Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-27

tural Engineer, of Belgium, is to de.
post the grain in barrels smoked with
burning sulphur. Coarse threads are
drawn through melted birthstone and
these are buried in the barrel. The
grain is then thrown among the fumes
and kept there under cover for fifteen
minutes, when the operation is COM
plete.- Utica Herald.
| DoN'T NEGLECT THE GARDEN.-A CO.
temporary says: lit pays IN every way
the vegetable department, IN sanitary
view, by furnishing the kind of vegeta-
| bic acid the system needs at this sea
son of the year, the flower garden, by
| its refining influence upon all about
the homestead. Provide q good sup
ply of free-bloOming ANIMALS, as we'll
of substantial stock of hardy peren-
mails"
A New IDEA FOR HoUsING POULTRY.
"A correspondent of the American Ag-
aiculturist gives a novel plan for poul-
try house. 1t consists of light build
ing by feet. and 4 feet high,
without floor, and set upon wheels or
rollers. Three feet at one end open
lath work, and the remaining six feet
partitioned off-the partition coming
down within foot of the ground, en-
closing 3x4 feet. The Enclosed portion
is for roOsts and nest boxes. The
house is designed for fifteen hens, and
is to be set in the grass and moved its
length every day. The writer states
that such house is III practical opera
tion, and works well, the advantages
being that the fowls get fresh grass
every day, that they thrive better IN
small than IN large fiocks, that they
can thus be kept more cieanly and IN
better health, and that by moving the
house in any locality on the premises,
so that it may be sheltered or exposed
in warm or cold weather, a more even
| temperature can be maintained. The
house is to be provided with windows
and doors, and can be made ornamen-
tai or otherwise to suit the taste.
The idea is novel, and we shonld
Judge not bad one either.
WHEAT - WHEN TO HARVEST. - A
southern farmer once told the writer of
this, that, III the previous year, he grew
800 acres OF wheat, which, IN June,
had attined a huge growth, and ap-
peared remarkably promising. The
agricultural papers were then recon-
mending to harvest early, while the
grain was in the milky state. He fol-
lowed their advice, and cut the whole
800 acres as soon as the Juice of the
kernel began to whiten. The grain
shrank badly. He estimated his loss
from too early harvesting, at $4,000
The blunder, as estimated 10y the wri-
ter, and by the gentleman himself, who,
by the way, appeared very candid, and
was willing to take his full share OF the
blame, fairly belonged, about ono-half
to him, and the other half to the agri-
cultural journals of the time. The lat
ter had blown too strongly, and alto
gether too indiscriminately, on the ben.
etits Of early harvesting, and he had
| followed their advice to excess had
cut his wheat IN greener state than
they had recOmmended-had mIsunder-
stood them, to an extent which he free
ly confessed was inexcusable.
The truth is, there are four cOndi-
| lions TO be considered, or four periods
to be noticed in the growth and matur-
ing of the grain LIST, the ante milk
period, while the Juice is yet greenish !;
I'd, the milk period, while it is white /;
81, the dough period, while the interior
of the kernel, if crushed between the
thumb nails, has the complexion and
about the consistency of unDaked
bread 4th, the period of ripenses,
when grain has become too hard to be
crushed between the thumb nails. The
nick of time for cutting wheat is at the
end OF the milk period, while the white
ness of milk is turning to a brownish
dough color. Better earlier than later,
but as nesr that time as circumstances
permit. Farm and FireSide Journal.