Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-09-10
HOUSE AND FARM.
Forming Brevi.ies.

numbers about 3, 900 head and $50 sucking
calves.
Mr.. g. T. Alvord, Wilmington, VT, re-
ports to The American Cultivator certain
tests, the results Of which indicate that
turnips do not flavor the beef or mutton Of
whose fattening ration they form large
part.
France appropriates for agriculture this
year, in round numbers, $3.50, 600. This
grant includes agricultural education, ex-
penses for breeding studs and keeping up
2, 500 stations, inspection of woods and
forests, prizes to regional forests, I" etc.
A timely suggestion, on it's travels with
out credit, is to the effect that before re-.
moving threshing machine to another
farm it should be run empty from five to
ten minutes at a high rate Of speed in order
to throw out any seeds of cheat cookie, etc.,
and to discharge particles Of smut that
may have adheredto it. In this way the
germs of weeds or fungi will be left where
raised and not introduced by this medium
as pest to other fields.
The Rural New Yorker recommends
spring transplanting Of deciduous, fruit and
ornamental trees and shrubs north Of the
latitude of New York city; but south of
that line, fall planting is encouraged. A
hint for the season. The same paper says
there is great reputation for the Ingenious
person who may furnish cheap, safe and
efficient remedy for the cabbage worm.
To Mr.. Charles Downings great work,
"The Fruits and Fruit Trees Of America,
there has lately been added-in the form
of 75-page phamphlet, published by
Messrs. john Wiley 4 Sons, No. l6 Astor
place. third appendix, Of the
highest possible interest to fruit-growers
and nurserymen, because it contains de-
scripti0ns Of all the new introductiOns of
note and value, given with all the cautious
care and trustworthiness that characterize
| every line of opinion from the faithful pen
of the venerable author.
"Take of saltpetre (he best kind) and
common salt, each tablespoonful, diss dive
in little hot water, and add tweiye quarts
of cold water" One thorough application
of this, with sprinkler, in the heat of the
day. when the sun shines, correspondent
of the Ioaca Homestead says he has al
ways found sufficient to save his cabbage
from the green worm. He thinks, but is
not sure, that it is equally effective against
the pests that feed OF currant leaves.
Since the Introduction of the lawn mower
the lawn has come to be regarded as the
great feature of garden. When it is we'll
kept there is nothing more beautiful or
pleasing than broad, open space of turf,
and in the planting and arranging of trees
it should By our endeavor to keep the lawn
as open as possible. This can be accom-
plished by arranging the trees and shrubs
in borders OF belts around the margin, with
a fine specimen tree occasionally standing
alone in prominent position, where its
beauties can be seen to the best advantage.
At the Elmira IN. W turner's Club, on
the 10th ult., Mr.. G.. w. Hoffman said:
The doctrine that timothy. when sown too
early, will not crowd wheat, is not safe, I
can not accept it, have cut part of my
wheat, and think it reveals lesson worthy
of thought. drilled one bushel of Heiges
wheat at the rate of three pecks to the acre,
and tLen set the drill to distribute four
pecks and drilled another acre alongside.
l shall be very glad to have members of the
club visit the field and show me any differ
ence in the crops of the two plats, and to
say whether they think the stand thick
enough or not. I think the wheat as thick
as can be desired. Close alongside drill
ed Clawson wheat, one acre, at the rate of
three peeks to the acre, then one acre with
four pecks, another with five; and if any
person car point out the difference in the
seedlings shall be glad to see it,
The British wheat area has diminished
within FIVE years from S8oQ,OOQ acres to
1910, O00--one- sixth less. The average
production has fallen from 20 bushels per
acre to about 25. Theplot at Roth Amstead,
grown in wheat every year without manure
of any description, has yielded q fair aver
age, rather above that Of the last ten years,
but less than that of the preceding eighteen.
Our farmer readers will not soon forget
how very scarce all kinds of feed and fodder
for domestic animals became last winter and
how much the poor beasts suffered in con-
sequence. It is not too late to SOW corn for
feeding green in the fall, and nothing is
more beneficial to cattle if fed while fresh
aud sweet. A small patch Of land will pro-
duce a generous quantity Of feed Of this
kind.
/ The widow Osgood, of Minot Center,
Me-, owns forty ACRE farm, all the labor
on which she has done during the past five
years with her own hands, assisted by two
young children. The hay crop this season
was over ~ tons; half an acre of onions are
growing, and three fourths of an acre OF
beans and two acres Of potatoes. This re-
markabls woman has charge also of her
own Homework, and last winter cut and
teamed out" ten cords of wood.
In addition to the potato beetle, which
has developed, particularly during the last
year or two, a decided taste for the fragrant
foliage of the tomato. cultivators Of this
valuable fruit have now to contend, as APP
pears, with formidable rot, which
seems to be spreading rapidly in some
parts, especially where large areas are
raised. New Jersey and Delaware report
.@sad havoc" and the same is true to some
extent in Maryland and Pennsylvania,
The construction Of silos has progressed
rapidly during the past summer, although
we do not know of one on this side Of the
Alleghanies: Western farmers generally
appear to believe that all fodder plants,