The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-10-02
FARM AND GARDEN.

THE marriage of the season will be
that Of Mr.. Perkins of Boston to Miss
EvaTts, daughter of the Hon. William
| NJ. Evarts, Secretary of State. The
probabilities are that the wedding will
take place in Washington.
ToMAToEs.-Whenf frost threatens to
destroy the vines, strip them of their
fruit, and spread it out on greenhouse
bed, or under the hot-bed glass, cover
ing the glass on frosty nights. A large
portion of them will ripen, and usually
sell well.-Erchange.
DON'T hurry the cowsi Ours got out
of her enclosure one night last week and
in company with strange cows wandered
some four miles from home before she
was found. She was brought back
August IA, very sultry day. Without
thinking of the effect, L walked her along
at a moderately brisk gait without stop
ping on the road. Result-next morn
ing one-quarter of her bag was hard,
congested, and tender When I saw
this thought of her long walk. | at
tended to this trouble Immediately, and
in "a hours she was all right. Moral:
In driving cows any considerable dis
lance in dog-days, give them plenty Of
time.-COr. n. y. Tribune.
A WRITER in the Deutsche Zeit,ng
states that he last year had an oppOr-
tunity of trying remedy for destroying
green fly and other insects which infest
plants. 1t was not his own discovery,
but he found it among other recipes in
some provincial paper. The stems and
~ I'LL Il
water, and when the liquor is cold it is
syringed over plants attacked by in
sects. 1t at once destroys black or
green fly, caterpillars, etc. and it leaves
behind peculiar odor which prevents
insects from coming again for long
time. The author states that he found
this remedy more effectual than fumi-
eating, washing, etc. Through neglect
a house of camelias had become almost
hopelessly infested with black lice, but
two syringings with tomato plant de-
coctiOn thoroughly cleansed them
Gardeners ChrOnicle.
EDUCATING HORsEs.-M-Do0r and
ont says We once saw an aged lady
drive high spirited horse attached to .
carriage down steep hill, with no hold
back straps upon the harness, and she
assured us that there was no danger, for
her son accustomed his horses to all
kinds of usage and sights that common
" drive the animal into frenzy of fear
and excitement If a colt is never al
lowed to get an advantage, it will never
know that it possesses power that man
can not control; and if made familiar
with strange objects, it will not be skit-
fish and nervous. If horse is made ac-
customed from his early days to have OBJ
jects hit him on the heels, back and hips,
he will pay no attention to the giving
out of harness or of wagon running
against him at an unexpected moment.
A gun can be fired from the back of .
horse, an umbrella held over his head,
u buffalo robe thrown over his neck, y
railroad engine pass close by, his heels
bumped with sticks, and the animal take
it all as natural condition of things, if
only taught by careful management that
he will not be injured thereby.
MULCHING NEWLY PLANTED TREES.
Samuel Miller says in the Journal or
agriculture The Importance of this
has so often been treated upon that one
would suppose that any precaution at
this time would be useless; but even
now, if we are to have no rain for the
next few weeks or month, mulching
may save some trees yet that will other
wise give out. A good watering and
loOsening of the surface of the earth q
few inches, and then cover six inches
with old weeds that are partially decay
ed, straw, lin fact, any thing that will
keep the hot sun from almost baking
the earth. If this will not save them
nothing will. A short time ago 4 very
intelligent grower related to me how
that last spring he mulehed, just after
planting, u certain number of trees, of
the same sort, in the same row, and set
the same day, that now, while the
mulched ones have made foot or more
new wood, those not mulched have not
made move; and some of them are
actually dead. We recommended the
above plan for those still green, and if
he attended to it, will no doubt save
those that have still life in them. When
the mercury ranges from 80 to 100 de-
grees every day for weeks, thing must
either grow or die.