Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-20
FARM AND GARDEN.
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes
The losses by grasshoppers in Sierra
county, Nevada, are estimated at $4,000.
Cut worms and chintz bugs are report
ed in great numbers, in Otoe county, Neb.
Extensive forest fires are devastating
portions Of the mountain region Of Penn
sylvania.
Farmers in California are cutting hay
in some localities There is fair outlook
for the hay crop Of the State
The world averages an annual product
of 981, 100000 pounds of tea, China pro-
ducing s9o,ooo,ooo. Japan 4o.ooo,ooo,
India 35,OOO,OOO, and Java 100000.
An English authority says hundred
British farmers are forced into bank
ruptcy every week by the importation Of
American meats and grains.
The brow of the average Texas farmer
is wrinkled with care He can't see where
he is to cut his coming crops. Waco Er-
Gnsiaaer. Put them in train for market.
In the United States fully two-t thirds
OF the people are directly dependent upon
the soil for support and Of the 100000
who are engaged in productive industries
over 100000 are farmers
Seventeen live prairie grouse from the
United States recently arrived in New
Zealand, where it is proposed to endeavor
to establish the bird. Twenty-Five were
sent, but five died on the voyage.
Professor Baird's forthcoming report
will contain an exhaustive account of ex-
periments in Matching Goldfish artifcially
at Gloucester last winter. The experiment
was satisfactory and Prof. Baird thinks it
is entirely practicable to multiply the
species to any desirable extent.
The man who farms his brains to their
full extent year after year, and does not
believe in occasional followings, will find
at last that brains like land, will run out.
Albany Argus. And the man who farms
his land year after year without bringing
brain power to his work will find that his
1Stuu WILL SOON run OUT.
Quassia and soft soap, is recommended
for destroying aphides on roses and other
woody plants. tits used by boiling four
ounces of quassia chips for an hour in a
gallon of water. When cold and strained,
add two more gallons Of water and six
ounces of soft soap. With this syringe
the bushes.
There are said to be 100000 people
in France who seldom eat bread or meat,
but subsist almost entirely upon vegata-
bles and fruit. In some districts of Scot
land peas are largely used as food. by the
laborers. tt well known to be one Of
the most nutritious Of the legumes, and
their wholesomeness is well attested by
those who use them
The Maine beet-sugar company, Of Port
land, converted, from the 18th February
till the 23d, $40 tons Of beets into sugar,
obtaining therefrom about 10000 pounds
OF concrete sugar, or over IL per cent.
which is equivalent to about Ole per
cent. OF the best grained sugar. The COM
pany this season have contracted for over
LOO acres to be planted with beet seed,
which is as much as they want to handle
the coming season.
Pot plants that become unthrifty and
sickly, may be revived by planting them
in rich mold in sunny spot latter trim
ming, after the season becomes permanent
~ warm. Thus they will often trow into
a vigorous state during July and August,
and be ready for reporting. Oleanders,
oranges, lemons, camellias, azaleas, among
hard-wooded plants, may be made healthy
in this way. They must, however, be pro-
tected from the effects ofsweeping prairie
winds.