The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-08-22
FARM AND GARDEN.

lon of water will eXterminate all the in
sects that infest beautiful and delicate
plants and flowers.
ONIONS chopped up fine are good for
chickens. Give once week. The
green leaves of mustard plants answer
both for pepper and green food.
As fowls are usually kept by farmers,
it will be found that the greater number
of hens, the smaller the number of eggs
from each hen i'm given time.
Mr.. j. b. OLCOTT mentions in the n.
Y. Tribune successful trial of chang
ing the bearing year of a large apple
tree by picking off the blossoms
days work of a man, or S1.25.
HENRY WEIR, near Lacon, Marshall
County. ILL.,, has a farm containing 20
acres all set to fruit. Last year Mr..
Wier sold over 1900 barrels of apples,
and made 1000 barrels of cider.
ALL lovers of flowers should remcm-
Der that one blossom allowed to mature
or 90 to seed Injuries the plant more than
Il dozen new buds. Cut your flowers. AL
of them, before they begin to fade. You
will find that the more you cut off the
more you will have.
The importance of frming the soil
around seeds and newly set plants
old and well established principle often
disregarlled i'm PRACTICES further inn
pressed by illustrations from recent ex-
periments. which Mr.. Henderson re-
ports for the New York Tribune.
An old.poultry raiser, who believes in
milk for fowls, says: cit is meat and
drink both Some of the finest chickens
ever saw were raised upon the free use
of milk with their food. Hens lay as
well, or better, when furnished with
this than upon any known article offer
ed them"
A MILLER of Halliday, ILL.,, who lost
many hogs from cholera, has found that
dry bran, slightly sailed, is good REM
edy for it. If the hogs refuse to eat it,
starve them until they do. Another
farmer claims that if hogs are given
what salt they need in clean pasture it
will have the desired effect.
MANY a fine horse is ruined by driv-
ing him too fast Immediately after Il
hearty meal. If the journey must be re-
sumed without delay, the horse should
be driven very slowly for a half hour or
more, when the speed may be safely in
creased. A good horse is too valuable
an animal to ruin by injudiciOus haste.
COLLECT some SCOT from a chimney
or stove where wood is used as fuel, put
into an old pitcher and pour hot water
upon it. When cool use it to water your
plants every few days. The effect upon
plants is wonderful in producing rapid
growth of thrifty shoots, with large
thick leaves and a great number of rich
ly tinted roses.
EVERY family finds more or less bones
| accommodating. Burn them with your
wood, and the ashes thus enriched is one
of the most valuable of all fertilizers.
Money can not buy any article which
will so fertilize your soil. Bones thus
consumed will quadruple the value of
wood ashes, which in themselves are
among the best of soil enrichers.
REMEDY FOR THE SQUASH BORER.-
If the squash vines suffer from the bOrer
it is recommended to dig trench few
inches deep, for each vine, and cover it
up, of course letting the leaves reach
above the earth. The borer destroys
the plant near the root, but vines thus
buried, will send out roots along the
stalk. and there will be squashes in spite
of the pest.
AFTER many experiments, certain
and speedy remedy for burdOcks, it is
asserted, has been discovered in kero-
sene oil. A small quantity poured into
the hearts of the plants, directly after
cutting, leaves no trace of their exist
ence save small hole in the earth
where they stood. Refined or crude
oil will accomplish the purpose equally
well.
Mr.. G.. ENGLE, near Paw Paw. has
one of the finest peach orchards in Mich
igan, the thrifty trees of which. the De-
troit Post says, he s.shears as he would
sheep: long and tedious job, taking
weeks with a number of hands. This
shortening-in process as it is called,
gives his trees round, compact form.
and adds vigor to growth of wood and
fruit
SHADE trees are often planted too
near to our dwellings,, and too thickly,
so as to make the house dark and damp
and cherries. Large evergreens are
very much out of place on the sunny side
of a house, while they form an appro-
pirate screen and wind-break along the
cold and exposed sides of our buildings.
Cot o,,t froas II IL a dufy Int Spt them