The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-20

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failure if he attempt hemp crop.
Every farmer should be ambitious
to add something to the general stock
of knowledge in his profession, and
this is a seasonable period for chalk
ing out experiments to be made with
a view to the development Of new
truths and for maturing such eondi-
tions as will make such experiments
accurate and reliable IF the farmer
FaspiTes to grow a premium crop of any
kind for the next year, let him now
/ fix his mind upon a suitable spot and
study all the conditions of success in
detail with as much care as though
| he were working out a problem in
1 mathematics, and afterwards strictly
conform to those conditions. and
though he may not attain that degree
/ of success to which he aspired, yet
! absolute failure will be impossible
RDuliSt
TO PREVENT GIRDLING OF TREES.
Great injury.is now beginning to be
made in the West, as 1t has been for
long time in the East, to young
orchards, in some vicinities, by the
little meadow mouse. This animal
always works under cover, aud, there
fore, does Its mischief in winter when
the snow lies thickly upon the ground.
A common and effectual mode of de-
terring its onslaught is that of tread
| ing down the snow firmly about the
trunk, directly after every fall of
snow. But this is very troublesome
affair.
The following mixture will be an
efectual preventive: Take one SPADE
full of hard Stacked lime, one spade
full Of clean COW dung, half spade
full of SCOT, one handful of -four of
sulphur. Mix the whole together,
with the addition Of sufficient water
to bring it to the consistency of thick
paint. At the approach of winter,
paint the trunks of the trees suffi-
GENTLY high to be beyond the reach
of these pests. Experience has proved
that it does no injury to the tree A
dry day should be chosen for its APP
plication. For larger quantity in
crease the components proportionate-
~. Try it, farmers, and save your
young orchards.-Hon1e Weekly.
POTATOES FOR FATTENING ANIMALS.
We have repeatedly expressed a
favorable opinion of potatoes for fat
tening stock = an opinion which,
though opposed to the theories of
some, we believe to be based on fact.
The following extract from letter
of a gentleman of extensive practice
as farmer, corresponds generally
with. our own experience: Those
persons who are of3opinion that DO
fqfnnS cannot fof+nr n5khnr
cattle, are very much mistaken, in
deed. l know of no food / would
prefer to fatten hogs upon than cook
ed potatoes, mixed either with little
meal or bruised oats, mashed and
made into balls as large as a mans
head, and laid on a shelf for twenty
four hours to become little sour. It
viii produce firm and transparent
meat and at a cheaper rate than corn
at twelve and half cents per bushel,
fed in the ear. Farm and FTrestde
APHIs OF THE CHERRY TREE.
Huber, in his account of the ants of
Switzerland, says there are some
species which obtain their principal
food from the honey-like substance
that is excreted by tie aphis-that
S1C ohOo h6IOl9 LCnus duO hGGDr-IuE
aphis for its honey, as men do cows
for their milk. | have not, by any
direct observation of my own, been
able to verify this fact in reference to
our American ants. Mrs. Darling.
on one occasion, had the good fortune,
on raising a fat stone in the Spring,
to see the ants pick up and carry off
the aphides which had been housed
for the Winter in the same habitation.
| have no doubt, therefore, but that
our ants are, as Huber expresses it, a
pastoral people, as well as those
of Switzerland. 1t is quite probable
that the aphis of the cherry tree in
particular is domiciled with the ants
in Winter, and in the Spring, as soon
as the leaves are unfolded, is carried
by the ants to the trees where it finds
pasture for the Summer. It rather
confirms the supposition that, when
the cherry aphis first makes its APP
pearanee in the Spring, It is on leaves
very near the ground. I have had
OCCASION to turn this fact to account,
In preserving my young cherry trees
from this destructive insect Sum
mer before the last, l had about
a thousand young trees, which.
before | was well aware Of
the evil, were all covered with the
black aphis. All the usual applica-
tions recommended in the books were
made without much effect. [ was
forced to give up the trees to the in
sects. The trees, in consequence,
were very much stunted in their
growth, and what was quite as bad,
grew crooked and deformed. The
last season [ determined to commerce
the destruction of the aphis at its first
appearance: As soon as the leaves