The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-09-10
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

seeds per ounce.
NESTS must occasionly be renewed
and kept clean, Straw is bet ter than
hay. Tobacco stems covered with straw
are an excellent prevention of insect
breeding, especially when the hens are
sitting.
AN old gardener says, with regard to-
cultivating onions, that if care Is taken
to draw away the earth gradually irons
the bulbs until they are quite uncovered
and only the tibrous roots are in the;
earth, you will never have scullions, but
very large, sound onions.
WILLOWS and alders cut close by the
roots now may give room for hay-crop
next season. A light mattock, two
hand bill-hook, a grass-scythe, for sur
rounding weeds and grass, and keen
Ratchet or axe for trimming, are the
handy tools for the business.
MATTED strawberry rows on fiat land
need to have the ground rugged little
by the cultivator. The rear cultivator
tooth, brushing along, serves to kill
small weeds, gather struggling runners
and cover them, making slight ridge
to prevent standing water and ice In
winter.
MLLET and Hungarian grass should be-
cut when young, just after they have
fully headed out, to be of much valuo
for feeding. When young and tender
cattle will eat it greedily and thrive
upon it, but if left till nearly ripe the
stalks become woody and are of little
more value than oat or rye straw.
To destroy wire worms there is moth
ing better than to chop up some pota
toes fine and mix sugar or lead or paris
green with them, so that each piece I4
lightly covered with the poison. Wheu
the ground is furrowed for the corn,
these pieces are dropped in the rows or
scattered ON the ground where the wire
worms will find it. These worms are es-
pecially fond of potatoes.
GEN. HARDING, speaking for Tennessee,
considered Hungarian grass to be the
best forerunner of timothy. He recon-
mends that this be sown in summer and
harvested in August or early in Septem-
Der; and that timothy be sown upon the
stubble and narrowed in. The Hunga-
rian grass, he thinks, destroys all weeds
and gives a certain compactness to the
soil necessary to secure a good stand Of
timothy.
COMPLAINTS are made all over the
west, particularly in Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa, that wire fences attract light
ming, which often results in the killing
of stock. The stock imagine that the
fence affords protection from the storm
and according huddle close up to it.
One instance is given where IS head of
sheep were killed in Nebraska at a single
stroke, and another were 10 head of cat
tie were killed.
THE Rural New Yorker is fully con-
WINGED that the tomato rot is caused by
the tomato worm. This green, reptile
looking pest often turns from the leaves
to the young tomatoes, eating a part of
the flesh and then returning TO the
leaves. The injured portion of the
tomato soon turns black and rot COM
mences. Every instance of rot among
our tomatoes, the present season at any
rate. has been thus caused.
CAPT. THos T. TURNER of Normandy,
Mo-, the well-known breeder of Jersey
cattle, sowed q number of acres In
sorghum the past spring solely for feed
for his stock. He is highly pleased with
it. He is cutting it with a moving
machine, letting it cure and putting it
away Cor future use. He says his stock
relish it very highly, eating it all. He
sowed corn at the same time for the
same purpose, but finds sorgo much
preferable to corn.
The average corn-crib is not what it
ought to be, either in size or security
from vermin. Much of the labor of the
year may go for nothing, save to feed a
swarm of mice, if precautions are not
taken to keep these little pests from the
corn crib. At this season when the crib
is usually empty, means should be taken
to clear it of mice, and then, if possible,
cut off their access to the grain that is
soon to be harvested. If there are any
repairs to be made in the roof, siding, or
floor, they should be made now, that all
may be snug in the courthouse, when
snugness is of the utmost Importance
american Agracutt,risf.
Sow from the wind sidewise, and when
turning round to come back, instead of
walking back without sowing against
the wind, change hands. For nearly
fifty years / have always sowed with my
left hand as well as my right Sowing
grain with both hands at once was Gus
tomary in my native land. If the wind
blows from the west, walk north and
south, and throw to the east with the
left hand when going north, and use the
right hand when going south. can SOW
much wider, and thus save much walk
ing when the wind is high. and | always
prefer to have brisk, blowing day. l
throw the seed right up, as fast as l can
walk, the hand going regularly with the
step III one uniform, swinging gait.-A
Farmer.
THESE dry days and fierce "hy time"
heats sorely try all young trees which
have not been planted longer than one
or two springs, and just now, in many an
instance, the leaves are dropping, and
unless relief is afforded, the tree will be
SO severely checked in its growth that 1T
will fall an easy prey to the fierce cold
next winter. A little trench should be
dug around the tree as closely as posi-
BILE, without disturbing the roots. Into
this trench pour two or three pallfuls of
water and when it has soaked away re-
place the earth. The reiuvenating
effects of this remedy may sometimes be
seen in half an HOURLY the next morn
ing certainly. By doing this once or
twice during the summer drouth trees
may be saved which would otherwise
perish.
For number of years we have been
advising farmers who keep bees to plant
Eastwood trees In every available place
for the purpose of furnishing pasturage
F~,- H. H.,