The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-08-17
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

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little wheat or cracked corn placed in
the scratching place to give them exer-
else.
The most important study of Guilt
vator of the soil is to plan for such crops
as will always be in demand and always
pay; crops that will be in demand year
after year.
| A spoonful OF paris green in pail of
water is recommended for killing canker
worms. 1t should not be sprinkled over
plants of which the leaves are eaten
such as lettuce, etc.
| Prof. Atwater states that the best ration
for COW in full flow of milk is 100 parts
of corn meal (by weight,) so parts bran
and 65 parts decorticated (huskless) cot
ton seed meal
Red raspberries should be set two feet
apart In rows, and when kept well worked
the first year they will fill up and form
continuous hedge of plants good for ten
years or more.
Gather no seed from the forest tree
that is not clean and straight and rapid
grower. Scrub trees beget their like.
The law of hereditary holds good in
trees as we'll as in the lower animals and
men.
Ensilage is nothing new, as far as pre-
servation is concerned. 1t is simply
keeping green food through the winter
by exclusion of the air. It is on the
same principle as canning, only on
large scale.
Watch the strawberries carefully that
DO weeds get the start of you; when
black raspberry canes get from twenty
inches to two feet high, nip off the ter
minial bud, so that they will branch and
grow more stocky.
The best farmer is Che one who thinks
as well as he works, who knows what he
intends to do day or at least a night,in
advance; who believes thought has as
much to do with successful farming as
plenty of muscle, if not more.
The premature growth of colts by
high feeding and severe training, has
the tendency to degenerate the bre ed,
by entailing the overworked debility on
their issue, which may become heredi-
tary, and be transmitted to future gen.
erations.
A north room in house, properly
ventilated. is a better place to keep milk
in summer than half the so-called cellars
in the country. To obtain the most
cream and the best results milk should
stand 36 hours without skimming.
Watch the currants, and at first indica-
tions of worms eating the leaves, dusts
| them with hellebore, or sprinkle with
tar water, or even strong soapsuds. Hhe
great secret in destroying the cur}rant
worm is close watching, SO as to ttack
them before they have made much head
way.
Bones, when fed to fowls, induce them
to lay a liberal quantity of fine Favored
eggs, as we'll as maintain health fuiness
and vigor. They are far better arad more
natural, a. we'll as cheaper, for these pur-
poses than the 'egg foods" and other
preparations so largely used and so ire
quently misused.
An English mechanic has invented q
horseshoe composed of three thicknesse
of cowhide compressed into steel rnold
and subjected to chemical preparation.
1t will last longer than the common shoe,
weighs only one fourth as much, does
not split the hoofs, requires no calks and
is very elastic.
If you have been poisoned by ivy,
bathed the parts afflicted freely with
spirits of nitre. If the blisters be broken
| 50 us 10 dllOW the uitIo W pcucti0 tC tiO
cutitcle, more than single application
is rarely necessary, and even where it is
only applied to the surface OF the
skin three or four times day, there is
rarely a trace of the poison left next
morning.
Keeping bees in the old fashioned box
hive is entirely out of date. The trouble
with it is that the internal economy of
the colony cannot be regulated. but the
bees must be left to do yretty much as
they please. 1t is fact often preached,
but seldom practiced, that bees need
management and care the same as horses.
cattle or poultry, or any other kind of
farm stock.
To preserve butter for winter use,
make your better right and work out all
the milk; then prepare well glazed
stone jar by scalding with brine; put the
butter in and pack it down close; cover
with clean brine that will bear an egg
and set in your cellar. When more but
ter is to be added, pour off the brine and
again use it on top Of the butter. When
the jar is filed nearly to the top, set
away and cover the top with clean
board or plate. Notice it occasionally,
that the brine may always be kept cover
ing the butter. If made properly it will
keep.