroy the quack. If
the ground be too hard it, should be
ploughed, and corn scattered about,
llogs wdl also eat the roots of Canada
tlusi .es, as they are quite sugary. 1 he
good things hogs will do, when they have
a chance, have never all been tola. I hey
are really a very important part of the
farm and ds outfit. I make my riurco
Jersey s useful m ridding the {arm ot
weeds and in enriching the fields in turn.
I Hey also aid in making up the balance
sheet.
Deep Plowing.
Tn farming, everything as well depends as in dairying or
grazing, upon the
condition of the soil. Here is the fouu
dation, and unless this is in proper eon
dition the substructure is bound to fall.
A great deal has been said and written
as to the proper depth to plow, and there
is such a difference of opinion among
farmers in regard to it the question We is
still as far from being settled as ever.
thiuk. however, that the lead: ug cause
for t such i difference i • ir of c • • l be
opinion may
found ill the land itself. That good
crops are and can lie grow n on shallow
plowed land that is good no one will
denv, provided the season be neither too
wot nor too dry — i. e., with moderate
rains the whole season. In such a season
any one can raise good crops. Hut such
seasons are rare, and, in tact, every sea
sou is likely to be attended with either a
long drought or a long wet spell. Now
what the tanner wants is to guard against
both, and the only way to do it is to
break up his land as deeply as po^si
bie say not less than seven to ten
inches. Bet how is this to mend the
matter? We answer, very easily. Incase
of a heavy rain a large portion of the
water, instead of running off, will be ab
sorbed by the deeply disintegrated land,
where ii is held as if by a sponge for the
use of the plants, and if a drought should
intervene, there is a supply of water just
where the plants want it, and when ex
hausted. its place is at once supplied by
capillary attraction from below. It will
thus he seen that by deen plowing the
farmer provides against draught by hav
mg a supply of water in reserve, or a
place ready to receive and hold it when
e\er:t comes. I he better to insure, this,
however, as well as to facilitate the es
cape of too much water, it is better to use
a subsoil plow and an aiblitioual team,
running the same immediately after the
breaking plow, and ripping up need the sub¬
soil the desired depth. This not
be done for every crop raised on the
land, but only once in every three or
four
It has been well said that it is t
to have two acres of good land, one on
top of the other, than as many
alongside of each other, us it costs'only
half as much to tend them. The way
do this is by deep plowing, and
double the depth of the soil, as well
the crops grown thereon.
Blight in Fruit Orchards.
One of the most formidable diseases
which fruit trees are liable is the
blight.” It. attacks the trees at
periods of the growing season, from
to September, and generally the
parts first. The leaves Hag, the
oozes out in disuWecable globules through the
and has a o<lor,an.l tho
eased branch turns black, as if it
been burned by fire. When the pear
tree is attacked it is a difficult matter
save it, the disease spreads so rapidly.
In apple and quince trees it is less fatal,
rarely killing more than a portion of
tree.
Scientists and farmers alike differ in
their opinions as to what causes
blight, whether it be the sun, the at¬
mosphere or an insect. in Nor do
ities in the matter agree their
of fire blight. In the opinion of
writer the only effective and
treatment is to cut awav, the very day
( jj scasn j s discovered, the blighted
int o the healthy wood where there is
trace of the disease, and burn up imme
fflately all the diseased portions cut off.
Charlcs Downing said: “When fire
blight has actually appeared, the only
rernedy see ms to be the knife and the
most vigorously applied, to
ever y symptom of diseased and discolored
Bark or wood. If you would save
cut at once on the first
symptom of the disease, and be sure you
cut it clean out.” P. Barry says: “The
OI dy remedy for fire blight is to cut in
gently the blighted parts into the
healthy wood and burn them up imme
diatoly.”
Twig blight attacks the young shoots
of the current season’s growth and causes
these to wither and become brown and
curly jn mid-summer. The cause is un
certain and the injury is not materially
g rca t. The remedy is cutting away at
the first appearance of the trouble.
Apple blight, like the dreaded fire
blight, is a serious disease. It attacks a
whole branch or limb, and sometimes
half of the t0 p of a tree is destroyed be
fore it becomes apparent to an ordinary
observer. Again there is no remedy ex
cc .g to cut away the diseased portions
and burn these up. The pear-leaf blight
j 3 a sor t of blight that appears on the
leaves during July and These August, first spread in
small brown spots. spots
rapidly stopped. over the leaves avoid until the evil their effect growth of
is To
leaf rapid, blight the growth great point before is to midsum- get a
vigorous
mer.
