The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-05-12
THE FARM.

ed of late about q free feed of salt causing
the garget in cows, and that a free feed OF
beans would cure the same. Iknow nothing
about it, but will say that within a couple
of DAYS i'll the middle of February last,
after sailing my cows, one OF them, and the
best one al that, was taken very severely
with caked bag, although MIXED regularly
as before. | expected she would get over
it. as my COWS have done sometimes before,
by constant milking especially as it was in
mid .winter. She grew worse very fast,
however, lost flesh wonderfully fast, and
would scarcely lie down or eat at all. Not
knowing what to do, and happening to
think of the bean remedy had seen re-
commended in your paper, commenced
feeding about two quarts of them twice a
day, and it was not thirty-siX hours before
her bag commenced softening. The COW
seems completely over her garget now, but
gives Just no milk at all in the side 1.-TWO
teats) affected, although before she was taken
she gave six or eight quarts per day. Per
haps the garget's coming and going as 1t
did, in connection with the salt and the
beans, was purely accidental and perhaps
not can not tell, but if my COWS have
garget again 1 shall try beans. Cores
pendent Country Gentleman.
REMEDY FOR THE PEACH WoRM-There
is handy means for the destruction of
this heretofore fatal enemy to the peach tree,
which is practical herc-which has proved
certain, beyond peradventnre. 1t is simple
of easy application, and expeditions. 1t
consists of the use of boiling soater applied
to the collar of the tree, in quantities vary
ing according to the age of the tree-in
small trees; say one inch in diameter, half
pint is sufficient, and a pint is enough for
larger ones. Remove the earth from around
the tree few inches from the body and a
few inches in depth. and just pour the water
boiling hot on the exposed roots, aud it
will kill every egg as well as worm. with
positive certainty. 1t has been tried here
time and again, upon trees that have been
more than half killed, and perfect restora-
ton has been the result in every case. No
| danger need be apprehended from the effects
of the hot water upon the trees, unless a
large quantity is applied to a very small
| tree. When a large number of trees ave to
he operated upon, fire should he made in
the orchard for heating the water so that it
can be applied boiling hot. Considering
the Importance of this remedy TO peach
growers who may not have heard of it. l
deem it but common justice to give it cir
culation through the columns of your paper.
Its certainty as remedy may be implicitly
relied upon Isaac G. Mask in Country
Gentlemen. ...
PLsUGHING UP OLD ORcHARDs-A ques-
ton frequently arises us TO the best course
to be pursued with an old, neglected orchard
which has become covered with dense sod
of grass, and this often of an inferior char
acter, and full of tlisagrecble weeds. Or
| chards that have been widely planted and
which have gaps from the decay of trees,
especially when these are trimmed up with
high stems and long, naked branches, do
not cast sufficient shade on the ground to
prevent the growth Of grass and weeds.
These intruders occupy tile surface soil to
the disadvantage OF the roots of the fruit
trees, and we may wonderfully improve the
health Of such an orchard by blowing the
ground, and at the same time pruning the
branches and cleansing the bark of these
old trees. These good results may be con-
tinued by shallow culture of the soil, with
suitable applications of manure where
needed. By giving dose of lime or mari
and ashes, we shall infuse a new life, and
growth, and produciveness that will as
tonish and delight us, and reward us for
our labors and outlay.
1t may be urged as an objection to break
ing up the sod, that the most careful plow-
man will uuavoidably damage some of the
roots that approach the surface, but this is
an injury that must be submitted to; and
after all, it is not such serious affair, and
as oYerbalanced ly the advantages of renew
ing the productiveness of the exhausted Or
chard
Having seen number of inquiries in the
Farmer at different times asking what will
kill lice on apple trees, l thought would
give my way of killing them. Take dry
ashes and put on the trees when they are
wet. A rainy day is good time to put on
the ashes, as the limbs being wet, the ashes
| will stick to them and xiii all the lice.
The best lime to put it on is before the
leaves start. Then the lice can all be seen
and few days after the application they
can all be rubbed off with an old cloth.
To kill lice on horses and cattle, | take
soft soap, say one quart, and add one quart
of water and give the animals good wash
ing. One application will kill every louise
and nit II your soap is very thick add
little more water. have seen lice killed on
horses and cattle by making one application
of this kind.
A good compost-heap may be made by
first providing a suitable flooring, upon
which muck, dry earth, or leaf-mould should
be spread to the depth of ten inches or
foot. As the manure is taken from the
stable, place it in layer five or six inches
| deep. Then more muck, and after that
more manure in alternate layers, until the
heap gets too high for convenience in pitch
ing the materials upon it. After lying for
two or three months it should be forked
over several times. If troughs are laid to
conduct the liquids from the stable to the
heap, so much the better, and the addition
of hen manure, and such similar strong,
fertiizing matter as may he at hand, will
be found very advantageous.
1t should be remembered that the object
of sub soil blowing is to loosen the under
soil, to permit the ameliorating influence OF
light and air upon it; consequently the
subsoiling should not be undertaken too
soon after draining The ground should
first be allowed to become comparatively
dry, otherwise it will sink back in a short
time to its original condition. From this it
will be inferred that it will be best, in
practice, to lay the drains in the spring,
that the succeeding summer may dry the
ground, and then run the sub-soiler deep in
the fall. in order that the frost may disin-
tegrate the broken particles and make still
filth.
MANURE FOR PoTAToEs.-A exchange
says the following recipe for raising po-
tatoes is worth the price of any paper for
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