The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-08-07
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

raising. He tells the Chicago Tribune
that they are better than tanks for this
purpose, and improve with use.
To DESTROY LICE ON FowLs.-Fill
the bowl of large clay pipe with strong
tobacco, insert the stem under the feath-
ers of the fowl, and blow the smoke in
to the feathers, changing position OF
pipe so that all the feathers are thor
oughly impregnated with the smoke.
This is best done at night. Stop the
process if the fowl shows any signs OF
becoming stupefed by the smoke.
AN old chronicle mentions pump
kin vine from seed accidentally drop
| ped in 1899 in pasture near Boston,
where cattle had been foddered for some
time, the single stem of which measured
eight inches in girth, and the yield of
which was CARLOAD of 260 pumpkins,
besides considerable number that we're
still small and unripe when frost came.
Mr.. PETER M. GIDEON, the expert
menting pomologist of Minnesota, states
that whereas in the early days of his ex-
perience he was "crazy" to retain all
the little fbers on the seedlings used in
root grating, he now finds that "the
cleaner the Seeding roots are of fibers,
the better they will grow, by sending
out new tender rootlets. With orchard
trees he wants all the roots he can get,
but it is not at all essential to secure the
growing points"
PROFESSOR HARRINGTON, in a sum-
mary of the experiments begun in 1870
by the Maine Agricultural College to
ascertain which has the greater value as
a food for swine, cooked or uncooked
meal, says: awe have, by an expert
ment which has been continued through
from three to four months of each of
the nine years since its beginning, OBJ
tanned evidence that all the money and
labor expended in cooking meal for
swine is more than thrown away"
If young farmers, beginning married
life, would pay due attention to setting
out fruit trees, vines, and Towering
shrubs, ornamenting their door-yards,
dividing their places into convenient
fields by good fences or hedges, ar
ranging their gardens, out houses, poul-
try houses, etc., etc., to the best advan-
age, with view to appearances, they
wauld realize for their pains real pleas
ure and substantial profit. Such matters
are positive elements of gradual culture
which tend to refinement, influencing
the whole family for good so long as the
system thus begun may be pursued.
i A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Garden states that he has succeeded in
preventing the cracking of the pear by
grating two or three sorts on one stock.
He observed, in the first place, that two
other sorts being grated on tree, all
of the fruit was free from cracking
while on other trees, thrifty and appar-
emily healthy, scarcely sound pear
was to be found. This might be re-
garded as an accidental case, had he
not extended the practice on other trees
through the orchard, all with like re-
suit. We do not perceive any reason
for this success, nor have we found it
to succeed on our own grounds; and
we mention it to call attention from
such of our readers as may have adopt
ed a similar practice.
NEW varieties of plants and trees may
be propagated by budding, which is, in
fact, kind of grating. Some trees do
not take gratis kindly; the stone fruits
particularly so; and these are usually
budded. To bud a tree a slit is made
in the bark in the desired place, of the
shape of a T. A dormant or new bud
is cut from tree, the bark and thin
slice of the underwood being taken at
the axil of leaf, where new bud is
found. The piece of bark cut off with
the bud is trimmed to fit the upper cut
OF the I exactly, and to lie smoothly I'M
der the other part of the bark, which is
loosened by being raised with blunt,
smooth instrument. The bud with the
shield of bark is slipped under the loos
ened bark of the stock, which is bound
by figure Of bandage of Eastwood
bark or linen. That is all. The banks
unite, and the inserted bud grows and
becomes attached to the wood of the
stock just as with graft. Budding
may be done from this time until Sep
tember.-N. Y. Times.
WHOEVER contemplates growing tur-
nips, says writer in the Country Gen.
tlenam, should plant them in rows, and
attend to cultivating between the rows,
and also have the plants singled out in
the drills. If another patch is sowr
broadcast and done nothing to, as is the
custom in many districts, when the time
arrives for getting them up let fair &C
count be kept between the two, and re-
port accordingly. Farmers night east
ly prepare some five, 10 or 20 acres, &C.
cording to the size of their farm and
the quantity of live stock, and grow
turnips which would cause the animals
to be worth hundreds of dollars more in
the spring; besides which it would
make the hay hold out, as there would
not be more than half the quantity
eaten, and the manure would be in
creased so much as to help the next
years crop very much. All progressive
farmers are beginning to understand
the Importance of growing and feeding
roots.
PROLONGING THE BLOoM.-No plant
can continue in bloom if nature is per-
mitted to do her work completely, for
the going to seed exhausts the energies
of any subject, and stops every thing
else. By constantly removing decaylng
flowers before seed pod can swell, the
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