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TOPICS OF INTEREST ftED ATlVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Summer Treatment of Azaleas.
Azaleas have become quite plentiful of
late years, aud they are quite charming
for the greenhouse or window. Most of
them exposed for sale by the florists
in the late winter months are imported
from Germany. They are e:
nice if grown as little plants, and are
bouquet in themselves when in flower.
The summer treatment of these plants,
after they have done flowering, consists
in encouraging a free growth, pinching
out any. of the shoots likely to grow
out of size with the rest. A warm,
the nio:st greenhouse, with the plants near
Those glass, who is just the thing for them.
have oniv the windows had
better keep them there until the end of
June. The best place for Azaleas out of
doors is a spot where they can be shaded
from the mid-day sun, and the pots may
be sunk in the ground, taking care that
worms do not get up among the line
roots. A sandy loam with one-fourth
leaf mould is a good potting soil. The
plants strike are raised from cuttings, which
shoots, readily from the half-ripened
young in the ordinary cutting
bench.— Prairie Farmer.
Bugging as a Business. i
A man who makes their ways a study
duty—might, •—a paid insect detective, devoted to his
says a writer in the New
neighborhood York Tribune, do great service in a
and" peach borers, by keeping down apple
rosebugs and curculios, currant
such worms, pests. Knowing when slugs, and and how other
them, to
meet he could, with a little aid
from the families he makes engagements
with, do very much to preserve the
beauty and the produce of the plants
there surrounding our dwellings. Iu Europe
catchers are professional mole-catchers, rat¬
and vermin-destroyers, and they
stand well in the community as doing
and special service, and having qualifications
Professional knowledge not generally possessed.
insect-controllers would be
even not only more for worthy of support and regard,
their service in preventing
the destruction of valuable crops and
plants, but as a means of acquainting the
youth of the country with some of the
leading facts of practical entomology,
and as being watchmen, prompt to detect
the first appearance of any new insect
enemy, and to suppress in time what,
with impossible delay, may prove very difficult or
to get rid of. ,
Making Flesh of Grass. i
Every dairyman knows that green
grass is the cheapest as well as the best
food that can be used for producing
milk. Most persons prefer butter and
cheese that are made while cows feed
entirely on sweet and tender grasses.
They think that they have a mote agree¬
able flavor. Grass is so much cheaper
than any other food given to cows, that
outside dairying cannot be profitably carried on
of a good grazing district. Eng¬
land, Holland and Denmark are the best
daliry countries in the world, chiefly for
the reason that the climate and soil are
well adapted of to the growth of grass. In
parts the world where the rain fall is
limited to a few months in the year, the
grass when ceases the to grow supply during of milk the immedi- dry sea
son,
ately begins to falls off. The Northern
States have great advantages over the
Southern ones in the production of milk,
for the simple reason that they produce
more and better grasses. Cows will give
milk if they are ted on dried forage
plants at will and sell for grain, enough but it to is not for likely the food that
consumed. pay
Every is the sheep-raiser knows that green
grass wool. The cheepest food for producing
best grazing districts are the
most favored ones for the production of
wool. There is much profit on that part
of the fleece that grows while sheep are
in the pastuie, but very little if any in
the part that grows while sheep are kept
in pens and are fed on food that has been
harvested. Hay and grain will make
wool, but the chances nre that it will
not sell for enough to pay for the food
that the sheep have consumed.
Grass is the cheapest as well as the
best food for producing flesh on cattle,
sheep, and horses. Most farmers are
aware of this fact, but in practice they
appear to forget it. They keep these
animals in poor or closely-fed pastures
during the summer, where they gain but
very little. On the approach of cold
weather they remove them to stables or
jards and give the® ail they will eat.
The fall and early part of the winter are
the times when most farmers expect to
put their stock in good condition for the
market. They spend the entire season
of warm weather in raising crops to feed
the animals after the cold weather com
mences. They neglect them in summer,
but seek to make amends for it by giv
ing them most excellent attention dur
ingthe winter. Cows, steers, and young
cattle that fared poorly ,n the pasture
now fare sumptuously in the stable.
