Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-01
AGRICULTURAL.
THE TURNIP FLY.

In its notes on the season, the Farme
gives tbs following hints as to proven
| ing the ravages of this destructive pes
Asa preventive, we have always place
great dependence on the use of he
lime, our practice having been to appl
| it short time previous to sowing; an,
although we have suffered severely from
''the fly" when we omitted, from an
particular reason. to apply the lime, WI
were always safe when we did use it. II
other cases we have known hot lime ap
piled few days after the turnip seeC
had been sown, and with uniform sue
cess. The use of manures which slim
uiate rapid growth ID the young plant
is of the greatest possible utility, because
''the fly" ceases to inlure them as sOon
as they get into the rough leaf. Keep
ing the land clear of charlock, &C., is
most useful in preventing attacks OF
"the fly" as the insect feeds upon and
is nourished by such plants, even at
other periods of the rotation than the
turnip break. "As a remedial meas
ure," says Stephens, ga long haired
hearth brush switched along the drills
by field-workers would cause the in
sects to fall from the plants better than
any board or net; aud if quicklime were
strewed Immediately upon the plants,
their destruction would likely be more
certain.
WEAVING YOUNG ANIMALS.
Colts, lambs and calves, left to take
their allowance of milk naturally,
should be weaned about this time, say
when three or four months old. The
colts being put in enclosures away from
their dams, and allowed to suck at first
twice day, then once day, then loss
often, and finally once week for once
ar twice, thus they will be weaned quiz
city aud without falling off in flesh
running to and fro in their
anxiety. LAMBS muat he weaned ab-
ruptly, and to make it easier for both
parties, separate them beyond the
sound of each others bleatiug, leaving
the lambs in the old pasture. Give the
ewes very dry feed, and milk those
whose udders appears distended and
tender. Put two or three old tame
ewes or wethers with the lambs as
leaders, and to make them manageable.
Calves are very easily managed, being
allowed to suck only while the COW is
being MIXED, and that but once day
after few days, The mixer can re-
strict the allowance of milk that the
calf gets at his discretion,
POULTRY.
The value of poultry and eggs raised
10 France annually, is $40. 900, 900, and
n England only $4,000 600 In this
respect we are doubtless far behind our
French cousins. The English climate
IS against them, but ours is doubtless as
favorable as that of France or any other
Many good farmers seem to
that poultry and a garden are
and yet little expense in
certifying the garden fence with pick
It's, or few latbs will remedy that at
once. In cities, hens may be kept con-
ined, but this is not the profitable
method. Give them wide range for
yrass aud insects, aud you will find no
Investment pay half so well, aud for
his very reason, if for no other, that
Dy their means so much valueless mat
jer, combined with little grain, is con-
7erted into the choicest human food.
They need warm quarters and low
.oosts, and place for roosting devoted
20 themselves where they viii be undis.
.urbed. In raising chickens we shou!d
notice that it is wet that destroys more
han all other causes, especially is this
he case with turkeys. The best plan
We have tried is to cOnfine the mother
bird inside house or shed, with lat
ice which allows the chicks to go out.
But this they are not allowed to do
until the dew is thoroughly dried off in
he morning; not at all when it rains
until they arrive at the age when they
become sufficiently strong.
Young turkeys should be fed the curd
Of lobbered milk cooked rather hand,
md young chickens scalded Indian
neal. In all this there is good deal
IF trouble and gre It deal of profit. 1t
should be remembered that after all,
great item of the profit of farming is
up in the item, Support of
amily," and all these little matters of
which poultry and eggs form so i'm
0ortant part go great way towards
that end Utica Herald
INFLUENCE OF LIGHT ON PLANTS.
The Academy of Sciences has received
from M. Durchartre highly interesting
on certain we'll known
plants called creepers, because. their
stalks, too weak to support themselves,
tend to Irvine round the nearest object.
They generally do this from left to
right, that is inversely to the motion
of the sun, but some species turn in the
contrary direction, and it is impossible
to make either one or the other change
its direction. Palm, Won Mohl, Dutro-
chet, and lately Charles Darwin, have
expressed the opinion that
light was the cause of it, but further
experiments being wanting to confirm
this theory, M. Ducnartre. who had
that the Chinese yam could
live long while in the dark, resolved
to try the effect of absence of light up
on it. At the end of May last, he
placed one in pot, and as soon as it
showed its stem above ground, he took
it down a cellar, in complete darkness,
until the I'd of August following. The
stem, in the course of seven weeks,
grew to the length of a metre and
half. 1t looked withered and whitish,
but was upon the whole strong and
even stiff, and perfectly straight show
ing no where tendency to Irvine itself
round the stick which had been placed
there for its support. Another Jam
vas planted nearly a month later, and
left exposed to daylight, until it had
twined itself twice round its stick. 1t
was then taken and placed in the cellar,
where its stem, still obeying its natural
tendency, went round once more, but
in n more vertical direction than before