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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Pences, t
Tn the new order of things fences are
rapidly disappearing from the land. This
much improves the appearance of city
and town streets, and is a change in the
right direction, and should be regarded
as such.
Fences cannot be dispensed with upon
farms, however. They are needed as a
matter of protection against animals that
are allowed to feed along the wayside
without proper oversight on the part of
owners, and they are needed to keep
animals in one field without allowing
them to run into another.
It is important that a fence should be
continuous, and that when it is varied
by a gate or pair of bars that this device
be in perfect order, and serve the same
purpose as the fence itself.
In some parts of the farm, swampy or
woody sections, a brush fence answers
the requirements. Occasionally stones
may be utilized, but the fence
adapted for general use is that made of
rails. The wire fence is often cheap and
useful, but this can apply chiefly to
which Jacks the barbs. Of all instru
ments of torture there can be nothing to
exceed the barbed fence. It is a decided
fence, and serves to keep cattle in and
troublesome creatures out, and is a safe
guard auainst all human intruders, but
is also the means by which many inno
cent creatures suffer. If it were only
protection against thieves and meddle
some persons, it might be regarded as an
excellent system of fencing, but
fully considered it seems impossible
regard it else than a barbarity. It is a
common occurrence for an animal to go
up to the fence to scratch his back, and
thus lacerate the flesh terribly. More
innocent creatures are hurt ignorantly
by coming in contact with these “bar¬
barous fences” than human marauders
are injured. Fences are still needed in
the country, but simply as effective bar¬
riers, never as an instrument of torture.
—Massachusetts Ploughman.
Harvesting the Corn Crop.
While the products of the corn
are of more importance to the country
the large than those of wheat, nothing like
same anxiety is felt about it in ad¬
vance as the time of harvesting
near. Corn, which is native to this
country, has so many excellencies
in enumerating them some are liable to
be overlooked. Among them, and
the least, is the fact that the
of the grain may be delayed or
neglected without very serious loss,
with the other cereals, especially
wheat, no delay can be tolerated and,
when threatened with rust, neglect for
couple of days may cause the loss of the
crop.
The plant also acommodate itself
different soils and climates,
rapidly in the shorter seasons of
Northern States and lengthening its
of growth as well as the length of
stalks in the longer summers of the
and South. It does not succumb easily
to unfavorable seasons, and with any¬
thing like proper culture rarely fails
sides making at it least a moderate crop.
this, is but seldom seriously af
fected by disease or insect pests. Of
the maladies that affect other cereals
there is one that occasionally appears in
this and deserves to be guarded
before it becomes more generally prev¬
alent. This is a fungus growth,
kind of puffy excre ence attached to the
stalk that seems akin to the smut
wheat and other grains, and if left
develop and mature is quite certain
increase from year to year. To
this these puffy balls should be
and completely destroyed a- soon as they
appear, and seed from infected fields
should not be used. Where the seed is
at all suspected, of lime it and should salt, be washed in
a solution or salt and
copperas, strong enough injuring to destroy the
smut germ without the vitality
of the grain. chief insects affecting the
The corn
plant, especially in the Prairie States,
the chinch bug, and from the July report
of the Ohio Experiment Station it
learned that it is now injuriously abund¬
ant in certain counties of that State. It
is also reported as destructive This is essentially in Illinois
and other States. a
dry-weather insect. The spring fields, brood and is
largely developed in the wheat and the
when the wheat harvest is over
supply of food in that quarter is exhausted
the bugs, usually only partly grown
gnd without wings, migrate to adjacent
Com fields on foot. Among the various
summer remedies suggested are plough¬
ing einulsion, the stubble, killing with furrows, kerosene
Probably the trapping effectual in of etc.