They receive hay from the mow and
corn from the crib. Young horses have
their mangers full of cured timothy cut
aud their boxes are supplied with
thrashed oats.
The best time to make flesh is while
the grass is growing. It is then sweet
and tender, and animals will derive more
benefit from it than they will after it
has attained a larger growth and has
been cut, cured and put in stock. Gre'cn
grass is as valuable for making flesh and
fat as for making milk and wool. The
farmers who know the best pastures
make beef, mutton and horse flesh at the
smallest cost. They aim to add to the
weight of their animals while the grass
grows and the weather is comfortable.
They do not keep their pastures over¬
stocked. If a protracted drought oc¬
curs, they cut grass in meadows, oats or
corn, and feed them to their stock. They
aim to have their animals in prime con¬
dition at the end of the grazing season.
If the season is favorable, they expect to
have some steers that are grass-fattened.
These will be the animals on which they
will make the most money. Next to
them in profit will be those that will re¬
quire hut a small amount of corn and
hay. Both lets can be disposed of be¬
fore the snow falls. When this is done
there is a great saving in stable-room,
labor and food.— Chicago Times.
c Farm and Garden Notes.
In using eggs for hatching the largest
and strongest chicks will come from
eggs layed is by the hens or fully matured
pullets. yelked Eggs that are small or double
are not suitable for hatching.
Ou most farms the manure is too un¬
equally distributed to give the best
profit. Some parts are manured heavily
annually. The garden is oue such spot,
and as it requires more labor than any
other equal area, it is fairly entitled to
a. greater Washing portion of manure.
the trunks of trees with
offensive substances to keep out borers
appears to A. W. Cheever ‘dike
going will a be long much way round to get there,”as
it less work to dig out
what few there are in an orchard well
cared for than to wash all the trees.
The pig that brings the farmer the
most money is not the one that yields
him the greatest profit. Fall pigs win¬
tered over and fattened the next fall
are almost invariably expensive animals.
Where corn is fed to cattle whole, a few
pigs much may be kept to follow them with¬
out outlay, but only a few.
Referring to a plea for artificial color¬
ing of butter (made by one of the official
agriculturists) England a correspondent of the
New Farmer pertinently inquires
if it wouldn’t be equally admissible to
use the same means to give the desired
creamy tint to bluish milk, in deference
to the preference of city consumers.
Apilt „ ... Over ,, _ Rums, . !
As the traveler walks on he perceives
that his footsteps are not upon the orig
in»l ground super-imposed of Jerusalem, but upon has a
mass of matter which
been strewn over the whole site. His
tory enumerates seventeen captures of
tended the holy city, eleven of which were at
by sieges more or less destruc
Jive. houses After many of these events the
then standing wbiA razed to the
earth. These were in time succeeded by
new houses, which in their turn were
overthrown at the next siege, and so on,
each capture adding to the accumula
tion of rubbish, Thus the traveler
learns that a compact layer of solid coat
ing, from has thirty to fifty feet in thick
ness, been by degrees spread over
the entire space. Even the valleys and
ravines between the several hills on
which the city was built have been so
far filled up as to have partly lost their
special The character, as already mentioned,
Tyropheon particular instance. brook is perphaps the
most The traveler
will have heard of this brook, or read of
it in Josephus, city, as a landmark in the in¬
terior of this but he will not find
it. Nevertheless it was so deep that at
its exit from the city at Moriah the
bridge-span feet its was bed. more than one hundred
above Its course has been
traced by deep by the eiiSavaticfSs di^overy here of the and arch thefe and
which have exposed the bed now ovef
laid with llkutrqted.
Valuable Find.
Hitherto all the lithographic stones used
in this country have come from Bavaria,
where the mines have long been worked
and are fast becoming exhausted. Now a
perfect lithographic stone, in large sheets,
ij ag | )een discovered within a hundred
miles of Au-tin Tex. This will adcl
another important * industry, and aid in
th pro 1 ity and development 1 of the
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Absinthe drinking is said to be the latest
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