Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1881-07-30
FARM AND HOME.
Farm Rdkings.

'l'oh tbC Will ut-StiON tIlo
worm after the third application. Adamp
clay soil is good for currants. OF the
red kinds the Versailles is, perhaps, the
best. They bear well and remain long
time on the bushes.
TASsY.-Plant tansy at the root of
your plum trees, or hang branches OF
the plant on the limbs Of the trees, and
you will not be annoyed with curculio.
An old and successful fruit grower fur
nishes the above, and SAYS it is the most
successful curculio preventive he haa
ever tried
GRTrs.-A correspondent Of an ex.
change says that last year he ploveG
mp an old pasture, full of CRIBS, plantc
it IN corn, and before the grains sprout
ed be put 4 handful of salt and plaster,
equal parts, on each hill. The result
WAS no trouble from grubs, and the best
'rop he ever raised.
GEAPEs.-Sulphur is a good remedy
FOR mildew. 4 flat board placed above
the vine will help to keep off the dew
and m!ildcw. Potash and bone are good
for the vino and plaster for the soil.
Capt Moore, a noted Massachusetts cul-
tivator Of small fruits, SAYS that no grape
with foreign blood in it will succeed in
New England soil.
PoSTs FOR FFSCING. Experiments
have proved that wooden posts put in
the ground in the same position in which
they grew, top upward, will become rot
ten several years sooner than they would
if placed top downward in the soil. The
theory is that the capillary tubes in the
trees are SO adjusted rs to oppose the
rising moisture when inverted.
DESTROYING LICE.-A natural condi-
ton of poultry is lousiness, but there
need he no trouble III keeping them free
from lice. Use tobacco stems, or refuse
leaves, or tohacconists' cuttings freely
III the nests, putting them about I, ur
inches deep in them; let lice he never
so thick, i'll 4 very short time they will
be all gone from the boxes.
DUCKLINGS. Coarse corn meal
mashed potatoes and bran well mixed
and given twice day is an excellent
feed for young ducks. They will eat
whole corn Mt about weeks old, but it
should not he their sole food. A grass
run is indispensable. They do good
service among the bugs and slugs in tho
garden. With plenty of shade and
good grass range they will not require
any great supply of water.
CHLORIDE OF LIME.-A French jour
nal states that chloride OF lime scattered
about where rats and mice frequent will
cause them to desert the spot. A solu-
ton of it brushed over plants will effect
ually protect them from insects. If
scattered over ground infested with
grlbs, it will free it from them entirely,
Bunches of cotton or tow smeared with
mixture of chloride of lime and hogs
lard, and tied about in different parts of
a tree, will guard it against tho attack
Of insects, slugs, grubs, etc., and drive
away those already in possession.
GEArTrSG THE GRAPE.-The past
twenty years / have grated and propa-
gated many thousands of grape vines in
my greenhouse and in the field; have
tried almost every month in the year,
and 1 find April or May the best time, or
when the buds are Just bursting or
pushing; then no sap will trouble or
drown ont the graft, as is the case when
the grating is done in the fall or early
spring, as heretofore recommended.
Such grating will most surely prove .
failure. I use no wax clay is much bet
ter; but the scions must be kept back.
Graft below ground on young, thrifty
plants. No good CRATER would ever
think of grating old snags or old trees
that ought to be cut down, and SO with
old vines that have been neglected and
not renewed, they are no better than
old snags, and it is time lost to try to
improve such self-exhausted and worm
out plants. Nor can grating be done
by every one without experience. No
CRATER is always successful in grating
the apple or pear, much less in grating
the grape, as it is quite different pro-
cess, although quite simple to one who
knows how.-Cdnada Farmer.
SPAvIN.-A fully-developed SPAWN had
better be left alone, rs in such case
nothing can be gained by treatment.
When the ailment is discovered early, or
treatment is begun befor" any material
disorganization has taken place, success
may attend the treatment and stop he
quito its progress. There nopositive cure
for SPAWN that is, the horse can never
he made sound again. All that may DO
accomplished by any method OF treat
ment consists in cessation of lameness:
but. to all intents and purposes, the