The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-06-26


running the hand down under the
straw into the soil, and If it is not
warm enough ncover for a few hours
in the hottest part OF d bright sunny
day.
Protecting Trees from Insects
With regard to protecting trees
from the ravages Of insects which
climb up the trunk from the ground
and destroy the leaves, blossoms, and
fruit, some paint a ring Of coal-tar or
liquid gum on the trunk, and in some
cases paint the whole of the trunk.
This is more or less intellectual, as
some Of the insects settle upon this adj
hesive substance and perish, but in
doing SO form a bridge for others to
pass over. A more effectual and per-
manent protector was said to have
been invented by a German some time
since. The method which he adopted
Vas to use a metal collar, which con-
tanned in its lower part a rim forming
u kind of dish, while the upper part
supported a screen which protected
tho lower part from the ~intiuence'of
the weather. 1t was made IN two
halves, which, when attached to a
tree, were joined by two pins. The
apparatus is slightly larger than the
tree. and the space between it is then
! calkcd with hemp or cotton. This is
afterward saturated with tar or petro-
leum to prevent birds from picking it
out. In the upper part there was a
small opening closed by a cork;
through this hole a liquid consisting OF
glycerine, tar, mineral-oil, by itself or
mixed with poison, was poured, and
the cork replaced. When properly adj
iusted it IA stated that insects could
not ascend, and that the apparatus
would remain effective during the
whole season without attention.
Industrial BreyltIes.
A consular report on the trade and
commerce of Venezuela says that that
republic can not be said to possess any
Industries in the true sense OF the
word. With a few exceptions, the
majority of articles of ordinary con-
sumption r imported from abroad.
Protective and prohibitive duties and
total prohibition have caused some
articles to be produced in the country,
such as lucifer matches, envelopes,
soap, candles, starch, shoes, ready
made clothes, sugar, rum, ETC.. but
these can not be termed industries, as
they are not exported to foreign coun-
tries, and indeed are produced for
home consumption Mt higher prices
than if imported from Europe or the
United States.
Buckwheat is On the decline as a
grain cultivated plant in the west of
France, where two millions OF people
have it for their exclusive food all the
year round. 1t is made into a kind of
porridge and cakes. 1t is not consid-
cred here a healthy article of diet, be.
ing difficult of digestion on account of
a peculiar matter in the gray skin of
the grain, and that ever the best-made
buckwheat flour always contains a
portion. The Tartars are said to
possess the secret of removing all the
Objectionable p%ellicle. In Belgium,
buckwheat is often taken as a stolen
crop, the grain being employed to
feed and fatten poultry.
J. M. Smith, of Green Bay, Wis.
is reported to have raised some years
ago 3,751 quarts of Wilson strawber-
ries on a fourth OF an acre, or at the
rate of 446 bushels per acre. He Gull
tivated In matted rows two feet wide,
with Il space OF two feet between. The
plants were mulched for winter and
early spring. A good covering Of
well-rotted manure-hfteen or twenty
bushels an acre or seventy-iive bushels
of unleachcd ashes-were applied
early in the season. All weeds were
destroyed at whatever cost. AS for
watering when dry, u thorough wet
ting was found better than three
sprinklings.
A correspondent Of an Indiana pa
paper writes: There is an apple tree
on the farm OF William Critics, in
Green county, some two miles east OF
the town Of Worthington, which
measured eleven feet in circumference
and has a top sixty feet across. This
tree is a Seeding. 1t was planted
about 1919, by Isaac Stalcup. and has
borne fruit every year since 1925. The
tree is healthy and tlourishing. We
have the largest sycamore in the state
-4 feet 4 inches in circumference.
So far as ! am informed, it is the larg-
est tree in the United States east OF
the Rocky mountains.
An etomologist has reported having
found 724 species of noxious insects in
the trees, shrubs. and plants Of the
New York parks last year. These in
elude the cotton worm of the south,
the wood. borers of the west, the sugar
cane beetle, many species unknown to
the etomologist, and some entirely
new species. The most destructive in
sect to the trees are the bag-worm,
the tent and web caterpilars, the scale
insect, the coccus, and the elm beetle.
vi these insects nearly seven bushels
OF COO and egg masses were re-
moved.
Statistics show that the people of
this country consume about four and
one-half pounds of cheese per capita,
while the people of England consume
about fourteen pounds per capita an
nually. The argument that cheese is
not q wholesome article of food, it
would seem, would not hold good in
the light of this fact, as the a~sricult-
ural classes of England, who are large
consumers Of cheese, are among the
most robust and healthy people Of the
world.
AT the annual strengthening fes-
tiyal of the Vermont Mcrino Sheep
Shearing association, hold in Middle
bury, Mr.. j. L. Buttolph's RAM,
Burr sheared thirty-eight pounds
and thirteen ounces, two ounces more
chan there is any authentic record of
any previous shearing. The heaviest
eve fleece taken weighed twenty one
pounds and nine ounces, and was
sheared from a eve owned by Mr.. H.
G. Burwell, of Bridport.
To place tin-foil on japan tin with q
muc:ledge OF cement so that it will
dry and cleave to the japan SO firmly