The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-27

LIGHT, sandy land IL not good grass
land as rule, though light warm land
grows good crops of red clover and
lucern.
REMEMBER that all fowls relish both
skinned and buttermilk, also that it is
good for them.
PEARS thrive best in strong soil
Though some varieties do better in
light than heavy soils, all require plenty
of plant-food.
The process of cattle-groving in
Texas is undergoing transformation.
The ranges are being inclosed with
constantly improved by tho introduce
ton of blooded animals. The beef is
better, and it commands higher price
in consequence.
THE cofn-root worm has increased in
numbers with astonishing rapidity and
promises to interfere with the next corn
crop in many sections of the West.
The preventive appears to consist in
planting the same field to corn not
more than two years in succession.
Alternate for one year with oats or
other crops. The corn worm feeds
from the corn roots only, hence will
perish if none are within its reach.
A WESTERN woman states that one
bushel of corn, or its equivalent in corn
mixed with other foods, will produce
fourteen pounds of poultry in the form of
growing cockerels. At tho Same time it
must be borne in mind that something
in addition to corn must be used as
food. Confne a fowl in yard with
no other food than corn, and, as all the
wants of the fowls system would not
be supplied, it would soon die of starva-
ton in the midst of plenty.
WOULD it not pay farmers in the
neighborhood of ties to raise cows of
good grade to supply the demand from
private families for mich cows? There
are many families who prefer to keep q
COW for their own use rather than trust
to the honor of some dsiryman of
SINNER of milk can have no knowledge,
and such families are usually willing to
pay good price for good cow. Chi
cago Tribune.
The red Astrachan apple is Justly
popular, being, according to the Ger
mantown Telegraph, as soft and en-
tirely free from pulp when cooked as
frozen cream. 1t is also an early bearer,
coming next after the early harvest,
and, though it is not an abundant
bearer, it has q yearly crop, and thus
retains its productive capacity year
after year, and is naturally long-lived.
We do not hesitate to say that no
orchard should be without it, and, so
far rs we know, we believe it is to be
obtained at almost every respectable
nursery. .
THERE is much that is suggestive in
the statement that near Bellefonte,
Pa, there wa, few years ago, an i'm
mense pear tree, with trunk two feet
in diameter. The tree had been set
seventy years, and for sixty years had
not failed to produce crop of fruit,
while other trees OF the same kind had
died of old age some years before This
remarkable tree had always had by its
side an ash leach, from which con-
siderable quantity of potash in the
form of I've had escaped and found its
way to the root of the pear tree. Thus
the potash had kept the tree alive,
vigorous, and productive during many
years.
FAILURES IN FARM EXPERIMENTS
DR.. Sturtevant, Director of the New
York Experiment Station, says: Fail
ures are an essential part of agri-
cultural work, and our station is fortu-
nately so situated that we are not
ashamed to acknowledge our failures
or to allow knowledge of them to
come before the public. Indeed, often
more is to be learned from failure. in
the sense the word is usually used, than
from a success, and. the ability to pur-
pc ely work toward failure is an essen
tial part of an agricultural experiment
station. Indeed, we plan ia lures. If
we desire to know the best depth at
which corn is to be planted, we supple
ment the accurate work of the Their
mometer and the rain gauge and tho
observation of tho climate, with the
planting at the various depths which
shall include success in the means,
planting so shallow on the one side as
to risk failure from the washing out of
the seeds, or by their removal by birds,
and on the other extreme planting so
deep as to anticipate inability of the
plumule to reach the surface. In
studying the distance of planting corn
we commence with such close planting
as to secure failure, and increase the
spaces and diminish the number of
plants by succeeding steps until such
open culture is obtained as to necessi-
tate failure of crop through INSULT
cheney of plants grow ng. The real
object of the station is the studying
into causes and formulating of these
causes so as to influence practical re-
suits, and hence these failures occupy
important positions, and are not only
worthy of being recorded, but should
receive more, if. possible, than their
due study, on account Of their magni-
| fying the causes which are in action to
produce them.
PROTECTING MANUIEs. is
some difference of opinion as to protect
ing manures against rain, wind aud the
exhaustive effects Of the sun. Doubt
less oil these have an injurious influence
upon the manure heap, and it is Ger.
tainly true that, without any moisture
ct all from rain, it will not be improved.
However this may be, we are very r.
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