Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-08-05
sEAs0NABLE FARM NOTES II
KEEP fighting the insect enemies.

hEEP nghtlng the insect enemies.
ExTERM1NATE weeds, briars and BRAN
), bles, everywhere.
: ALFALFA, or Lucerne, is California
greatest forage and fodder plant.
q QU1CKL1ME is destructive to worms
! slugs and the Larvae of injurious insects
? AVOID an exclusive diet of whole corr
for poultry. 1t may put on fat, but i
not good for eggs.
CUT all water sprouts from fruit tree
now, while they are young and tender
} and it will save trouble hereafter.
AN exchange says that if hens get int
the habit Of eating their own eggs tn,
surest remedy is to cut off their heads.
In finishing up the cultivation of fields
leave the land MS level as possible, "a i
will facilitate the gathering Of the crops
FARMERS who keep sheep should MOI
forget to dip the lambs in tobacco water
about three weeks after shearing to kill
the ticks.
AN Ohio farmer claims that his OWL
experience has proven that six Cotswold
sheep will not consume more food than
one COW.
CELLARS thoroughly treated with
whitewash made yellow with copperae
will not be considered desirable habita-
lions for rats and mice.
The utmost neatness should be exer-
clsed about the premises iu hot weather,
Garbage Of every kind should be dis
posed Of before it becomes decayed and
is giving off q bad odor.
PoTAToEs are frequently spoiled by
being exposed to the sun too long after
digging. They should only be open to
light and air long enough to dry them,
and then stored away in as dark a place
as possible.
To destroy the green worms Oh cab
bages, sprinkle the salt on them while
the dew is on them, and you will destroy
the last one of them. You will not be
able to find worm on them the next
morning. The salt will not injure the
cabbages.
AN Illinois correspondent in the Conn.,
try Gentleman states that borax which
is used in packing butter in some Sec
tons at the rate Of six to eight per cent.
is Objectionable Oh account of its iniur-
ious effects upon the system of the con-
sumner.
ON ordinary land tobacco MANFRED in
the hill with concentrated fertilizer in
creased in yield over three hundred
pounds per acre as compared with the
same quality of land without manure.
It also ripened two weeks earlier.
The soil for afodder crop should either
be naturally rich OF made so by manur-
ing, or it will not pay to prepare it for
any of these quick growing grains which
have but little time in which to make
their growth, and must get to good size
in order to be profitable.
GERMAN gardeners prevent lettuce
from growing to seed by drawing knife
through one-half of the stem to which
the head is attached. The milk, as it is
called in Germany, will flow in such
quantity as to rob the head of the power
to open, and still enough sap be left
to keep it fresh and growing for another
week or more.
The farmer who always takes pains to
put up his produce in neat attractive
packages, and never mixes the second
with the first quality, will have to spend
but little time to find good men ready
to buy all Of his products, and pay him
fair price; but he who mixes three
qualities together, and tries to sell them
as first quality, will always be troubled
to find buyers, and usually have to sell
at low prices.
Now that the strawberry season is over
the mulch of straw, leaves, etc., should
be removed and the soil should have q
good coat of manure we'll forked in.
while the head should be kept free Of
weeds. In the single row system the
runners are to be kept cut off, unless
plants are wanted for new beds. In the
alternate system the runners are to be
encouraged to make new plants in the
paths, which have been enriched.
If eggs ale packed away when quite
fresh, even in this warm season. they
may be kept fresh for six months. and
sent to market when the prices are high
er than now. The usual method of keep
ing them is to pack them down in barrels
III a thick lime wash, such as is used for
whitewashing walls. It would be we'll to
pack them on the end in kegs, fill these
with the lime, head them up, and keep
the kegs free from disturbance and in a
cool place.
THERE is no small fruit that is so GER
tain in its crop as the raspberry. With
a very moderate amount of attention it
will not disappoint the grower, no matter
what the variety. It should be pruned
and laid down in November, and may be
taken up in the spring, requiring no
care except to tie the stakes. Some hor-
ticulturists advise that the old wood be
cut off as soon as the bearing season is
over, and the new canes pruned before
laying down in the fall, others recon-
mend that the old wood be left as pro-
lection to the young shoots, which are to
bear the fruit Of the coming year.
THERE is large green worm that raw
ages on the tomato. have never found
anything quite SO satisfactory in prevent
ing its destructive work as an old tin pan
and an long stick. Examine the plants
carefully; and when O worm is found,
knock him off into the pan and then de-
stroy them. Cabbages are infected with
a worm that soon destroys the plants, if
prompt care is not given. I do not like
to use Paris green, or hellebore, and
have found that fine white ashes busted
over the plants in the morning when the
dew is on, is about as effective as any,
thing I ever tried. Slaked lime is recon-
mended by some.
AN exchange says that sure pre-
ventive to the depredations of bugs that
infest cucumbers, melon, squash and
other vines as soon as they appear above
the ground is to place over each plant a
frame covered with mosquito-netting, or
oiled paper. Sprinkling SCOT, or ashes
and plaster mixed, on the plants when
the dew is on, checks the ravages, but is
not SO safe unless closely watched. An
other good remedy is to sprinkle the
plant literally with tar-water. A table
spoonful Of saltpetre dissolved in pail
Of water, a pint or more to be put around
each hill, shaping the earth SO that it
will not spread much, has been tried with
success.
IT rarely occurs to country people that
trees and shrubs may be successfully
transplanted in June-in fact in July or
August. All transplanting that is not
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