most way pro¬
tecting five a corn six field of from invasion from the is side to
cut or rows corn
exposed and plough half a dozen fur¬
rows, the leaving one deep side in the centre,
with perpendicular of the furrow
next- the corn. Into this the migrating
insects will fall, where they can be cov¬
ered lishtly with straw or any inflamma¬
ble material and cremated. *
The manner in which corn is harvested
varies greatly in different parts of the
country. In a few sections the leaves
below the ears are tucked first in stripped hand¬ off
while green, and small
fuls between the stalks of a hill to dry,
when they are gathered and bound into
larger small bunches and stored the away, best making
a amount of possible
corn fodder. Afterward the tops are
cut off just above the ears and cured in
small shocks, leaving the bare stalks
standing Where to support is and ripen the ears.
this topping done before the
car is well out of the milk and the grain
has hardened it must to some extent rob
the latter of nourishment, of which at
this period the a large proportion comes from
the sap in top.
The most general and the better plan
is to cut the stalks later on a little above
the ground, and stand them up in shocks
to cure. In this way the whole of the
fodder is secured, and the grain gets the
benefit of the sap already in the stalk,
besides absorbing additional matter from
hundred the atmosphere. From eighty to one
hills may be put in a shock,
which should be tied around with coarse
twine two-thirds of the way from the
ground to prevent the loose stalks from
being blown about by the wind. Thresh
ing the stalks to gather the grain has
been advocated in some quarters, but as
yet has not become at all common .—New
York World.
Farm anti Garden Notes.
Don’t raise a poor calf.
Drain land and cultivate for moist¬
ure.
Be sure that the water supply in the
pasture holds out. t
The weeds must he kept down, or the
farm can hot be successfully run.
If the farmer is to save his own seed,
he must save the earliest, largest and
best.
A good tomato should not only be
sound and solid, but also plump and
juicy.
A farmer should supply himself with
the best farm tools and implements he
can obtain.
Ducks and geese should never have
access to a lawn. They pull the grass
up by the roots.
Corn endures drouth remarkably well,
but to do so, it is absolutely essential
that it be kept clean.
Pork made on clover is not only cheap
meat, but very delicious, if finished off
with grain in autumn.
Carrots should be thinned and weeded,
and left to stand two inches apart for the
stump rooted varieties.
Be certain that there is plenty of
water where the cows are turned out to
pasture. Clean, pure water is indis¬
pensable to a milch cow.
A Persian Fable.
A rat, says a Persian ff^sop, seeing a
cat approaching, boldly and finding no avenue
of escape, went up to her aud
said: “Madam, I have just swallowed a
large dose of bane, aud in accordance
with the instructions upon the label
have come out of my hole to die. Will
you kindly direct me to a spot where my
corpse will prove peculiarly otiensive.”
“Since you are so ill,” replied the cat,
“I will myself transport you to a spot
which I think will suit.” So saying she
stuck her teeth through the nape of his
neck and trotted away with him. This
was more than he had bargained for, and
he squeaked shrilly with the pain.
“Ah,” said the cat, “a rat who knows
he has but a few minutes to live never
makes a fuss about a little agony. I
don’t think, my fine fellow, you have
taken poison enough to hurt either you
or me.” So she made a meal of him. If
this fable does not teach that rats get no
profit by lying I should be pleased to
know what in the name of common sense
or uncommon sense it does teach.
A lot of speculators have got coffee in
a corner, but so long as they let the
chickory and split pea crop alone most
of the great army of consumers in the
United. States ought never to know the
difference. -
“I am weary of living,” moaned poor Mrs.
•*For Black, I’m fairly
worn out with the ache in my
back; My
nerves are a chain •
Of weakness and pain.
And my poor head is aching as if it would
crack.”
”Now\don’t be discouraged,” cried good Mrs.
“It is never so dark but there’s promise of
light; I tell
can you, in brief.
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YOU
are hustling around for your
share of the world's good gifts,
and it’s hard work: think of
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This constant work will tell
sometime — perhaps it has
already — and nervousness,
sleeplessness, neuralgic and
rheumatic aches and pains
are part of the “ good gifts ”
your hustling has won.
If you are that way, let us
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though it will cost a dollar
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