The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-09-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

with Paris green.
GRAPES, .salmost as fresh as when
taken from the vine'' the previous fall,
were shown the past spring in San
Francisco, preserved, the Pacific Rural
Press says, in powdered bark of the
sugar pine.
IT is said that when Il melon vine is
found dropping in consequence of the
presence of the fatal borer at its root, its
life may be saved by laying it in a trench
few inches deep and covering it with
earth, with the leaves left out as mat
ter of course.
ENGLAND is largely dependent on
America, also, for fertilizing material.
The London Journal Of Horticulture is
authority for the statement that "the
great bulk of mineral superphosphate ~
used in that country is made from the
famous phosphate deposits at Charles
ton, S. c.
In 1876 a Georgia farmer planted a
single grain of wheat and harvested
LII grains; in 1877 the yield from
these was II pounds; this year the crop
is ''58 dozen bundles, not yet threshold
but which he thinks will give 25 bushels
the product of one grain in the third
generation.
A VISITOR to the hop districts of New
York writes to the Utica Herald that the
growers .'would sooner allow their
chickens to be killed than skunk,n
since this useful creature, usually in
such bad odor with most people, proves
very great help in the struggle against
the grub which does so much injury to
the vine.
A RECENT experimental shipment of
Ind to Havre was a very gratifying
success, the animals making the voyage
without accident, arriving in splendid
condition, and bringing 1920 to S270
each, for the French cavalry. This may
prove to be the starting-point of a profit
able export.
AN old gardener writes as follows:
''After trying for a number of years, al
most in vain, to raise good celery on or
binary dry garden soil, finally borrow
ed the use of a little batch of reclaimed
swamp land-deep black muck, well
drained but moist, and for the two past
seasons have grown on it very fine eel
cry with but little labor
DILUTED carbolic acid is said to be
complete eXterminator of the potato
beetle and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used in preference to
Paris green. But it is destructive to
plant life unless it is sufficiently diluted
with water-one pint of carbolic acid to
one hundred parts of water. This inn
portant fact should be borne in mind.
The cabbage-grub may be prevented by
setting the plants in a mixture of lime
and SCOT. Wood-ashes have also been
similarly used.
In Normandy cider is said to be pre-
served by putting about half bottle of
sweet oil in the cask and plugging the
bung with a wad of cotton The oil be- /
ing light can not combine with the cider,
but forms a thin covering, which pre-
vents the oxygen of the air coming in |
contact with it. The cotton filters the
air entering as the cider is drawn off, so |
that no insects or impurities can pass.
Cider in bottles is put in cellars, the bot
ties being covered with few inches of
earth, which keeps the cider at an equa-
BILE temperature and prevents the bottles
from bursting.
"WALDO" says in the Ohio Farmer
that after IL years of experience with
mules on the farm he considers them far
to horses, and would always
where two teams are kept,
that one should be mule team. They
are better than horses for the following
reasons: They endure the. heat much
better and are not SO liable to sickness
IL injury, and when famed or CALLED,
hey recover much sooner than horses.
They also have a greater endurance and
will do more work. They require less
eed and will last many years longer
han horses. Notwithstanding the preiu-
lice existing against them, they are, as
rule, as trusty as horses and more re-
ponsive to kind treatment.
In some experiments in fattening
sheep Henneberg and others found that
n the case of adult animals there is no
production of additional flesh during the
period, but that fat only is
Produced. A part of the animals were
Tiled at three different stages of the
process, and the proportion of flesh and
at was determined; of the former the
elative quantities were as 100: 80: 1O2,
nd of the latter 100: 287: 339. They
hink that there is a limit beyond which {
his loading down with fat is a benefit '
either to feeder nor consumer, and that {
his limit is reached at the middle period. {
nd that the fattening process should I
ot extend over three months, and I
hould be pushed ahead rapidly within I
hat time
In favor Of frequent milking, French :
gricultural journal reports that sin an !,
Experiment. with three milkings day /,
)r IL days cow gave 40 quarts of !,
nix. With two milkings the same COW !
ave only LAG quarts in the same num-
er of days. Moreover, analysis show $
d that the milk in the first case was =.
cher in butter globules than that in the :,
econd case in the proportion of Al to =
o.. Observations with similar results
ave often been made in this country.
he fact is well established that the :
horter the time the milk remains i'm the !.
oder the greater the unantitv and tba !