The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-22

Around the Farm.


To A Northern farmer it is q grea
recommendation of any land to say
will maintain clover. With that onl
labor and skill are needed to insur
profitable farming. -Etmira Gazette.
ASHES. not allow ashes of an,
kind TO be wasted. 1t will pay to hau
leached ashes several miles, when on
has his own team and a laborer at fai
wages. Coal ashes when spread arouns
berry bushes of any sort, or aroun'
grape vines, will aid materially in pro
ducing large and fair fruit Gardener
Monthly.
A CORRESPONDENCE of the Pacific Rura
Press says: 1.-THE only effectual remedy
for wire-worm l know of is a thorough
cultivation of the soil. Those that are
troubled with them will find by examin
ing their soil that it is cold, and by stir
ring it thoroughly it will get warmer
BY so doing they will kill the wire-worm
as it cannot live in warm ground.
REJECT THE SCRUBS. stock breed
ing retire from service forthwith, every
scrub male, whether of the cattle, horse,
sheep, pig or poultry family, and use
none but good stock animals, as it costs
about us much to raise a scrub OF any
kind as it does cross bred or thorough
bred. Therefore, if a farmer would
utilize his feed so as to get the most
money therefrom, he should breed none
but good blooded animals. = Rural
Home.
PREVENTION OF SwARMING.-A CORE
spondent of the Bee Keepers Magazine,
in relation to the swarming of bees, says:
CATER have had all the increase desire,
when a hive shows an inclination to
swarm 1 move it to the place of some
weaker hive. In that way make all my
colonies strong. and when | have accom-
plished that object but still have hive
that threatens to swarm i change places
with another, that may also show signs
OF swarming. The change OF workers
destroys the propensity of swarming for
the time being, and by giving them plen-
ty of box room they will store honey,
and if they are again inclined to swarm,
you may move back again and it will
have the effect"
KEEPING Down THE WEEDS. The
London Garden remarks "The only
remedy for weeds is prompt destruction
in a young state. Weeds are easily
eradicated if never allowed to advance
beyond the seed-leaf. Once let their roots
run deep and wide, and their tops rise
high, and then the weeds are masters
in, the garden. 1t provokes one
to see the complacency with which some
cultivators allow weeds to establish
themselves in flower beds or borders, or
on roads or walks, and their subsequent
futile efforts to subiugate them. Prompt
destruction will vanquish the very worst
OF them. Plantains, grass, thistles, and
docks, are perhaps the most difficult TO
eradicate. But if by any neglect these
den, constant beheading alone will de-
stroy them. No plant can live long if
never allowed to form leaves or stems,
and the shortest, surest, easiest way to
eradicate the worst weeds is by incessant
cutting off all their visible parts.
ScAREcRows.-The best scarecrow is
suspended looking glass. Take two
small, cheap mirrors, fasten them back
to back, attach cord TO one angle, and
hang them to an elastic pole. When
the glass swings in the wind, the
Gun ld)o ult iChtcOCo III ONci biic hCl,,
even if it be large one,
and even the Oldest and bravest
of crows will depart precipitately should
one of its lightning flashes fall on him.
The second plan, although a terror to
crows. is especially well suited to fields
to the inroads of small birds
and even chickens. 1t involves an arti-
fetal hawk made from a big potato and
long goose and turkey feathers. The
maker can exercise his initiative skill in
the feathers into the potato SO
that they resemble the spread wings and
tail of a hawk. 1t is astonishing what
ferocious bird of prey can be constructed
from the above simple material. 1t only
to hang the object from tall
bent pole, and the wind will do the rest
The bird will make swoops and dashes
in the most headlong and threatening
Even the most inquisitive of
venerable hens have been known to hurry
rapidly from its dangerous vicinity, while
to small birds it carries unmixed dismay.
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