Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-04-02
GLEAsrNGs FOB GRASGEKs-

The best food for young chicks u said to
be stale. hard bread. Il should De well
soaked in milk before feeding.
The vegetables in the cellar should be
looked over aboat this time and all decay
ing specimens removed 4 little fresh hms
scattered about the cellar viii purify and
dry The atmosphere.
Fer composing dead leaves, take n
busbel Of fresh slAked lime to every fifteen
or twenty bushels Of the leaves and the dark
loan beneath them. For swamp muck the
proportion should be one bushel Of hme TO
ten of the muck. To make . good heap,
spreal twenty bushels OF leaves and muck
six inches deep, then 9 b1shel Of lime, warm
from the shaking, over that. Repeat until the
heap is several feet high
Chickens require grass food at from
twelve to fifteen days For chicks hstched
before the grass comes, II Is a good plan 10
SOW pats IN frames in the kitchen window or
greenhouse
If hen rossts are painted twice a year
with crude petroleum, II vii keep away ice.
In il stated that in order to make q hrst-
class article Of butter the dairymsn must
chum often. Cream should not be allowed
10 pet more than three DAYS old, however
cold 1t nay be kept.
A veil posted cattle raiser states that
after the sap risesin the spring, cattle driven
IRON north 10 south q distance OF thirty
miles or more are sure to die, willie those
driven the reverse way will thrive Driving
east or west has no effect.
IL A-1L- - -,rn- rnTnn pNansa a~a ire
o~ueutly infested By small conical bodied,
Nhiush maggots, and ,kese frequently eat
out sll the interior. The leaves OF infested
plants wilt and torn yellow; these should De
removed and burned, and hot water poured
onthe plants near the roots. This will kill
the msggots and not hurt the bulbs.
A COW giving milk should never be a.
loved TO get fat; the milk will either De
deficient in quantity or quality, or perhaps
II both.
Professor Anderson, Of Scotland, estimates
that q wheat crop, Der acre, grain aud straw
remove n.uety-seyen pounds Of silica from
the soil: 2 crop Of tnrnips four pounds o:
potash the wheat removes from seventeen
10 thirty-seyen pounds, while the turnip
crcp requires one hundred aud h.tT-two
rounds. Wheat removes nearly FIVE poands
of sulphzric acid and turuips forty pounds.
These 6gures are Of interest in regard 10
fertilizers.
Most crops are benefited by salt, and tie
best way OF application is to incorporate it
with the manure used as a top dressing. Ii
will make the manure more soluble, bu:
will DO, waste, as the wash goes into the soil
gradually.
At the New York Experimental Agricul-
tural Station il has been demonstrated that
the narrox-leayed plantsin, usually regarded
as q weed, possesses nearly the same nutri-
i've value as timothy.
Its undoubtedly bad practice 70 plough
or cultivate heavy soil when water soaked
in the spring, but the light rains Of mid
summer. Rhi.e the soil Is sill warl, are no:
Of such Consequence.
Potash in The form Of wood ashes supplies
the neecsd moisture to dry, sandy land.
German: potash sal. is next in order for this
purpose Sandy soil should never be plowed
more dian two years without seeding With
clover u some other crop to be ploTed
under, 50 as to supply the requisite amount
OF vegetable matter as TODD for other crops.