Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-23
FARM AND GARDEN.

Worlu ID SAID TO be That CO MIR. Parnell
near West Point, Ga. It contains 125-
600 peach trees and coysSs 700 acres o
ground.
SoRaHuM, after being cut, deterior
ates very rapidly. 1t should not be al
lowed to remain more than one day be
fore being worked, and less than that il
| preferable. -
PRoP. FAIbYRR, OF the Kansas Agri.
cultural College, proposes "sparrow on
toast" as 9 way of utilizing and exter.
minating the pest few years since i'm.
ported from England. ~
| THn Rural New-Yorker advises the
planting of plum trees in poultry yards
as the only way, except tarring the trees,
by which we can have sound tplums
where the curculio abounds. X,
ExpER1MENrs carried on at the Mich.
gan Agricultural College on the use OF
lime, plaster, etc., thrown over apple
trees as a preventive of the attacks of
codling moths, resulted in failure.
THIsThKs and weeds among grain not
only decrease the yield, but also make
its curing more difficult. Much of the
loss from heating grain would be avoid
ed by having the land free from weeds.
I. D. G.. NELSON, of Fort Wayne,
Ind. speaks of having utilized to great
advantage convenient strawstack by
placing its contents in alternate LAYERS
in NOW with clover harvested rather
green. ~ fs9
ALBERT PITCHER, Greenville Gil, J
farmer, spread some chloride of lime
over land that he was about to plow,
Three valuable COWS managed to get
into the lot and two of them died from
eating the lime. -
A DRESSING of salt scattered over
potato ground at this season will add
much to the thriftiness, of the vines.
One barrel per acre is sufficient if spread
broadcast, and less quantity will an
swer II thrown on the hill.
WrLLows near Champaign, Ill, have
recovered from the sleet disaster Of Feb
ruary, and their trunks present o mass
OF living green, showing these colt
wooded trees to be the most valuable
and desirable of their kind. W
A PRACTICAL farmer. has discovered
that chamberlye applied to peach trees
is preventive of the yellows, and he
believes cure for itwhen taken in time.
He has usedsit. for years on trees near
the house and never fails of a good crop
of peaches. ~
A SHIPMENT of 800 bushels of red-oak
acorns has been made to Germany for
planting on untillable lands and hill
sides. This tree is found to do well in
Europe. and its wood is valuable. The
acorns were gathered in Missouri at an
average cost Of 81 a buehel. ~
TnR apple crop in the territory tribu-
tary to st. Louis is unusually light, and
prices are better than usual at this stage
Of the season. The finest fruit coming
to st. Louis HOW, and for some time past,
is that grown in southern Illinois, some
OF 1t selling at $3.50 per barrel
IT is said that tomato plants. can be
raised from slips or cuttings as easily as
many of our house plants. If 80, the
farmers wife can take few slips in the
fall, and furnish the kitchen garden with
plants in the spring, even farther ad-
vanced than the seedlings grown in hot
beds. ~
A SUCCESSFUL melon. grower has
learned that picking off the first formed
fruit causes the later setting to grow
much larger. This is the method adopt
ed in growing the enormous specimens
sent from the south, and which every
farmers boy has at one time or another
unsuccessfully tried to emulate. It is a
good plan to pick off the first formed
fruit of any kind of vine to increase its
productiyeness.
The way to grow ihorseradiah is from
the little roots four or five inches in
length. These will produce good radish
tit for use in one seasons growth. Plant
the root small end down, and 80 that the
top will be two inches under the soil. It
can remain in the ground very late in
the autumn and be pitted, or can remain
in the ground until spring. Itconstant-
ly increases, and there is danger that it
will spread too fast and become trouble
some. s-.s
The new wheat buib-worm which
Prof. Forbes has been studying and of
which he some time since sent out cir
cular account, turns out to be an old
enemy. 1t was proved by breeding to
be the American Meromyza (Meromyza
Americana-Fitch) originally described
by the late DIR. Fitch, and more fully
treated of and figured by Prof. Riley,
in his first Missouri report, in 1868. Its
work at the base of the stalk has been
overlooked, as it is more commonly
found at the base of the top Joint.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says: ga heavy crop of clio.
yer is sure death to daisies. They seem
to be smothered by the ranker growth
Of clover, and fail to mature their seeds.
In field where there is growth of
daisies generous use of fertilizers, es-
pecially of barnyard manure, and keep
ing the field seeded to clover, using an
extra quantity of seed for the purpose,
and breaking up every two years, cult
waiting for awhile aud again seeding to
clover thickly, will finally eradicate the
daisies" sa
AN English gardener says he does not
agree with those who say that one good
wedding is worth two hoeipgs. he
says: "Neyer weed a crop in which a
hoe can be used, not 80 much for the
sake of destroying weeds, which must
be the case if the hoeing be we'll done,
as for increasing the porosity of the
soil, to allow the air and water to pene-
trate freely through it. Oftentimes
there is more benefit derived by crops
from keeping them well hoed than there
is from the manure applied. Weeds OF
no weeds, I keep stirring the soil, well
knowing from practice the very bene-
fetal efeces it has" -
A CORRESPONDENT of Colman's Rural
World tells how he saves sorghum cane
seed: When the cane is fully ripe ]
Helect my seed in the field from large
heads with heavy large seed, rejecting
all chaffy small-seeded heads. String
them in a dry, airy loft. SO that one head
will not lay on another, thus avoiding
mold or heating which will iniure the
seed. When perfectly dry, pack them
away secure from the rats, mice and
crickets. The damage from crickets il
not easily to detect until it is too late
The top of the head blooms and gets
ripe first, therefore have supposed il
was the earliest. I scrape Off. the tor