The National tribune., 1883-06-21

buds, so that large trees and but little fruit is
the result
KEMP's MANURE sPREADER.
It is a significant fact that the improvements
in farming implements for harvesting crops are
far ahead of those for putting crops in the
ground. s pair Of horses attached to moving
or reaping machine VIII cut crop in the
same time that occupied eight or ten pairs OF
horses To prepare the ground for it. Any inn
proVement, therefore, which tends to facilitate
cropping lands is specially valuable to the
farmer, and in this regard, Kemp's Manure
Spreader is not only labor saving, but manipu-
lates and distributes manure in manner which
could not prohtably be accomplished by manual
labor at all
Plant food is only useful to plants when it is
rendered available by decomposition and com
minuiion Bone meal is more available than
crushed bones; dissolved bones is more ayaila-
bic still so with manures of all kinds; their
value is enhanced by minuteness of division
and regularity of distribution, so that this ma
nure spreader not only saves in labor but also
increases the crop by its superior action. We
have Just had one of these Spreaders cleaned and
stored after being several weeks in use; it has
given entire satisfaction, and we would no more
think of maBuring without it than we would
think of moving our hay-felds with scythes
They are manufactured By the Kemp & Burfee
Manufacturing Co, Syracuse n. Y.
BOTANICAL PHRASES.
The wonderfully loose and careless manner
in which some writers indulge in their descrip-
tons of plants is sometimes incomprehensible
to the ordinary reader.
For example, we notice an article on saccha-
rine plants, where the writer states that "the
sugar beet is hybrid of the spinage, which is
not and never was remarkable for saccharine
qualities"
1t is impossible TO rake sense out of such
writing as this. The beet is just as much OF
species as is the spinage. They belong to the
same family of CheHop0diGceS, as, also does the
pigweed and the worinseed so that it may as
truthfully be stated that the beet is hybrid
of either of these plants as to say that it is q
hybrid of spinage.
Then again, q hybrid is something produced
from two species; what the other parent of the
beet is, besides spinage, is not stated.
The leaves Of the beet, when young, are often
boiled and eaten as spinage, and they are pala-
table greens. Probably this fact has confused
the writer of the above absurd sentence.
LAWNS AND LAWN MOWERS.
Lawn making and lawn keeping are better
understood now than they were dozen years
ago, judging from the numerous examples
which can now be seen almost everywhere.
Even the rural railway stations will have their
spot of closely shayen lawn, and the flower
bed; thus setting an example for travellers to
copy, and which has been of great good in this
respect. But we are inclined to the opinion
that the introduction of cheap lawn moving
machines has had notable effect In the better
ment OF lawns. When lawns had to be kept
mown with scythe, finely kept lawns were
rare indeed. Skilled labor was then necessity.
bat any kind of labor, if possessed of sufficient
physical power, can keep lawn in the best of
order.
Lawn mowers, however are frequently tried
beyond their limits. They cannot cut grass
more than two or three inches in length !;
neither can they make a good finish or COM
plete work when the grass is wet. But when
the grass IS run over by the mower once week,
and when it is perfectly dry, q good close lawn
follows as matter Of course.
MILK ITEMS.
If cows hind feet are tied together she
cannot kick. 1t Will make the COW some
trouble for time, but the mind of the mixer
viii be secure and undisturbed. After a few
weeks slight cord on each leg will be enough.
The quantity of milk that q COW gives de-
ponds much upon the mode, time and regular
ity of milking. Cows do best that have one
regular mixer, and the time OF milking should
be carefully attended 10, and not be subjected
to variation from day to DAY.
The American CaltigGtos says: Whoever places
much dependence on the strainer for securing
clean milk will never make gilt-edge butter
Allowing dirt to get into milk and then depend
ing on the straiHer to get it out is poor apol-
ogy for cleanliness. More or less of the dirt
especially everything OF a soluble nature, and
some that is not, will find its way through the
meshes of the stTainer.
REMOVE STONES, &c, FROM PASTURES.
1t this time Of the year, before the grass gets
high enough to hide them, it is good plan to
remove ali sticks and stones lying around loose
in the yard OF pasture field. Many horses have
been ruined by stepping on the end Of stake
while running, thus throwing the other end in
such position as TO strike them in the bowels
Horses in playing often step on round boulders
which are lying loose on the pasture fields
and sometimes cripple themselves for life The
appearance Of a farm is enough indueement to
have such things attended TO, but when we
consider the danger there is connected with it.
the duty seems imperative
woRMY APPLES.
L. a. Bailey, of the Michigan "fruit belt,n
makes practice Of constantly picking off his
wormy apples during the season, by means of
sharp hook fastened to long pole. These
apples are AT once picked up by drove of hogs
ii left TO Themselves, apples will seldom drop
until after the worms have left them, and the
old idea that hogs dcvour the worms by eating
the apples SIS they fall naturally is an erro-
neous one. Mr. Bailey is a practical grower
and ne finds that the above method pays.