The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-03-30
Shorts Of all Sorts.

Cotton cloth to be used for covera for
hot-bed frames can be painted with linsecd.
oil without much expense. rs the oil is
cheap. gallon would be sufficient for IL
large hot bed If the cotton absorbs too
much oil coat it first with glue water, first
stretching the cloth on frame, and when
the glue is dry put on the oil with paint
brush. Tue cloth may be thus made air
and water prof.
In growing hops as crop the vines are
trained to poles set IN the ground. When
the vines reach the tops Of the poles the
ends begin to droop and twine about the
lower portion of the plant. The effect of
this dropping is to check the growth of the
vine and encourage fruiting. In growing a
few hops where the vines run on to trees it
would avoid the Inconvenience if they were
planted away from the trees or if the vines
were pruned when they reach tho tops of
the poles.
A press has recently been invented fo1
pressing hay, straw, and weeds for fuel. II
is very powerful, and forms those articles
into blocks almost as solid as wood, and
then cuts them into convenient sizes for
use.
1t is usual when planting celery to cut eli
the leaves of the longest stalks, leaving
only the heart. 1t viii tend to dwarf GEL
cry to set the plants close; that is, six
inches apart in the rows. Celery requires
O cool, moist place; in rich, W I'm soil ii
may run to seed, making a very rank
growth.
The best remedies for cabbage worms are
Persian insect powder and cayenne pepper.
Either of these are sprinKled upon the cab
bages and the worms and very soon kill the
latter. Persian insect powder is sold at the
drug stores, and is quite harmless to per-
sons but fatal to all insects. 1t is the pow
dered leaves of a plant know WI as Pyrcthrum
TOSeWn.
The small flies that hover about the sap
pals in sugar making time are the same
that are found SO plentifully about decay
ing apples and other fruit, and cider mills,
in the fall.
In reducing bones with ashes, all that is
required is to subject the bones to the cor
roding effects of3caustic potash; the neces-
sary caustic quality is given to the ashes by
adding fresh caustic quicklime, which takes
the carbonic acid from the ashes and leaves
the bones and ashes in box or barrel, in
layers, adding fresh quicklime to each
layer; the quantities are immaterial, so that
there is enough and to spare. Then
saturate with water, but do not lot
it drip.
Ants may easily be destroyed by dissolvine
sugar of lead in water and moistenine
brown sugar with the solution. The sugar
is then spread upon pieces of paper OF
shayings, and these are scattered about
where the ants run.
The surest remedy against crlbbing in 6
hnrao 10 tn koor, III inn in, ton hot 10 hoow vi
cd up smoothly in front and at the sides t.
the top, and give the food in manager MOI
over Is inches from the feor. A horse
cannot crib with his head down. No othel
method will cure this vicious habit so read.
lily as this, If at all.
Information regarding lands of tn United
States and maps of the states and terri
tories where there are lands belonging tt
the United States, can be procured of the
commissioner Of public lands at Washing.
ton. The maps can only be procured
through O representative.
The heaviest hog we have heard of is one
that was recently reported from junction
City, Kan. It is said to be z feet long; {
IL feet girth Of neck; 7'1-2 feet girth of
chest; 8 feet around the middle; 80 inches
across the hips, and 1852 pounds in
weight.
If the ground is in good condition., it
would be well to SOW grass and clover alone
and SOW as early as possible. Six to eigkt
pounds of timothy and four quarts Of clo-
yer per acre are commonly sown.
Salt and ashes are excellent fertilizers
for oats and grass. They should be sown
when the oats are just up and the grass
making its first start to grow. Five BUSH
els of salt and as many sshes as can be pro
cured may be used per acre.