Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-16
,cRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

-Mechi the great English agricul-
tpral writer favors burning stubble. to
Moving it under. He contends that
the ashes of the inorganic factious
weeds and stubble is worth more to
future crops than the decayed weeds
and stubble.
The veterinary editor of the Farm
Torr2at says that when your horse
sometimes eats greedily and at other
times refuses his food, and feeds on
his bedding, earth, clay etc., he is suf-
fering with dyspepsia. He recommends
careful dieting, with little pulverized
charcoal.
"A farmer residing in Beverly, Can
ada. has discovered "A new method OF
setting rid of his grassho pers. lie
Keeps fifteen pigs, and during the sum-
mer months they live on nothing but
grasshoppers. He keeps two of the
summers litter over till the next
sprinc to teach the young brood. Last
simmer for seven weeks his pigs
lived on the grasshoppers and came
out fat and ready for fall-feeding on
grain. -,
Guess some of the English farm
ers don't see much sugar. The Lon
don Times reports that "a farmer cart
ed home hogshead of sugar which
had been consigned to grocer III the
neichborhood instead of nitrate of soda
as he expected, and the sugar was all
sown upon the fields before the mis-
take was discovered. An American
farmer would be likely to know sugar.
The n. Y. Times gives the follow
ING as an excellent dose for melon bugs
Take few Jumps of fresh burnt lime
and break them up into small pieces.
Then dissolve one ounce OF carbollc
acid in one pint of water and sprinkle
this upon the lime, Stacking it into a
fine dry powder. This is carbolate of
lime. which. j. sprinkled around the
stems of luelonS and cucumberS, or
upon the leaves or blossoms, will drive
off both the squash beetle. which eats
the stalks, and the striped bug, which
DESTROYS the blossoms. 1t will also
save the cabbage from the flea which
eats the young plants, and from the
caterpillar. 1t should be kept in a dry
place, closely corked in wide-mouthed
bottles. until wanted for use. The
water must be used cautiously, lest the
lime be made too wet and pasty.
Noticing the suffering and terrible
annoyance Of poor harnesSed horses,
from pestiferous flies, and thinking to
suggest remedy, | remembered that
farmers in the Northwest have rem
edy for vermin and insects that annoy
sheep and young calves, and was in
duced to try it for flies on my soda
counter, with gratifying results, large
ly diminishing their number and kill
ing all that yentured to taste. The
remedy is simple, cheap and harmless,
not poisonous to man or animals, but
kills flies and vermin instantly. and
consists simply of an infusion or de-
coction of quassia chips very cheap,
about half a pound to a gallon of boil
ing water, and used to sponge the ami
nal once or twice daily. AS a Fly
killer it is much to be preferred to
poisonous hy-stone (cobalD and fly
paper. and, if sweetened slightly and
bits Of news or brown wrapping-paler
are saturated with it and placed where
flies will find it, you will kill "mill-
IONS of them. QuasSia is simple
tonic used in preparing cheap "bit-
tiers, and no harm need be feared
from an indiscriminate use of it.
Cor. Indianapolis Journal.