The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-04-14
HQUSR AND FARM.


grain bags sold 10 farmers In 1880.
Worms infest the lungs, the irtestines
and the kidneys of pigs.
kThe root Of the grasses in good
pasture will weigh from five 10 ten tons.
Portugal consumed nearly as much as
American wheat in 1850 as Germany.
A renewed effort is being made for
an agricultural experimental station
in Massachusetts,.
An insurance company has been
formed in Prussia to insure against loss
Of hogs by trichinac.
The first one or two Filters laid by
puIicts arc not SO good for Matching
purposes as those laid latter.
Never feed decayed roots of any kind
to cows giving milk. Ono decayed
turnip fed TO a COW would affect the
milk of fifty cows ifmixed together.
Andrew Sprague, of Easton, Maine,
raised 200 bushels Of very large sugar
bects from forty square rods of ground.
The onion maggot has been dcstruct-
i've TO that crop in some parts of this
country Of late years especially in the
East.
Ex-Goy. Furnass. Of Nebraska saws
that, unless we have a late spring, every
indications favors bounteous crops
this year.
In the neighborhood Of ancient Troy
Sir Johu Lubbock has come across
beetle whose mission seems to be to de-
stroy locusts by consuming their eggs
DO not be in 10 much haste TO set
your hens, unless you have warm
place not only for them TO set in but
also for the young chicks after they are
Matched.
Among French farmers it is consid-
cred much better to feed beet pulp to
sheep and cattle for production Of meat
than for milk. Horses will not eat il |
readily.
A Frcnchman is breeding ca,nels in
Nevada. He has forty camels all but |
three natives of that state, engaged in
carrying goods from railroad stations |
to mining camps.
Cotton socks next 10 the skin and
wooden socks outside of them are rep
presented as sure to cure cold feet. At
night the cotton socks will be quite dry
and the outside ones damp.
A simple adhesive for rubber belts
is made by sticking powdered chalk,
which has been evenly sprinkIed over
the surface of the belt by cold tallow or
boiled linsced oil.
The most successful fruit growers
East and West have deciced that there
is no better remedy for the codlmg
moth than to pasture hogs in the orch
ard TO eat the wormy apples and the
worms therein.
In transplanting trees never set them
deeper in the ground than they were
originally before they were moved. The
70 Dts Of grape vines should always be
Kept near the surface, since their roots /,
,evcr run deeper
Thousands were sold in the fall Mt ru-
inously low prices, but in spite of this {
1t is estimated that from Sc 10 40 per
cent. Of the cattle in Colorado have per- =,
ished during the winter In other Sec n
lions the loss has not been so great, but y
it has been sufficiently large 10 check r
the business. >,
Loose pulleys require constant atten- "
ton and much oil, and are very hard on C
The belt. II is best TO have them a tritle q
smaller than the tight pulley, and with II
A step or fiangc running up TO the diam Il
rter of the tight one. This takes the S;
strain of the belt and the friction from b
The pulleys. s:
The phylloxera, the deadly enemy of 81
has appeared in six counties u
If California. No means of getting o.
id of this terrible pest has been discov- u
red abroad where lis ravages have a,
,cen severely fe.t. Since 1875 it has OF
lrivcn out of vine culture 100000 acres Ii
md reduced the vintage of 1880 one l.
bird as compared with that of 1875. in