Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-08-25
FARM NOTES.

The refuse salt from fish or meat
barrels will kill turkeys If they have
access to it. Keep salt of any kind
out of their way.
Turkeys are very useful in destroy
ing insects, and of great service in or
chards in destroying w~indfalls, and in
preventing the growth of worm-eaten
fruit.
Calves should have a Ill in a good
piece of grass. The value of a COW de-
ponds SO much upon the first years
growth that the calf should have the
best OF feed, that the mature animal
may be the most profitable.
An old gardener says, with regard
to cultivating onions, that if r is
taken to draw away the earth gradual
ly from the bulbs until they are quite
uncovered, and all the Gbrous roots are
in the earth, you will never have soul
lions, but very large, sound onions.
Tomatoe plants should not be grown
too rapidly, and if they begin to run
should be transplanted, so as to induce
stocky growth. Some gardeners take
pains to pot them, but this is not gen.
orally done, as it is expensive and
troublesome; repeated checking by
transplanting induces early maturity
and early fruiting.
Buckwheat may be made profitable
upon a piece of rough or newly cleared
ground. No other crop is so effective
in mellowing rough, cloddy land. The
seed in northern localities should be
sown before July II; otherwise early
frosts may catch the crop. Grass and
clover may sometimes be sown success
fully with b~uckwheat.
The much abused dragon flies are
perfectly harmless to human beings;
they neither bite nor sting, but destroy
vast quantities of mosquitoes, flies and
other insects. They can be brought
into the house to catch flies and mos
quitoes which duty they perform if UNI
molested. While in the Larvae state
they perform the same good work.
A compost heap containing animal
matter of any kind should be made as
follows: A foot in depth of soil and
sods or vegetable matter mixed; alayer
of the animal matter well sprinkled
with lime us before, and then a foot of
earth sods and vegetable matter. The
heapshould be well packed and tramped
and made fiat and hollow TO hold the
rain, and to preserve moisture.
The thick scales which appear on the
legs and feet of fowls, more particu-
larry those of the large Asiatic breeds,
are caused 10y a parasitic scab mite
which burrows in the skin. It is sim
liar to the sheep scab mite, and acts in
a precisely similar manner. 1t "a be
destroyed by putting the feet and legs
Of the fowl in a can or jar of kerosene
oil and keeping them in oil for a min
ute, until it penetrates under the scales
and kills the insects.
1t is a good plan to tie about tomato
board to prevent the cut-worm from
severing the stem near the soil. 1t is
easily done and is a better protection
than mounds of earth which, it has
been said, cut-woTms cannot climb up.
This idea is a mistake. We last season
placed twenty-five cut-Worms in a hole
about eight inches deep, the sides Of
which were nearly perpendicular. We
watched them at intervals during two
hours and found that, though many at
tempts to escape were Intellectual, some
were successful.
Every farmer should see to it that
no hay or fodder of any description is
wasted. There is no Old hay Of last
year left over, owing TO its scarcity,
and the unusual high price it com