Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-21
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

The Western Farmer mentions a man
who has for years driven away bark lice,
moss, etc, by using as a wash for fruit
trees IA compound of clay, cow manure
and ashes, mixed in soap suds and ap-
piled with a brush to the trunk and
branches us high as can be reached.
The Tennessee ~.Agr5cuLta3Gst has an in
fallable remedy for Kidding hogs of lice
simple and easy Of application-which is
to take buttermilk and pour it along the
hogs back and neck, and after two or
three applications not a louise will be
seen. He has tried, and seen tried, in
several cases, with the same success in
every instance.
The RIral Home presents the follow
ing objections to the planting of nut
bearing trees in ornamental grounds: /.
They are all very difficult to transplant,
being tap-rooted, and would be likely to
be thriftless the first year or two, even if
they did not fail entirely. We cannot af-
ford to plant in our front yards any trees
that are not certain to live under good
treatment, 2. They are dirty trees
amentaceous-that is, their flowers are
ament, or catkin, and, falling to the
ground, cover 1t with a very unsightly
litter; and again, when they cast their
nuts in the autumn, their shucks or burs
litter the ground. 3. 1t is almost impos-
sible to keep the boys from clubbing and
threshing nut-trees, and that soon de
stroys their symmetry.
How | Make My Hanging Baskets
| take coarse, heavy wire for foundation
and handle then interlace with old hoop
wire made pliable by burning or heating
to a read heat then | take young portu-
laca plants with a lump of earth attached
to each, and put them through the inter.
stices, and so fill the basket. The plants
take kindly to their unnatural position,
and soon becomes a mass OF beautiful
green and brilliant flowers. NY baskets
hold nearly half a peck Of earth and look
Ike a hanging garden. In each | place
an empty potash box, inserted in a cavity
in the earth, which fill with water daily,
and in them place fresh flowers as my
fancy dictates. They hang on my piazza,
which is festooned and twined with the
American ivy and morning glories, and
no lovelier spot can we'll be Imagined
E5chaRge.
Howl Wlntered Ny Bees.-Ihsd one
stock Of hybrids not my own. | divided
then late in the summer Of II, without
queen or queen cell. This made them
late in gathering their winters supply.
| examined them about the first Of
January and found them about all
~dead-about a pint Of bees left and
no honey. | determined to try
some experiments on them. | made a
pen about six feet square and filed il two
feet deep with horse manure, well packed.
| then placed the hive right in the center,
leaving the entrance, about one foot back, |
open. | cut a hole in the top of the hive
about four inches square, and inserted a
tube in it. then covered il with rotten
chat to the depth Of three feet. The hole
was covered with wire cloth. fed them
with syrup, and left them have their
liberty all the time. Iou see it was a
regular hot bed, very hot, and it en-
liyened the old lady. They came out in
the spring all right, and today are a No.
/. stock-tor, Nat. Bee J2qt.
A writer in Moore's R9ra}, who says
be has tried both fall and spring planting
Of currant and gooseberry bushes and
cuttings. asserts that the results have al.
ways been greatly in favor Of the former
season. Fail planting will, he thinks, be
generally found best In the Middle States,
or wherever the currant drops its leaves
before frosts occur, az ii does in the lati,
tude Of New York City end southwark.
II the bushes are transplanted as soon as
the leaves fall, new roots will be produced
before cold weather, and a much stronger
growth secured the following season than
IL this operation is deferred until spring.
Currant cuttings made and planted in
early fall will produce roots in a few
DAYS, or weeks at most, while the leaves
viii remain entirely dormant, and if slight
~ protected when the ground begins
to freeze, they viii not only pass through
the winter uninjured, but be In the best
possible condition for making q rapid
growth the following season,