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AGRICULTURAL '*
TORIC8 OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.. —
Fall Chicks
Now is the time to set broody hens in
order to get a supp’y of pullets for early
spring begin laying laying. Pullets hatched now will
in February and March, and
the first to begin will want to sit by the
last of March. In sitting hens in hot
weather it is best to make a nest on the
ground, box with or if this is not practicable, line
a sod, dirt side up. Sprinkle
with water containing a solution of car¬
bolic acid. Make the nest on top and
have sprinkle with sulphur, and you need
no fear of lice. If you have any
newly-hatched and chicks that .seem droopy,
you have not taken the above pre¬
cautions against lice, examine their
heads at once for the so-called butcher
lice. To destroy them anoint their
heads with your finger dipped in lard.
Repeat the third day, and treat the breast,
like body and wings of the mother hen to a
process__ New York San.
A Sanitary Hint.
The cellar demands attention now.
The great source of diseases is a damp,
filthy cellar. It will pay for the time
fruit required to clean it out. The decayed
and vegetables, the sprouting po¬
tatoes, and beets, etc., the mouldy boards
that kegs, the refuse of celery; plants
have passed the season there should
be removed, and the cellar swept and
cleaned, whitewashed, if possible, but
at least cleaned of cobwebs and mould.
The banking that has protected the
house collects moisture now, and is
harmiul to as great a degree as once it
was hea thful. Let in the pure air and
allow all foul ga-es to escape, thus much
of the unpieasaut, “weary leeling” may
be avoided, if not a severe and nossiblv
fatal diease e reaped. There is no excuse
because so much has to be'donC in a short
time now. This is a most important
work and cannot afford to wait. — Mas
eacnuictti Ploughman. ^
Experimental Manuring.
Any work of experimenting in the
growth of crops by different methods of
manuring or culture should be based
upon equal conditions. Thus, if a far¬
mer were to try the results of various
inodes of manuring and fertilizing he
should select or make a piece of soil that
would not grow any crop at all, or such
a crop over the whole ground that would
measure The latter precisely the same in every part.
is very rarely to be found, but
a wornout piece of land may easily be
procured that will not grow corn—if corn,
is to be grown as a test crop—at all.
The writer, in his experiments in grow¬
ing corn consecutively for several years
by and the use of the special corn manure,
in growing mangels by another arti¬
ficial fertilizer, chose a piece of land upon
which the previous year the largest corn
stalk was only seven inches high, and the
best mangel weighed only two ounces.
Such soil as this will then show pre¬
cisely what the manure will do, and will
give results as near certainty as may be.
The present year a corn crop grown to
test varieties for ensilage on a piece of
new land without manuring is so uneven
and spotty th^f the 'corn plants average
in height from ten inches to seven feet.
Such a p ece of soil is clearly untit for
experimenting on, and wilt be until it is
worn down to an even quality. —New
York Times.
Paris Green Its Use.
The use of Paris green in orchards for
the destruction of insects which injure
fruit and foliage has beeu discussed
quite freely at several of the agricultural
conventions the past few months. Paris
green sectiors seems to be much coming into use in
some as in tue orchard as
in the potato field. Some who have ap
plied it without due caution have killed
the foliage and occasionally a cow or
horse. Such poisons as Paris green
should not be left around carelessly ex
posed informed to animals or children who are
not of its nature.
Some persons are doubtless unneces
sarily fearful of having it applied in' the
garden or field. There are those who
have attempted all to which discard from their
tables potatoes have been pro
tected by the use o^yoison, but the green
is now used so universally on all farms
where potatoes are grown and without
the least injury to the tubers that the
fearis pretty well overcome. It has been
found that for potatoes a mixture of
pure Paris green and plaster at the rate
of one pound of the former to 200 or 300
pounds of plaster is more effective than
if the proportion of green is greater. If
the green is put on in too large propor¬
tion the insects will reject leaves upon
which it lies; while if the green is ex¬
tended three hundred times the leaves
will be eaten more readily and thus more
of the poison will be taken, though in
very smail 3 oses. But if eaten in however
small quantity the effect seems fatal. In
spraying fruit Connecticut trees with Paris applied green it
water, a man
the strong foliage, enough to his destroy the insects on
yet horse feeding upon
the grass underneath the trees was "not
poisoned. There is little doubt that cattle might
eat potato vines whichhad been poisoned
enough themselves to destroy the beetle without be¬
ing gardens poisoned. So, too, pota¬
toes in may have the green ap¬
plied beans on a windy day, and peas and
growing near get eating slight doses with¬
out causing persons these vegeta¬
bles to be poisoned, yet it is hardly safe
to utter such statements because of the
danger that some one will act too ven¬
turesome or foolhardy in its use. Poisons
of this nature, like fire, are good friends,
but by negligence may become among
our greatest foes .—New England Farmer.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Don’t neglect the weeds.
