The Russellville Democrat., 1880-10-07
FACTS FOR FAR uERs.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Western Rural says he has cured apple tree blight as follows: As fast as the young twlgs are seen to die, cut them off below the green leaf next to the dead one. One tree in particular in my orchard seemed nearly dead. I pruned itthoroughly it and it has sent out new shoots of healthy growth and no sign of blight. My trees that I have carefully pruned are all in excel lent condition.
 SPEAKING of kicking COWS, the Country Gentlen,aA says: Ifacow has kind tIeat- ment from the time she IS calf up to maturity she will hardly ever be inclin- ed to show any temper, and If she does happen to kick it may be taken for granted that she has very good reason for so doing. On no condition whatever should she be kicked or pounded, but the case should be found and measures taken to remedy it.
 If there should be wool famine with ID year or two there would be nothing in the fact u at would surprise some of the principal authorities upon wool mat ters. Rot has carried off many sheep in England and on the continent, and it is said that sheep are in numbers far be- low the average. It may be tbat the American wool-grower is at last about to find his reward for having clung patient lv to his sheep through the long period of low prices.
 AN exchange gives the following in- structions about seed corn: Always select even-rowed ears and ears whose rows are straight and irregular on the cob. Ears that taper are the best be- cause better protected by the husks, and | then too the silk-the female part of the plant-remains alive longer. The req son for selecting the top ear for seed IS 1 thatsit is always more fully developed, more uniform and more vigorous In its germinaion, having been better fertll- ized when in the silk"
 I A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen | tlemdn, in giving advice of how to get rid 1 of the cabbage worm, says that he has saved his plants for two years by steep | ing tansy and pouring it on after they begin to head, only two applications proving to be necessary. This season, | he says, the millers commenced deposit 1 ing their eggs before the cabbage began to head, and he gave them dose over two weeks ago, and there has been no signs of any worms since.
 | TIE Michigan Turner recommends the | following treatment for tumors on horses caused by striking them: Clip off the hair over the injured part, and apply this ointment: Bin. iodide of mercury, | one part; lard, eight parts; mix well to- l gether; rub the swelling well with the | ointment; tie the head up so he can not rub it into the eyes. The next day dress the part with lard Utter cleansing l with castle soap and water, repeat the dressing every other day for week or ten day s, then apply the ointment again in the same manner.
 TIE use of implements of husbandry | of imperfect construction, or in bad con- dition. it is confidently believed, is a greater annual tax to the farmers than | all the assessments imposed by law. The hindrance to labor, loss in time, the greater hardship of its accomplishment l and it's less efectual operation by the toreled chain, the racked cart, the dull plow-point, the toothless harrow, the broken hoe, the spade, the rake, the fork, if kept in accurate account by eacr individual, would present an aggregate of loss reproaehful to many and criminal in the most careless.
 THE Toronto Maa says: "rhe failure of the spring wheat remains unexplain' | ed. Farmers in the neighborhood o Brookville are convinced that the trou ble is not so much with the rust. as firs reported, as with small fly, or insect | that destroys the stem by stinging il near the sheath and depositing al egg This insect may be the wheat maggot which is doing considerable damage tC the crop ill the Province of Quebec ano in parts of New York State. It seemed to operate something like the Hessian fly, and may become a terrible scourge
 THE Dirie Farmer says: Most of tho ferns found in our woods contain more or less starch, and when properly pre-
 pared are very palatable and nutritious An attempt was recently made in France to popularize them as food. The young shoots of the common brake fern, wher exposed above the soil to the air an6 sunlight, become exceedingly fieshy
 white and tender. The hill tribes ol : Japan live on ferns all the year round eating the tender leaflets in spring ex tracted from the roots. A certain ia
 nous French painter is known to pride
 himself on his fern 'omelets.'"
 ACCORDING to Dr. Brush there is { marked difference between the milk O cud chewing and that of non-cud-chew
 ing animals. The milk of the former contains variety or casein, which
 under the action of the digestive pro cess. eoagulates into a hard mass. Th, other kind of milk, to which human equine and ass milk belongs, does no coagulate into hard mass, but into granular or floculent masses, which art easily difiusible In the milk of tho cud-chewers there is but small amour of sugar and large amount of casein
 while exactly the contrary is the cas, with the non-ruminants; and this is tht reason why the latter is better thar cows milk for infants brought up bN