The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-03-30

removed by boring holes in them and
filling with petroleum or oil Of tuurpen-
tine. After a few months they will burn
to the ends of the roots.
IT is estimated that there are 100, 900
acres to be devoted to vine culture in
California, all of which will be bearing
in four years more, producing annu-
ally Az, 1000, 900 to $4,000, 900 gallons OF
wine.
ID. X. SHAUER, in letter to the Iowa
Homestead, says that simple, sure
and easily-applied cure for lice on
animals is to give few slices OF onion
in their feed. They cat them readily,
and one or two feeds does the business
effectually.
A WRITER in the Home and Farm
used about quart of sawdust in each
hill of one plot of potatoes and none in
another plot. The sawdust hills
yielded nearly twice as much as the
others, and the potatoes were larger
and smoother.
DURING his travels in Europe, Prof.
Budd, of the Iowa Agricultural College,
found vast fruit region in Northern
Russia, never before explored, where
the mercury sinks to 56 deg. below
zero, in which choice apples, pears,
plums and cherries were grown in un-
limited quantities.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer writes that he has tried fiat
and hill culture for cucumbers, squashes
and melons. When hot, dry weather
came the plants in the hills began to
dry up, while those on level ground
grew freely. He thinks fiat cultivation
decidedly the best, unless on wet
ground.
BUSTING cucumber, melon and squash
plants with plaster early in the morn
ing, when the dew is on, has long been
the striped bug. A little Paris green
or London purple, however, either APP
piled in water or mixed with the
plaster, is much more effective ap-
plication.
IF cabbages are set out one yard each
way nearly 5000 can be grown on one
acre. Such being the case, it is prof.
liable crop when successfully grown, as
this vegetable not only sells well, but
on account of it's keeping qualities
affords green food in winter for animals
and poultry, to say nothing of the
family.
AMERICAN WONDER is a seeding pea,
the result of cross between the Cham
pion of England and the Little Gem.
1t is one of the earliest wrinkled peas
in cultivation, of the finest quality and
wonderfully productive. It's great dis
tinctive feature, however, is its com.
pact and dwarf growth, seldom exceed.
ing ten inches In height.
PROF. Cook says that carbolic soap
wash has with him proved very eff.
fectual preventive of radish maggots
and apple-tree borers. His formula is
as follows: To two quarts of soft soap
I added two gallons of water; this was
then heated to boiling temperature
when one pint of carbolic acid tin q
crude state) swas added. This mixture
is then set away in a barrel or other
vessel, and is ready for use as occasion
may require. One part of this liquid
is then mixed with fifty parts of waite,
and the plants sprinkled or trees
washed with it, This is worth remem
bering.
To MAKE superphosphate on the
premises the following recipe is giver
as excellent, and within the range
of almost every farmer: Take
100 pounds of ground bone
place it in large tub and apply
forty pounds of sulphuric acid, add
ing water as desired. In few days
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consistency of thick jelly. Then add
more water and about 800 pounds
of plaster as q drier, the whole being
worked and shoveled over until it can
be readily handled. There will then
be sufficient phosphate to apply tc
about two and one-half acres of land
at cost of about 81. 50.-Maryland
Farmer.
CATTLE FEEDING. -Most animals eat
in proportion to their weight, under
average of age, temperature and fatness
A good guide for safe quantity OF
grain per day to maturing cattle is one
pound to each hundred of their weight
thus an animal weighing 1000 pounds
may receive ten pounds of grain. New.
er give rapid changes of food, but
change often. Give fattening cattle as
much as they will eat and often-five
times day. Every salt feeding in the
fall will make the winter progress more
certain by 30 per cent. Give as much
water and salt at all times as they will
take. In using roots, it is one guide to
give just so much, in association with
other things, that the animal may
not take any water. In buildings have
warmth with complete ventilation, with
out currents, but never under 40 or over
70 degrees Fahrenheit. A cold, damp,
airy temperature will cause animals to
consume more food without correspond
ing result in bone, muscle, flesh or fat,
much being used to keep up the
warmth. Stall feeding is better for fat
making than box or yard management,
irrespective of health. The growing
animal intended for beef requires lit
tie exercise daily to promote muscle
and strength of constitution; when ripe,
only so much as to be able to walk to
market. Currying daily is equal to z
per cent. of the increase.