The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-19

PoTATo BUG.-According to state
ment in The Wisconsin Farmer the
Colorado potato bug is moving east
ward at the rate of 20 or 30 miles
year. The line of march, crescent
shaped, had reached Madison, Wis,
last summer DIR. Fitch estimates the
Eastern progress at fifteen miles per
year. ...ss.sass g. s.s.a.m ~ =
BoNEs.-TRel Massachusetts, Farmer.
gives the following directions for dis
solving bones Take few barrels, -
old sugar casks are as good as any
and first put In at the bottom layer
Of wood ashes, then layer of bones,
and then upon it another layer of
wood ashes, and so on alternately till
the barrels or casks are filed, If the
bones are partially broken with an ak
or otherwise first. it will facilitate
their dissolution. These ashes now,
must be kept moist by adding water
from time to time. and if they stand
out doors under the shade of some
old tree or on the north side of
building, will require less frequent
attention. An occasional wetting with
chamber I've is beneficial In from
ten to six months, according to the
size Of the bones and the care with
|. which the ashes are moistened, the
bones will be dissolved and the COM
post is fit to, use.. This is the most
| economical method of reducing them,
and if every farmer would PICK up
the bones that are, scattered about
his premises and tneat them in this
way he would show signs of thrift. -
SMUT IN WHEAr.-David Hill, st.
Lawrence Co.. New York, sends to
The Rural Neao Yorker his, method
of preparing seed wheat to prevent its
shutting, and gives an instructive ex-
perience.s He says Soaking the
seed wheat in chamber lye that has
been kept several weeks and become
quite offensive to smell, and after
wards coating with lime, will prove
an unfailing remedy My method of
preparation is to clean a space on the
barn floor and place the wheat to be
sown in a pile thereon. Then pour
the liquid on, being sure to wet every
kernel Then sift quick lime ever
the pile and thoroughly mix with a
| shovel. Use quick lime enough to
dry all the dampness, and the seed is.
| ready to SOW In 1892 sowed a field
fnine acres. / prepared the seed in
/ the above manner, and on sowing
found that had not quite seed enough,
so went to the granary and got a
| little unprepared wheat and esowed
zone ridge" and half with it. Not
a particle of smut appeared id any
other part of the, field, but this por-
ton, (which by the way ley, directly
/ in the middle Of the field, was con-
siderably affected with it. I have
known others to have a similar ex-
perlence. s2aseeq - fassp sea osa
people ever think there is any differ
ence in the quality of the eggs they
eat: Yet there is quite as marked a
difference as there is in the flesh of
the fowls. Fowls that are fed. on the
finer kinds OF cereal grain furnish
much better eggs than those that sub
slst on grass and oats and buckwheat.
-Mheat-er-wheaten@ deugh-er bread
always makes the richest eggs en-.
Bement writes on this subject: m. i
Though most farmers keep fowls
and raise their own eggs, there are
many who have .netslearned the DIFF
ference there is in the richness and
favor of eggs produced by well-fed
hens and those from birds that have
been ahalf-starved through our Win
tiers. There will be some differesce
in the size, but far more in the quail
ity. The yelk of one would be large,
| fne-colored and of good consistence,
and the a-bumen or white clear and
pure, while the contents of the other
will be watery and ,meagre, assthough
there were not vitality or substance
1 enough IN the parent fowl to proper
ly carry out and complete the work
nature had sketched. In order,
therefore. TO have good eggs the fowls
/ should be we'll fed and provided with
an abundance of fine gravel, that they
| may be able to grind and prepare
| their food for digestion. l.s.fi4ss -.sos (.
/ Sow Your Oars. The Importance
of sowing oats earlyliswell understood
by. all progressive farmers. As soon
/ as the ground is sufficiently dry, So
+ that it can be plewed aud narrowed
| oats should be, got in. Early sown
oats are always heavier, and when
once in. they are out of the way of all
| other work We have known oats to
be sown In the last of February Gin
New Jersey, aud the crop was remar-
! kably. good. In the New England
land middle States, they can be got in
| from the last TO the middle Of March,
/ on dry soils on wet lands as early in
April as possible.-Farns and Fire
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