The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-07

Farm and Garden.
Corn So,0n for Fod2er.-We have given
frequently detailed directions for rails
ing corn fodder-always sewing it in
drills orfurrows, the latter being the best,
allowing more breadth for the rows. An
enquirer asks what time it should be
sown? We answer, any time in the
Northern States between the middle of
May and the middle of July. Those
who use it for early soiling may SOW it
as early as the weather and coil will al.
low, and il small early corn is sown quite
thickly, say three bushels to the acre,
it will give heavy crop Of fine fodder
on good ground by the time of common
wheat harvest. But if intended only
for autumn soling or for fodder, it need
not be sown earlier than the middle of
June, and larger variety Of corn will
do better. But never SOW less than two
or two and half bushels of seed to the
acre.
If the ground is poor, the crop will be
greatly increased by manuring. Coarse
manure may be used to good advantage
on corn fodder. Pillow two.horse burrows
about three feet apart, fill them half full
of manure by throwing with a fork from
the cart or wagon, then strew the corn
along from half bushel basket on the
left arm, at the rate of about three
bushels per acre, and then harrow the
whole lengthwise with the burrows. The
harrow will break up the manure and
mix it with the soil, and the seed will
be mixed with both-it may be scattered
some, but more fodder will grow on
wide than on narrow furrow, and if a
few grains are left uncovered, there will
still be enough for good crop. If the
owner happens to have smoothing har.
row, he may harrow the whole surface
before the corn is up, and two or three
times afterwards and this operation,
together with the shading of the crop,
will leave the surface as clean and
smooth as floor after the crop is harv.
ested.
1t should not be overlooked by those
not familiar with this mode of raising
fodder, that two or three times as much
dry fodder may thus be obtained from
land as from good meadow; that cattle
will eat the whole, stalks and all and
that the stalk will be sure to heat and
spoil with the novice the first year
therefore begin moderately.-Country
Gentleman.
Norious insects in the Garden.-Young
cabbage plants, after being transplanted,
are frequently cut off at the stem by
black grub, which lodges in the ground.
Whenever that is observed, search
around the root of the plants, cut off,
and you will find the grub quarter Of
an inch under the surface, and kill il.
If it is not there, it will be on the plant
next to it, and near by there will be
another. They are always in pairs, and
near to each other.
There is a small black flea, in vast
numbers, which eats off the leaves of
young cabbages, both when they have
Just come up from seeds and after being
transplanted. If the plants are lightly
busted over with fresh slack ed lime for
two mornings, while they are wet with
dew, the lime will kill or drive off the
Aeas, and the plants will thrive.
There is a greenish, mealy louise that
attacks cabbages wien halfor nearly full
grown, frequently covering the whole
plant A busting of fresh lime for two
mornings, over the plants, while wet
with dew, will kill all the intruders.
A large, green grub, with black bands
around its body, which devours the
leaves of carrots, celery, parsnips and
parsley. 1t is slow in motion, and can
be gathered with the hands and killed.
All kinds of fruit trees should have
their stems washed now with strong
solution Of carbolic soap and water. 1t
keeps off borers and cut-worms, and if
the heads of the trees are syringed with
a weaker solution of the carbolic soap
and water, insects will not be apt to
attack them. Another Swinging of the
heads Of the trees, after the fruits are
set, may keep off the "curculio" from
plum and peach trees. The cause OF
failures in keeping off insects is that
remedies are not persevered in suffici.
emily long time. A man standing on
pair of steps ten feet high can syringe
over trees twenty feet high.-Journal Of
of the Farm.
FIGS and their Cdltlre.-Gen. James p.
Worthington, of Chillicothe, Ohio, who
has been experimenting in the cult.
walton of figs for over thirty years,
writes as follows:
Two of the best varieties, the large
yellow and small purple figs, may be
profitably grown, in any soil and climate
where tomatoes will thrive and ripen.
The care and labor required to pro-
duce 100 pounds Of the good varieties
Of grapes, will produce over 200 pounds
of ripe figs, and the crop is more uni.
form.
Small yearling fig trees are best to
transplant, but fig cuttings also grow
very we'll. The yearling trees have ripe
figs in two years and the cuttings in
three years after transplanting. Older