Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-07-16
Agricultural Items.

OF any klnd. 10 prepare IL, take the
inside bark ofsweet elder boil to a
strong infusion strain it, then add
to the liquid-say halt pint-a
piece of mutton tallow and beeswax,
each the size of a hens egg simmer
until the water is out. Ifa soft oint.
ment is desired, use fresh butter in
stead of mutton tallow.
BEES SwARMING.-A sure way to
prevent bees from going to the woods
when they come out and alight, is
to get pail half full of cold water
from the we'll take a broom brush
and dip it in the water, and throw it
over the bees, and it will come down
on them like rain, then hive them in
the usual way, and sprinkle them
while going in, and sprinkle the
ground around the hive to cool the
air /; in fifteen or twenty minutes do
it again, and continue it until the day
is cooler; keep the hive in the shade.
There is no need of having any
bees go to the woods-not at all. |
had forty swarms last summer, and
saved all by sprinkling them.
But says one, my bees 60 to
the woods without aligbting.' j
don't dispute it in the least; but du-
ring the thirty five years that | have
kept bees, | have never had Il swarm
come out and 60 to the woods with
out alighting first and | am safe in
saving that have hived thousand
swarms. Bees sometimes come out
undiscovered, and after while start
for the woods, and are seen on the
second start.-Rmul Ne,o Yorker.
ADVANTAGES CLAIMED FOR All
sIKE CLovER.-The following are
mentioned as reasons why the Alsike
is Superior to our common Red clo-
yer;
lst. Being a finer seed, and from
three to four pounds being sufficient
to seed an acre while six to ter
pounds being required of any other
variety.
I'd. For hay or pasture it fully
doubles the value OF the medium
clover, being a finer fiber and SEEM
ingly having a much sweeter juice.
Having a fbrous rather than tap
root, it does not heave so badly by
frost, and will continue its growth
for three or four years in succession,
each year producing a large yield of
hay and seed.
In answer to nm enquiry IA regards
the value of Alsike clover, the Ohio
Farmer says
This clover mades good hay so
far as VIC have heard from the farm
ers who have raised it. 1t bears a
greater resemblance to White than
to Red clover, except in the height Of
growth. A farmer who has given il
a fair trial says that all stock like it.
It's quite free from dust, and viii
stand more hard usage from the
weather, after being cut, than any
other grass with which he is acquaint
ed. 1t natures at the same time as
Timothy, making it a good grass to
SOW with it.
MAGGoTs AS POULTRY FOOD
This novel plan of breeding maggots
to feed to poultry has been in sue
cessful operation in Bohemia for
two or three seasons. 1t is said that
Young turkeys prefer this food to any
other. Directions Dig nine pits
four by eight feet wide and three feet
dep, smaller if desired, line bottom
and sides with brick, so the maggots
cannot crawl or the pit cave in. For
nine successive days fill one cot these
pits in the following manner; First,
cover the bottom three inches thick
with cut straw; second, one course
OF horse, pigeon or chicken manure
two inches thick third, one inch Of
a mash made from yeast, potatoes
and Indian meal fourth and last
one course of loose, damp soil one
or one and half inches thick. Cover
the whole with a light roof to keep
the sun and rain off, but open 10 adj
nit the common muck fly, one Of
which is capable of producing, accor-
ding tor natural history, five hundred
millions Of eggs in one summer. The
fly will deposit its eggs i'll the PIT,
which. after the expiration Of nine
days, will he filed with maggots.
The contents of one pit will keep
three thousand chickens for one day,
giving three meals per day. To winter
pheasants or chickens on the same
food make more pits, let the maggots
transform into larvT, and fill the
same into barrels.
A VALUABLE RECTPE.-Ihe
Journal Of Chemistry publishes re-
cipe for the destruction of insects,
which, If it be one-half as eliicacious
as it is claimed TO be, will prove III
valuable u:
Hot aIum water is a recen: sugges
ton as an insecticide. IT will de
.troy red and black ants, cockroach +
es, spiders, chintz bugs and all the
crawling pests which infest our hous-
es. Take two pound OF alum and
dissolve it in three or four quarts of
boiling water; let it stand on the
fire TIL the alum disappears; then
apply it with a brush, while nearly
boiling hot, to every joint and crev-
ice 10 your closets, bedsteads, pantry
shelves, and the like. Brush the
crevices in the floor Of the skirting or
the skirting or mop boards, if you
suspect that they harbor verniin
If, in white-wa.hing a ceiling, plenty
of alum is added to the lime, it will