The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-04-17
AGRICULTURAL.
SELECTED FROM THE PRAIRIE FARMER.

MADISON, Wis, April 5.
Can you or any of your subscribers
give me the practical result of sowing
peas with oatsl II. CA
Ans.-Peas are largely sown with oats
for feed. The oats support the peas in
4 great measure. Sow one bushel Of oats
and one bushel of Canada field peas to-
gether, or better, plow them in with
one horse plow inches deep, using
furrow not more than inches wide.
The River Falls Press says: An old
farmer living near Ellioto, Fillmore coun-
ty, Mimi, recommends farmers to SOW
about pint of winter rye to each bushel
of wheat this spring. The rye will not
nature, but will keep green, and the
chinchbugs will leave the wheat entirely
alone aud eat the rye. Another farmer
of the same town says he sowed ten acres
last year, raising the best wheat from
this mixture of sowing of any on his
farm.
CAMBRIA, Wis, March 81.
l. How is lard oil made? 2. Can we
winter hogs to an advantage on cut clio
yer hay scalded or cooked with little
meai! ). VIII blue grass grow in our
latitude? DRIP.
-AnsWer:-1. Lard oil is separated
from the stearine by hydraulic pressure.
2. It will depend upon the relative val
ne of the hay and meal We DO not
consider it profitable in the West
Swine will eat clean clover hay as to the
leaves and heads. 3. Yes, on limestone
loans Or sandy soils.
SHULLsBURG, Wis, April 3.
VIII there be any danger of the worms
troubling corn if planted on a piece of
! meadow, which has been pastslred for
two years, if subsoi. in blowing this
spring? The sod has not been turned
yet. w,
Ans.-The danger will not be greater
with subsoiling than without. If the
worms (white grub are in the soil they
will work while they remain. They re-
quire three years from the egg to com
pIete their grub state. If wire worms in.
fest the soil they will trouble you until
about the middle of June.
EUGENE, Ill, March "a.
l. VIII you please tell NE in your next
number what's the best self binder made
and do they use twine or paper for bind.
ing2 2. Where is the st. Paul binder
made? 3. Which is the best rotary drop
corn planter made2 /. VIII it pay to
drill corn. f. w. r.
Ans.-1. So far as we are yet Informed
the wire binders do the most satisfactory
work. There is but little difference in
them; it is simply question as to what
form Of reaper is liked best. 2. Both
twine and paper are used in binding.
We believe these binders are made at St.
Paul, MINI. ,. We do not know. 4.
Yes, If you do not care to cultivate both
ways.
SUNFLoWERS FOR BEAUTY AND USE.
The sunfloWer is not considered q del
lcate flower, yet it cannot be called home
ly-if looked at far enough OF. It is a
curious plant also and evidently adapted
by nature for particular purpose. 1t
constantly turns its immense flower head
1.-THE sun, and its hairy leaves draw
strongly of the moisture of the earth. It
is undoubtedly great absorber of malaria
and purifyer of the atmosphere, fully
as much sc We think, area for area, as
the much Wanted eucalyptus, and there
fore worthy to be planted in all malari
GUS districts. The seed is valuable as
food for fowls in winter, and also for the
OIL they yield. Thus it may prove pay
ing crop.
We do not advise planting sunfowers
III the flower garden, or on the lawn, but
planted between stagnant marshes andth
house, its value is not merely theoretical,
planted about the house in districts sub
lect to fever-and ague-and all newly
settled countries are more or less so-it
may prevent the recurrence Of this dis
ease. at all events they can do no harm,
and may do good, and their bright golden
heads are not by any means homely oh.
lects, as seen against the landscape.
SAM CRACK