Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-02-09
THE APPLE WoRM.-This insect is

HE APPLE WORM.-1nlS insect Is
becoming more formidable Of late
years in the eyes of orchardists than
any other insect with which we are
troubled. In many regions of the
country it is disfguring most of the
apples intended for market, and vast
sums are yearly lost in that way. DR..
Trimble succeeds in destroying large
numbers by wrapping the trunks two
or three times around with hay rope,
early in the summer. The insects
hide under the rope and are after
wards killed. This is a useful mode
of destroying them, but it would hard
ly answer for extensive orchards, and
part of the insects escape. Turning
in swine, which eat the fallen fruit,
and thus destroy the worms, has been
found to answer an excellent purpose,
and give crops of fair fruit. But few
farmers have swine sufficiently nu-
merous for large orchard, and sheep
have therefore been proposed as a
substitute. In the few instances in
which they have been tried, we be-
lieve they have proved quite success
full, but more experiments are needed.
They rarely gnaw the bark in the
sumnef season, but all danger may
be prevented by rubbing the trunks
with blood-refuse meat or liver from
the butchers may be employed for
this purpose, and will answer for a
repellant for some weeks.
To MAKE Cows GIVE MILK.-A
writer who says his COW gives all the
milk that is wanted in family of
eight persons. and from which was
made two hundred and sixty pounds
of butter per year, gives the follow
ing as his treatment. He says: If
you desire to get large yield OF rich
milk, give your cow three times day
water slightly warm, slightly sailed
In which bran has been stirred at the
rate of one quart to two gallons OF
water. You will find, if you have
not found this daily practice, that your
COW will gain twenty-five per cent
immediately under the effects of it
and she will become so attached tc
the diet as to refuse to drink cleat
water unless very thirsty; but this
mess she will drink almost any time
and ask for more. The amount OF
this drink is an ordinary pail full eacI
time, morning, noon and night. You
animal will then do her best at dis
counting the tactical. Four hundret
pounds of butter are often obtainel
from good stock, and instances arc
mentioned where the yield was ever
at higher figure"
CUTTING GRASS LATE.-Hay ha.
been the principal crop for marke
with the farmers of this town for /;
century. We know what good ha,
is and how to MAKE it, AID we try t.
cut it all just on the turn of the howe
while the sap is gummy. 1t not onl,
makes the best hay, but the most, toe
when cut at that time-weighing mucI
heavier than if cut earlier or later.
We also know what it costs to hal
vest it; and could not understan,
how hay could be harvested so cheap
ly as you and your correspondent
have stated, until | saw in the Wesi
during the last two or three seasons
what their hay was, and how they har
vested it. | saw the farmers in Yves
ern New YORK and Pennsylvania Gu
ting their hay mot their grass IN tn
forenoon, and putting it in the bar
in the afternoon of the same day
, doing nothing with it but cutting, raj
0 ing and carting it. This was in Al
. gust; and my own hay, in this COLI
q northeast corner of Massachusetts
0 had then been in the barn a mont
= and there was more fragrance in
U handful of it than in ton of their
s think the farmers of the We
e ought to be urged, again and again.
/, cut their grass before it is quite oil
q of bloom, both as a matter of Nero
y to their animals and as a matter Q
J profit to themselves, though it wi
then cost three times as much to GU
t it, if they do it as it ought to be don
s. GEORGE HASKELL.
l. IPSWICH, MASS, Dec. 1868.
e SUBsOILING.-1t should be remel
J. bered that the object of subsoil ploug
ing is to loosen the under-soil, to pc
e NIT the ameliorating action of lig
J. and air upon it; consequently, Il
n subsoiling should not be undertak,
re too soon after draining. The grour
should be allowed to first become col
paratively dry, otherwise it will sir
D. back in short time to its origin
Us condition. From this it may be
ot ferred that it will be best, in practic
r to lay the drains in the spring, tn
y the succeeding summer may dry t
q ground, and then run the subsoil
y deep in the fall, in order that the frc
s. may disintegrate the broken parlicl
IL and make a still finer tilth.-Rm
a Neu Yorker.
To MAKE BUTTER CoME.-Refrs
lie tory cream, says E. L. Bragdon,
le Port Ontario, may be corrected
70 adding two ounces OF dissolved all
" to two pals of cream. There is
he good story told of the daughters
n. Sir Thomas More. Their cream W
ly very refractory. They took turns
to churning, and repeated the lis
o. Psalm to make the time pass. TIL
he got through the chapter before
IL butter came. If they had known abe
ID alum, they could have chosen a shor
ID psalm.
" CURE FOR COLIC IN HoRsEs.-T
=, !, death of Robert Bonner's Aubu
- horse induces a New Yorker to Sc
- the Tribune a remedy which he
10 pouar caop foil 70 o,,co