The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-06-17
Farm AND HOUSEHOLD.

II
Hellebors, lime, salt, and similar sub
stances have been used with varied sue.
cess for the destruction of cabbage
buckwheat flower answer the purpose
better than any other remedies that have
been tried. The bran is simply busted
over the infested cabbages as soon as the
worms make their appearance. If the
worms are very thick, about handful
of bran is required to each cabbage head,
and sometimes it is necessary to 60 over
the plants second time. A hundred
weight of bran is sufficient for an acre.
II must be applied when the worms are
young. When they are full grown or
very strong it does not appear to affect
them. The buckwheat -four is sifted
upon them by means of q sieve, in the
evening or in the morning, when the dew
Is on the plants. IF one application does
not destroy the worms, q second one
should be made. It is probable that
wheat -four, fine Indian meal, or any
other pulverulent farinaceous substance
would have the same effect.-American
Garden.
PREPARATION OF WHITEwAsH.-
| Whitewash is one of the most valuable
articles in the world, when properly ap-
piled. 1t prevents not only the decay of
| wood, but conduces greatly to the
healthiness of all buildings, whether
wood or stone. Outbuildings and fences,
when not painted, should be supplied
once or twice year with good coat of
whitewash, which should be prepared in
the following way: Take clean, water
tight barrel, or other suitable cask, and
put into it halt bushel of lime. Slack
It by pouring water over it, boiling hot,
and in sufficient quantity to cover it five
inches deep, and stir it briskly till
thoroughly Stacked. When the Stacking
has been effected, dissolve it in water,
and add two pounds of sulphate of zine,
and one of common salt. These will
cause the wash to harden and prevent its
cracking, which gives an unseemly ap-
pearance to the work. If desirable, a
beautiful cream color may be communi-
Gated to the above wash, by adding three
pounds of yellow ochre, or good pearl
lead color by the addition of lamp, vine,
OF ivory black. For fawn color, add four
pounds umber, Turkish or American, the
latter is the cheapest, one pound Indian
red, and one pound of common lamp
black. For common stone color, add
four pounds of raw umber, and two
pounds of lamp-black. This wash may
be applied with a common whitewash
brush, and will be found much superior,
both in appearance and durability, to
common whitewash.
A Potato THAT REsIsTs THE Coll
oRADo BEETLE.-A. Jackson, of Freder-
lex County, Nd, communicates the fol-
lowing interesting facts to the Baltimore
american Farmer, which he says can be
attested by the sworn testimony of two
of his laborers. About five years ago he
received from New Jersey peculiar
kind of red potato, under the name of
Siberian Red. 1t proved to be very
prolific bearer, and of a monstrous size,
very mealy and wholesome for the table,
though some purple streaks would occa-
sionally run through the tubers. Last
summer he planted them in hills four
feet apart, between young grape vines
which stood eight feet by eight feet, and
raised, on one acre, little better than
one hundred bushels of magnificent
potatoes. He fertilized the hills by
mixing lime with ten per cent. of salt,
and mixing old COW manure with about
ten per cent. of said lime and salt COM
pound. He used good shovelful of it
in every hill, and embodied It with the
ground, clay soil, by digging. The re-
suit he says, was astonishing. When the
potato bugs, which had then appeared in
myriads, had eaten off a vine, presently
two or more vines would shoot up, keep
ing on growing until the November
frosts killed themS Most curious of all,
they bore here and there small potatoes,
not seed balls, on the vines. One re-
markable hill yielded forty-fve average
sized potatoes. All his other kinds, as
Early Rose, Peachblow, Early Goodrich,
though treated in the same manner, were
an utter failure.
The JoINTER PIow.-The object of
using a jointer, or small pillow, in place
of a coulter, is to divide the furrow-slice,
and thus more effectually pulverize the
soil. The jOinter carries its small fur.
row-slice of surface soil over into the
bottom of the furrow more effectually
than can otherwise be done, and the
back or large pillow brings its furrow-
slice over and covers it completely, leav-
ing the surface level and light. 1t will
completely invert weeds, stubble, and
manure, or heavy clover so that it will
not drag up. No corn stubble can be
we'll plowed, as it should be, without it.
Sod, at one blowing, is made as mellow
as a Summer fallow, and can be har-
rowed crosswise of the furrow without
dragging up a particle of turf. An i'm
portant advantage the jointer has over
the coulter is its cheapness of repair.
The coulter very soon becomes dull and
blunt, requiring upsetting and refacing
with steel, costing from four to six shil-
lings, and time in going to the black
smith shop, worth, in the busy season,
as much more. When the jointer point
becomes worn out, the farmer has only
to loosen one bolt and replace it with
new one, making his jointer as good as
new, and at cost of only thirty cents,
and five minutes time, at the longest.
The jointer does not increase the draft
any more than coulter, and will work
wherever coulter can be used, and
perform its work much more thoroughly
and satisfactorily. 1t does the best work
when it only takes a shallow furrow-
slice, and half or two inches deep.
In sod the standard should be placed
ncdriy pcTpenulCuiar.
A SCAREcRow.-It is well known that
blue and scarlet colors in juxtaposition
cause dazzling effect on the eye. These
colors strung on line and placed over
strawberry beds produce a puzzling effect
on birds, and no bird will enter the gar
den while these colors futter in the air.
Pieces of blue and scarlet calico should
be cut about one and half feet in
length, and tied to line one foot apart.
An old flannel petticoat will supply a
large quantity Of inexpensive scarlet
strips. This line is to be supported by
poles six feet in height from the straw
berry beds. To support Strawberries,
keeping them clean and enabling them
to ripen all round, take piece Of stout
wire, yard in length, bend 1t at right
angles ten inches from each end, bend