The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-03
FARM MITES.

| 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 merciful farmer rs 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 tinctoria
or virgilla lutea-"bleeds" when cut as
freely as any maple. Wonder if the sap
has ever been tried for sugar?
COOLING 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 III winter and
early spring to deposit their eggs.
THE planting of elm. maple, and other
forest trees ut proper distances along the
highways increases The value of adjoin-
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 we'll 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 a 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 300,0 900 francs and
one of its wealthy citizens 1000 more
for an effectual remedy for the pest
In ORDER to have the best success in
growing potatoes, and TO secure
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
i'll rows three feet apart, and the sets one
foot in the rows.
A FRENCH statesman, after carefully
studying the beet sugar question, as long
ago as 1853 said: '"rhe beet, requiring
frequent hand-hoeing and considerable
fertilizing, improves the soil It 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 he
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 Ice followed by
sweet potatoes, turnips or oats
AUSTRALIA is making great advances
in the cultivation of wheat. During the
last ten years she multiplied her acreage
of this cereal two and hals times. She
has also raised her average to thirteen
bushels per acre, which il nearly the
average iii this country. Still, in spite
of this, the wheat interests of that con-
tinent cannot be regarded as either
promising or reliable. For two seasons
out of five thus far the droughts there
have been fearful. This will spoil the
average of any crop.
ONE OF the four Ayrshire cows origin
ally imported into this country by John
Z. Gushing, of Massachusetts,. gave in
one year 3, 1874 quarts, beer measure. or
about AGA gallons, Mt ten pounds to the
gallon, being over an average of ten and
q half beer quarts day for the whole
year. 1t Is asserted, on good authority.