The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-19
FIRM AND HOME.
Farm RoEiIltyS.

WHEAT and millet seed germinate in a
day or two, barley in seven days, cab
bage in ten-while almonds, chestnuts
and peaches require twelve months.
GIVE your hogs rubbing post in
some accessible part of their inclosure !;
it facilitates their keeping clean, ard
seems to afford them much satisfaction.
N. B. WHITE gives simple contriv-
ance to prevent the cut-worm from get
ting at garden plants. 1t is a strip of
tin two inches wide and about ten inches
long, formed into cylinder and set over
the plant. They will last lifetime,
and probably cost half cent each.-
Country Gentleman.
JUDsoN r. HILL has an excellent farm
of 1S0 acres on which crops were gener-
ally looking well. He was engaged in
a field of potatoes. The tops had just
begun to come, when he went over them
with the machine, covering weeds, beetles
and everything, and leaving the field
very clean and mellow.-Rurttl Home.
AN exchange says the proper dose for
| currant worms is made as follows: Take
two tablespoonful of powdered white
hellebore, place it in common pail and
pour the pail full of boiling water Let
it cool and settle, and then pour off into
a waterproof with a sprinkler or nose at
tached, and sprinkle the bushes, wetting
| them well. This will destroy the worms
and is very easily done. -@ETea rs.
THE Journal of Chemistry says that
hot alum water is the bestinsect destroy
er known. Put the alum into hot water
and let it boil till all the alum is dis
solved; then apply it hot with brush
to all cracks, closets, bedsteads, and
other places, where any insects are
found. Ants, bed-bugs, cockroaches,
and creeping things are killed by it;
while it has no danger of poisoning the
family or injuring property.
GAS SOON as I discover pear blight,
the leaves turning dirk, 1 take pen
knife and slit through the outer bark on
all the limbs as high up as I can well
reach, and thus down the trunk The
first time [ heard this remedy was ten
years ago. Every limb recovered, and
have been affected. My trees are fine
and healthy now. The theory is pois-
oned sap escapes where the slit is made,
but the slits must be made as soon as
there is any appearance of blight.
e. p, e,a Nea0 York World.
MILK FOR YOUNG CHICKENS not
forget that milk is one of the best articles
of food for young chickens-sweet milk.
Sour milk or buttermilk is devo1ued with
equal relish by them, and either is good.
It makes them grow, gives them an appe-
tite for other food, and assists such
breeds as Hamburgs, Leghorns, and
games, that fedge rapidly, to support
the drain on the system that is required
| by early Hedging. Give it to them to
drink, mix their soft feed with it instead
of water, and see how much better they
Will eat it, and how much faster they will
grow. w.-Amerjcan Poultry Joouraat.
Potato BUGs.-Farmers in Wayne
county, Penn, make decoction Of lau-
rel-both leaves and branches-which
effectually kills the pest.-G. Webb.
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into the vine as soon as it is above the
ground, regardless OF theory or bruised
or poisoned potatoes. We then &c
| for them with common watering pot.
holding ten quarts OF water, or one com
mon bucketfull, to which add one com
mon tablespoonful of the best Paris
green, and keep well stirred up as we
pass down one row and up the next, ou1
ten quarts poisoning two entire rowF
twt nty- five rods long. Success lies IL
repeating whenever necessary. This
method makes killing the Colorado po-
tato-beetle easy one man can poison
one acre an hour w. OtOen, Du
5uqate county, IoaOa.