The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-05
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A solution of one part muriate of
potash diluted in 1000 parts of water
is recommended as an insecticide for
cabbage and currant worms and the
like. 1t is also good as plant food, so
that what falls to the ground is not
wasted.
American farmers do not value clover
hay as highly as the English do. Tim
othy is considered much inferior to
clover by them; much superior by rs.
Clover sells in England for about twen-
ty per cent. more than timothy. Prop
erly cured it is q valuable crop.
Many orchardists say it is not best to
renew the orchard by planting in young
trees where old ones have died and been
cut down. To certain extent the
elements suited to growth in the apple
wood have been extracted from the
soil and insect enemies have found 10
cation there.
A lady florist writes as follows 1
would say to those who are troubled
with the little flies about their plants
in the winter, that since / have COM
menced using separate saucers with
my pots, and taken to watering my
plants from the bottom, by filling the
saucers with boiling water l am not
troubled with the little flies, and
think the plants do much better
watered in this way than by pouring
the water on the top.
Professor Henry says: I would
urge that our farmers feed more oats to
young stock, colts as well as calves.
There is no food easily obtainable that
will so well correct acidity of the
stomach and keep the whole system in
good order. TO those who wish to raise
calves on very little milk, would say,
use oats and oil meal freely, and by
studying the wants of your calves you
will be able to raise fine animals on
small allowance of milk.
The fuchia, says Vick'S Magazine,
likes slight shade and a cool soil,
and then, provided with moisture, it
will stand as high temperature as
may prevail. Place the plants in the
open, a little shady, such place as
the north side of a house furnishes,
and there is no fear but they will do
all one may expect from them. If
they are to remain on the piazza or the
window-sill, the pots should be sunk
up to the rim in a box Of soil which
can be kept moist then, if the drain
age is kept open, they will hold their
foliage and flourish.
Mr.. Wright recommends the follow
ing for poultry cholera, to be given
every three hours: "Rhubarb, five
grains; cayenne pepper, two grains;
laudanum, ten drops; administering
midway between every two doses Il
tcaSpoonful of brandy, in rather less
than its bulk Of water, with five drops
Of McDougal's fluid carbolate in each
dose. Carbolic acid, in small doses,
may he substituted for the carbolate,
if not accessible. The yards should be
disinfected with carbolic acid as a
measure of prudence, and for the same
reason it is better to separate the sick
from the well fowls, although the dis
ease is not proven contagious" Any
treatment, to be effective must be be-
gun at an early period.
One can form but an imperfect
estimate Of the value of field of roots
by knowing the weight of the largest
one grown. Very large roots do not
mean very large returns; medium
sized roots and more of them are a
more paving crop. Other things re-
naming the same, the size of the roots
depends upon the thinning. At this
season of the year, when the roots are
growing vigorously, they should be
thinned, 50 that they shall have a
space between them in the rows equal
to their own diameter, and no more.
1t is better for the roots to be ten than
fourteen inches apart in the rows. If
the thinning be carried beyond this
they grow large and coarse, and will be
much less valuable food than the
smaller ones.