The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-04-13

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which is tablespoonful or pulverized sug-
ar, roll them around quickly and put on u
plate, proceed in this manner, adding lit
tie fresh sugar as needed, until all are
coated with thin, fine coat Of white. These
are ornamental as we'll as useful.
Hints for Farmers.
A SOW that once devours her young will
do it again. She connut be trusted, and it
is useless to keep the beast for breeding.
She should be fattened and slaughtered.
Oats should now be sown in this latitude.
Clover seed should also be sown at once.
The most effective simple medicine for a
wormy horse ia turpentine given in one
ounce doses, with pint Of inseed. oil.
Give the oil and turoentine two days run
ming, and then repeat after week three
times.
The unopen blossom of a tree is more
hardy than the leaves. Cut when the pet
als expand and the tender stigma is OK
posed, is easily parched or frozen a.
though it may remain bright and entire. 1t
is often the case that the blossom endures
an actual frost unscathed. and the fruit sets
and begins to swell, but eventually drops
IF because its stem has beun pinched too
hard.
Owing to the ravages of the cabbage
worm during last year, many will be dis
suaded from planting for market, and all
farmers should at least raise enough for
their own families, for it is comparatively
easy to rid such a patch from this pest BY
carefully going over it twice with pair of
sissors in the hand. If one has more cab
bages than he needs, il will probably be
easy enough to sell the surplus or, if tbs
price should be low, to feed them to tho
COWS.
Nothing will better promote good yield
Of wheat, oats. or barley (for instapce),
next to an appropriate fertilizer, than the
use of roller, in pulverizing the lumpy
soil and settling the mold about the plant
roots. After our rainy spring our fields of
spnnging grain will naturally become clod-
dy. as dry weather approaches, and even
ness Of growth and ripening may both be
promoted by using the roller.
Sheep require salt regularly, but reason
able quantities" is very indefinite term. A
really reasonable quantity is one that will
be beneficial, and half an ounce q week to q
sheep is quite sufficient. If given in larger
quantity the salt is injurious, and although
We have not known it to produce abortion
in the ewes, yet it's effect might produce
such q result, as it would produce
intestinal Inflammation. But We suspect
abortion in ewes is much more likely to
occur through smut in the grain or fodder.
or erQ0t In the hay; and both Of these were
usually prevalent last summer.
Extn-p powerful horses have been import.
ed from Europe in considerable numbers
during the past ten years, making it easy ia
neighborhoods close to the stations for the
farmers to obtain servics Of these for their
mares. If the latter are Of fair size, sound
and strong, the halfbreeds produced by
such cross will generally be sufficiently
powerful when three to four years old, to
work the enlarged machinery with ease in
less numbers than are now usually requir.
ID of our smaller horses.
Sow Good Seed.
There is constant effort to increase the
product Of the leading crops, and among
the means used are better cultivation,
heavier manuring and better selection of
seed; and the latter is not the least effec-
tive although, if all are used in correction,
the best results will be reached. The
some laws of reproduction that prevail in
the animal kingdom are also applicable to
vegetation. "As ye SOW ye shall reap"
Good seed on good ground will yield the
bost harvests. The heavist plumpest
grain will give the strongest plant. All
small grains should be thoroughly cleaned
and screened, to remove all weed seeds
and to secure only the best to SOW. Such
seed, sown in favorable weather on we'll
prepared soil, will, as a rule, all grow, and
is, in this respect, the cheapest seed to SOW.
There is more loss from sowing poor
seed than is thought Of. A thin
growth is often laid to
the soil of the season, when the main fault
is with the seed. 1t is good plan to test
samples Of all seeds to be sown, and from
this fairly accurate opinion can be formed
Of the proportion likely to grow. The only
proper time to select corn for seed is when
it is on the stalk, and if it is then properly
cared for. it can hardly fail to grow.
Scientific men are constantly producing
new varieties by cross fertilization. This
may be beyond the work of the general
farmer, but he can do much by constant Sc
lection of the best seed of the old varieties,
just as he selects his best animals for breed
ing. This. indeed, is the first item. aud
then follows the same course a. with ami
mals; that. is, care and feeding. This is
what makes the best stock aud produces
the best grain, and We can no more produce
the best results with grain without this Sc
lection than We can with stock. Good seed
is the best requirement in the way of pro-
ducing good crops.
To Break Up Sitting Hens.