The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-07
FARM

c1FTf-ThhEE mllllOn IOIeSC Trees are re-
ported to have been planted in Nebraska.
A LIBERAL quantity of some kind of
mulch should be provided for young fruit
trees whose roots.a are exposed to the full
says of the summer sun.
THE Gardeners, Chronicle thinks a solution
of London purple sprayed over fruit trees,
just as the fruit is forming, will prove a
security against the codling moth and
canker worm.
A IBERAL dressing of woodashes will
renovate an unthrifty orchard most won
derfully. Bonedust and crushed oyster
shells can also be applied and beneficial
results will soon become apparent.
CRUDE, unfermented manure and much
moisture tends to produce a soft, rapid
growth in young trees that continues late
in the season, rendering them liable to in
jury from severe cold.
EVERY plantation in the South, large and
small, should raise the cattle, horses,
mules, sheep and hogs necessary for its
own use and consumption. This will be
done sooner or later.
ONE great mistake in pig-breeding is in
having thC O1CCulllS oOOCh wv yOulS-lh
breeding the sows too young, before they
have become well grown and matured, and
also in buying young breeding sows instead
of full-grown ones.
Drying potatoes is an industry in Roch-
ester, N. Y. The potatoes are sliced, put
in a steam box for a few minutes to keep
the starch in and then dried. When de-
sired for use they are soaked before cook
ing.
Now that more accurate information of
the condition of cattle on the plains is af-
forded by the annual round ups" the
losses from the severity of last winter are
reported to be considerably below the ear
lier estimates.
The chief solid fat found in butter is the
principal ingredient in palm oil, while the
chief liquid fat abounds in olive oil and
the soluble aromatic oils which give such
an aroma to butter and make its gilt edge
value, are found abundantly in the cocoa
nut.
HUNGARIAN grass is totally useless for
green manuring. On land so poor as to
need this kind of help this grass would not
grow six inches high. Buckwheat would
do far better. Hungarian grass will not
stand two cuttings; after one cutting its
growth is very slow and weak.
ANATURAL condition of poultry is lousi-
ness, but there need be no trouble in keep
ing them free from lice. Use tobacco stems
or refuse leaves, or to~bacconists' cuttings
freely in the nests, putting them about
four inches deep in them; let lice be ever
so thick, in a very short time they will all
be gone from the boxes.
A W vanished carriage is liable to
spot. To prevent this, some wash the car
riage two or three times in clean cold water,
applied with a sponge instead of using a
hose this will help harden the surface,
and prevent it, to some extent, from being
injured by the mud or water getting
splashed On it.
TwENTY-THREE thousand females are en-
gagged in farming operations on their own
account in England. This is a right they
haye in common the world over. Rough
hands and berry brown faces may be the
result, but independence and financial sue
cess go with these, and so in o measure
compensate for them.
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 be.
fore July II; otherwise early frosts may
catch the crops. Grass and clover may
sometimes be sown successfully with buck
wheat.
On FLAT lands the best way is to plant
corn three and a half feet apart each way
SO that the cultivator can be run both
ways. By this method one man with 6
horse may take care of forty acres, though
it will have to be done without using the
hoe. The use of the hoe can only be made
profitable upon vegetables, and must bt
dispensed with there whenever pos
sible.
UNsLAcKED lime is moi fit for fowls; in
fact, if it is taken into the crop in any bu
the smallest quantity, it would be sure t.
infame the lining membrane, and NIGH
cause death. 1t is quite likely that til,
gangrene of the crop in some fowls is thu
caused. When fowls have plenty o
pounded or burned bone they need III
lime, the bone containing sufficient 10
their use.
ANTS do not destroy trees. The ants ar
after the lice which are hurting the trees
These lice exude a sweet substance which
attracts the ants, and the ants do no harm
To get rid of the lice, make a solution Q
whale oil soap, and add to a pallfu
one drachm of carbolic acid. Syringe o
spray this on the under side of the leave:
and it will either kill or drive away tn
lice, and the ants will be seen no more.
WHEAT lodges because of excessiv
growth of stem from superabundant nitro
genous manure and deficiency of minera
matter; the weakness of the stem is cause
by a too rank and succulent growth. Whe
fresh barn-yard manure is applied to whef
literally lime should be used at the sam
time this mineral matter supplies the mi
terial for stifening the stem. Salt is use
for the same purpose.
COARSE corn meal, mashed potatoes an
bran, well mixed and given twice a day,
an excellent feed for young ducks. The
will eat whole corn at about four weel
old, but it should not be their sole foot
A grass run is indispensable. They d
good service among the bugs and slugs i
the garden. With plenty of shade and
good grass range they will not require an
great supply of water.
AN INDIANA farmer tried four differel
fertilizers for melons-poultry dropping
well-rotted COW manure, barnyard manur
and old bones gathered upon the farm an
reduced by placing them in alternat
layers with ashes the previous year,, mi,
ing all literally in the different hill
which were eight feet apart each way, an
he says; 'Such a crop of melons as can
from the hills that had the bone dust
never saw before"
E~vERGREENs thrive best on sandy sol
but they will grow IN any kind of soil.
moderately damp, light sandy loan is be
for nearly all the evergreen trees, and
mixture of swamp muck is agreeable
them. Some evergreens, as balsam frs an
hemlock, thrive very we'll on low, W,