Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-16
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.


HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. e
CLARK Swallow, East Bridgewater
Mass, covers bis vines with rhubart
leaves, and thus saves them from the raw
ages of the striped bug. 8l ilts
From carefully conducted expert
ments, by different persons, it has been
ascertained that one bushel of corn will
make little overten and halt pounds
of pork, gross. rte i al j .ugnB. ,tal 4,
"A weak solution of phosphoric acid
is said to be strong poison for all kinds Of
insects. and yet to be beneficial to plants
by adding to the soiuable- phosphates In
the soil. tits predicted that it will be
extensively used in agriculture.
CLEANING Engravings-It very often
happens that, fine. steel engravings get
stained with moisture on the wall, or
specked with mildew, and it becomes an
important question how to bleach them.
One Of the best methods is to moi listen
them carefully and suspend them in a
large vessel partially filled with ozone.
The ozone bleaches them perfectly with
cut attacking the fibre OF the paper.
Baron svon Tschudi, the eminent
Swiss naturalist, says that without birds
successful agriculture is impossible, as
they annihiate in a few months greater
number of destructive insects than man
could in years. He classes among the
most useful the swallow, wren, robin and
sparrow and says that robin killed 500
flies in an hour, and pair Of sparrows
carried 800 worms or caterpillars to their
nests in day. -----s-.
The Utica Herald says no valid objec-
ton can be raised TO the beet crop on the
score Of it's exhausting the soil. A tri-
yearly rotation of the beet enriches the
soil. The tops cut off and plowed in, as
well as the salts and charcoal from the
sugar houses, are excellent fertilizers.
Large quantities of animal manure also
are obtained from the herds fattened on
the pulp. Thus would the yield Of the
land be more than quadrupled in value,
while the land itself would be improved,
where now 1t is being exhausted by con-
tlnuous cropping with cereals. ''o'
Bone Dust -On a farm In England
some years ago q piece OF waste ground
was broken from common and titled In
turnips, the larger part OF which was
MANFRED with bone dust, at the rate OF
twenty -four bushels TO the acre. In the
two following years it was successfully
cropped with oats, and with the last crop
laid down to permanent pasture, in which
state it has remained ever since. Ten
years after The application the effect OF
the bone-dust could be plainly distin-
guished-the grass, as far as the eye could
reach, having rich sward while the ad.
Joining part, where no bone-dust had
been applied, had coarse, sterile appear
ance the difference being az great as il a
line had been drawn between rich pas
ture, and scanty, coarse heritage.
Judge Burnside, of Huntington, Pa
some years sgo presided over a case where
insanity consequent upon drunkenness
was Get up as defense against the charge
of larceny. Upon the Counsel for the de
PENDANT urging His Honor TO instruct the
Jury that this was case of mental aher.
ration, the Judge waxed indignant. Said
he: "Do the gentlemen wish TO be mur.
dered by ANYBODY TO whom they may
have given offense, and who has only To
prepare himself by throwing away hat,
coat, drinking and running in the streets
for given number OF hourss Is such a
performance permit for crime and Sc
curity for acquittal." The Judge turned
to the jury "This man." he continued
has ADDED, in my opipion, the crime OF
drunkenness to that Of larceny; wish
you could punish him as he deserves for
two crimes instead Of one"
Z A large swarm Of bees passing over
the city of st. Louis few days ago were
attracted by the jipgling Of the bells Of a
street Car, and the whole colony settled
on the limb Of an ailaDthus tree that pro-
iected over the sidewalk The weight of
the swarm cansed the limb To break, and
the little busybodies were precipitated TO
the sidewalk Imagining that an attack
had been made upon them by the passen-
gers in the Car, they flew upon the hcrses
and men, singing them severely. The
horses did not wait Tor the order or going,
but went AZ full speed, while some Of the
passengers took TO their heels. Persons
passing On the street were also attacked
and many Of them stung. colored man
captured the swarm by spreading sheet
upon the ground the bees oil crowded
into the sheet, and were carried away by
the colored bee-charmer"
Small Fruits in Orchards. Raspber-
ries succeed fully IS well in an orchard
where partially shaded as in more exposed
situations. Many Of the foreign sorts are
more or less liable to be injured by exces-
sive heat In summer, and q little shade
win often prevent injury TO the leaves,
and thereby allow tia csnes to fully ripen
The planting Of raspbeTries among trees
IL no new feature IN horticulture, but has
been practiced fnr many years BY our most
successful growers Of this fruit. Blackber-
ries and the black raspberries would
probably do better In ! hslf.shady sltua-
ton than where fully expoSsd, and in!the
Middle and Southern States thu node Of
culture should be more generally adopted,
II the plants are kept thoroughly culti.
vsted, and the col enrich6d. Sho sopas,