The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-14
THE HOME CIRCLE,
Earmor'a Scrana.


A man who agrees to pay q dollar and
; half for an article at the end of the
year, when he can get it for dollar by
paying cash down, is very likely to die
in the poor house, and he ought to-,
As, in summer, wooden implements
soon spoil in rain and sun; 60 in winter,
they are often cracked and warped in
viting speedy rot and dissolution, by be-
ing left exposed to frost and moisture.
| OYer-hauling, cleaning, oiline or paint
Ing, and storing ready for future effec-
tive use is a job that will afford substan-
tlal satisfaction, and so make wet or
stormy day seem actually pleasant ono.
Professor Cook says light Brahmas
have proved even better layers in Win.
ter than ais brown Leghorns; their eggs
are finer in quality, larger and of rich
color.
A New Jersey farmer writes that he
gave dressing of salt (eight bushels to
the acre) to land badly infested with
white grubs. and for three years after
raised good crops of corn, which was
impossible previous to this application.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicale boasts
that it runs no agriculture column: that
it employs mo veteran journalist, with
hay seed in his hair and pepper-pods
on his coat, to write up in thrilling num-
bers the thoughts for the month on
farm work in this season. But, oc.
casionally, the Chronicale has an article
on How best to blow up big gourds,"
or "the best fertilizer for a crop ofsugar-
cured hams" &C., that, it just thinks,
knocks the spots off any common infor-
nation on these topics. Its recent lead
ing editorial takes the ground that sleet
is a No. l top.dressing for wheat field.
The simple plan of storing eggs in dry
ashes has been used for Sole time by
correspondent ofthe Live Stock Journal
with satisfactory results. Though rath-
or fastidious about their quality, he re-
ports having enjoyed those thus kept
during period of four months, and in
ono instance whole year, The only
precautions seem to be (besides, Of
course, sound eggs to begin witty ''to
see that the ashes are quite dry and to
see that the eggs do not touch one
another"
Kerry COWS, says the Rural New York
er, are the race Of Irish cattle, which
are small because they have been poorly
fed for generations and even centuries
back, They will endure considerable
hardship, and are coarsely built, and
pretty ravenous eaters. Some Of them
give rich milk. as all small cattle do,
and some give a proportionately large
quantity. But they are not considered
fine Or even valuable in any particular.
They are very far behind the Jersey in
every respect. 4 Kerry COW may be
fed presisely as jersey, but do better
on coarse food such as straw, and make
more milk with it than Jersey.
Professor A. J. Cook, Of the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, has been for
several years carefully observing the
habits of bees, and probably knows more
than any other man in this country
about the busy little insects, takes no
stock in the common opinion that bees
recognize their keeper, and thinks that
the only reason that they are more
li.ely to sting a stranger is that "the
latter is more nervous and SO jerks his
head or makes other quick motions
which are offensive to the bees and sure
to meet quick reproof."
In view of the unusual depreciation
by insects, We give space to the following
practical suggestion from one of our cor
respondents. He informs US that a so.
luton of saltpetre dissolved in water, in
the proportion of tablespoonful of the
former to gallon of the latter, and ap-
piled to vines, will efectually prevent
the ravages Of the destructive rosebug,
and if applied around and upon cabbage
and other plants, will prove sure rem
edy against the cut-wor,n, cabbage
worm, black beetle and other destructive
pests.-Western Agriculturist.