Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-08

UUsEFUL PREvENTATIvEs.-Phil w. KOhleT,
Hopewell Academy, Warren Co., Mo-, recon-
mends planting tansy around all trees liable
to be infested with borers. He says: "The
beetle that lays the eggs, in June, at the
trunk of the tree, that matches the borer,
will avoid the tansy. 1t is also an efectual
remedy with me against the curl in the leaf
| have tansy growing around all my budded
trees A few worthless seedlings that have
left, as an experiment, without tansy are al
fected every year with both the borer and
curling in the leaf | believe it would be a
good plan to grow tansy around all our fruit
trees If it would be detrimental in one re-
spect it would be more than Overbalanced by
keeping off the vermin. No vermin that as
cends from the ground will ever attack the
tree surrounded with tansy. At least, that is
my opinion, from experience. To keep your
fowls free from lice, have no other than sas-
safrls poles for the roost. Leave the bark
on. / would not have any other if l had to
import them hundreds of miles. My setting
hens are not troubled with lice. Fine tObac-
co leaves, or sassafras bark 1.-THE latter is the
BEST mingled with the straw is effectual
remedy Procure sassafras roots and you
will have no use for tobacco. 1t is my Opin-
ion that lousy chickens are most subject to
the gapes. Since | have adopted the use of
sassafras roosts my chickent are free from all
disease and lice. They get all the corn they
they want, and water from a never-faillng
spring running through the yard. / would
like to see the man that gets more eggs than
/ do from the same number of hens To
keep bugs away from your cucumber and mel
on vines, save your washing suds every week
till they become a week old. By this time
the smell becomes very offensive; apply this
ha fu,io fbpaa finnaS
week. 1t is a good fertilizer, and will make
your plants grow rapidly The same is good
to apply to your cabbage plants, or anything
liable to be attacked by bugs.
WHEN TO PLANT SEEDS OF TREEs.:-The pro-
per time to plant seeds and nuts, undOubted-
ly, is when nature intended to plant them
that Is, in the fall of the year, when they fall
frem the tree. Hickories and nuts of all
kinds, including black walnuts and butter
nuts, ehestnuts, acorns of the different kinds
of oak, the seeds of the yellow locust, ma
Piles, and ash trees, if planted in the fall,
soon after they drop from the trees, and be-
fore they become dried, are as certain and
sure to grow as q hill of corn, or any other
seeds that are put into the ground. They
should not be planted very deep, only just
fairly covered with early, or finely rotted
leaves, and in such places where they will not
be washed out of the ground by the fall and
spring rains, and also where they can be par
TALLY shaded from the summer sun. Tree
planting from nuts and seed has not been
much practiced in this country, but is be-
coming highly necessary in many parts of the
old and first settled towns, where the forests
and groves have not been protected and pre-
served, and very little is known about it by
the great mass Cf farmers, their sons and
children, whose particular business it is to
plant, aud raise, at least a few trees, from
nuts, acorns, and from the beautiful winged
seed of that most magnificent American tree,
the sugar maple.
Tree seeds may be planted in hedges, waste
places, on naked side hills, by the sides of
lodges and rocks, where at present there is
little or nothing of value growing, and where
all the care they really need beyond the sim
pie act of putting the seed, nut, or acorn in
the ground, which can be done with the
thumb and finger, or by the use of small
pointed stick thrust about an inch into the
ground, and then drop in the nut or acorn,
and then press the earth over it-all the care
they need beyond this lis to prevent thei r
being bitten. off by cattle or sheep in the
spring or early summer, when the young
plantlet first shoots green and tender out of
the ground-if they are bitten off then they
are certainly killed.
KEEPING GRAPEs-REcIPEs.-Di Dining with a
friend recently, we had the unusual luxury of
a desert of Catawba and isabella grapes
Their mode of preservation being the theme,
we learned that they were picked when per-
fectly dry and ripe, and packed carefully IN
lunches, in box, between layers of cotton
and as much as possible excluded from the
air and light. More recently gentleman
from Pennsylvania tells us that he has seen
| them successfully preserved till spring, as
| follows " Into the bottom of a small keg or
eask put aPe fsnvss a ares l nO
of sound, ripe, dry grapes, then leaves and
grapes in alternate layers, till the key is full.
Head up the keg and bury it in some well
drained ground, below the depth of the
frost" Like other things excluded from the
light and air, they viii change rapidly on
exposure, and hence when key is opened
and they are found good, use them freely