Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-05-04
Farm Notes.

After doing all that can be done TO
! make large yield, and everything
may look promising until the wheat is
| about 10 lac harvested, the farmer has
often noticed that his wheat has ripen-
| ed too fast and the quantity has been
reduced and also the quality of the
grain is inferior to what was expected.
! / have often seen this state of things.
/ Now there is a cause for it, and | be-
! lieye there is a remedy. ] have never
I failed TO raise good, plump grain,
when clover was sown amoug the
wheat. Ny opinion is this. that the
! ground often gets too hot just before
the wheat gets iipe and forces the pro-
| cess 10y taking back in the soil hat
which should fill the grain; if the
ground is covered with young clover
II Is kept temperate and gives the
wheat time tD ripen naturally. / new
er saw a field Of wheat that WAS sown
to clover struck with rust. Now if
these things will always prove to he
the rule, it would pay the farmer TO
SOW clover on his wheat ground, when
seed is less than eight dollars per bush
el, IL for nc other purpose than for fall
pasture or 10 be turned under as Il
green manure. which is one of the best
fertiliZers.-N EUiRger, IN Prairie
Farmer.
A short time ago professor lie
COn,e took the positiOn-a very n2tu-
ral one for professor, and an agricul-
tural one OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the use of
Paris green in killing the Colorado
potato beetle was liable to poison the
ground and render it unprOductive,
&c, Our contemporary, the RUFdj NeU
Yorker, used up this theory in short
order, and in a recent number, adds
Pertinent to our notice of Mr. lie
Contc's theory that Paris green APP
piled to the destruction of the Coiora-
DO potato beetle will poison soils, it
may be mentioned that foreign grape
growers have discovered that no Phyl-
loXeTa is found on volcanic soils which
contain arsenic. and that as a result
such soils are sold 20 yineyardjsts for
use about the vines. They do not
seem to fear arsenic at ali, notwith-
standing Mr.. lie COnte's scientific
wariling!"
Peter Henderson says that expert
ments with pure water, sawdust, char
coal, anthracite, brickdust. aud sands
of all cOlOrs ana textures, showed that
cuttings placed in each, in the same
temperature. rooted almost simTlta-
neously and equally we'll. A sharp
snap this at pretentious scientists.
1T is said that onions certainly in
crease the fragrance of flowers, and
that if large onion iS planted near a
rosebush, so as to touch its roots the
orders of the flowers will be wonder
fully Increased, and the water distilled
from these roses far superior TO any
other
HOrse-radish sauce is q great i'm
proVement upon the plainly scrapcd
or grated hOrse-radish for eating with
either hot or cold roast beef. A des-
crt-spDOuful of olive oil or cream,
same quantity of powered mustard, \
tablespoonful of vinegar. and two ia
blespoonful of scraped horse-radish,
with little salt to taste, must be
stirred and beaten up together until
thoroughly welI-mixed. Sere sepa-
rately il sauce tureen' 1t will keep
for two or three days, or even longer,
if oil and not cream be used,
NJ. Is. Bateham says in the Ohio
Farmer that in his opinion irrigation
will double the strawberry crop rs an
average in Ohio. But Will il not dou-
bic the expense Of raising?
That farmer understood human ma
ture who said "If you want to keep
your boy home, don't bear too hard
Oh the griudstUue when he turns the
crank.