The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-09-20

Farm. PaEiR0S.

Farm Pakings.
Ii you want eggs and chickens only
as fast as you can get them,' procure
the Leghorns for layers, and the Brah-
mas OF Cochins for sitters and breeders.
Poultry World.
FIND that six bushels of peas are
equal to ten bushels of corn for fatten-
ing my hogs, and that peas yield larger
number of bushels to the acre than corn.
-Ioro1to Globe.
FARMERS, come to the city and get
Whit of the dreadful smells in the poor
streets and feel the brick kiln air of the
business places, that you may know bet
ter how to appreciate the God-made
country. Golden Rule.
cnson and Winnebago counties, ILL.,, I
have found that where clover has been
sown and come up well with wheat, it
has nearly or quite prevented any injury
to the wheat by the chinch-bug.-Frec-
port journal. a 9
AN Fastener would be slow to believe
that hogs will grow fat running on the
Buffalo grass without other feed; but
such is the fact. Alex Phillips drove is
kept in this manner, and finer lot of
swine are not to be found in the country.
Hays City Journal, Kan.
AN "Insect Society,"" organized at
Grand Haven, Mich, seems to be doing
good work. Before the organization
went into effect not 5 per cent. of the
fruit was saved from the depredations of
insects. Now more than rs per cent. is
matured. 1t shows that insect enemies
may be circumvented.- d.-Proirie Farmer.
An old-style farmer had his eyes
opened to the utility of "book farming "
lately, by suggestion that even sand
and swamp muck, properly applied,
would increase the production of his
stiff-clay land from SO to IS per cent.
He was tempted to try the experiment
and found it resulted even so-RuraI
NeaO Yorker.
FROM a trial of seed potatoes cut some
time before planting, we have learned
enough so that cutting so long before
using will not be repeated. Some vari-
eties will do better than others we sur
mise, and large potatoes will bear to be
cut longer before planting than small
ones, as the pieces are larger and do not
become SO much dried and so ifeless.-
Detroit Tribune.
The experience of the past fifteen
years in Kansas points Enthusiastically to
the fact that the best wheat crops are,
almost without exception, the early-sown
ones, and early means from Aug. 10 to
the middle of September. Another
equally as well demonstrated fact in
wheat culture is that the crops drilled in
yield better than those sown broadcast.
Kansas Farmer.
MUCH time, paper and ink have been
expended to prove that wheat put in
with drill was ever SO much better than
that sown broadcast and covered by har-
rowing, and yet series of experiments,
extending over term of seven or eight
years, and carefully conducted on the
Eastern Pennsylvania experimental
farm, seem to prove that the wheat
sown broadcast has, in every case, done
best and produced the best crop, not
only of grain but of straw.-Pennsyl-
Ua,aia Times
THOSE who are upon farms or large
gardens should always keep more or less
of Guinea fowls They are constantly
moving, and destructive of nearly every
injurious insect; wide awake with their
cry when a dog, crow, hawk, ETC., ap-
pears. They lay freely. end their eggs
are of the richest; but they must be per-
mitted to secrete their nests, and these
must be very carefully searched, and
only at night To learn of them, watch
quietly three or four hours during the
early part of the day, and you can note
their range and the absence of the hens
at certain times.-Ohio Farmer.
WHEN the potatoes cease swelling the
hahn is invariably green. Let not this
prove hindrance, but lift Immediately
after you are convinced the tubers have
attained to their full size; if you do not
and rain sets in, the hahn will put forth
lateral or side shoots, the tubers will
sprout and produce crop of other small,
worthless tubers, thus becoming con-
verted INTO what are termed seed pota-
toes, and losing all excellence of quality,
to say nothing of the disease which in
variably follows the rain. In word,
the crop will be spoiled, and the time
worn outcry raised once more, how
baily the potatoes are blighted LON
don Journal Of Horticulture.
Domestic Economy.
To CURE PrMPLEs AND ERUPTIoNs.-
Dilute corrosive sublimate with oil OF
almonds. A few days application will
remove them.
To CURE FRECKLEs.-Aix together
two ounces of lemon juice, half-dram
Of powdered borax, and one dram of su-
gar, and allow them to stand In bottle
for few DAYS. Rub occasionally over
the face and hands.
PEACH MARMALADE.-Peac too ripe
for preserving answer for marmalade.
Pare and quarter them, allowing three