The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-17
FARM NOTES.

ported to have been planted in Nebraska.
LIBERAL quantity of some kind Of
mulch should be provided for young fruit
trees whose roots are exposed to the full
says OF the summer sun.
Tue Gardeners Chronicle thinks solution
Of London purple sprayed over fruit trees,
just as the fruit Is forming, will prove
security against the codling moth and
canker worm.
A LIBERAL dressing OF woodashes will
renovate an unthrifty orchard most won
derfully. Bonedust and crushed oyster
she'll, can also be applied and beneficial
results will soon become apparent
CRUDE, unfermented manure and much
moisture tends to produce q 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
having the breeding stock too young-in
breeding the sows too young before they
have become we'll grown and maturcd, and
also in buying young breeding sows instead
Of full-grown ones.
DRYING potatoes is an industry in Roch-
ester, ~ Y. The potatoes are sliced, put
in 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.
TIKI 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 10
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.
A NATURAL 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 tobacconists' cuttings
freely in the nests putting them about
four inches deep in them; let lice be ever
so thick, in very short time they will all
be gone from tho boxes
A NEWLY vanished carriage Is liable TO
spot. To prevent thiS some wash the car
riagc 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 H. 10 some extent from being
injured by the mud or water getting
splashed on it.
TwEHTYTHREE thousand females are en-
gagged in farming operations on their own
account in England. This Is a right they
have in common the world over Rouuh
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BUcKwnEAT may DO made profitable
upon piece Of rough or newly cleared
ground No other crop is 50 effective in
mellowing rough cloddy land The seed
In northern localities should be sown be
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UssIAcxrp lime il not fiji for fow,s, IN
fact II taken into Tho cron IN .ry hr,
tbe su,Iros, on,rti,,, +, ,,,,II b. ,,,.o ~
ipaome the Iininr mnmbrorn mud r,i,,,,,
cause death. 1t Is quite likely that the
gangrene of the crop In some fowls is thus
caused. When fowls have plenty of
bounded or burned bone they need no
nme' the bone containing sufficient tor
'he'r use
ANS do not destroy trees The ants are
after the lice which are hurting the trees.
These lice exude sweet substance which
attracts the ants and the ants do no harm
To got rid of the lice, make a solution OF
whale oil soap, and add to pailful
one drachm Of carbolc acid Syringe or
spray this on the under side of the leaves,
and it will either kill or drive away the
lice, and the ants will be seen no more.