The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-08
FARM NOTES.
Hogs in orchards destroy insects.

insects.
Pea vines ploughed under enrich the soil
wonderfully.
Cultivate 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 in
creases the quality of the eggs.
Hickory and cherry require growth OF
thirty years before they are valuable for
timber, maple twenty years, and beeches
fifteen years.
The farmer who allows himself to become
too busy with his field labors to plant a
garden makes mistake that he will see
when his table is scantily supplied in mid
summer.
Ground bone is gradually asserting its
value as fertilizer, especially when mixed
with other and home fertilizers. Insects
do not frequent the neighborhood of ground
bone in so great numbers as may be seen in
other places.
1t is absolutely essential to success in on
ion culture that the ground should be rich.
Almost any soil that is free of sticks and
stones can be made to raise good onions if
it is thoroughly drained and fertilized.
Beware of chicken mites. They are very
small black and gray insects. If they once
get foothold on hen-house they will soon
cover the land round about, people. dogs,
cats, and everything else, and are very an
noying, particularly to fowls.
The best way to rid a horses ears of
warts is to rub them well with a coarse
cloth, and then touch them with little nj
trio acid every alternate day until you have
| administered three applications. single
drop of the acid will be quite sufficient for
the smaller ones.
When tree becomes covered with moss,
it should be scraped off; because, if left to
thus checks its growth After the tree
that has moss on it is scraped it should be
well washed with solution of soap and
water strong enough to kill the moss.
Chestnut. walnut, hickorynut and butter
nut trees are all nearly as fine in appearance
as horse-chestnut and maple, and, aside
from the source of revenue which will in
time accrue to their owners from the fruit
the timber of such trees is always in
demand, and the tree itself may become
profitable should it become desirable at
any time to remove it.
Starch which constitutes the bulk of our
cereal grains consists ofglobules or grains
and heat must be applied to burst them. 1t
has been maintained by high authority that
to render starchy substances digestible
they must be cooked to break or crack the
grain.
1t is well known that starch will not dis
solve III cold water, and it is evident that
the grains containing the largest proportion
of starch will be in better condition by
cooking; grains of this description are
those most used for fattening pigs. Corn
meal, which contains about GA per cent. of
starch, is liable to be more than doubled in
bulk when cooked on account of the burst
ing of the grains, which cause it to swell,
and it has been regarded by some as val
liable, bulk for bulk, as it was before the
cooking. Actual tests have conclusively
shown that pigs fatten more quickly ON
cooked meal than that fed in it's raw state.
According to Stewart, the general feeder
may reach, with raw corn, eight pounds,
with raw meal, 10 pounds; with boiled corn,
IL pounds and with boiled meal, 10 pounds
of live weight of pork per bushel. Much
of the difference between boiled corn and
meal is accounted for by the fact that the
corn is not boiled long enough to burst the
kernel and break all the starch grains.
Heat acts more rapidly and effectually
of corn is broken and ground to powder
Farmers Rerien.
1t is not at all too early to begin thinking
about good asparagus bed, and there is
nothing about a farm that is more productive
of comforts and cash thana well-made. we'll
cared for asparagus bed. A correspondent
tells how he made one: Early in October,
1871, plowed open long wide furrow
about 10 inches deep, in my garden. Into
this put well-littered fresh stable manure
six inches deep, covered it six inches or so
with the poor soil turned out from the fur
row, then planted in the asparagus roots
one foot apart, covered them well with soil.
trod down hard, and early in December
gave the row dressing of manure of the
same kind as that used when planting.
This was spread about three feet wide
over the row, and at the rate of not more
than IL cords per acre. Early in Spring this
manure was forked in over the asparagus
and on each side of it, spreading IS inches
wide from directly over the short stalks of
the roots. Late in November, ever since.
the same quantity of stable manure, of
the same quality, has been spread over this
row and forked-in the following Spring as
soon as frost was out of the ground, which.
i'll my climate, is usually early in March,
The third Spring-that is, q years after
planting-we began moderate cutting of
the asparagus, and ever since then have cut
it closely into the middle of June. and some
times later The Weld has haa, a kunJant