The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-05-30
THE TRIBUNE.
FARM AND GARDEN,

LINING FRUIT TREEs.-F. K. Phnni,
= Of Bloomington. ILL., writes to the Hort
culturist as follows: A neighbor anna
teur has this year grown about bushe
of most delicious ImperialGage plulns or
one tree. passed to him some three year.
since by a brother, who said, No use fol
him to try and grow plums Afterit was
planted out one yearthe family woo!pie
was corded up under and about it, and
after the fruit had set, and plentiful
I supply of air Stacked lime dust was scat
tered over the top every week or twice a
week. Last year it had peck, and this
year a bushel or so-and here you have
the whole story" The writer says he Is
profound believer in the efficacy of a
similar course of treatment, SO far as dust
ing with lime, &C., not merely for curcu-
lilo, but for the whole here OF insects,
mildew and fungi generally.
DESTRUCTION OF SHEEP BY Does
The March report of the {. S. Commits
sioner of Agriculture dwells upon the
ravages committed by dogs among the
sheep in the United States. In 1866 FIVE
hundred thousand sheep were killed by
dogs and their value was $4,000. 600.
The number injured Was three hundred
Fthousand, and the loss is estimated at
5000, O0O The number of dogs in the
country is computed at five millions,
their annual expense ten dollars per head
and the sum total Of their subsistence
fifty millions of dollars-an immense sum
to sbestow upon a class OF animals the
saest of, which are worthless, and many
oi' them causing great mischief TO the
farmer. SS&f az
The Academy of Medicine of Belgium
offers prize of $3.50 for the best essay
on the cattle plague. Essays win be re-
ceived till January /. 1869, and the fol-
lowing are the subjects which must be
treated: The symptoms, causes, morbid
anatomical changes, and the nature OF ep-
izootic contagious typhus, considered
with regard to the different kinds of ami
mails susceptible Of contracting that ma
lady: and the specific character Of the
various typhoid diseases with which cat
tie plagnes might be confounded.
HIGH CULTIVATION The Maine Far
mer, abiding to the subject OF high
cultivation so much talked of and writ
ten about, says that there Is much more
talk than Improvement. A man looks
over his farm, of many acres, and finds
lIit TIE WGtftt HecnS dlU. Dtit NOT DGiug
able. at once, to render it all portions,
makes no particular effort to improve
any part. The right way-right because
alone practical-is to commence with
few acres at time Get these in good
heart the first year. In this way the
farm will soon become renovated, and
properly cared for, will not run down
again as long as grass grows OF water
runs.
Speaking of Shanghai Chickens Josh
Billings says: The man who first brought
the breed into this country ought tn own
them awl and be obliged to feed them on
grass-hoppers, caught by hand. | never
owned but one and he got choked to death
By kink in clothes line, but not until
he he'd swallowed Is feet Of it. Not any
shanghai fur me, if VOC pleze; | would
ruther board a travelling kolporter, and
as fur eatin wun, give me billed owl rare
dun, or turkey buzzard roasted hole
and stuffed with pare of injun rubber
butes, but not emmy shanghai fur me
not a shang.