The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-01
FARMERS COLUMN.
WOOD ASHES.

ing the wood ashes that they make to
soap makers for fifteen TO twenty cents
per bushel Our advice is, that next
time an ash cart comes along, the driver
exclaiming, Any ashes to self" to r..
ply, "No," emphatically You needn't
cali here again. We are not such fools as
to sell ashes at fifteen cents bushel,
when they are worth fifty cents bushel
to u.s." ~ safe
Well, they are worth fifty centsa bush
Ell to any farmer, if they are pure wood
ashes. Coal ashes are not worth the
carting to the field. The chemical con-
stituents of wood ashes are SILICA, alumni,
oxide ofiron, oxide Of Manganese, potash
soda, sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid,
chloride, and carbolic acid.
These constituents are all essential to
the growth Of vegetation; but potash, the
principle constituent, is the most import
ant. 1t decomposes organic substances,
and renders many inorganic substances
soluble. ~ th sa
Sandy soils are benefited by the APP
plication of wood ashes, and the follow
ing crops are particularly increased by
applying ashes: potatoes, carrots, corn,
beans, clover and grass generally.
4 compost of hen manure, soil and ash.
es is a powerful fertilizer for corn. Put
about three parts of any finely pulver-
lied soil to one part of hen manure, and
two parts OF unleached wood ashes. Mix
we'll in March or April, wetting the COLI
post thoroughly; and at corn planting
time it will be in good condition to use.
Apply a handful to hill, and the result
will P1tos0I1of fFt5F ss5ti
SCATTERED GRAIN ON STUBBLEs. -
Notwithstanding the excellence of our.
steeltoothed rakes there is considerable.
scattered grain and heads left on our
wheat, barley, and oat stubbles. The
former is usually seeded down with.
clover, and as there is no necessity for
blowing them, the wheat stu5ble may be-
reserved until the last. But where bar
ley or oat stubbles are to be sown with.
wheat we can better afford to loose the
scattered, grain than to postpone work
ing the land Sheep will CLEAN the
stubbles as we'll as pigs, but they should
not, at first, be allowed to remain in the
field more than half an hour the first day
and perhaps an hour the second, length
ening the time as they have to travel, fur.
Their in search of the grain And see to
it that the sheep have free access to wa
ter, and are regularly sailed. n )
THE APPLE TREE boRER. We find
the following communication from Hon.
Samuel Swift, in the Middlebury (Vt.)
Register. "Sone twenty years ago, hay
ing for many previous years commended
rather unsuccessfully against the depre-
datiens of theapple borer came across
a prescription for getting rid of this
enemy to our orchards, of the following
tenor: BY the first of May, prepare q
wash composed of soap aud water with
tobacco juice, and apply il with brush
60 the body Of the apple tree, from the
roots as high up as the borer ever enters.
Some few years after, / found another
similar prescription, omltting the
tobacco, and using only soap and water,
which I have since used. With the use
of either of these prescriptions have
never found a borer at work on any of
nv trees, unless at the first year of using
Il. The prescription directs the appli-
cation to be made the Ist of May; but I
did not discover it until about May 20,
and then made the application. But
this gave time for the eggs to be Matched,
and the small and hardly perceptible in
sects that appeared in the bark were
easily removed"
A SIMPLE BUTTER COOLER Those
who are not provided with refrigerator
will find the following very good
method for keeping butter cool: Pro
cure large, new fower-pot, of sufi-
Gent size to cover the butter plate, and
also saucer large enough for the flower
Dot to rest in upside down. Place a
triyet or meat-stand-such as is sent to
the oven when joint is baked-in the
saucer, and put on the triVet the plate
of butter. Now, fill the saucer with
water, and turn the fower-p over the
butter SO that its bottom edge will be
below the water. The hole in the
flower pot must be fitted with q cork.
The butter will then be In what we may
call an alright chamber. Let the whole
of the outside of the flower pot be
drenched with water, and placed in as
cool a spot as you can find. If this be
done over night, the butter will be found
I'6rm as a rock" at breakfast time, or,
placed there in the morning, will be
quite hard for use at teatime. The rea-
son of this is, that when water evapor-
ates it produces cold. The porous pot
draws up the water, which in warm
weather, quickly eyaporates from the
sides, and thus cools it. And as no warm
air can now get at the butter, 1T becomes
firm and cool in the hottest day.
THE NEW GAME OF BILLIARDs.--The
Boston Herald gives the description OF
the new game of billiards -" there will
shortly be introduced an original and
wholly different game of billiards than