Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
Farm R0kingS.

Farm Rakings.
PrTT out rye meal for the bees just as
soon as they are set out of doors.
No OPPORTUNITY should be ommitted
to let bees sally out In winter and spring
ON mild, sunny days, as their health de-
ponds in some degree on their being al
lowed to void their fpces when fully
aroused by spell of mild weather.
{ A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer gives it as the result OF an ex-
perience and observation extending over
period of many years, that when
'black or white walnut trees" are planted
within 90 or even 80 feet of naples the
latter invariably die.
WE have had for the last half century
numerous infallible directions for de-
stroying Canada thistles, some easy of
application, others difficult, but we do
not see that the thistles have disappeared
from the face of the earth. On the con-
trary, they appear to be increasing, diff
fusinG themselves over wide tracts, fol-
lowing IN the wake of emigration, and
f, taking root on the fertile fields of the
West. ~ r..Ig u#pf
Mr.. BETS, of the Detroit Tribune,
advises farmers of moderate means who
desire to improve their stock, to keep
away frsm the public sales. They can,
he thinks, suit themselves better, and at
less expense, "by going quietly among
careful breeders-not of the noisy kind
/ and making their selections, take them
home and make good thing; no noise,
no auctioneering, no announcement III
the papers," Meantime "those whe have
more money than they know what to do
WITH" can continue to pay { ncy prices,
and" let the bubble burst-as it will. y
Mr.. SLoCUM, of Western New York,
raises potatoes in this way: He uses
small, but not the smallest seed. Com
mences cutting his seed two or three
weeks before planting; then spreads the
cut potatoes about one foot thick on the
barn floor, mixing plaster with them to
prevent bleeding. Plants in hills two
feet and eight inches apart each way;
puts his foot on the seed TO press it into
the firm soil, and covers with machine.
Never could see any benefit from chang
ing seed. From clay to sand they grow
smaller.
THE yields of forage, both of roots
| aud maize, obtained by French farmers
are remarkable. Alta recent exhibition
of beets in Paris, specimens were ex-
hibited of crops which gave for yellow
beet ffty-five tons per acre. A species
of maize known as giant, or scarogua,
returned no less than seventy tons of
green fodder per acre. The fertilizers
used for this latter crop were $50 pounds
per acre of mixture of three parts
tsuperphosphate of lime and one part
sulphate of ammonia. The previous crop
/ grown upon the same land was rye cut
! green for fodder, which cut nearly nine
tons per acre.
The potato beetle can be controlled by
due care at the proper time-first by
catching and destroying the first brood
of bugs that appear on the vines, and
next by the use of Paris green, or other
poisonous substance, sprinkled on the
vines when the slug or second brood is
coming to maturity and beginning to
work upon the leaf One spoonful of
Paris green stirred into three or four
gallons of water and sprinkled on the
vines, two or three times over, at inter-
walls of one week, will, it is said, by those
who have had experience, save the crop.
1t requires from three to four pounds to
the acre of the poison, and one days
work to four or five acres of ground each
time over, an expense which every
farmer can afford if only by this means
the crop can be saved.