The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-02
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A44.pound Connecticut hog was lately
killed by sunstfoke.

A 44.pound Connecticut hog was lately
killed by sunstroke.
A yankee keeps woodchucks away from
his cabbage by claiming q small dog In the
middle Of his patch.
Strawberries grown out Of season under
glass are necessarily expensive, but some
raised in open air sold in Covent Garden
| Market, London, June IA, at s. the pound
q price, 1t IL thought, never before equaled'
Mr.. @. Wolley bod writes london Gar
deneI Chronicle ofthe Aeh tree as a favor
tie Of lightning. Two were struck during
a recent storm, though many taller oaks
stood in the immediate vicinity.
There are ninety.three farmers in the
New Hampshire Legislature. One bill In
troduced favors an increase Of tax on dogs
from g 10 SIS, another proposes a scalp
bounty OF 20 cents q head on woodchucks
and so cents on foxes.
A Prairie Farmer correspondent says
American Wonder p~eas-ready for table
thirty.ive days from planting-were de-
licious, but the yield was small w com
pared with the taller varieties. Hereafter
be will only rase this kind "for the very
earliest"
Mr.. E. n. Gardner. Chatham, n. Y, &C.
cording TO The Courier OF that place, has
rows OF strawberries whose aggregate
length 10 four and a-half miles, and which
yielded this season nearly $500 quarts Of
the "Sharpless and BOyden varieties"
1.-THE rows are four feet apart, the hills
about eighteen inches, and the second year
they are allowed to grow in spaces between
the rows"
Fast trotting in itself, with much that
surrounds the trials, Is unworthy OF our
civilization, but the effect Of careful breed
ing in our uotters has been OF untold val
ne to our country. The needs OF our mod
cru methods OF business require quick road.
sters, and there Is no doubt that the deVe!.
opment OF speed in horse.flesh Is q great
benefit, eve though 1t came through the
stimulus that the race.traCk has given.
Always keep accounts. It is unsafe to
rely on mere memory, and more especially
as ones business becomes complicated and
enlarged. The man who keeps accounts
knows at q glance how the money comes
and where it goes to. The weak points in
his affairs are brought prominently out
for his inspection and correction. The far.
mer who keeps accounts does not habitual.
ly run large store bills, smoke many cigars,
or spend much Of his time or money in sa-
lions.
Mr.. E. Holiday, an English gardner,
impresses the fact that c%ompacting is quite
as essential in most soils as depth OF loosen
ing up, although this last may, in O dry
cause all the difference between
failure and loss, and success with profit.
Most plants, he says, when set in q bed Of
leose earth will rush their roots through It
so rapidly that they become long and soft
and tibreless, and the top-growth is apt to
be correspondingly long jointed and weak;
plants being like most OF the lower animals
without power OF %self.control when expos
ed to the temptation Of high living.
The rose, queen Of flowers, like wheat,
king Of cereals, is preyed upon by insects
in greater number and OF more avid greed
han any plants Of lower order, just as
man is attacked by more ills than any %lesserI
The best security against these
snemies, in both cases, is that prevention
which consists in keeping the royal plant
" animal in high condition OF growth and
Shirley Hibberd, in his "Rose,
Book" offers this as a golden rule, declar.
ng that insects seek out the starving plants,
md that they may be ignored il full jus
ice Is done as to culture. This will hard
y keep off aphides or slugs, which prefer
he tenderest texture and fullest OF sap.
iellebore, or tar, or coil.oil water or lime
lust puts q quietus on the slugs, and the
.phis is best met with tobacco, either as
nuf, smoke or infusion. These are found
t all seasons, but the slugs chiefly in June.