The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
PARAGRAPHs.

"A Vermont paper says we produce
in this country about seven million
pounds of maple sugar annually.
"A correspondent of the COunt1:ynlGn
says giving SOW a slice OF salt pork
each day for eight or ten days before
farrowing will prevent danger from her
eating her pigs.
Bean poles should be set before the
beans are planted; and near cities
where they are comparatively high
priced, their ends should be charred.
This will make them last some years.
"A writer in an exchange had five
fine hogs slaughtered, in each of which
the lungs and liver were badly affected,
appearing rotten. He attributes this
to feeding ashes in their Stops.
Melons, cucumbers, corn, squash,
beans, Lima beans, pepper, tomatoes
and other tender vegetables that do not
ground warm, should go into the soil
without delay.
Hiram White said in the Randolph
(O.) Farmers Club that on his fathers
farm were Eastwood rails, perfectly
sound, that had been split over thirty
years. The timber from which they
| were made was cut in winter
Horace Colburn, of Winslow Me-, has
been experimenting with cotton seed
| 1IGiue Farmer that two quarts per COW
each day in a weeks time doubled the
quantity of milk and also improved the
quality of the butter.
Hon. Levi Bartlett writes at length
to the Country Gentleman in favor OF APP
plying and evenly spreading manure IN
The fall on ground to be plowed In the
spring. This plan is also recommended
by the editors of that paper.
hn 7f9-3I
Gentleman gives the following detni-
ton of the art of good farming: To
grow as much unexhausting produce as
Is possible, and to manufacture all such
products into manure for the increasing
of the fertility of tho soil.
of the two thousand and more va
rieties of pears, described and known
to those who make promology q study,
only about seventy or eighty are count
ed as truly valuable and profitable to
grow, when season, size, productiveness
and hardihood of the tree are all taken
into account.
Fifty years ago, the Connecticut
valley, with less cultivated land than
at present, exported grain. Now, with
an area open to cultivation larger IN
proportion than the increase in her
population, imports it by the thou
sands, and with it thousands or tons
of fuel.
"A writer in tie Mark Lane Express
strongly advocates working bulls. In
his own case he uses bride collar and
cart saddle. He says it is remarkable
how soon a surly bull may be taught
obedience by man OF good common
sense, courage and tirmness.
-Peleg Smith, in the Prairie Farmer,
gives the following "sure cure" for po-
tato bugs: As soon as the bugs begin
to work, cover the vines entirely with
dry straw, and throw lighted match
in the straw. You may rest assured
that the bugs will not do any more
damage. l have tried 1t, and find it the
only sure remedy.
Farmers are often troubled by
wasps. They can readily destroy them
by the following method: Saturate
piece of lint With strong solution OF
cyanide of potassium, and place at the
outlet of the hole leading to the nest.
The inhalation of tho cyanide destroys
the insects very rapidly, and nest full
Is thus quickly put out OF the way.
Milton Merrifield, of Providence,
caught ffty-two rats in one night, by
exchanging barrel OF oats that had
been often visited by rats for one Of
water, covering the surface with chaH.
The "varmints" unsuspectingly pitch
ed in, and met watery grave. This is
an old but excellent trap, where these
animals are EIeHIy-
H L. Olinger writes the Country
Gentleman that "close observation will
reveal the fact in nine cases out OF ten
where abOrtions are produced COWS
have been suffered to slip and fall upon
ice, or hang themselves on fences, or
perhaps have been kicked by horse,
which is too frequently the case, as
cows and horses in many instances
run together"
oFN ~ A
ricultural Society says the returns in
that State show a falling off in the
number OF cattle from 554 ,903 In 1860 to
4l3,459 in 1866. On the other hand the
returns showed an increase in the mum.
Der of sheep from 4S7, 371, in 1850 to
LOIS, 1856 in 1865. The increase of wool
was from 9l5, 073 pounds, to 2. 594 .Ol9.
-Cabbages and .caull1owers should
now be set out for fall crops; lettuce,
also, for summer and fall use. This,
however, must be sown in very rich
soil, and in partially shaded situation,
or 1t will go to seed. Peas, beans and
other garden crops should be sowed
every two weeks. They do much bet
ter than when large crop Is sown at
hand at one time to waste.
1t is not generally known that WOOL
growing in South America has grown
into such mammoth proportions as It
really has. Even the Australian breed
ers have cause tor alarm from this COM
petitor. 1t is reported, on good author~
ity, that the number of sheep shorn
there exceeds 10000, 900. The exports
of wool to Europe and this country,
amounts to about 23O,OO0.0 900 pounds.
The New Hampshire GStatesm,G
says the hardest and most unpleasant
drudgery of the farm is the loading, un-
loading and spreading OF barnyard and
other bulky manure; and for this kind
of work there seems at present to be no
prospect of relief. II there could be
some kind of Yankee continuance in
vented for this purpose, that would an
swer for all kinds of heavy bulky ma
nure, it would be a blessing to the far
mer and fortune to the inventor.
"A correspondent of the Canada
Farmer asks concerning the manurial
value of calcined bones. The editor
replies that bones, In any form, 1mpart
increased productiveness to land. but
are especially effective on the sandy or
lighter soils. Calcined bones absorb
with avidity air and water, by which
the phosphate of lime, amounting TO
some 75 per cent. of the bones, Is rem
dered soluble and easily appropriated
as food by the plants. Burnt bones are
deemed especially valuable to turn1ps,
and scarcely less so to the cereals.
Speaking of the determination of
currant worms, the Scottish Farmer
says: Helebore powder, lime and
SCOT have sometimes been applied buC
nothing so effectually destroys the YER
min as SCOT, which is independently,
the cheapest cure and most certain pre-
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