Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-03-03
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

WASH FOR FRUrr TREES "A fruit
grower gives the following remedy for
the coddling moth: One quart of lime.
such as is used by the plasterers in
white coating" one peck of leached
wood ashes, two pecks of COW manure,
one quart of soft soap, and one large
tablespoonful of Paris green. wet tho
mixture thoroughly to make it like paste,
beating it thoroughly until it became
tough. | added twelve quarts Of water,
or enoughto give the trees a thorough
coating. / find on the trees 50 washed,
that the old bark is dropping off and
leaving the new bark perfectly smooth.
On all the trees / have washed l see
perfect improvement.
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. Professor
Scott, who has recently been appointed
to the chair of Agriculture at Cirences-
ter College, England, remarked at the
opening of the session .'that it was sad
blot on the intelligence of the age that
probably ninety-nine per cent of our
farmers came into their profession III life
without having ever received tho slight
est training, either scientitcor technical,
with special reference to their needs and
requirement. The old Roman agricul-
turist, Columella, said something of tne
same sort more than eight hundred years
ago, and still we have to complain of
the neglect of the proper training of
voting men to enable them to become
successful farmers. 1t is not quite so
bad now as III the days of ancient Rome,
but we have still far too many agricul-
turists who think more of Watching the
different phases OF the moon than of
studying the chemistry of the soil.
Hoo CHOLERA REMEDIES. Everybody
knows that it is the easiest thing in the
world to get certificates to the virtues of
a patent medicine. When the hog chol-
era attacks a herd or neighborhood,
there always comes time when the dis
ease has run its course and subsidies. Ii,
just at this point any remedy has been
used, it gets the credit of doing the bust
ness, when, In fact, it was natures own
work. In another case man escapes
the disease ON his farm, while his neigh
bors have all suffered from its attacks.
If he has been using anything as pre-
ventive during this period, he is quite
willing to give that thing the credit for
his immunity, while, as n matter Of fact,
similar cases are reported every day
where no remedy whatever is used.
Very much depends upon proper atten-
ton TO sanitary regulations; and when
these are promptly resorted to the raw
ages of the disease may usually be
checked without the aid OF medicine.
CARBON IN WHEAT. carbon in
wheat and other plants is derived not
from the soil, but from carbonic acid
in the atmosphere, the supply of which
is kept up by combustion, decay, the
respiration of men and animals, etc.
The amount of carbon IN the atmosphere
is only one part i'll ten thousand OF air,
and yet this supply is ample for the pur-
poses of vegetation. In an English
held, which has now grown wheat for
thirty-seven years in succession, there
are some plots to which not an ounce of
carbon has been returned during the
whole of that period. Yet with purely
mineral manure, an average of about
1000 pounds of carbon are annually re-
moved from the land; and, where given
amount Of heterogeneous manure is en-
ployed with the mineral manure, an av-
erage Of about !, 800 pounds per acre per
annum more is obtained, in all, an aver
age of about 2, 500 pounds of carbon an
nually assimilated over an acre of land
without any return OF carbonaceous
manure to 1t.
INFLAMED BAG.-Warm poultices
should be applied to the cows bag by
means of broad linen bandage tied over
the loins. 1t should have holes in it
through which the teats should be al
lowed to protrude. Apply the bandage
first, and then fill 10 an ample poultice
of equal parts of ground tiaxseed and
bran. The udder should be kept free
from milk, both by allowing the calf to
suck and by frequent stripping by the
hand Stimulants should next be APP
piled, with smart friction, by the palm Of
the hand, such as soap liniment or tur-
pentine liniment At the same time the
bag must be constantly supported by
means of a sheet tied over the loins, and
having holes in it, through which the
teats can protrude Feed moderately on
sloppy food, and administer a pound of
Glauber salts dissolved in quart of
warm water. aud to which add an ounce
of ground ginger. If, in spite of these
efforts for relief, assesses should form,
they should be freely opened with Ian
Get and the matter evacuated The re-
sulting wounds may be dressed with an
ointment of one part of Venice turpen-
tine and two parts Of hogs lard
New AND STALE BREAD.-The nature
Of the difference between new and stale
bread is far from being known. 1t is
only lately that the celebrated French
chemist, BoussiDgault, instituted an in
quiry into it, from which it results that
the difference is not the consequence Of
dessication, but solely of the cooling of
the bread. II we take fresh bread into
the cellar, or in any place where it can
not dry, the inner part of the loaf, it is
true, is found TO be crumbly but the
crust is no longer brittle. If stale bred
is taken into the oven again, it again as
sumes all the qualities of fresh baked
bread, although in the hot oven it must
undoubtedly have lost part of its mois-
ture. NJ. Boussingault has made fresh
loaf of bread the subject Of minute in
vestigation, and the results are anything
but uninteresting. New bread, in its
smallest parts, is 50 soft, clammy, flexible
and gluiionous lin consequence Of the
starch during the process Of fermenting
and baking being changed into mucilagi-
nous dextrine), that by mastication it is
with greater difficulty separated and re-
duced to smaller parts. and in less under
the influence of the saliva and digestive
juices. 1t consequently forms itself into
hard balls by careless and hasty masti-
cation and deglutition, becomes coated
over by saliva and slime, and III this
state enters the stomach The gastric
juice being unable to penetrate such hard
masses, and being scarcely able even to
act upon the surface Of them, they fire.
quently remain in the stomach un-
changed, and, like foreign bodies, irritate
and inccmmode it, inducing every spe-
cies of suffering oppression of the
stomach, pain in the chest, disturbed
circulation Of the blood, congestion and
pain in the head, irritation Of the brain,
and inflammation, apoplectic attacks,
cramp and delirium.
Sailing WHEAT. Mr.. Thomas Eckles,
of Eyota, Olmsted County, in this State,
writes the Rochester Post that he sowed
last season two tons of salt on thirty
acres of land, with excellent success.
He says: Some of my good neighbors
told me / was crazy, wild and the like,
but sowed my salt ON my thirty acres
Of land before i sowed my wheat. Now
for the result. My wheat grew right
along, never rusted, and stood up stiff,
and when harvested was like roads