The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-04-23
General Farm Eotea,

Chester white pigs have increased In
price in the past two years.
The best and surest wayto get good
COW is to raise her yourself.
There is less excuse for feeding a
milk COW stingily than any other animal.
II your coal fire is low throw on tea
spoonful Of salt, and it will help it very
much.
Separate all breeding ewes from the
other sheep in tlh flock now until after
Landing.
Sorghum seed is readily eaten by
poultry, and is better for small chickens
than corn.
To test nutmegs, prick them with o
pin, and if they are good the oil will in
stantly spread around the puncture.
1t is now claimed that potash in the
shape Of ashes or the potash salts is ex-
cellent for grape vines if fruit is defect
i've in color
Kill the dog first and huntfor his own
or afterward, is the method Of certain
Georgia farmers who mean to make
sheep-raising profitable.
Cookie seeds will remain in the ground
many yearsif untouched by the plow.
As soon as brought to the surface they
begin to sprout-
Plump and very salable chickens can
be produced by crossing a bantam roost-
or on ordinary common hens. They are
not large, but of good quality.
Professor Brown, Special Census
Agent says that 5, 5S5patents have been
issued on plows in this country. On
harrows and diggers, l,746 have been
granted; on harvesters, 6,235, Of which
about 400 are sclf-bnders; on threshing
machines the number is 1,722.
II sulphur is well busted around the
sheds and hog-pens it will effectually
drive off lice. Dust it on the hogs also,
and leave q little in the trough for them
to eat.
The Holsteins arc rapidly pushing the
Ayrshires aside, being harder and bet
ter adapted for the butcher when their
milking qualities are no longer desired
Nearly all kinds of fruit do well on a
mixture Of superphosphate and wood
ashes. Lime is not suitable for straw
berries, but excellent around apple,
peach and pear trees.
Horse-radish is o profitable crop to
grow, as it finds sale at from to 6 cents
per pound unprepared. 1t is bought
readily bymanufacturers OF the prepared
article.
Grape vines should be pruned as early
as the season will permit II. deferred
too late they will allow an escape of sap
(bleed) even if trimmed a little while be-
fore it begins to ascend
In cold weather eggs for Matching
should be collected daily. They freeze
easily when exposed, but will retain
vitality for several weeks il gathered as
soon as laid, and then kept in uniform
temperature.
The Nebraska Farmer mentions q
strange freak in apples. A tree set out
last Spring and waterod occasionally
bloomed very full in the Spring, but
matured only five apples. The freak is
the tree has doomed continuously al
the Summer, and on the 18th of October
had apples on it the size Of hazelnuts
The late blossoms form apples the size O
hickory nuts, and then fall of.
The two principal troubles with thu
plumb are tho black knot and the cur
culio. Neither Of them need be formid
able. The black knot may prevented
or cured by promptly cutting of on it
first appearance and burning it. More
commonly it is allowed to spread q yea
or two unobserved, and then it is justly
pronounced very formidable and in
durable disease. Taken in time, it i
less labor to keep it under than to cult
vate the ground. The curculio is readily
destroyed by Earring the insects down o. o.
stiffened sheets and killing them will
thumb and finger. The jarringis effect
cd by striking with an AK or hammer OF
iron plugs inserted in the main branches
1t must DO continued daily, or twice
day, as long as any insects are found,
intermitted the remedy will prove
failure.