The Hickman courier., 1872-10-19
AGRIcULTtSRAL ITEMS.

S"NNNJ NiAOo eHlQ lllI6e-lOu1LQS
ounces. He piledN sawdust about the
plants.
HOLDING Up MIgAK.-A writer in The
american Agrlcu trist says he has
fonpd his cows 49, always let down
their milk when clined to hold it
up II he gives $pem some salt to
HEX. 81
IHE sweet cor Acanning factory at
houth Farls, nj be, has this year
ZOo acres planteE5with sweet corn
Inc proprietolK expect to put up
ZoO'0oO cans - season, against
100000 last yeaI
A coRBEspoN1Sgr of the Prairie
Farmer says the i've stock-horses,
cattle, sheep an swine-sent from
this country 4 Japan early last
spring, all reac ID that country in
good condition. land gave unouali-
fed satlsiactiolISo the Government.
Tue Haywoo4 California; Adro-
cate says 'Joh4 Minger, near Gray
son, in the San koaquia Valley, will
send to market from his ranch this
Jear four thousand tons of wheat.
This is over lB3,000 bushels, and
enough to keepka mill running for a
year, and maxi one hundred bar
rels per day. 81
A YANEEE ba vented a device for
preveRs A4sS~saa kicking In
harness. The mind legs are strap
ped at the knee joints, with strap
running through ring on the sur
cingle, so that when one foot ad-
vances the slack slips through the
ring far enough to allow the other
leg to remain behind.
THE Enghsh agricultural papers
are lamenting over the entire failure
of fruit in that country 1t is stated
that the crop of apples. pears and
even the smaller fruits, is the small
est ever known there. The cause is
attributed to the severe weather in
March and April, which is believed
to have injured the trees and fruit
buds.
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Rural Home on she way from Deca-
tur to Cassopolis, Michigan, passed
a farm surrounded by an immense
hedge of black swalnnt trees. Its
owner on "taking up the land had
/ plowed a furrow round his eighty
acres, in which he dropped black
walnuts that now had grown to
large sized trees it was quite an
Interesting sight.
LIME FOR PEACH TEEEs.-From
/ two to four quarts of air-slaked lime,
according to the size of your peach
trees, may be applied to each one,
early in .he spring or late in the
/ fall. Excavate shallow basin
around the trunk, place the lime in
/ that cavity for "A month or more,
and then mix with the surrounding
soil, filing tie cavity with fresh
earth Our Home Journal.
SMUT Is not disease, properly
speaking, but it is the cause of an
injury which may be regarded as
I disease. 1t is a minute fungus, liv-
ing in and upon the grain, and is
propagated byspores, which answers
the purpose of seeds. These spores
are 50 very small that they may ad-
here to the seed grain unnoticed,
and from the smut will be developed
more abundahtly, as the season is
/ favorable or otherwise to its growth.
The usual preventive is soaking the
seed wheat, Just before sowing, in
strong solution Of vitrol (sulphate of
copper drying the grain by the use
of quick-lime.-American Agr,cm
tu]-ist.
Cows usually become addicted to
kicking when heifers, from being
MIXED by abusive mixers. l have
never seen an old COW become
kicker unless abused Instead OF
cows being ayerse TO being milked
when giving large quantity, have
ever found it the reverse. When
pasturage is good, and cows come
home at night with udders distend-
ed with milk. they seem grateful to
have it removed. Milking a heifer
TOR the first time requires patience,
for they will almost invariably kick.
In such case put a broad strap
around her body just front of the
uddcr, and buckle it up moderately
tight, and as soon as she gets quiet
(fOr she may dance around a little
at firsD take your pail, sit down and
90 to milking, for she is as helpless
as a kitten. Do not attempt to use
a rope instead of a strap, for it will
not answer. This is a much better
method than tying the legs, etc, as
it does not burt the animal in the
least A few~ applications of the
strap, with plenty of patience, and
kindness, will cure the most obsti-
nate case.
Sows EATING THEIR PIGs.-The De
partment OF Agriculture publishes
the following: q 1t is well known
that sows not unfrequently attack
and devour their own young; or if
prevented from this will not let
down their milk, so that the young
pigs necessarily die from want Of
nourishment. When this stare of
things is not caused by disease of
the uterus, it is said the SOW can be
brought to terms by pouring a mix
ture o. ten 10 twenty grams OF Splr-
its Of camphor, with one to three OF
tincture Of onium, in the ear. The
SOW Will iitsT ~-fsste4y- dc doDvsraors
the side OF tft ear TO which the ap
plication was made, and remain
quiet for several hours in this posi-
tion without interfering with her
pigs; and on recovering from her
stupor will have lost her irritabi ity
in regard to them. The expert
ment has beea tried in Germany
hundreds of tines. according to one
of the agricult .ral journals, without
any injurious sfects. Itis also said
that the eating of pigs blythe parent
sow can be fsadily prevented by
rubbing them Eli over with brandy,
and making he Same application
about the nos,tof the SOW herself.
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