The true northerner., 1882-09-15
FARM NOTES.

ROSE AND CURRANT WoRMs.-A lady
offers. in the Rural NeaC Yorker, a
remedy for currant and rose worms:
Take one pound of quassia put it into
twelve or fifteen gallons of water over
night, and next day sprinkle the infest-
eel plants with the solution 1t is safe,
however, to pin ones faith TO white
hellebore, which is sure and certain
destruction.
BURNING THE CoBs.-A correspond
ent of the Country Gentleman writes:
1t is our custom TO rake the cobs into
neat winrows about foot high and, af
ter the wind has swept through them
an hour or so, set fire to them. When
charred, we rake them down and sprin-
Ele water on the mass stir them again,
and sprinkle again to be sure they do
not go on burning and go to ashes. If
now IA seasoning of salt be thrown over
the pile there will be lot of feed for
the pigs and hogs that they will enjoy
hugely.
VALUE OF TILE.-The New York
Tribune SAYS: There is a savings bank
for the surplus dollars of farmers that
will give better interest than 3 per cent.
1t is investment in drain tile. The
Western people are finding it ont, and
the yield of wheat in the Ohio valley is
increasing in consequence. Agricult-
urists who have tried it say that they
can plant their corn earlier; it is not so
liable to rot in the hill; drought does
much less injury: the crop is so far adj
vanced before chinch bugs and other
insects appear that it resists their de-
structive ravages. The yield is 20, 40,
sometimes go, per cent greater. Secre-
tary w. l.. Chamberlain, of the Ohio
Board, says he has seen land improved
by drainage to such an extent that the
first subsequent crop was so much
greater than the average that the sur
plus more than paid the whole cost of
tile and putting it down.
BIG Corn YIELDs.-The editor of the
Ne,C England Homestead devotes a
pithy paragraph TO the usual way of
measuring corntields and estimating the
yield by picking out the best square rod
in the field, counting the ears on
number of stalks and gauging the total
uNtIdSt Nltl'l llOUl tlt NldId lllilA Op-
tanned. Yet. he adds, the agricultural
societies frequently award premiums on
corn measured in this way. This is not
right, nor does it encourage farmers to
raise better crops. They become dis
gusted with the deceit employed in the
award of the premiums and refuse to
compete for them. To get satisfactory
results, the total crop of corn should
all be measured or weighed at husking,
and then the real yield can be OBJ
tanned, and the premium awarded ac
cordngly. The prize should not be for
the most stalks but for the most corn,
and il should not be awarded until the
yield has been properly ascertained,
even il it takes all winter to do the
husking.
IT is now becoming more common for
nurserymen to raise shade and orna-
mental trees for planting grounds, tim
Der lots and roadsides, and in some
parts of the country improvements are
going on in this direction to n wide ex-
tent Nurserymen may doubtless have
controlling influence in the proper
disposition OF the trees, and new beauty
becomes impaired TO the wide country
by converting bald public roads into
long, extended landscape gardens. The
great advantages on the score of good
order and civilization, which New York
and some other States have derived
from the exclusion of cattle, it is hoped
may lead to the adoption of the same
measure by the remaining States where
the bapbarous practice is still permitted,
and then there will be nothing to pre-
vent the ornanenting of roadsides every
where with beautiful shade trees
planted, except it may be in occasional
small groups, several rods apart, to al
low the full development of their
rounded forms, and to prevent too dense
a shade on the carriage track. A neat
and cheap footpath for those whe have
not wagons and carriages would be not
only great convenience and enjoyment,
but would contribute to the health of
those who might be too often con6ned
within DOORS. j. Thomas i,l Rural
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