The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-09-21
.-sH1CULTluRAL.

The Meuonnites of Manitoba sowed
$4,000 acres Of grain this year. g
The hay crop in England is like
the hay crop here, one of the hcavi-
est on record.
BOTTLES are now dcpoSilin. their
eggs on horses. Carefully scrapc
them off with knife.
Two huge armies of g,asshoppcrs
have invaded parts of 1taiy,aDd have
proven very destructive totht grow
ing crops
Mary pasture fields could he
made productive by little Labor given
70 surface drains and the best t,ains
are those nearest straight. Do not
see how little fail you think will do,
but give all you can.
In Prussia it is said the potato is
cultivated with peculiar success. AS
the stalk grows the earth is heaped
up. leaving only three leaves at the
top; roots arc thus greatly increased,
while the produce is said to be as.
touishing.
Cows should not be kept over eight
years old and ewes over five. Now
Ia the time Of year to dc ormine what
disposition is to he made of lid stock
whether t" be prepared for the butch
or or continued as at pfeSeut for. 40
other year. Z ,as~ , & a e.
German beet. sugar manufacturers
offer $40 per ton for dried sugar. beet,
delivered at their seap0rts. At this
price their culture, preparation and
feiShting w"nld leave Il handsome
profit to American farmers aud ship
owners.
Farmers in England sowing arse
nicatcd wheat are, by the recent act
of Parliament, made -nhject to i"
heavy penalty. The farmers poison
their seed wheat to protect it from
birds and insects, bat the sacred
aame-birds are apt to suffer. Hence
the penalty.
High prices for the service of blood
ed stock si'es have nit been confined
to the present century. In 1850 R"h
cit Blackwell, the most eminent breed
er If that peri"d, let his rams ten
ab"ut $500 each season, and in l7M)
he let one ram Tor $40S7. lu ONE
year no made over $4,000.
The Mich gan Farmer gives the
record of a COW owned hy Mr.. john
Heath, near Tekonsha, Mich, three.
quarters Sl"rlh"rn ard sOneSQ'Mt't'
Devon. The daily Yield of nllk f'
the month Of May aud thee iIals in
June aggregated 2lGt p"nnds She
was MIXED three times day.
1t is beginning to be understood by
breeders that the c"n6n, ment u:
stations is detrimental 10 their Snr-
cess. We have always Thought thai
the daily use Of Hambl-t"nian as at
every day horse .one of all work, as
it we,e-was one Of the cau>ts that
showed to such great advantage i"
hi~ early coils; aid it. was upon these
his fame VAS made.
1t il said by a farmer who has tried
the experiment SO often rs t." be SURF
of bis gtt,nn,. that bn,'ermilk poured
over the back of Il scu.vy pig will
en'i,tly and speedily remove the
The lem+d, is simple. Al
most every farmer can boast OF Que
or more scurvy pigs, and if butter
milk will cure it, it should not be
spared.
Corn loses one-ff,h by drying, and
wheat oue-fourteenth. FI"m this
the estimate ia made, ,lliaf il is p,ore
profitable for the farmer ~ seitsnn-
shcIled corn in the fall at rs cents
than at 81 a bnshel in the following
summer, and that wheat at 81 Is i"
December is equal to 81 81 in the
succeeding June. N cases OF pota'
ties taking these 3tiatsfot aud are
otherwise lost-together with the
shrinkage, there is littlo doubt that
between October aud June the loss to
the owner who hold them is not less
than 80 per cent.
Many persons are poisoned by contact
with the wild ivy and sumac, and i'll
some cases the poisoning is very severe
To such is may be of interest to know
that DIR. Brown, of the United States
Navy, claims to have discovered GER
tain remedy for such poisoning. 1t is
bromide dissolved in olive Oil, cOsmollnr
or glycerine. He used twenty drops OF
bromide to an ounce of oil, rubbing 1t
on the affected part three or four times
q day, and washing it Oft occasionally
with CASTLE soap.
Sheep dung decomposss more rapidly
than COW dung, and not so qnlcSiy as
horse dung. It IL richer ia solid matters
than the former. The pig being almost
an omniv ous animal, its excrements vary
In composition, according to the nature
of its food. Its dung is soft and CON-
pact, and it encompasses slowly. 1t Is
one of the richest kind Of animal manure,
but 1t is alleged that when used alone AZ
manure it gives disagreeable flavor
to roots. On the Continent pig dung Is
largely applied to the hemp crop
Mr.. J. N.tAdasas, in the Rural Amerl'
can thus tells of bis sXpdriehce in har-
rowing wheat in the spring Of iH77 after
being badly winter.killed, mainly to So
euro q good catch Of clover: Il rccelv'
ed a good catch Of clover while neigh
Dor who ridiculed my movements has
ploughed his ground this spring for an
other crop. He seeded in the same man
Nor, the same kind of soil without har-
- rowin.." Tuere are, hardly ten farmers
In Eastern Pennsylvania who harrow
their wheat, aud get it will increase the
yield from three to ten bushels per acre
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