Headers, especially those having 1 small
experience, will doubtless be disappointed
because a long list of so-called remedies
has not been advised given for blight—remedies by
such as are from year to year
many writers. These have "been avoided
because there is in reality but one course
to i pursue—the diseased heroic and one destroying of cutting . away them
the parts
by tire.— New York 'World.
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Manufacture of Hairpins.
j* or years the English and French eon
trolled the manufacture of hairpins, and
p j s only within the last twenty years
that the goods have been produced in
this country to any exteat. The
niac hinery used is of a delicate and intri
oa te character, necessitate as the the prices at which rapid pins and
are sold most
cheapest process, which can only be pro
cur cd by automatic machines. The wire
is made expressly for the purpose and put
U p j n large coils, which are placed m a
c lamp, which carries it to the machine
while straightening it; from there it runs
hi another machine, which cuts, bends,
and> by a delicate and instantaneous pro¬
C css, sharpens the machines points. will Running at
ful j speed these economize, turn out
J20 hairpins every minute. To
it i s necessary to keep them working
u i«dit and dav. The difficult part is the
enameling, which is done by dipping in
a preparation and baking it in an oven,
Here is where the most constant and care
Hil attention is required, and as the enamel pin must have
bo perfectly smooth the
a pt>r f 00t polish. The slightest particle#
of clust cause imperfections and rough
ness. which is objectionable. — Brooklyn
Oil ism.
An ostentatious man will rather relate
a blunder or au absurdity he has com
rnitted, than be debarred of talking of
his own dear person.
Tbo Son’s Heat.
At a Royal Institution lecture, Prof.
Sir William Thomson expounded the
latest dynamical theories regarding and the
“probable origin, total the amount, heat.”
possible During the duration short of sun’s of
3,000 years or more
which man possesses historic records
there was, the learned physicist showed,
no trace of variation in solar energy; and
there was no distinct evidence of it
even, though the earth as a whole, from
being nearer the sun, received in .Tanu
ary six and one-half per cent, more heat
than in July. of which
But in the millions years
geology carried us back, it might safely
be said there must have been great
changes. How had the solar fires been
sustained during those ages ? The sci¬
entific answer to this question was the
theory of Helmholtz that the sun was a
vast globe gradually cooling, but as it
cooled shrinking, and that the shrinkage
—which has the effect of gravity upon
its mass—kept up its temperature. The
total of the sun’s heat was equal to that
which would be required millions to keep up
476,000 millions of horse power,
or about 78,000 horse power for every
square meter—a little more than a
square yard; and yet the modern dy¬
namical theory of heat shows that the
sun’s mass would require only to fall
in or contract thirty-five meters per an¬
num to keep up that tremendous ener
gy- At this rate the solar radius in
2,000 years’ time would be about one
hundreth per cent less than at preset.
Why He Shot Himself.
The London Telegraph tells the fol¬
lowing singular story: A tragical sui¬
cide, which has a touch of romance
about it, has just occurred at the prison
of Karthause, near Prague. A young
soldier named Kazowsky was standing
guard there. In his early youth he had
lost hi>s father, not through death, but
a p tr more melancholy wa r His
father had committed murder, had been
pronounced guilty, and condemned to
twenty years’ hard labor. The young
was then eight years old, and his
father's features his remained well firmly im- the j
printed painful upon impression memory, of as the event, as 1
whole
which produced a severe shock upon his
yout hful mind.
While standing sentry before the
prison of Kartliaus, and seeing the con
victs led past him on their way to the
open air, he recognized in one of the j
hoary criminals his own father. He
spoke no word, neither did he discover
himself to his father; but on being re
lieved from his post he quietly loaded
his gun and discharged a bullet at his
head. Dying, he confessed to his corn
ratios the horrible discovery he had
made, and which had driven him to
seek death at his own hands.
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Rats are smart, but “Rough ox Rats” beats
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Bed-bugs, Weasel, Insects, Gophers, Potato Bugs, Sparrows, Moles,
Skunks. Jack Rabbits. Squirrels. Chipmunks, & 25c.
Musk Rats, 15c.
HEN LICE.
„ ^ OUGH 0N of rats” Hen j s a complete Mix preventiva box of
»r.d “Rough destroyer Rats” Lice. pail of a whitewash, 25c.
on to a
and outside of the nests. The cure is radical
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N if/* Tines, For Potato Shrubs, Busts, Trees, Insects 1 pound on
V- or half the contents of a $1.00
m. box of ‘’Rough on Rats” iAgri
cultural mixed with Size) to to be thoroughly barrels
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of plaster, or what is better air
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. to com ilaxts. shrubs poison. when
it on p trees or damp or
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its state it is the most active
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Powder, applied well shaken, in a keg of water and
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