No soil produces useful cro[ s when
prematurely saturated with water.
The most persistent vigilance is re¬
quired to eradicate the cockle burr.
As a remedy for white specks in the
butter try stirring the cream every morn¬
ing before churning.
handling Young colts are fond of petting. Kind
makes them gentle and more
easy to manage later on.
Do not expect your liorse to be equal¬
ly good at everything. The horse, like
the man, must be adapted to his work.
The purity and wholesomeness of the
milk the depends largely upon the quality
of water drank, as well as upon the
quality of the food eaten.
Foul odors in the poultry house should
be kept down by removing the
ering droppings the at least once a iveoa'. and cov¬
floors with fresh earth.
It is a good idea for the proprietor of
the farm to cultivate the crops in the
orchard. If the trees are injured then,
it is not so hard to tell how and by whom
it was done.
It is only a dirty habit that causes a
milker to wet his hailds with milk while
milking. Cows should be milked with
dry hands, and only after the udders
have been washed or well brushed.
Clover should be grown more abun¬
dantly than it is on many farms. When
hay, properly cured it makes very nutritious
making containing more muscle and milk
material than ordinary hay.
The making up of butter depends
upon the custom of the market to which
it is consigned, local tastes having to be
considered. Whatever form is adopted
it must be of attractive neatness, which
well repays the trouble of the maker.
N. J. Shepherd believes in cows that
are hearty caters. He is satisfied that
while we may occasionally find an ani¬
mal that seems easy to keep in thrifty
condition with a small amount of food,
such animal has no particular points of
excellence.
South American Mosquitoes.
One of the pests of life in South
America is the ubiquitous mosquito,
which there attains such an enormous
size and venom that his victims are
numbered by the score. Hot long ago a
herd ot valuable cattle taken from the
United States to a ranch upon the
Magdalena liiver became so desperate
under the attack of the mosquitoes that
they the broke from their stalls, jumped
into water and all were drowned,
Passengers intending to make the voyage
usually provide themselves with protec
tion in the shape of mosquito bars, head
nets and thick gloves, and when on deck
are their compelled to tie their sleeves around
wrists and pantaloons around their
ankles. Even these precautions are not
always effective. Large as the insects
are they seem to have the power to creep
through the smallest crevice, and it is '
often necessary to change one’s clothing
four Day or and five times a day on their account!
skinned night they give the sensitive
travellers no rest. I have been
solemnly they assured that very often when
have attacked a boat and driven its
captain and crew below they have broken
the windows of the cabin by plunging
in swarms against them and have at
this tempted to burst in the doors. Although
may be something of an exa^era
tion it is nevertheless true that frequently
horses and cattle, after the most fright
ful bites sufferings, board have died from mosquito
on the vessels,— Graphic
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Mbs. Sands—O, X know! It is easy to say
Don’t let them read trash,” but how do you
know jUBt what bocks to put into the hands of
yonr girls? You certainly have no more time
thanl.yet the right you always seem to know exactly
Friend— thing Wei], to do.
information Sarah, in Demorest’s this instance I get
my from Monthly
Magazine. They are now publishing some
capital articles on the subject of “Reauing for
let Girls;” anti now that you speak of it, I will
you into a little secret. You always say
that 1 am so well up on the matters of the day,
and I really think lam; yet the fact is, I only
get time to read my magazine; but when 1
have finished it, I know pretty much what is
going on, as in Demorest’s they do seem to
cover the ground on all subjects that each
member of my family is interested In. Why 1
John is as anxious each month for it to arrive
as I am.
The penitentiaries of the United States
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