The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-11-21
FARMERS COLUMN.
HOW TO TREAT A CORN sTUBBLE

ed throughout the fall and winter months,
and are in such cases only very rapidly
and often superfcially prepared during
the early spring for the oat crop. Now it
is question worthy Of serious considera-
ton and the closest study how to utilize
thsss months of tall and winter, during
which rain ard frost and air can be made
TO do great and useful work. In tine first
place, the deJrSs of the corn crop the
root and stumps, if plowed in before 1t is
completely dri, by several mno'hs ex-
pOSure, it will rot immediately and he
eome in position to supply pi"nr food,
which it will not do for number OF
yeals if permitted once to- become dry
and seasoned. Secondly, much deeper
blowing may bs safely and advantage
Ously doue in the fall than in the spring,
and subs0iliug as rule, should always &c
done in til" fall when possible, and not n
the spring and it has noW come to be a
known fact tbaG subsoiling Improves all
craps to which 1T can Ne applied, aud
therefore should never be omitted. Fur.
Their, it is No longer consit cred - an ag.
ricuItural heieSy that farms On be ex.
tended ID depth more profta bly, than in
length and breadth, out it is we'll estab-
lish-d ruth; and 10 the tall, and on tue
corn sIuhble, then and where Two pillow :
ings may be done before the irosts of win
ter close up operations, Is he time and
place to do tbs. Lastly, work we'll al
Vsnced IN the sprlng eases the farmer all
through the succeeding season. An osr
or barley crop or a crop of ro, is sown or
planted not aniy gives better yield out
Is safer from all po>sll lie accidents
1t is always your torch anded farmer
who ESCAPES drnuths ur excessive rains OF
flies, and other like contingencies, and al
ways he who is behindhaD0 who suffer!
from them aud t0. Whtm the seasons aIt
untavorahe. In view of these truths
would 1t not be profitable to remove the
corn shocks 4, possible ana immediate J
turn OYER the stubble burying all the
trash completely and permitting the pillow
tn penetrate a little deeper than ever il
did before? Then to break UP the bot
t0m-but not to turn it up-wi b the
sub soil pl''W IA inches deep, or Is # pos
slble, as may easily be done with any
team, by taking burrows Is inches apart
and, if at all possible crossing them
Such breaking up will efectualiy op, Il
up BIZ bottom and 50 IN petely Intern: x
the surface hat the SOL will be in the
best stare, and all the conditions cOnse-
quent on the best culture Of tn. soil VIII
be there to give effecr to the succeeding
crops. Then finally, if, as is very hkel 7
the mild days Of the Indian summer start
the weeds into growrh h, let them lie har-
TOwed down and the field once more plpw
ed into ridges with furrnws 10 inches OF
more apart, and that left for the frosts t.,
mellow and dissolve it into fit and prop.
er state to receive the seed early in the
spring. Seed Sewn in such bed will
spring up quickly and stoutly, and will
occupy the soil long before weeds can in.
terfere to- check the growth.
work well begun is already half com.
pleted, aud no accident but catastrophe
ca affect or ;njure the result. The extrs
labor ls always well repaid, and he who
plows best always reaps best There are
few, and but J. few, farmers who have
made practice Of thus working then
corn stubbles, but none who have thus
worked them ever repented Of doing it
and none have ever failed of reaping
subsequent crop which well repaid The
the extra cost-N Y Tribune
The Canadian Poultry Chronicle gives
the following details respecting the use
carboic acid in connection with poultr,
houses:
"Hhere can be no doubt about it's cffica
cy, but it becomes every one TO exercis,
care in handling 1t. The acid is sold BY
all druggists in its crystalline and liqut
fO'm. in crystal, it dissolves in twenty
times it's weight in water, that ia, on,
ounce Of crystals require twenty ounces
of water to dissolve them. Thus dissolved
Ii IS entirely TOO strong for ordinary use
GAS whitews8h for walls, for protec
ton against insects, bugs. etc, put thre,
OUNCES OF carbolIc acid INTO twelve quart
OF Underwater, and whtewash the wall
OF the p0ultry-Aouse well with this wash
and no living parasite will then be seem
AAelr death Is inevitable.
"a weak solution may be made to wasl
fowls in, one part of the acid to sixty
parts OF warm water; let it cool, and theT
DIP the fowls in until their feathers be-