New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-05-27
ing preventives and remedies TO,
insect depredations.

ing preventlves and remedies for
insect depredations.
A member of the Wisconsin Dairy.
mems Association has been making
experiments to test the value of corn
fodder, which has matured crop OF
corn, in comparison with hay. He
found two pounds of stalk equal in
feeding value to one pound of hay.
The corn yielded fifty bushels of
shelled corn and one and three
quarter tons of cured corn stalks,
nearly equal in value to ton of hay.
His experiments were in feeding the
stalks uncut, and he estimated the
waste at forty per cent. If they had
been finely cut the waste would have
been much less. He states that
enough corn-stalks are wasted in his
State annually to keep all the four
footed auimals without the use of
hay.
A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says that it is good plan
to make small hotbeds with one
square of window sash, making the
ground very rich with well decayed
stable manure, and plant each hot
bed with one kind of seeds-either
cucumbers, muskmelons or water.
melons. When the season permits,
lift the sashes and let the vines grow
in the boxes, spreading over the sides
of them. By this method there is no
danger of putting back the growth of
the plants by transplanting them, and
they can be kept from the striped bug
by throwing a yard or two of strainer
cloth (Which can be purchased at six
cents per yard) over the plants, when
the sashes are removed, for fear of
scorching them.
Professor E. NJ Shelton, of the
Kansas Agricultural College, has
been experimenting to ascertain the
relative merits of corn meal and corn
and-cob meal in fattening animals.
He finds the advantage in favor of
ANNALS fed on the corn-and-cob
meal, as 1865 pounos of corn-and-
cob meal gave 1880 pounds of in
crease, while 1866 pounds of corn
meal gave but 1,454 pounds of in
crease. The steers fed on the corn
and-cob meal consumed fewer pounds
OF feed daily and totally than those
fed corn chop, making at the same
IAAAO la1Scl gain pei StceI anu per
hundred weight of steer, and at a
considerable less cost of feed. The
proportion of cob to corn was eigh-
teen pounds of the former to 100 of
the latter.
Certain plants may be multiplied
from root cuttings, notably the black
berry and raspberry, but the opera
ton is confined alone to those fur
nished with underground stems or
stolons. Young plants propagated by
this method artlticially are greatly SUI
perior to suckers dug from an old
plantation and possessing few roots.
These underground stems resemble
large roots and are generally mistaken
for such, although roots are never fur
nished with buds. They are to all in
tents and purposes branches, with all
necessary organs that permit OF being
reproduced from cuttings similar to
those above ground. Therefore when
cut into small pieces, say an inch or
more in length, and thinly covered
with sand or light soil, in rows or
beds, young plants will quickly APP
pear with nice fbrous roots at the
base. A better plan is to place these
root cuttings on a gentle hot bed or
in the propagating house, as the bot
tom heat proves very congenial, and
incites growth in many cuttings that
would otherwise die.