Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-05
-AGR1CULruRAL.

CANADA THIsTLEs.-D. Dryer, Ontario
%, IN. V, says he can kill Canada thistles
II one season by summer following. Turn
me sward in Autumn. and plow again the
eext summer four or five times And
What is better than all, while YOU are kill
ilg the thistles. you are putting the land
n the best possible condition for crop of
rain or grass. - ll2 o sI- 5'--tl
To MAKE A STACK SETTLE TRUE-There
are two things to do this keeping the GEN.
ter up, and; pitching on from all sides.
This last will make the stack settle evenly.
Pitching on two sides will balance it; but
it is not so good, as it does not make it even
lY solid all round, but leaves some parts
lower, where the water is apt to settle. By
keeping the stack high in the center, as it
is built up, and slopng outward, the rain
will be unable to penetrate, as, like roof,
it will ward it off. Keep high in the mid
die from bottom to top, and pitch on all
sides to make equally solid.-Er.
PRBvENTIvE AGAINST THE TURNIP FLY.
The North British Agrtculturist gives the
following methods tor the prevention or
mitigation of damage from the t1rnip fly
Various methods have been suggested to
prevent the attacks of the turnip fly, when
the plants are newly brairded.V Sleeping
the seeds in oil, and afterwards busting the
seeds with sulphur preparatory to sowing.
has been found to be of considerable ser
vice. There is, however, still more GER
tain method of prevention. Newly Stacked
1 lime, strewn thinly along the rut made by
the seed-coulter of the sowing machine at
the time of the brairding the plants, proves a
protection have also found mixture of
lime and SCOT very effectual in protecting
the young plants as they put out the first
leaves. When small quantity of white
turnip seed is sown in the hollows of the
drills, the insects resort to the white tnr-
nip plants, preferring them to the Swede.
This method of projecting the latter is
more expensive than top dressing the seed
rows with lime previous to the brairding of
the plants. Alter the rough leaves are
formed, little damage is caused by the tur-
nip fly, but other insects feed on the
leaves, the black beetle being the most
common. The most effectual means to
combat all insects is to push forward the
growth of the plants by manures applied at
the time the seed is sown, and after the
plants come up to stir the surface frequent
ly,3 ,3but without injury to the turnip plants.
o. TRAPPING SHEEP KILLING DoGs.-Dogs
will sometimes get together by night and
sly away in search of sheep, and en- finding
them, will attack and kill most generally
more or less of them, and ipjure others. /
would recommend those having sheep kill
ed to place them in a pile together, or to
leave at least one OF them where the dogs
have left it; then put four or six lengths
of fence around the dead sheep, made of
sawed scantling.* Commence by laying
the scantling on the ground, and as
you lay them up, draw your scant-
ling in, the width of them every
time around, and build the fence
high enough in this way that dog cannot
jump it. Then lock the corners well, and
you have pen that dogs can 90 over into
from the outside readily, and when once
over, they cannot get out of it again until
they are helped out. In this way, in a few
nights, you will be quite likely to get the
very same dogs that killed your sheep. as
they will have the curiosity or desire
to go over the ground the second time.
1t will be better to keep still about hav-
ing your sheep killed, for if you make any
search for the dogs you need not be at all
surprised if you find that every mans dog
is carefully shut up over night. 1t is not
at all likely that the dogs will have had the
blood stains washed from them, or any par
ticles of wool removed from betwixt their
teeth,aon their return home in the MORN
ing, after having been out over night in
sheep-killing Co. Gent.
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