The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-08


NJ. MARGUERITE, of France, draws at
tention to the great waste of blood,
when it can render such invaluable
service a. manure. A preparation of
sulphate of iron, one quart to twenty OF
blood, will convert the latter into a
cake which, when dried, either by press
ure or heat, will readily pulverize, and
contain from 10 to IL per cent. of
nitrogen.
VERMIN on fowls and about hen roosts
will leave headquarters by injecting
from a syringe weak steep in water of
pennyroyal herb tea Drive this weak
steep thoroughly over the roosts and the
poultry, and it will cleanse them from
lice. Several varieties of flies annoy
and suck blood from horses and other
animals. Pennyroyal steep will drive
them away if the animal is washed
with it.
JERUSALEM artichokes have long been
known as a most valuable addition to
the rations of hogs, but that they are
even more valuable as an addition to
the diet of cattle seems to be less gen
orally recognized. They are hardy,
yield fair crops on poor and very large
ones on rich soil; are more nutritious
than the potato, and once planted there
will be no need of replanting, as they
are not easily got out of piece of land
after they have become established.
DIR. STURTEvANT, of the New York
Agricultural Experiment Station, says
that experiments made there indicate
that single eyes, cut deeply are superior
for seed in every respect to pieces of
potato or whole potatoes. That the
deeper the cut the better and earlier the
crop, and that hence large potatoes, if
preferable for seed, probably derive
their advantages from the eyes being
deeper than are the eyes from small po-
tatoes, for long sprouts give earlier po-
tato formation than short sprouts, and
! the eyes have certain analogical resem-
blance to the shoots which they orig
mate.
TEACHING HENS BAD HABITs.-The
carelessness with which egg shells are
thrown to fowls from the kitchen (after
the contents have been used in the
housed is frequently one cause whereby
hens that destroy their newly-laid eggs
become addicted to the very bad habit.
/ The shells, broken in halves only, are
thrown out, with portion of the albu-
men lingering in the fresh open cavi-
ties, and tempt the fowls to snap them
up and devour them eagerly. They thus
get their first taste usually of the
"meaty" contents of eggs, and soon
learn to break the shells in the nest. or
upon the ground floor of the hen-house
after they discharge them.
SUMMERING OVER CRoPs.-It is the
belief of Rural Home that when a
farmer summers over a crop he loses not
only the interest on the value of the
crop, but also large percentage in
waste. A straw stack is no exception to
this rule, and its waste of valuable
properties is much greater than the
wastage of grain that is housed. Some
times foul weeds are introduced into a
crop by foreign seed, and in that case it
may be good policy to sell the straw
stack Immediately to the paper mills, AS
one farmer in the vicinity of Avon, \. u,
has done. In that case, the value of
the straw may be invested in CONNER
cial fertilizers or stable manure.
BUDDING TREES The massachusetts,
! PlO1ighmdn thinks that trees, to bud
well, ought not to be more than from
three to five-eighths of an inch in di-
ameter, and it is best to bud them so
near the ground that, when reset, roots
may come from the budded portion of
the tree Peach and cherry trees should
be budded on the north or northwest
side The best string they have ever
found is the old cotton wicking, which,
at the present time, is difficult TO buy
Most of nurserymen use mating for
strings. but it is hard, and not so yield
ing as wicking; if the trees grow much
an unyielding string must be retied to
loosen it, but wicking will yield enough
so as not to injure the tree, unless it
makes very large growth.
The CHILDREN's GARDEN
most readers with boys and girls of
thirteen or fourteen or less have allowed
them each a lite plot of ground to be
farmed or gardened after their own
choice. They should be encouraged
with advice, but with no insisting upon
their taking it. They will make mis-
takes, as older people do, in untried
paths, but they gain even by these if
they see how to do better next time and
have cheer enough to try again. The
first needful lesson is that of waiting for
the results of labor. Patience must he
practiced by all who would raise plants
to sell their produce, or would keep
bees or poultry. Often hard work must
be done full year before its return
comes in, and unless that is faithfully,
fully and rightfully performed there
will be little or nothing to show for it.
-NelC York Tribune.
COOP SToCK-The farmer and stock
breeder, if he is up with the times, now
looks to early maturity in cattle and
hogs. The animal the farmers want must
have good appetites, good digestion and
good assimilation. None other will pan
out, or show any color. Shortest time
possible from birth to death with meat
animals, is now the rule of success In
this matter action on the farm, and not
mere resolutions at the stock associa-
tions, is what will advance the standard
and fill the purse. The mere coincid-
ing with theories finely written, or de-