The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-01-24


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OWNERSHIP or STREETS AND ROADS.
At meeting Of the West Michigan Farmerg
Club, at Grand Rapids Judge Parrish presented
the following points regarding the ownership
of the streets and roads: "The owner Of land
on which there Is q public highway owns the
soil on which the highway passes, subject to tha
right OF the public to use or for the purpose OF
highway. He Is entitled to the timber and
grass upon its surface, and the minerals below
1t are his, and he may maintain trespass for
any injury done 20 them. There is no common
right OF pasture in a highway; YOU are under
just as much obligation to restrain your cattle
from destroying the grass, trees, or heritage in
the highway along my premises, as you are TO
keep them out OF my corn-feld, except so far a.
the public use viii permit or deem necessary
COLD WEATHER AND INSECTS.
A very general impression prevails that se-
we're winters are prejudical TO insect life. This
is not strictly correct, it Is found that in mcss
cases insects pass more safely through a steady,
even if severe, winter, than through mild or
ehangeabie one. Severe and steady cold is not
only favorable to insect Information by causing
a continued state of topper, but indirectly in
preserving them from the attacks Of birds and
other animals, which during such severe
weather cannot reach them in the frost-bound
ground. Mild winters, on the contrary, gem
orally cause premature activity in insects, often
followed by relapses into the torpid state. and
such changes are prejudiciaI to their well being
Inseetivorous animals also fare better during
such mild winters.
RYE HAY.
It is known TO many dairymen and others
that rye is valuable food for stock when cut
early in spring. growing q second, or even a
third, crop much more promptly than any Of
the ordinary fodder crops, with the exception,
perhaps, of lneeFn. When cut at the proper
time 1t also makes good hay, comparing wen
IN its nutritiye qualities with good meadow
hay Rye should be cut before it comes into
full bloom, TO obtain the greatest feeding value
from the fodder. lt is then eaten more readily,
| and larger per cent. viii be digested. II is
course kind Of fodder, but animals soon learn
| to eat it, as they do any kind Of course sweet
fodder.
ASPARAGUS.
J. B. Moore, Of Massachusetts, a successful
market gardener, advises as follows for the best
| treatment Of asparagus; lie frsb pIows very
/ deep, or twelve or eighteen inches manrres
/ very heavily, and plants in burrows eighs
inches deep. gradually filing up as the plants
grow. The rows are foar feet apart, the plants
/ twenty inches IN the rows Twice this dis
| tanee in the rows, with enough manure would
ultimately give finer asparagus and more of it.
The thicker planting brings full crop sooner.
A bed IS ia perfection from eight to twelve
years. He finds that salt is Of no use what
ever.
| NoTEEETs.
in California the turkeys are fed on the
/ REFUSE apples IN the orchards. This Is . capital
method of using up the fruit and wiz tend to
keep insects IN check.
These who exercise great care in the econ
/ omy Of feeding cattle contriVe to slightly warm
| their drinking water during winter. Thus does
the application Of science progress.
| "A Michigan farmer cured his horse Of
baking by tying binder about his eyes. He
/ soon came to dread the strip Of cloth and was
efeetually cured Of the babit.
/ Experience proves that If q cranberry
| meadow is well covered with water during the
winter, and slightly covered in spring up to
| the first week in June, they viii not be mEeh
/ troubled with worms.
To kill lice on hogs, a local application Of
| a weak solution Of kerosene, or a weak solu-
tion of earbolic acid are used where the skin
Is not too much irritated; but any bland oil or
grease IS said TO be almost equally effective and
altogether safe
-For the mite on hogs, which are em5edded
IN the skin, and not merely attached TO its
surface, ointment of sulphur or tobacco muss
be somewhat thoroughly rubbed in mix
ture of lard and sulphur-about five parts to
one-is recommended.
Water containing vegetable matter may be-
purified by dropping IN gallon of the water
two or three drops of muriated tincture of iron.
In the course of an hour or two the iron VIII
carry all the organic matter to the bottom Of
the vessel, leaving the water pure and whole
some This win not purify water that contains
noxions gases, such as come from drains and
eesspools.
Storing eggs in dry ashes is said TO pre-
serve them for long time. A writer says that,
although he IS quite fastidious about his eggs,
he has enjoyed those thus kept during period
Of four months, and, IN one instance, a whole
year. The only precautions, after seeing that
the eggs are sound TO start with, are to use
the ashes when they are quite dry, and see
that the eggs do not touch one another.
The Agricultural College Of the University
of California, after extended experiments upon
the growth of oaks, both American and Euro
pean, have decided that the English oak Qser-
e7ss R05aTJ makes the most rapid and thrifty de-
velopment. During the first two seasons the
growth made by this oak exceeded from two to
three times that made by any other; besides
throwing out many mere branches the seed
hngs attained the height Of two or three feet,
while the taP-root was found TO reach a depth
of over three feet the first season. The latter
circumstance explains its remarkable ability 70
resist drought when once established, which
has also been reported from Australia.