The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-08
Farm Notes.

A writer in the Rural Workman says tea
spoonful of coal oil poured into the wound made
By peach borers in the body or limbs of trees is
sure death TO the bOrer.
For the improvement of heavy soils lime
should be used for th6 first dressing, and the
crop for the first season should be potatoes, the
second season oats, then corn, next wheat and
then clover. commencing again with potatoes
The usual practice is to shear sheep in June,
after the weather becomes warm, but the Gus
tom is growing TO shear about April l. in order
to give as much time possible for the fleece to
grow before The fairs. Unless such focks are
provided with warm, dry quarters the early
shearng is risky, as diseases often the re-
suit.
1t is said that Paris green applied to rose
bushes and grape vines infested with rose bugs
will kill the insects surely il does the po-
'ato bug when used on potato plants The
application can be dry, mixed with -four or land
plaster or in liquid form, mixed with water and
sprlnkled the same manner as for the
potato bug
Barn owls are inveterate mousers, and in sum-
mer time feed on nightly moths and beetles
Owls are valuable in destroying mature insects
thus preventing the laying of the eggs. Hawks
eat mice. frogs, grasshoppers, snakes lizards
beetles small birds and various verinin, accord
ing to their species. The crow is an omuivor-
Gus feeder. but eats less corn than any other
food. The proportion of hawks that kill chick
is small.
A Pennsylvania farmer last year sold over
Sc. 200 worth of potatoes from twelve acres. He
fertilized with a compost of hard wood ashes
and oyster shell lime plowed deep, planted
medium sized, well-formed, uncut potatoes
three feet apart. gave level cultivation and cul
tivate often. From one hill be took thirty one
fine large tubers
Here is hint for farmers. Last fall q man
at Clyde, N. Y, had number of stumps which
he wished to remove. He bored holes in them,
inserted saltpetre, filled up with water and then
plugged the holes. About month ago he took
out the plugs, poured in kerosene oil, and set
fire. The stumps have snoldered away without
blazing, and now there is nothing left of them
but ashes
Black pepper is the cabbage protector says
the Farming World, and the way to apply it is
to reduce 1t to Very fine powder and dust i:
over the plants. Go early in the morning, while
the dew is on the plants and dust over each a
small quantity and the vermin will leave. Pro.
fessor Reilly. however, suggests as o remedy
against the cabbage worm the use of ice water
sprinkled over the cabbage.
A writer in the Prairie Farmer says: I have
kept hogs for over forty years, with never sick
one. though the so called hog cholera has often
been prevalent all around me. / attribute this
exemption to the regular soap suds which have
always given them. Every washing day except
in extremely cold weather all the suds are
emptied into the swill-barrel and the hogs drink
it greedy / do not think the suds any better
for the contact with dirty clothes, but where
only few hogs are kept the weekly suds seem
about the amount needed. Those who make the
snds specially for the purpose should mix about
three pints or two quarts of good soft soap with
barrel of water, stir TO n foam and give il to
the pigs. one to three times a week, and they
will be all right.