Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-03-09
Farm and Garden.

Farm ana G0rOen.
Isects.-Now is the time to prevent
canker- worms from ascending the trees,
the warm days which often occur this
month being favorable for their move
ments. Their ascent can be partially
prevented by placing around the trunks
bands of paper which are to be kept
coated with tar, taking care to renew
the coating every few days, or as often
rs it hardens. Other methods, such as
gutter of tin or lead surrounding the
trees, have been used, but the success
of all of these contrivances depends
upon constant inspection and care.
great many tent-caterpillar's eggs can
be destroyed by carefully searching the
trees before they commence to develop
their leaves; the eggs are attached in
rings to the branches near the extremi
| ties.
heltering IStock.-An experiment made
in England shows that one hundred
sheep fed under one shelter OH twenty
pounds of Swedish turnips each per
day, at the end of few weeks had
gained three pounds each more than
another hundred which were fed TWEEN.
ty pounds of the same kind of turnips
each, but in the open air or field. Five
sheep were fed in the open air in No
vember, the temperature being at forty
four degrees. They consumed ninety
pounds of food per day. At the end of
ten days they weighed two pounds less
than when at first exposed. Five other
sheep were then placed in a shed, the
temperature being forty nine degrees !;
at first they consumed eighty two
pounds per day, then seventy pounds,
and at the end of the time they had
gained twenty three pounds. This is
proof sufficient of the advantage of
sheltering stock in winter.
Handling Bees. A Michigan bee
keeper recommend smoking swarms
with cotton rags to make them submis-
sive to handle. By this means he once
transferred 800 swarms to new quarters
without getting stung.
Seed Corn.-Soak doubtful seed corn
in chloride of lime and it will come. If
you soak seed corn in tar water in which
a little copper has been dissolved, the
gophers and crows will give it wide
berth.
Rye for Mich Cu,os.-A foreign pa
per says: When rye is of good quail
ty, it certainly constitutes an excellent
food for all kinds of stock. Dairy COWS,
fed daily on five pounds ofrye meal and
sufhciency OF cut straw, have been
found to yield very large quantities of
milk. In Holland, which is famous for
its excellent butter, rye is common
food for milch COWS; and, indeed, gen
orally throughout northern and central
xhap OF a v,rotrHSCa
favor cf rye as d cattle food as there
is prejudice against it in this coun'
try"
The Partridge the Agriculturist's Friend.
AT meeting of horticulturists in Hi
nois strong ground was taken against
the destruction of these birds. To show
how useful this bird is it was stated that
flock of partridges were seen running
along the rows of corn just sprouting
and seeing them engaged in something
which was believed to be pulling up the
Young plants, one of them was killed
and its "crop' examined, which was
! found to contain one cutworm, twenty
one striped bugs, and over one hundred
chinch bugs. Another member related
that he had adopted measures te pro
tect the bird, and that they had become
so numerous and SO tame that hundreds
of them, after snow falls, could be seer
. in his barnyard with the fowls where
\ they were fed. AS result of theil
, presence upon his premises his whea
t crops were unusually abundant, while
! in many other places not far of thu
: chinch bug and other insects had de
stroyed half the crop.
t Feeding from, the Straw Stecks.-A cor
t respondent of the Toronto Globe says
Y {" Feeding cattle from the straw stacl
certainly saves great deal OF trouble
and as long as the best straw can thu
be picked over, and the refuse trample'
o under foot, the stock may do we'll; bu
, when they come to the upper part o
# the stack they will not eat half OF il
e and as that generally happens toward
e the end of the winter, just when fod
/. der begins to run short, it then becam
l. f" Hobson CHOICE" and, moreover, from
S the wilful waste at the commencement
G the poor cattle are then compelled t
eat this portion up clean, as it is the
discovered that fodder will run shor
The fact is, such feeding, and from
O straw stack, in any case, is a miserabl
II arrangement. The cattle are poor, an
It infested with vermin almost all winte
y and it is June before the old hair is a
off: whereas, if stabbed, and fed wit
straw from the barn, less fodder will d
!. by nearly one-third, and more manu-
&C will be made, and the cattle and stoc
:, will look sleek and we'll at the end
:. April and beginning of May