The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-04-27
AMONG the FARM EkS

III 1919 anu olS,'1 I'D iC||.
A South Carolina paper says tn"
blossom buds of the tea plant will
"knock fever N ague hlyher'na kite. y
1t wants to have the cultivation of
tea extended.
The Edwards (lll,) Agricultural
Board have issued the premium list
for their twenty first annual fair,
which is to he held at Albion, ILL.,, on
October 2, 3, ! and S, inclusive.
Vegetation purifies the air-til silly,
because it absorbs carbonic acid {:
secondly, because under the influence
of sunlight it exhales an equivalent
in oxygen, and, lastly. because it
produces ozone.
Feed your land before it gets poor.
Give it all the manure you can make
| and haul, and it will enrich you.
Starve it by taking off crops contln-
ually aud returning nothing, and it
| will bankrupt you. Feed the land
literally and will feed and clothe you.
Many farmers think it don't pay to
bother with much gardening, but a
good, large garden, we'll planted and
we'll worked, will give liberal profit
from the sale Of surplus vegetable,
after supplying the homo table the
season through with all the vegeta'
bles desired.
Do not allow ashes of any kind to
be wasted. 1t will pay to haul leach
ell ashes several miles, when one has
his own team and a Iaborer at fair
wages. Coal ashes, when spread
around berry bushes of any sort, or
around grape vines, will aid material
ly in producing large and fair fruit.
Harrison Bros, of Philadelphia,
say: "That of fourteen materials
required by the vegetable would, it
is sufficiently we'll settled that nitro
gen, phosphoric acid, potash, suIphu-
rio acid, lime aud magnesia are the
only ingredients of plant-tod which
need be supplied in fertilizers; every
ordinary soil has the other materials
which plants require.
NJ. Cologne, q noted horticn]turjst
of Bruges, has been very successful
with potatoes by planting whole tu-
bers thirty inches apart in the row,
or cut in half at twenty inches of dis
lance. The sets are placed on the
surface, and slight covering Of soil
drawn over them. 1t is claimed for
this plan that the seed sprouts very
quickly, and their development is
also FASTENED, which is a point gain
ed in avoiding the destructive pota-
to disease. The earth is gradually
drawn up around the plants as they
increase in size and as the require
ments of the crop appear to suggest.
1t is further claimed in favor of this
treatment, air and heat have an OPP
portunity of gaining freer access to
the roots than by any other, and ac-
cording to our foreign authority this
method deserves to be fully tested,
not only on account of the acce|era
ton of growth, but because of an
alleged increase of yield.
A simple method of destroying the
phylloxera has just been published
in pamphlet form, by Madame Ame-
IA de Bompar, of the Canton of Pies
sac. According to her experience,
all that is needed to insue this happy
result is to set strawberries at the
foot of the vine stoc ks. These plants,
in her neighborhood at any rate, are
infested by a spider of the genus
Trombidion, whose business aud
pleasure it is to devour both the
phylloxera and it's eggs with such a
ravenous appetite that the reproduc
ton of the pest i'll its vicinity is
scarcely possible.
Seeds are more easily killed by
high temperature than low. Though
no seeds have been known to germi-
nate below 80 Farenheit, they are,
with few exceptions, destroyed by a
temperature above 1862, aud many
kinds perish below that point. They
will not terminate above 1899. Most
seeds will stand the severest cold of
the winters in this latitude, and wheat
left for years in the Arctic region has
been sown in England afterwards,
where it terminated freely.
Experience shows that the farmer
who raises his wheat, his corn, his
mules and his pork at home succeeds
better than the one who raises only
one article. This argument for a
mixed hushaDdry is equally strong
tor mixed industry, and the country
that manufactures every article that
its soil and resources adapt it for, is
richer, more prosperous and more
powerful than the one which con-
tindes its industry to the manufac
turing of bnt one article of any kind.
Fancy Pound Cake.-l cup sugar,
! of butter, eggs,2 tablespoonfuls
milk, II cups -four, II teaspoonfuls
baking powder.
Boiled Batter Pudding.-l pint
milk, 2 eggs, ounce butter, tea
spoonful salt, 8 heaping tablespoon
fals -four; boil II hours.
Egg-bread.-1 pint milk, 2 eggs, |
! cupful sugar, 3 teaspooDfuls of Sea
Foam, -four enough to make batter |
bake. This makes one loaf.
Biscuit.-4 small yeast-cake and | |
pint of water to make a sponge; to |
which add pint milk, l cup butter
and lard. tablesp0Onfuls snpar. !