Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-06-10

time very wide If not general favor, is
Bliss American Wonder Pea.
1t is said that dissolving saltpetre
and sprinkling the vines with it as soon
rs they are above ground, will repell
the striped bug which attacks squash
vines.
The employment of cocoa meal in
the rations of French cavalry horses
has produced such satisfactory results
that the practice will be continued per-
manently.
1t is stated that northern farmers
will have to compete with very heavy
crop of early southern potatoes this
year, the high prices of last season
having induced unusually large plant
ing.
The Massachusetts Ploughman says
that whenever we sell hay we begin to
sell the fertility of our farms, and
must replace the lost elements by fer
tilizers from beyond the limits of the
farm.
Sorghum cane stalks, after they are
crushed, are called bagasse. 1t makes
excellent fuel, and saves the expense
OF wood or coal. a bagasse burner is
feet long and requires good draft.
+. ID. Curtis says that barnyard ma
nures have n much greater value for
growing crops than the chemists cruel
ble shows. Chemists cannot give their
full constituent value; and then again
the value of one ton is not the value of
another.
A strong effort is being made in
Michigan to secure from the legislature
grant for the establishment of state
agricultural experiment station. Enter
prising as Michigan is, she has allowed
several sister states to get ahead of her
III this particular.
A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color
is pailful of corn-mea mush, fed
warm once a day, the corn to be of the
yellow variety; adding that it will in
crease the milk and butter as well as
give good color.
Hon. NJ. =. Wilder says he would
set Strawberries for exhibition in Au-
gust and keep them single plants; for
market he would set in spring and let
the plants cover the ground. Strength
is gained by taking off the runners
especially the late ones.
The Iowa Register says p. V. Law.
son, of Menesha, will plant near the
shore of Green Bay 0,0OO osier willow
cuttings from England and Belg.u
which he has ordered for the purpose
OF making thorough trial of raising
willows for the eastern willow manufac-
turerS.
DR.. Fleming, the distinguished vete-
rinarian, has discovered minute veg
etable parasite in the white cheeSy
matter found in swellings on the laws
and throatS of cattle, and commonly
supposed to be scrOfulouS or tubercu-
lOus deposit and decay of the tissue of
the bone. 1t is believed that many tu-
morS on the jaws of cattle are due to
this cause.
j, G. Plum, in the Western Farmer.
points out that the great danger in the
use of grating wax is that il too soft
the oil or grease will penetrate and fill
the scion. To avoid this, he shields
the graft from sun and wind by wrap
ping strip of paper around it, which
adheres firmly to the wax He says
also that it is important that every
crevice be kept waNed up.
The London Times, in commenting
on the avidity which Americans dis
play in picking up all the foreign
grade stock that is offered for sale, says
lit is quite question whether the inn
prOVemcnt and increase of our live
stock would not in the end be better
even to the present large breeders
than the American gold which is beino