The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
Around the Farm.


Around the Farm.
j. T.. ELLSWORTH, of Barre, Mass
says Experience has taught me tina
a cows milk very deficient i'll butter
often fattens a finer calf than that OF {
first-class butter COW. "-Ch0tduQuO
Farmer.
Ny currant bushes have been attacked
10y the currant worms for the last two
years 1 sprinkled buttermilk on the
leaves of the bushes, and by this means
destroyed the worms and saved by
bushes. -Fdrmers' AdUocate.
WE consider a fowl at its prime at 3
years old. The vitality of the egg is not
gone at the end of month if they can
be kept in a temperature of about 30
deg, and if they are occasionally turned
at the end of that time they will hatch.
Land and Water.
CURRANT WORMS may be effectually
destroyed, says Prof. Riley, by sprink-
ling with solution of white hellebore,
one tablespoonful in bucket of water,
or the powder may be sprinkled on
while the dew is on the bushes. Hot
water has also been successfully used to
make the worms drop off without injur-
ing the foliage.
n. B. WHITE gives q simple contri-
vance to prevent the cut.worm from get
ting at garden plants. 1t is strip of
tin two inches wide and about ten in
ches long, formed into a cylinder and
set over the plant. They will last a life
time, and probably cost half a cent each.
Country Gentleman.
WEEDS need constantly to be looked
after and taken by the foretop. Re-
member that every weed that is allowed
by hundreds and thousands next year.
Gone years seeding" of weeds is said
to produce fifteen years of wedding"
and it is not far from the truth.
The most successful fruit growers,
East and West, have decided that there
is no better remedy for the coddling
moth than to pasture hogs in the orch
ards, to eat the wormy apples and the
worms therein. If the orchards are too
large for the number of hogs kept, sheep
are turned in. If we will all unite in
this system, we shall soon see its good
results. There is no doubt about its be-
ing effective. -Rural Home.
HAVE learned that wheat can be hoed
with horses as readily as corn, and as
fast as it can be drilled, the implement
occupying the same space and the num-
Der of hoes being the same as a drill
and when hoed it looks as much i'm
proved as cornfeld dressed out with
cultivator. 1t does not destroy any
greater percentage of the plants than is
done in cultivating corn. Any man that
can manage pillow well can manage
wheat hoe as readily. L can't see any
reason why it won't help wheat as much
to hoe it as any other crop, SO as to let
in light, heat and fertilizing gases of the
atmosphere to give vigor to the plants
" eStera Rurai.
GOOD SEED.-Don't put in any but
the best seed. This is on important
item in successful farming. Good land
and hard labor will not produce the best
crops from poor seed. Let the best seed
be planted, even if it has to be pur-
chased yet most farmers can generally
select good seed from the best of their
wheat and other small grain. In har-
vestinQ. save out the best bundles, and
in corn, by going through the fields and
carefully selecting the best-flled ears
then, by an occasional renewing of fresh
seed from a distance and exchanging
with the neighbors, all our crops may be
greatly improved. Liberality in this
interest pays handsomely. Procure the
best seed at any reasonable amount of
labor or expense. Western Agricuttur-
list.