The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-06-14
Notes for the Farmer and Gardener.


Cur WoRMs.-We learn that these
pestslare exceedingly, annoying in the
garden this year. How 10 get rid of
thenns the question. Fitch says from
his observations it appears that these
worms are never. able to crawl the
length of their bodies up a perpendic-
ular bank of earth, before they loose
their foothold and fall. Hence he pre-
sumes the plan recommended, of MAX
few holes about the hills of plants
with sharp stick, will prove an easy
and effectual way to entrap the worms.
Being unable to crawl out of them they
perish. He thinks if they have ap-
peared in a field, the adjoining field
may be protected from them by blowing
q deep furrow around the outside of it.
A Pennsylvania fitted up pair Of
old wheels with projections like the
cogs of a spur wheel in mill, so
formed as to make holes in the ground
as the wheel turned, four inches deep,
Itissaid the smooth track which the
wheels make induces the worn in its
nocturnal wanderings to follow it till it
tumbles into some one of these four
inch pits, from which it cannot escape,
and consequently perishes.
But in the garden there is no doubt
that early rising, and hunting the
scamps personally is the most effica-
cious, though perhaps the most labori-
Gus remedy.-Prairie Farmer.
FEEDING MEAL.-To feed meal alone
to cows is to feed it at loss. 1t is a
better way to feed it with pulped roots,
or with hay or straw. If the hay is
uncut, it should be well sprinkled with
water, and the meal busted upon it.
Experiments have been detailed at the
Farmers Club, which showed that fine
food, like meal, when fed alone, is
passed along the side of the LIST, Cd
and Sd divisions of cows stomach,
and is lodged. at once in the fourth.
By receiving only the action of the
fourth division, it is not fully digested.
But by adhering to the wet hay, it is
carried with the hay into the first
division, and receives the action of the
whole stomach, and consequently a
more thorough digestion. The meal
adheres better to be ground very fine.
Dairy Farmer. So
THE DANDEL1oN A SUBSTITUTE FOR
LETTUCE. "A correspondent of the
Cottage Gardener says he regrets that
he has not before recommended its cul-
tivation on warm borders for blanching
and for early supplies, as Endive is
commonly blanched; but now hastens
to introduce the free use of it as a safe
and invaluable medical salad, being
able to judge of and pronounce its sal
utary effects upon his own impaired
constitution, more particularly in the
removal of heartburn, indigestion, cos
tiveness, rheumatism, chronic secre-
tons, and Incidence of the liver, toceth-
er with other SYMPTOMS arising from it,
such as loss of sleep, despair, or mel
ancholy irritableness, and other such
like false mental forebodings, all aris-
ing from the inactivity of the liver.
Il GARLIC FOR STocK.-Garlic, says the
Stock Journal, operates in the system
OF the horse as a diffnsiole stimulant,
expectorant, and deuretic. It's there
fore valuable remedial agent in NAL
aides requiring an agent possessing
these properties. On the eastern coast
Of China it is regularly furnished 10
neat stock, and they are never known
to suffer any Inconvenience from its
regular daily use: fact they enjoy a
most extraordiary immunity from dis,
Da4D.