Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-22
FARM And HOME.
Farm RakINgs.

nish, paint, or melted grating wax.
PEAR SLUGs, when so numerous as to
do injury, may be destroyed by busting
the leaves with lime or ashes even dry
earth may be used with good effect.
BASKETS AND CRATES for marketing
should be provided, and let them be dis
tincly and neatly marked with the adj
dress of both shipper and consignee.
SAnT-BoxEs are easily made and are
very useful. A few boxes in the pasture
will be saving of the salt which Is
otherwise thrown upon the soil and
largely lost. Long flat troughs may be
used.
CALVES should have a, good run Of
grass. The pushing of them without
OVERRIDING must be kept IL mind. The
first years growth determines. in a
great measure, what shall be the future
Of the animal. g.
A HoRsE-FoRK KIN the1hurry of hay
ing, the saving which is made by using
horse-fork will more than pay its cost
in few days. As time and labor
saving machine, horse-fork should be
used on every farm of any ordinary size.
CURoU11o.-Begin as soon as the fruit
is set to visit the trees in early morning;
the sluggish insects may then be Jared
from the trees and caught upon sheets
opened beneath to catch them. The
curcuhos thus caught should be swept
into the fire.
RUBBING PosTs.-All who have the
comfort of their animals at heart-and,
we nay add, desire to preserve their
fences intact-should provide few rub
bing posts for the animals. The pleas
ure Of seeing them used is pay enough,
but there is more.
PICS for early fall killing Will need
regular and generous feeding of bran
and meal slops. A quantity Of milk,
with a run in the grass, will do them
good. A little forcing at the start pays
well for pigs that are grown for the early
market.
TENT CATERPm1Aks are best removed
in the early morning while they are in
their nests, and the dew glistening upon
the web. A pole and swab may be used.
The wild cherry is such fayorite Of the
tent caterpillar that it is hardly worth
the while to keep any such harbors for
it near the orchards.
THINNING FRUIT. The sooner this es-
sential to the production of the best
fruit is done the better It is seldom
overdone, and too frequently entirely
neglected. Thinning increases the size
and improves the quality of the fruit,
and with young trees, just starting into
bearing, it is necessity.
CoDD1ING MOTH. The worms"
after leaving the fruit, seek some hiding
place to undergo their changes, and
bands of cloth or hay, put upon the
trunks of the trees, will catch many of
them. The bands should be removed
once in ten days, and the insects that
have gathered beneath them killed.
BnAcKBERR1Es need much the same
treatment as their near neighbors, the
raspberries. The young canes are al
lowed little longer growth, and should
be pinched at five or six fetal not
needed are to be removed. Both the
young and old canes should be kept up
right by using stakes or treliises.
RAsPBERR1Es. green shoots that
are growing now are the ones to bear
the next years fruit, the fruiting ones
this season dying after the berries have
ripened. When the growing shoots
reach four feet they should be pinched
of. Those not required for next year
are to be treated as weeds. The old
canes are to be cut away after frrliting.
The BoRERs of the peach and apple
trees are to be looked to. When once
in the tree there is no surface remedy.
Heaping earth around the base of the
tree, or using close-ftting paper band
will keep the female insect from depos-
iting her eggs. For killing the worms
the use of the knife and wire probe is
the most efectual. Their whereabouts
is known by the sawdust they make, and
depression of the bark. Use the knife
cautiously.
WORKING HoRsEs.-A thorough wash
ing with clean water, not too cold, will
greatly aid in keeping the working
horses in good condition; it removes
the accumulated and dried sweat and
dirt much better than dry rubbing.
The harness should be kept clean and
soft that it may not gall the animals.
A little powdered aloes rubbed on with
the oil will keep away any insects that
are likely to infest the harness, and will
do no injury to the horse.
Domestic Economy.