The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-12

val OF the bugs at night.
Experiments seem to prove that
fence posts set up the reverse way
from which they grew will last much
the longer.
II is difficult to tell eholic from
! bots IN horses, but a tablespoonful Of
ehloroform, IN twice as much muci-
lage, is a good remedy, for either.
Rich milk is not the best for calves.
A butter COW is not a good stock COW.
Lookout for morals as we'll as mus
Gle in hiring farm hands. They may
ruin the boys by their vicious exam
pies sd
Carrots are recommended for horses,
to aid digestion, aud tomatoes to cows,
to improve and increase the milk.
Feed stock regularly. and cut and
cook food as much as possible. Few
farmers do ii.
Managers should be low, and stables
well ventilated and we'll lighted.
Many horses are made blind by being
kept 10 the dark. .. g
Insects do not intest very late sown
peas as they do early ones.
Stewed pumpkin, as a poultice, has
been found of great value in reducing
luLd IL LAa JJEt EuSuLHdLlSm- sE
Pork and beans are the most nutrI-
tious food for the money that can be
found. Three cents worth will give
a hearty meal.
Smoke from rags, dry wood or orn
cobs, is better than from tobacco In
pacifying beesit to remove honey, etc.
Nine tenths of the diseases which
happen to the hoofs and ankles of the
horse are oecasioned by standing on
the dry plank floors of the stable.
Hoes AND CURcULIo.-At Duquoin,
His, the Messrs. Winter Brothers
have a peach orchard of nearly eighty
acres. For the past FIVE years they have
allowed a large drove OF hogs to pas
ture In this orchard, that pick up all
the fallen fruit; the result is that the
orchard is exempt from the curculiO,
and loaded with fruit. The second
year a small share of the fruit was
-stung, but for the past three years
there has been no loss on this ac-
count. 1t would appear that the time
has been sufficiently extended to give
great promise of success. In the gar.
den, where the hogs are excluded,
there are a few peach trees, but these
are badly stung.
Mr.. A. Mitchell placed hogs in his
peach orchard last year, and his crop
is but little effected. All other peach
crops about Duquoin, and all that |
saw at Centralia, have the fruit nearly
ali ruined by this insect. | did not
see a single plum on any Of the trees
in this part of the State. Most GER
tainly this fact is not only worth
knowing, but to be acted upon with
out delay. We must bear in mind
that when hogs run In a small en-
closure containing trees, they are very
liable to kill them by roofing and
tramping the ground, but this is not
the case In large orchards where they
live on the imperfect fruit.
THE PEACH GRUB.-In the orchard
alluded to, as well as many others,
the peach grub is Kept out of the coll
lar of the tree by keeping a mound
o. earth eight to ten inches high
about the trunk. This mound is
usually a little over a foot broad at
the top, and nearly double that at the
base. Here we have two apparently
sure remedies, for two of the most
destructive insects that infest the
peach tree and it's fruit. The mound
should be applied as early as July or
August. and is best done with a
spade.-C Chicago Tribune.
WHEN TO HARVEsT.-Grain is not
usually cut early enough. The prac-
tice is to let she field become thor
oughly golden before going in with
the sickle. And yet it has been dem
strated that wheat cut when just out
of the milk, aud securely shocked,
viii yield a plumper berry, that will
weigh heavier and sell better, than if
it had stood in the field till dead ripe.
Besides this, it will be harvested more
easily, give more time for ~reseeding,
and afford straw much more valuable,
as it will come out fresh, greea, and
fragrant The practice of the early
cutting of grain has become general
at the East. Western farmers seem
yet to be afraid of a good thing.
How TO KILL THE PoTATo BUG.-
Paris Green will kill that horrid pest.
the potato bug. 1 have tried it. and
fnd whenever it comes In contact with
the bugs it kills them. Paris Green
costs sixty cenfs per pound, and from
two to three pounds will be enough
for one acre of potatoes.
= HENRY A. EWING.
BURLINGTON, m. May %. 1868. ", s..
R. K. DUNKERsoN. GEO. ~PENDLEToS