The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-10-04
miscellaneous Farm Items.

rear ITeeS COmo 1utO Deaflug aIter
planting sooner than apple trees, and
annual crops are more certain with the
usual treatment that both crops get.
Generally, too the pears bring the best
prices.
According to Secretary Chamber]ain's
September report, apples in Ohio figure
as a quarter crop.
Before planting pear orchard take
careful counsel as to the varieties. Too
many sorts has been the cause of many
sad disappointments,
F. D. Curtis says that twenty years ago
he.treated a stunted Fameues apple tree
with wheelbarrow full of leached
ashes, and the tree shows the benefit of
it to this day. Mr.. Curtis also says that
too many varieties of fruit are nuisance
and an endless amount of work.
"Pickling" seed-wheat has the effect
of destroying anv rust spores that may be
adhering to the grain, but it can not be
considered as a means of insuring the
crop from rust.
Mr. John Tallman, of Mount Morris,
N. Y. has, according to the Rural
Home, been much aided in his potato
culture this year by "a new parasite"
in size and form much like the large
squash bug, but beautifully colored with
variety Of hues-yellow, green, gray,
black.et 1t feeds on the Colorado
eeetle and its larvae, and threatens TO
exterminate that pest.
Clayev loan, says the Rural New
ie fh1 v,,1,o ot>A
able. If the land has been plowed for
wheat in August, cultivate it enough to
pulverize and firm" it. If the land has
10 be manured, it will pay best to have
the manure as fine as is possible and
we'll rot1ed, so as to mingle with the
soil directly, and soon become available
tor plant food.
Some genius who evidently does not
believe any farmer should trv to own
all the land that joins his homestead,
says that 'the possession oftoo much
land is the bane OF farming in many
sections of the country. No one can af-
ford to allow an acre of land to lie idle.
Unle producing some valuable crop it
is growing weeds, which are the most
expensive crop both for himself and
ne,ghbors that farmer can raise"
And yet how many who do not hall
cultivate their farms are constantly
''hankering arter" more land!-Tribune
and Farmer.
When a tiller of the soil is thorough
ly conversant with his business it is we'll
for his sons to follow in his footsteps,
for they will have to at least have some
knowed dge of the business. A practical
knowledge Of ones business is the lever
and success.
The Chicago Tribune recently men,
toned the birth Of a calf from Jersey
heifer year and eighteen days old. The
Breeders Gazette is reported as stating
that the Jersey heifer Susan Amelia, IT,
759, dropped April 81, 1883, she being
at the time L year and ten days old.
The same papers tells of shorthorn heif-
er, dropped May 20, 1855, which May IL,
1925, dropped fine heifer. The young
dam was just three days less than year
old, and was herself sucking her dam.
The American Dairyman remarks
pjthlly as follows: There are many de-
grees of feeding, such as poor feeding,
good feeding, and over-feeding. High
feeding can only be INDUCED in with
young animals, and always then with
more or less risk Of permanent injury
to the beast. The overworked or starved
organs of digestion will never fully re-
cover from the injury, and, what is ar
worse than the immediate injury to the
animal thus wrongfully treated, the evil
effects of this bad treatment are sure to
be felt by the offspring, so that such
course, if persisted in, will surely bring
destruction to the herd.