Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-03-27
FARM NOTES.


The cluster of eggs that may be
found on apple tree limbs should
be picked off during open weather in
winter, and thus prevent the Matching
of the tent caterpillar.
The best heat for the hot bed is
fresh horse dung from stable where
some ten or more horses are kept, SO
that n load of it can be taken out hot
and fresh before it has had time to
burn by excessive heating.
The effect of frost upon plants is to
cause eXudation of the water from the
interior of the cells, and the formation
of ice outside and between the cells.
If the thaw be effected gradually, the
water is reabsorbed and the life of the
plant is unaffected
Vigorous preparations should now be
made TO prepare for an abundant crop
of vegetables and fruits on every farm.
These two specialties are luXuries that
belong to the farm; they are blessings
of health and rural wealth that every
farmers home should enjoy.
The placing of lamps in orchards for
the purpose of attracting and destroy
ing insects is not favored by horticul-
turists generally. Prof. Comstock
says he caught great numbers but no
codling moths. Paris green was the
best remedy for these insects
Experiments made at the New York
Agricultural Experiment Station seem
to indicate that the tip kernals of Flint
corn are superior to those upon other
portions of the ear when used for seed,
but with Dent corn the experiments do
not show the same superiority.
An experienced horseman says there
is nothing better for n horse that has
been driven hard on the road in the
winter than bran mash fed as hot as
the horse can eat il. The inhalation
of the steam from the mash. in connec-
ton with the eating of the latter, pro.
duces warm glow throughout the
system, and no serious results follow
from the over eXertion.
The agricultural editor of the Iowa
Register says: 1T has often been sta
ted that II pounds Of hay are required
TO make pound of growth. An at
tempt to fix the amount of food re-
Quired TO make pound of growth
without consideration of age and size
, is quackery; likewise the statement
, that an animal will consume three pei
cent of its live weight daily is no bet
! ter"
t A California paper says For some
= thing more than twenty years this state
: was free from all the pests which have
: ravaged the fruit orchards in the AT
q lantic states. To day every pest known
on the other side Of the country is q
= work in the orchards of this state.
+ is of little use to ask how they came
r here. They are here, and the fruit or
f chard which is free from all these pest
d is an exception.
e Damage to fruit buds and trees b,
II cold is most apt to occur late in tn
S winter. If the buds are all right up t.
VI now they can be protectedto advantage
l. a heavy mulch of manure on the froZe
3 ground is especially advantageous, no
II only in retarding blOssOming, but j
= supplying food for the fruit crop mex
J. summer. 1t should be spread consid
r erably beyond the outer circle of tn
$ branches on every side.
- Much of the potato stock held b
, Western farmers has been frosted, an
- Will prove OF niue Nalue except lC
~ immediate use. A frosted potato,
~ only slightly touched, can be kept
rs good condition till time for planting
IL il is, in fact, of no value for seed. !
u sections where the thermometer h;
" run down 80 or 40 dog below zero it
W next to impossible to save such pc
- ishable property as potatoes
n. A seed test ut the New York EXpel
To ment Station resulted as follows: IN
- tilnted hennS and cnrn rorminafi