The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-19

have been we'll enough if he had Suet.
Now, he is at it again ia reaping the re-
ward OF renewed constancy. l am in IA
vor Of mixed farming, but also Of keeping
constantly to some one branch of farming
a. a speciality. Raise corn, wheat, pota-
toes, keep few sheep, bees and poultry,
and good orchard and garden, but be
special farmer in COWS, or sheep. or mules,
or potatoes or wheat, and stick 10 Il. Study
il, experiment. in it, read everything about
il, and in this one line, above all Others,
become an expert.
Curl In Peach Leaves.
kansas Farmerl
A parasitic fungus often produces curl
in peach leaves. The best remedy Is to |
promote a vigorous growth. A judicious
cutting back with an application OF I'M
leached ashes around the crown of the root, |
and Stacked lime about the remainder, is |
considered beneficial. Potash is Of import
ance to the growth of the tree and assists
in preventing curl in the leaf. A bushel OF |
coal ashes piled around the tree has been |
known to correct the curl and prevent the |
dropping of fruit without other remedy. |
The cutting back ought not be done after |
the new leaves are out. II it has not been
accomplished before the buds are out
pruning is best omitted.
MAX lie Homo Pleasant I'm Winter.
kansas Farmer
Now is the time to be gathering grasses,
oats. wheat, rye and anything, and every
thing, for a grass boquet. Gather a few
pretty ones every day, hang them heads
downward in dark closet. Put but one
bouquet in a room, and put that high in a
cnrnucopia bap., hinb in n coppap ovar n
picture. You will be astonished to see how
beautiful it will look, if you blend the
light and dark grasses, letting the oats
droop gracefully over the edge.
To Make Palasable Chicken Broth.
Prairie Farmer, a.
Cut up an ordinary sized fowl, crack the
bones and put it into cold, unsalted water.
Cover it closely and boil TOR three or four
hours, then strain of the broth, set it away
to cool and remove every particle of fat be-
fore using. Soak two tablespoonfuls of
pearl barley in a little lukewarm water !;
add it, with four tablespoons of milk to the
broth, and simmer all until the barley is
well cooked. Season lightly with salt and
pepper and serve with crackers or dry
| toast.
Result Of a Test OF Wheat.
lEchange.]
At the Missouri agricultural college, out
OF sixty-one varieties of wheat sown the ex-
perimenter says, in those varieties yielding
twenty or more bushelf per acre, the
amount OF straw per bushel varied from
90.4 pounds in the Clawson to 204.1 pounds
in the Russian No. "a difference of 1922
in favor of the Clawson. A bushel of
Clawson wheat requires for its growth LOS
pounds OF soda and potash bushel of the
Russian No. ) requires l.13 pounds of the
same elements, or, in other words a crop of
thirty-tive bushels of Clawson is no more
exhaustive to the soil than is crop of
twenty bushels OF the Russian wheat.
BcgOaias Make Good Baskss Plants.
| [rhe Gar Ien.1
The improved Kind of tuberous-roo,ed
| Begonias, now everywhere so abundant,
make excellent basket plants. In this way
their large, brilliantly colored blossoms,
which are naturally OF dropping charac-
ter. can be seen to advantage, and if grown
in good soil and kept well supplied with
water in a moderately cool dry house, they
will produce a charming display for months
in succession. On rockwork, too, in any
corner of a conservatory or green house,
or even ont OF doors in a warm corner, they
grow and flower freely and are exceedingly
effective. To tall, light-leaved, sub-tropical
plants, in a warm, sheltered situation, they
would add variety of color and be much
more satisfactory than Ilants of other kinds
often used for such purposes.
Feed for Chickens.
Prairie Farmer, I4l
Bone meal is often recommended for mix
IL. = II. l.
than likely that a certain portion of this
may be digested and assimilated, since it
will be thoroughly triturated in passing
through the gizzard. 1t will hardly be
necessary, however, when fowls are fed
some animal food, az they should be, where
they do do not have full liberty in summer.
When eggs are expected they should al
ways be fed literally with refuse meat,
chopped, in winter.
Many persons instead Of feeding the meat
fresh, boil the meat AID bones into soup, to
be mixed with the meal fed, the meat be-
ing chopped fine or fed separately. When
the meat is chopped it is better to mix it
with the meal fed, since this allows the
whole flock to get their due share. Once a
week, it is we'll to add to the mess for 100
fowls a large tablespoonful of pepper, two
~" eu, siAeu 9nions' TWO table,
rPoonlu,s Oh T sulphur, ana quart OF ground
charcoaI. ms win sueh green iood az
you may DC aoie 10 supply, chopped cab
page Is goodwin weii-ventiiated and
warm quarters, should give you plenty OF
eggs ana LAT chickens In winters.
An excellent arrangement Tor choPping
~na,eVery may oe needed Tor feeding the
chickens Is 10 dig out a trough smoothly,
or make solid plank trough little wider
than the width oil spade. Grind the spade
sharp, and keep 1t 80, and the labor OF
GhoPping VIII be reduced to minimum.
u sn2uid 1e necessary 10 say that fowls
snon'd not be kept exclusively on corn, "a
10 Tue gram leo. IL animal food and vege-
.ap,es are aio~ed, IL may compose the
and other refuse grain NAV be given whole. |
out Tue greater the variety oil food, the bet |
'ei the re'urhs from the lowis Kept
The Lady Bur CLAIM, Our pr.,.c,,.,
Tscientific Farmer
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Of S,xonyiIIe Sb;ie IN h. no,.to f;s,J 49,
ms Al the ray.oes Of . ns,tv..rr;vsJ ~,
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