The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-14


The Farmers Cabinet says piece of
lard as large as walnut, mixed with
dough will cause hen TO lay immedi-
ately after she has been broken up from
setting; and by giving hens fat in this
way, they may be kept laying all win
ter,
It is stated that petroleum oil possess
es The highest efficacy as destroyer OF
all kinds of insecIs injurious to plants
or animals; and the less purified, and
consequently the cheaper, II is the bet
ter. Thirty parts should be mixed
with 1000 of water, and applied where
required.
Mr. Seth Boyden, of Newark, says
that with twenty years cultivation he
can raise straw berries as large as pine
apples, which will retain all the delica.
cy of the fruit now grown.
A writer in the Garden er'S Monthly, In
referring to the difficulty of using great
jars for putting up fruit on account OF
breakage, says: at Is customary to
put the glasses in cold water and grad.
ually heat them up to near boiling
point, when the heated fruit is put in
and closed up. But with all my great
est care glasses often broke. Now get
u wet towel, double it four or i've times
and set the lar in this while pouring in
the warm fruit. adopted this plan all
the season and did not have "A single
glass crack. 1t seemed SO unreasona.
BILE to cool them instead of warming
them that was at first afraid to try il,
and very reluctantly experimented
with two. AS they succeeded did all
that way last summer.
Although there are good reasons Tor
not feeding onions to milch COWS on ac-
count of the bad flavor impaired to the
milk. still the same objection does not
apply to other kinds of stock, On the
other hand onions are known to be
among the most healthtul ofvegetables,
both for man and the inferior animals;
and in every country they are held in
high repute, both as an article of diet
aud of medicine. The value of onions
was clearly proven in the late war,
when their market price went up to-
some eight dollars bushel. Still there
are annually large numbers of small
and defective onions wasted every year
on most farms, while the stock upon the
place would be greatly benefited by
eating them. They should be fed in
small quantities, at intervals of several
days.
The Oneida community use the fol-
lowing plan to destroy the curculio:-
They take two long double width
sheets and fasten small bars of wood on
the ends of each. AT half-past four in
the morning the sheets are manned by
four hands, who pass under q tree,
holding a sheet on each side, thus COW
ering all the surface under the branches
of the tree, A fifth man, armed with a
six foot battering cane. we'll padded at
The end, then gives the tree several sud-
den jars, which causes Il shower of de-
fective fruit, bugs, worms and flies of
various sorts, together with our game,
the cuTculIo-to fall upon the sheets.
The operation Is performed thus early
in the day, because when it is cool the
curculio is in a semi-toTpid state, and
a aliUhf Ia = Inn0nnI hta hold the fFnn
and tumbles him below while too
stupid to fly.
DRAWING LOGS IN SUMMER.
A correspondent writes to the Coun-
try, Gentleman as follows:
Many persons would like to draw
logs in the summer, but find them
heavy to load upon wagon and bard
to draw upon logboat. Wishing a
year or two since, 10 draw about one
thousand logs in the summer, took
two hubs of an old lumber wagon, and
put in heavy spokes about eight inches
long and wide Telloe-using two old
wagon tires, side by side, upon ii; the
object being two fold-strength and to
avoid sinking into the ground. The
wheels, when completed, are about
twenty inches high. A strong axle.
tree is then placed in these wheels, and
on the top of this axletree "saddle,"
the top of which is nearly as high as
the top of the wheel, is bolted securely
to the axle. The tongue to this cart is
about fifteen feet long, and the whip
.pletrees are placed five feet from the
axletree. The wheels being so low and
strong, logs are as readily loaded upon
this cart as upon a sled, while the
whippletrees being SO far from the axle,
the logs can be nearly balanced upon
1t, and can be drawn with less than
one-half the power used upon log
boat. After thorough practical trial,
am fully satisfied that it Is au ex.
ceedingly convenient and easy method
of drawing logs in the summer, provt-
ded the distance is not too great.
Should the distance exceed one mile,
and the logs to be drawn be many, the
best way to manage is to take strong
lumber wagon, put in a reach OF such
length as to separate the wheels far
enough TO take log in lengthwise be
tween the wheels, frame together two
pieces like the bottom of a wOod-rack,
place two saddles" upon these, and
Ioll the logs upon the saddles. This
arrangement is far better than trucks,
draw more easily. The frame work
and reach are easily made, and should
not cost over three or four dollars. The
cart first mentioned need not cost over
ten dollars.
MATERIALS FOR THE SHELLS OF EGGS.
It is matter of consequence to the
farmer, who raises eggs, as to the mer-
chant who ships them, that they are
provided with strong shells that Will
enable them to be transported without
loss. A large proportion of those sent
to market are broken, on account OF
the thinnesS of the shells. Not only
are these eggs loss, but the appear
ance of those that are not broken is es.
sentially injured. The poultry breeder
should also know that the embryo
chick is dependent on the shell OF the
egg for material for its bones. During
the process OF Incubation portions Of
come the frame work OF the future
chick. The shell accordingly grows
thinner the longer the parent fowl sets
on the eggs, and In many instances 1t
is broken by the weight OF the setter, OF
by the motion about the nest before the
chicken is Matched. It is plain, theni
that poultry should be furnished with
an abundance of material for making
shells. Brick dust, sand and gravel
Will not answer. They are useiu! TO
| grind up the coarse grain and other
1ood, as It passes into the gizzard, out
not Tor making egg shells. The SUD-
stance needed for this Is phosphate OF
lime. 1t Is found Units best form IN the
bones of animals or the shells OF nsh:
Give poultry a plenty OF pulverised
/ oyster shells or finely divided bones OF
recently killed animals, and the shells
will be all right, either for transporta-
ton or setting. "A simple apparatus
be swallowed by poultry, Is greatly
needed.
FEEDING WHOLE GRAIN TO CATTLE.
/ A writer in the New York Tunes
gives some good advice on this subject:
1 II IL an extensive SVskem OF manage.