The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-30

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In moist charcoal seeds will sprout with
remarkable quickness and certainty, but
after they have sprouted they do not con-
time to grow well in charcoal alone
Drilled in with the seed, charcoal powder
Is said greatly 10 promote the growth oil
wheat.
The best time to top-dress grass land i
in August or September, before the fall
rains occur and after the burning heat OF
summer is past; II then applied the rains
soak II and carry the fertilizing properties
directly to the grass roots, where they are
needed.
Still another remedy for the certain cure
of bee stings: Take q fresh tomato leaf,
crush It, and rub it upon the part stung:
The pain will disappear Immediately, and
without the slightest trace ofswelling. We
would like TO be able to transmit to pos
terity the name OF the discoverer oil this
method.-L'ApictlteT.
1t Is said by farmer who has tried the
experiment so often Us to be sure of his
ground that buttermilk poured over the
back ofascuryy pigwill entirely and speed
ily remove the scurf. The remedy is sim
pie. Almost every farmer can boast OF
one or more scurvy pigs, and il buttcrmilk
will cure it, 1t should not be spared.
SCOT contains ammonia, gypsum, nitric
acid and certain other substances, to which
lis well known effects upon vegetation are
chiefly to be ascribed. SCOT acts adyanta-
geously upon root crops English expert
ments show thai fifty-six bushels OF SCOT,
mixed with six OF common salt, produced
larger crops OF carrots than twenty-four
tons OF farrn-yard manure, with twenty
four bushels OF bones.
To secure the total destruction OF the to-
bacco fly sprinkle the plants with a decoc-
tion OF one-sixteentho OF an ounce OF strych-
nine, dissolved in twenty quarts OF water.
This application has been known TO de-
stroy the fly absolutely, and cause no in
Jury whatever to the plants Anindefnite
quantity will be founh to work no injury
whatever to the plant. 1t can be applied
with perfect safety.
The London Farmer has the following:
A CAPT ;al plan of protecting horses and
cattle from the tormenting attacks OF flies
in hot weather is to wash their coats in the
morning with decoction OF walnut leaves,
the peculiar smell Of which efiectually
keeps the would-be marauders ut dis
lance. The decoction Is said to have the
further power OF destroying any eggs that
may have been already deposited in the
skim"
We often urge the necessity OF using
males Of the best milking breeds TO cross
on the common COW, and that dairymen
should raise their own cows, for the feed
ing OF the young heifer has much to do
with her usefulness COW. Some progress
has been made in this direction, and Amer
lean diaries are better than they were ten
wears ago, and are constantly making slow
progress, But they might make much
greater progress than they have done.
A writer In IN exchange says: Expert
ence gained the past season goes TO show
that liberal manuring is the most cconom-
ical. We can see in the past harvest where
five dollars worth more OF fertilizer per
acre would have given twice that value Of
grain. There can be no doubt that artili-
cial manuring must become o part o. our
settled practice in the future, md making
few careful experiments will give yalu-
able experience rs to the use oil these Ter
tilizers.-Prdriieai Farmer,
Mr.. Hoyt kept seven shecp, grnde Cots;
wolIls, and raised thirteen lambs. He sold
his wool for thirty cents pound, and his
sheep averaged six pounds each; this
makes an nyerage income from eaeh sheep
Of IS so. or a total OF SOS 10 from the flock,
rating the lambs ut the market price, 81 30
each. The seven sheep can be kept on the
same feed rs one COW, and with ever so
much less trouble they will afford greater
Weld. Where there Is 0 good market for
lambs farmers ought to keep more sheep.
Rural Netc Yorker.
For wears we have been troubled with
burdocks, and, Notwithstanding repeated
moving during The summer, they would
form seed in the fall. After many expert
monts, q certain and speedy remedy for
the pests hos been discovered in kerosene
oil, II small quantity DO poured into the
hearts Of the plants, directly after cutting,
they will disappear entirely, roots and
stalks. leaving no trace Of their former ex-
istence save o small hole In tho Garth
where they stood. Refined or crude OF
will accomplish the purpose equally well,
A correspondent OF IN exchange paper
states that he fed his horses skinned milk
and that he has known cases where 1t was
OF great benefit and was m economy. He
SAYS that pail OF 1t three times u day will
keep q work horse in better condition
than will four quarts OF oats. OF course
this sort OF ration would render less water
necessary. Three pals OF ten quarts each
would give twenty-four quarts OF water, Us
milk has OF solid matter 20 per cent only
(one-fifth), and 50 per cont itour.ffthsl OF
water. So thirty quarts Of milk would give
the twenty four quarts Of water.-hentueEy
Lire Sock Record,
lisa matter OF little consequence as to
the acreage which is put in, In this or that
grain, In this or that crop; It matters very
| little how much farmer raises on his
farm the important question is how much
he raises per acre. The farmer who raises
one hundred bushels OF wheat on four
acres will become n well-to.do, indepen-
dent farmer, II not rich man, II he does
not meet with extraordinary misfortune;
hut the farmer who raises one hundred
bushels OF wheat on twelve acres Is on the
direct road to poverty, and undoubtedly
will become poor II he lives long enough.
Speaking of the farm of Hon. George
Geddes, Fair Mount, n. Y, the Country
Gentleman says: "The twenty acre field
which was cultivated for seventy years
without barn manure and which confined
To Weld heavy crops during all this period,
was treated with an application OF yard
manure few years since, not from any
necessity for It, but because there happen-
ed TO be surplus near at hand Mr..
Geddes thinks Il caused some increase In
tho luxriance ofthe crops, but he still pre-
/ iers, ns matter Of economy, tho practice
OF blowing In clover A mass o. the stems
and leaves copious enough TO fill tho iur-
row he finds more valuable than any COM
mon coat Of yard manure, while the roots
arc not only . valuable part Of the crop,
but they scry0 as an efficient looencrot the
soil. All the manure made on the farm is