The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-18

KANSAS PARMHNG.
Plant corn and potatoes.

] Al N-A0 f'OtSASCNos
ID. 81. Ray sheared from one
Spanish Merino buck q pounds of
wool. Two ewes af the same breed
made 1875 pounds each; two made
i12ds each ten 111S each, and each
eve has q lamb. They were all
wintered exclusively OH prairie hay.
t-Woodson county Post.
The following Is sail to be the
Australian remedy for scab on
sheep. The proportions to be in
creased or diminished to suit the
size of the flock.
Twenty pounds -four of sulphur;
ten pounds quick lime; twenty gall
Ions of cold water. Put these into
a boiler, and keep mixing by COM
stantIy stirring until they boil; and
then keep boiling and stirring for
about ten minutes, or until an or.
ange-tinted ISOLATION intervenes.
Then mix one gallon of this solh-
tioE with three gallons of hot Wat-
err, heat your dip or bath TO 100 de-
grees or Ia degrees Fahrenheit,
plunge your sheep overhead in 1t
for about one minute, and when
your sheep is dry, the cure is COM
plete. My little flock suffered fer
ribly with this disease about one
! year ago, when l saw notice of
this remedy in some agricultural
paper, and tried it-asing for my
bath, large iron kettle, with drip
ping board on one side, to stand
the sheep on as they were taken out
economiZing the solution; and the
one bath effected perfect aud en-
tire cure.
| l need not suggest to sheep rails
ers that this is better applied soon
after shearing; aud the greatest in
convenience, the effect of lime and
sulphur on the hands.-F. N. b. in
Rural Press.
Mr.. d. NJ Brown, of Cottonwood,
has been engaged the past week, in
relieving his sheep Of the winter
clothing. He reports the yield of
wool good and prices better. His
flock has nearly doubled itself this
spring, and the lambs are sound
and healthy. There is money in
Sheep county Courant.
Prof Roberts, of the Cornell
University, made some experiments
in growing corn upon the college
farm last season, the result of which
are valuable. He planted three
plots of three-sixteenth of an acre
each with corn and thinned the
hills i'll one lot to three stalks, an
other to four stalks to the hill {; the
third was not thinned: The first
plot yielded at the rate of I6O bush
| els, the second 125 blu shells, and the
third 1O6 bushels (of ears) to the
acre. Mr.. Roberts states, as results
of many experiments prior to those,
at the Iowa Agriculture College,
that the heaviest crops of corn were
made by growing three stalks to
the hill, and that two stalks to q
hill will produce more corn than
five stalks: If every stalk produc-
es an ear, and corn is planted three
feet apart each way, there viii be
nearly 100 bushels of shelled grain
per acre.
Mr.. Hodgens, an intelligent farm
CT living six miles northeast of Os-
wego, Is paying attention to horti.
culture. His large orchard has new
er suffered from the borer, and he
says the reason is he sows Inillet in
the orchard to feed the birds. Great
f1ocks of these winged friends, he
says, are always around the milfet,
and they keep his trees free from
insects. Mr.. III. uses lot water TO
cure the yellows in peach trees.
| Professor Whitman says that
Paris-green, mixed with from five
to ten times its bulk of -four is the
best application to kill ali leaf-eat-
ing in insects, and that the striped
cucumber bug succumbs to the pOis-
on. The green should be sirted on
the plants while they are wet with
rain or dew.
The Fort Scott Monitor claims
that the 100000 prairie chickens
sent to market from Kansas, would
have demolished at least GOO, 900, 600
grassheppers, had they been unmol.
ested, and urges the people to pre-
vent the slaughter of those birds
this season.
The Marysville News says: Last
Monday Peter Lnndgren and II. =.
Wells came into our Office and
made the following statement,
which they certify to. They found
dead prairie chicken, and its crop
contained l,lS8 grasshoppers.
Alfalfa, planted in Sumner conn
ty in May of last year, and Withered
in drouth and devOured by grass
hoppers last summer, is now over a
foot high, and exceedingly luxur-
liant. A Marion county farmer re-
ports that it is the best grass for
Kansas.
The Mcpherson Independent rec
ommends as a cure for squirrels
around corn fields: "PHt few
grains of strychnina in a quantity
| of lard, stir corn into this until a
little grease is left on each kernel,
and then scatter around the field.
We have tried this plan and find it
better for killing animals than any
other. Water will DESTROY poison,
but the poison grease will retain its
strength for weeks"
Mr.. john T. Taylor, who has been
Clerk of Johnson county several
| terms,i reports that the spring of
1859 was backward like the present.
The farmers generally planted be-
| tween the Goth and 18th of June,
and raised nearly fifty bushels 10
the acre-in fact, they were as snc-
cessful as those who planted by the
10th of May. Corn planted that
year as late as July 7th yielded for
tY bushels per acre.
1t has been discovered that COM
mon salt scattered over the ground
will drive away chinch-bngs. The
experiment is worth trying, and we
advise some of our farmers TO give
the matter thorough test. It is
estimated that barrel of salt cost
ing S2.75 will SOW oyer ten acres of
land, and considering the end gain
ed we do not consider the remedy
very expensive.
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