The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-07-29
FIELD AND FARM.
Eel grass is relished by hens.


Eel grass is relished by hens.
Hogs in orchards destroy insects.
Never roll ground when it is moist.
Jer:ey red hogs must have high
feeding.
starchy foods are not good for skin
diseases.
Always burn decayed trees. They
harbor insects.
Pea v'n,s ploughcd under enrich
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CnItivate Lima bean vines until
they shade the ground.
Mangel wurzel should be thinned
out to ten inches apart.
Thick or skinned milk fed to hens
increases the quality Of the eggs.
Bad roads are good for wagon ma
kers and bad for the wagons.
Cut down dead apple trees. They
serve as breeding places for insects.
Hickory and cherry require a
growth of thirty years before they
are valuable for timber, maple twenty
years, and bceches fifteen years.
The farmer who allows himself to
become too busy with his field labor
to plant garden makes mistake
that he will sec when his table is
scantily supplied in midsummer.
Ground bone is gradually assert
ing its value as fertilizer, especially
when mixed with other and home
fertilizers. Insects do not frequent
the neighborhood of ground bone in
such great numbers as may be seen in
other places.
1t is absolutely essential to success
in onion culture that the ground
should be rich ALMOST any soil
that is free of sticks and stones cal
be made to raise good onions if II
is throughly drai,.ed and fertlllzed.
Beware of chicken mites. They
are very small black and gray in-
sects. If they once get foothold OF
henhouse they will soon cover the
land round about, people, dogs, cat:
and everything else, and are very
annoy ing p,srt:e,,lssrl, y to- ets's4 s4s.
The best way to rid horses ear
of warts is to rub them we'll with ;
coarse cloth, and then touch then
with little nitric acid every alter
nate day until you have administered
three applications. A single drop o
the acid will be quite sufficient for th'
smaller ones.
An English tlock-master say
that he keeps his nursing ewes il
rather high condition, contendin!
that fat dams make fat ]a"'bS
Thus treated the ewes not onl.
give larger quantity of milk 70
their offspring, but it is also of
more nourishing quality. This rcn
ders the treatment better ali around
Nothing which is applied to see'
corn in planting, says al exchange
will protect it against the attacks q
cut worms. This pest docs not dis
turb the seed, but eats off the stall
at or just below the surface Of tn
ground. 70 soak the seed in stron
solution Of tobacco will help repel tn
wire worm.
The Massachusetts, Plo"yneon says
'.Whcn tree becomes covere'
with moss it should be scraped off be
cause, if left to any extent, it sucks tn
life of the tree, and thus checks 1t
growth. After the tree that has mos
on it is scraped, it should be we
washed with solution Of soap an
water strong enough to kill the mos
Chestnut, walnut, hickorynut an
butternut trees are all nearly as fin
in appearance as horse-chesnut an
maple. and, aside from the sourc
of revenue which will in time accru
to their owners from the fruit, tn
timber of such trees is always l
demand. aid the tree itslf may be
come profitable should it becom
desirable at any time to remove l