Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-09-11
FARM AND GARDEN.


urge the growing of cedar screens on
every farm in that state.
The Michigan Agricultural college
farm contains GIG acres, of which
about two.thirdS have been utilized.
Large, perfect fruit can only be
grown where there are large, healthy
leaves, and due proportion must be
maintained between the two.
A fairly strong clay soil is, on the
whole, the best soil for wheat; but it
needs more judgment in its manage
mcnt than sandy or gravclly loam'
The horse breeders of the Sandwich
Islands are said to be buying some of
the best horses that can be bought in
this country TO improve their horses
American milk and cream have been
successfully shipped from New York
to London by steamers, arriving in
perfectly fresh and palatablc condi'
tion.
Seed beans should not be saved from
vines that have had the pods picked
of several times for table use, but they
should he saved from one end of
row from which no beans have been
gathered while green.
The fact is often that earth piled
around tree TO the depth of two or
three feet during the summer is pretty
sure death to it. The sunlight is shut
OIL from the roots, and tree is rs un-
able TO live as an animal would be
without air.
Mr.. Harris says the swine mango is
caused by minute insect which bur-
rows under Tie skin, and that keeping
the hogs in the filth breeds the insect.
To cure it, wash TIE pigs with strong
soap SudS, and when dry, grease with
mixed coal oil and lard, equal parts.
Too much nitrogcnous manure or
too much barnyard manure produces
rank growth of straw without Il cor
responding increase of grain, and this
large growth is very liable to fall
down. Salt, lime and phosphate
would have Il tendency to stiilcn the
straw and produce Il heavier grain.
Remember that meal stirred in pep
per tea is excellent for fowls in cold
weather; add Il little sulphur once in Il
while. Then give green food once in
II while, with IN ample supply of
whole, sound grain, and you can hard
ly fail to get good supply of eggs if
the fowls have anything like decent
winter quarters.
Thousands of dollars are lost to
horse owners and the country each
year by the carccSsncSS with which
the colts are handled during the first
six or nine months of their existence.
Like plants, if they are Stuntcd in the
start its very hard to get a rapid,
healthy growth out of them afterwards,
Us it will show on them rs long Us they
live.
Never let one cucumber ripen. II
You do, that vine will consider its work
accomplished and abandon the pickle
business. If any vine begins to slackcn
in its work, or show symptoms of eN-
hauStion, cut of the fruit and old
leaves, peg down, cover the joints with
earth, and keep moist and shaded un-
til new roots from and new growth
starts.
+. ID. Curtis, in the New York Trij-
INC, says he plowcd up Il six acre field
where the grass was running out, and
found it was due to the presence of
white grubS in the soil He Sowcd it
to buckwhcat, wi ich the grubs will
not cat, and proposes to starvc them
out. He will plow the land after the
buckwhcat is OIL, and SOW TO oats in the
spring.
A strange epidemic among hogs is
reported about Southbury, Conn. 1t is
contagious. In all eases the first symp-
tom is n refusal to eat. Then the ami
NAL lies quiet for several days, while
its strength keeps diminishing. The
skin, on the head especially, becomes
a deep pink color, and the same thing
is seen TO Il less extent on all parts of
the body.
In skimming the cream off from
milk there should always be milk
enough skinned with the cream to
give the butter, when chumcd, a bright
clean look. Butter churncd from clear
cream with little or no milk in it. will
usually have an oily or shiny look.
This shows that the grain OF the butter
is injured, which affects the keeping
qualit es Of the butter.
The american Ddiry,adn recommends
those who have trouble in getting
good quality of butter to "take down
the scythe from the old apple tree and
march out into the pasture, and stay
there until you have cut down every
weed you can find. There is no weed
known to botany that makes good
milk; they are the natural enemies of
every product of the farm, and to dairy
products in particular"
Examine the newly threshod wheat
after it has been put in the bins for
few weeks, and if damp or heatingi it
should be run through tanning mill
to cool and air it; or it should be spread
upon barn floor and shOveled over
occasionally. A good way to examine
wheat in bins is to have stick like
fork handle, constantly stuck its length
down into the grain; by pulling it up
and feeling it with the bare hand, any
heat can at once be detected.
Farmers in England and all over the
world, probably, are studying what
crops they can grow in place of wheat,
which brings too low a price for profit.
But there is nowhere any desire to
substitute something else for wheat
as food. On the contrary the cheap
ness of wheat is likely to lead to its
extensive substitution for other kinds
of food. If farmers discontinue
wheat-growing it is certain that after
two or three years, at the farthest, the
price of wheat will advance.
Dwight Furness, in the Bee Journal,
says, in regard to hiving bees: 81 use
a common box made of light wood,
fastened to the end of long pole,and
seldom need to climb ladders or cut
off branches. A neighboring bee
keeper, whose apiary is surrounded by
lot of tall and slender oak trees.
gave me his method of capturing
swarms, which | have used good deal.
1t is as follows; Fasten a common
dry-goods box to the end of long
pole, and as soon rs a swarm issuos,go
to the more convenient hive Gan OK
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