Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-22
FARM NEWS AND ITEMS.

Accordingly to the Blair Register,
tree-planting in Nebraska is prosecuted
at lively rate. One day 10000 young
trees passed through that town to farm
ers farther west. A company of Swedes
had contracted for Il, 900 cottonwoods to
set out on their farms. This tree-plant-
ing is now regular rouleine of agricul-
tural settlement, and cannot fail to pro-
duce the most beneficial effects upon the
climate and productive power of that
young State. -
An English writer puts in strong
plea for turnips, accounting them con:
siderably superior to carrots or mangel-
wurzels for milch cows. The milk in
duced by mangels is large in supply,
but of poorer quality and not nearly so
productive of cream as that resulting
from the use of turnips; and the taint
given by the former roots is more OBJ
jectionable and less easy to obviate or
overcome to passable degree. In Civ
ing carrots to mich cows, the only re-
commendarion they have is the absence
of all unpleasant taste in the butter, as
the milk is neither so abundant nor so
rich as that obtained by turnip feeding.
N. Y. World. 7-a 7l
sThe weevil fly deposits egg in the
grain in its green and tender state. If
the wheat is thrashed soon after harvest
and thrown into bulk, it undergoes a
heat which destroys the egg, and it sus-
tains injury; but if it remains long in
the shock or stalk, the weev1 matches
and make its way out of the grain, to its
great injury, both in weight and quail
ity. .-r ~ - IL
| Here have sometimes marked its alb
sense for several years; but after mild
winter they generally appear. In the
more Southern States l believe they are
never absent. The black weevil haunt>
our granaries, where they are generated
Some years ago suffered much injury
from them, but now have an effectual
defense. When my granaries are clear
of grain, placed powdered birthstone
in an er-tin pan, which for safety, put
on the floor in a bed of sand closing
the windows and firing it, the smoke
either destroys or drives them off,
Maryland Farmer. 3. .---....
the hurry of spring business, or, if not
short of time or short of means to ge
manure, are tempted to put in crop!
sometimes in land which is not as rich al
it should to be. Sometimes they are able
to remedy this in few weeks, but ther
it is too late. When it is suggested tina
they spread the manure on the surface
they think of the great amount lost by
evaporation. But figures have ShowI
that instead of loss there is gain by sur
face manuring. There is a small loss
but the gain is made up by the increased
, Advantage which the roots gather from
manure when at the surface. Whel
, low down in the earth, and excluded
|. from the air, manure is of very ittl
> service to plants,
! 1t needs the action of the atmospher
to prepare it for plant food, and this j
the great compensation for the smal
loss which escapes into the atmospher
l ON dry or windy day.
In the above system of surface ms
e nuring much may be said pro and COZ
2 Monures, to be of any prospective ben
lift to soil, must be plowed in and In
: corporated with it; tine fertilizing quail
e ties, in time, nouriShing and deYelopin
the plant.
o Manures placed Immediately upon tn
" surface of soil commence at once I
absorb the oxygen of the atmosphel
d ond furnish carbonic acid, which is tn
y fructifyinn quolity most necessary ft
{, plant food. Tru0, in this way, there
q a certaio amount of evaporation frol
le the eXhalatiOn of ammonia, which is
s dead loss to the farmer; but when the
are roots to nourish and young shoots
y feed, the loss is iuconsiderable in pr,
r portion to the gain,
IL NV experience has taught me TIL
% surface manuring should be Immediate
:; followed by shallow blowing and farroy
1t ing. In this way there is quite sutfiriel
y of the alkali evolved to attract the n
a cessary moisture to the seed, or sho
= of the plant, and the fructifying quali
is not sa soon exhausted, the subsoil b
at ing also improved thereby.-Correspen
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