The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-06-17
FARM NOTES.

SUNFLOwER seed Is highly recon-
mended as food for poultry.
THE friends and allies of honest butter
and cheese are closing in upon the cleo
margarine and lard vendors all along the
line.
You can tell a merciful farmer as soon
as he stops his team at post. He takes
the blanket off his wife's lap and spreads
it over the poor horses.
The yellow-wood- Cladrastis tinctoris
or virgilla 1utea-''b leeds" when cut as
freely as any maple. Wonder if the sap
has ever been tried for sugar?
COPING moths fly and do not crawl
up the trunks of trees. The females of
canker worms are wingless, and crawl up
the trees on warm days In winter and
early spring to deposit their eggs.
TIE planting of elm, maple, and other
forest trees at proper distances along the
highways increases the value of adloin-
ing property, and adds to the beauty and
comfort OF the section. In Germany,
fruit trees adorn the waysides.
AN AGRICULTURAL correspondent living
in Battle Creek. Michigan, says that he
purified his well OF water, which was
subject to so many worms, bugs and in
sects as to render it almost unfit for
drinking, by placing In the well couple
of good-sized trout They have kept
perfectly healthy.
A PARASITE has appeared IN the orange
groves of Italy, the West Indies, Florida
and California which ruins vast numbers
of trees and threatens to seriously inter
fere with orange culture. The Italian
Government offers 100000 francs and
one of its wealthy citizens 100000 more
for an effectual remedy for the pest.
In ORDER to have the best success in
growing potatoes, and to secure a
healthy, vigorous growth and crop free
from rot, says Thorbun, it Is necessary
to plant as early as the ground can be
got ready. Select rich soil and plant
in rows three feet apart, and the sets one
foot in the rows.
WHEN on orchard requires fertilizing,
it is best to do this all over the ground,
and not to apply manure only near the
trees. This produces a large growth of
roots close to the trees, for roots grow
where the soil is richest Orchards need
lime and ashes more than manure, and
these soon produce healthy, smooth
bark.
A RUSSIAN explorer who has been
prospecting in the Turkestan frontier of
China reports that he came upon q
locality where the rhubarb plant grows
in extraordinary abundance and to q
prodigious size. One root, which he
dug up at random, was sixteen inches
long, seven inches in thickness and
weighed twenty-six pounds.
/ FRENCH statesman, after carefully
studying the beet sugar question, as long
ago as 1853 said: "The beet, requiring
frequent hand-hoeing and considerable
fertilizing, improves the soil. 1t is a
fact that wheat sown after crop of beets
produces 10 per cent. more than after
any other culture. In fact, everywhere
that the beet is grown the selling value
Of the land has considerably increased. :"
PERHAPS there is no surer vegetable
crop in Louisiana and Southern Missis-
sippi, or one that pays quicker or better
than the Irish potato. 1t is so conven-
lent to handle that it will always be
largely grown. There is none of the
hurry and worry about it that attaches
to the tender fruits. and when the crop
is taken early it may be followed by
sweet potatoes, tUrnips or oats.
ONE of the four Ayrshire COWS origin
ally imported into this country by John
P. Gushing, of Massachusetts, gave in
one year 1864 quarts, beer measure, or
about 464 gallons, at ten pounds to the
gallon; being over an average of ten and
half beer quarts day for the whole
year. 1t is asserted, on good authority.
that the first Ayrshire COW imported by
the Massachusetts Society for the Pro-
motion of Agriculture, in 1927, yielded
sixteen pounds of butter week for sew
eral weeks in succession, on grass feed
only.
WHENEVER tree is transplanted, says
the Rural NeaU Yorker, many of the
roots are injured-a part destroyed.
Those that remain when set out in new
place are in no condition to feed the
plant as it was fed previous to removal.
Hence the top must be cut back to re-
store the equilibrium. Let us instance
the case of a newly transplanted grape
vine. If many buds are permitted to
push and grow, the growth of each at
the end of the season will be found to be
of a feeble, immature kind. IF, on the
other hand, but one bud be permitted to
grow, strong, healthy cane will be the
result Thus we see in the former case
the sap is distributed among many buds
and shoots, while in the latter it is sup
piled to one. The tree or plant of any
kind may live in either cases. While,
however, cutting back renders the
chances of life greater and iasures more
vigor, we have still to consider whether
few strong shoots are not more desirable
than many feeble ones.