The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-08-04
THE FARM.

IT is not generally known that a few
sprigs of cedar bush mixed with hay or
any kind OF litter for hens nests win
keep them entirely free from hen lice.
REoULARrrY in feeding is OF much i'm
portance. for every experienced feeder
! knows that animals soon learn when the
| time of feeding comes, and, il it passes,
! they fret and worry, which interferes
| with their growth and thriftiness.
WRITING of the effect of food on flesh
and eggs, correspondent of the Toronto
| Globe cites the fact that these products
of fowls kept on supplies of an unclean
kind, such as swill and decayed garbage,
viii in one case quickly faint and LA the
| other taste unsavOry.
PRoF. STEWART says muck may be
composed thus: Forty bushels or one
wagon load of dry muck, five bushels OF
unleached ashes, 100 pounds of bone
flour, 100 pounds of plaster can be
thrown into heap three months before
using, and fermentation will take place.
THE beet-sugar interest does not
| flourish in this country, and there
seems to be very little prospect that 1t
ever will. Most, If net all, the old es-
| Establishments have failed, closed up or
devoted their buildings to other pur-
poses, and we hear of no new ones going
INTO operation.
In 1880 the West produced more than
half OF the wheat of the country, the
center of wheat production being line
running north and south, and touching
the Mississippi at st. Louis. The pres
eat year the center OF production will
probably be north and south line en-
tirely west of the Mississippi.
WHITE clover honey, when produced
in marketable shape, says the Kansas
Farmer, always demands good price.
| If the beekeeper has managed his apiary
intelligently, he knows what he has to
| sell and what it is worth, and will not
dispose of it until he can realize its full
value. There Is time to "seH as well
as well as to produce.
A WRITER in the Kansas Farmer pre-
fers the common or small millet to the
German for the following reasons 1t can
be sown as late even as the middle OF
June, with assurance Of full crop, and
ripens sooner than the German. 1t has
smaller stems, which are all eaten by
cattle. Ripening quicker, it is not 80
liable to be caught by drought.
ONE of the surest and best remedies
! for preventing the ravages of the cabbage
worm is pyrethrum, or Persian insect
powder. Add two tablespoonful OF the
powder to one gallon of water and wash
the plants, especially the tender leaves
| just forming the head, once a week.
This powder is obnoxious to worms and
insects. 1t is also excellent for Kidding
/ fowls of vermip.
The Indiana Farmer remarks: Gland
plaster gives the best results when used
| In connection with barn-yard or stable
manure. Use from 100 to 150pounds to
the acre. y y 1t is safe plan to con-
tinue to raise a due proportion of the
staple farm crops, no matter what the
present prices of each may be. One
year with another, this will be found to
be the most satisfactory rule to adopt"
CUT-woRMs can be cheated out of de-
stroying cabbage and other plants, by
surrounding each plant with an oak,
hickory or some other strong leaf, set
deep enough to prevent blowing away.
Another remedy, said to be effectual,
is to put sawdust about the roots, and
saturate with gas-tar water. The saw
dust viii retain the scent of the tar,
and drive away cut worms and other
! insects.
! A CHESTER county pa. farmer, who
has flock 125 hens, says that he gets
eggs enough from them to pay for their
food the entire year, if it cost double its
present value. The Germantown Teie-
qroph says his fowls comprise mainly
Plymouth Rocks and Dom iRi9ues, and
! he feeds them as much wheat IS they
can eat, mixed with a small portion OF
corn, pounded oyster shells and crack
lings.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
World says: 81 do not pretend to say
what causes scabby potatoes, but some
| of my neighbors vouch for the effective
| ness of refuse tobacco as a remedy.
! Their plan is to cut up the refuse stems
! and stalks OF tobacco quite fine In an
ordinary straw cutter and apply hand
| full TO each hill Of potatoes at time of
planting. This simple remedy appears
to have done good by destroying the
grubs of parasites, or whatever is the
cause OF the scab. 1t also acts as q good
fertilizer.
! CHICAGO Times: There are no certain
signs as TO just ~nen colony OF bees
will swarm, SO far as outside Indications
viii show, more than the clustering of
bees on the outside of the hive, and the
hanging of pollen gatherers with the
cluster outside instead of entering the
hive. but by examining the frame fire.
quently, watching the progress, one can
soon tell when they are about ready to
cast swarm, and as soon as the queen
cells are about ready to cap over is the
best time to divide. Probably the safest
and easiest way to divide is, as soon as
they are ready, lift ont the frame, bees,
brood and all, on which the queen is
found; place this frame in the new hive,
filling out with frames of comb or
foundation, or, if You do not have either,
fill out with empty frames. Now place
the new hive containing the old queen
on the old stand, moving the old hive to
new location. By this plan you throw
nearly all the working bees where the
most work is to be done in the new hive,
and they will proceed 10 work the same
as though they had swarmed naturally.
But if the old bees had made up their