The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-12

ous line, neatly arranged, so that the ground |
may be cultivated between the rows, and all
the care required will simply be the placing of
any shoot that spreads beyond the space oceu-
MED by the brush. The best crop of sweet
POTATOES we have grown were from plants
which were provided with brush, through and
over which they rambled without let or him
drance Tomatoes are apt to rot and become
IMPAIRED in value when allowed to ripen in
contact with damp soil. So well is this under
stood that MANY persons train them to stakes
and rude trellises They do well when al
lowed to grow heap of brush.
CATCHING INSECTS.
To trap insects that crawl up and down trees,
Mr. Manning, OF Massachusetts, says that for
tall elm trees. which cannot be reached with
syringe, printers ink on a band of paper round
the trees or metallic collar filed with oil may
be used. A box set round the base of the tree
with trough for oil was used in a Dorchester
orchard nearly forty-five years ago. The first
set of boxes lasted twenty years, the second set
still remain. The use of these methods would
be of more benefit if general application
should be made to all the trees infested. 1t IS
a singular fact that the canker worm VIII eat
everything up TO a certain division wall, White
beyond the wall not one will be seen. The
orchard of T. c. Thurlow, West Newbury, was
devastated for years by the canker worm, but
I
and half cents per tree, was followed by
crop of 900 barrels of No Baldwins, 700 the
next year, and l, 400 barrels the third year.
INTEREST IN RURAL PURSUITS.
The editor of "Gleanings in Bee Culture"
! thus expresses his ideas =" do believe that
/ the great secret of deliyerance from ills OF
both body and mind is some open air exercise.
Show me an invalid with enthusiasm in bees,
/ berries. flowers or the like, and if the en-
y, TOY nigh
| all his remaining energies right into the work
every waking moment, it scarcely matters
( what the disease is, nature will soon begin TO
/ assert herself, and natural process OF build
| ing-up and growth Will commence, and with 1t
! comes happiness. JOY and spirit OF thanks
| giving to God, the Creator. When you get so
busily absorbed in some healthful work that
you forget your disease, it will forget You, land
/ go off"
KILLING UP CROPS.
This practice is falling into disuse; it is
found that killing up corn, potatoes cabbages,
| and other crops is injurious rather than bene-
fetal. Flowing between the rows of crops
after they are half grown, breaking and de-
stroying numerous root fbers, is always hurt
full, checking growth just at the time when
growth should be encouraged This Milling pro-
cess is not to be COMPOUNDED with the ordi-
/ nary method of stirring the surface and pro-
viding a shallow loose strata of soil over the
roots.
Planting corn, potatoes, &C., in hills three or
four feet apart, and with several plants crowd
ing each other ia the hill, will Also let US hope,
soon become obsolete. Continuous rows and
level culture viii soon predominant.
HINDRANcEs TO CABBAGE CULTURE
On this subject writer in the Country Gen.
he7ldn advises, III the case of the cabbage worm,
TO surround the cabbage field with strip of
turnips, as the moth usually futters only
around the edge of large field, and is about
as fond of turnips, especially Swedish, as of
cabbage, and the turnip is little, if any, dam
aged by the worms
For the disease called "club-foot," he pro-
poses, as remedy, to place tablespoonful of
salt about the plant after it is set though a
better way is to broadcast good dressing of it
over the field before or after planting out the
crop.
PRoPAGATING GRAPES BY LAYERS.
Now is good time to layer grapes; some
varieties, such as Norton's Virginia. difficult
to propagate in the ordinary way from cuttings,
and are therefore usually raised from layers.
The simplest method is TO draw furrow with
hoe, then take shoot or cane of last years
growth and fasten it along the bottom of the
furrow. The new shoots which have been
formed this year on the aforementioned cane are
10 be covered up two or three inches by leveling
the soil in the furrow. AT the base of each
SHOOT rooIs VIII Iorln ana mus PROVIDE plaHtS.
CHICKEN CHOLERA.
writer in the Rural NeU Yorker says that
hyposulphite of soda in dose of half level
teaspoonful of crystals, dissolved in as little
water as viii make solution, and poured down
the throat of a hen which has the cholera, will
cure it. In each of three cases which have oe
CURED IN flock this season this medicine has
cured at once. 1t is a pretty strong dose, and
, purges violently, but it has been found sui
fcient to kill the germs which produce thi:
disease.
MAKING BREAD.
The temperature at which dough is kept
while rising has a decided influence upon It's
quality. If If is kept warm, so that the process:
D of fermentation goes On rapidly, the bread will
s be whittier and tenderer than if it is allowed t.
$ rise in low temperature. The little yeas
> plant with the long name fourishes best at
temperature of about 720, and when it ha
5 abundance of sugar to feed upon. If no sugar
r is put into the dough the plant converts th,
starch OF the grain into sugar and feeds upon it
NEW USE FOR ORANGE PEEL.
1t is stated orange peel dried in or on al
oven until the moisture has been expelled be
4 comes readily infammable and serves admir-
ably for lighting fires or for resuscitating then
! when they have nearly gone out. Thoroughly
dried orange peel will keep for long time
= and might be collected when the fruit is il
! season and stored for use.
STALL FEEDING CATTLE.
Among other reasons showing the advanta
ges of soiling cattle instead of allowing them t
6 Craze is, that they will eat with avidity man,
plants which they will leave untouched in tn
: pasture field. 1t has also been noticed tina
= they will consume many kinds of weeds whel
G ensilaged which they would reject when grow
s ing.