Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-21
Farm and Garden .

Farm and Garden.
 Change the feed
 Corn likes rich land.
 Apply tar where rats gnaw
 Train the colts to make fast walkers. In building study comfort more than looks. Move the coops of young chicks occasion ally.
 The Egyptians matched eggs artifcially, as
 a common thing, 5000 years ago. A mixture of sulphur and tobacco dust | will kill insects on plants or animals. Plant one and one-half bushels of beans to the acre, in drills at two and one-half feet apart.
 In getting up leech for soap-making, use one-half bushel of lime to barrel of ashes and there will be more and better soap. In hot weather any unconsumed food about the chick GOODS soon sours. This should be swept away, for if taken into the | crops it acts like poison.
 If calves after weaning get the SCOUTS, by, at it's start, scalding the milk before feeding, it may usually be checked. This is better course than to give the drugs usually pre- scribed, as injury to the digestion often comes from their use.
 l Keep the old hen cooped, but let the coop be so located that the chicks can have long l run on grass or in a garden. They will kill myriads of small insects to their own and the farmers good, and do no harm. Young chickens should be petted little by feeding 1 them from the hand and otherwise, so they will remain tame. This will ease the work and add to the pleasure of caring for them | very much. Flowing Down Green Manures.-A test 1 made with turning under corn, beans and Hungarian grass for wheat showed corn to be the best crop of the three for this pur pose. Plots of equal size were sowed with I each, and light dressing of fine manure was applied after the blowing. Next to the ! corn plot the bean plot was best. The corn plot not only showed ahead of the others in | the wheat crop, but it's richer soil was appa- rent also in the grass the next year after. Shading the Bee Hives.-Bees in their ] wild state seek homes in hollow trees, rock crevices, etc., which fact shows that they love cool shady home. An unshaded hive at midsummer cannot be cool Shading may be done with 8 square board placed over the hive at a few inches above the top, so as to leave an air passage between, and kept in place by weights or wire attachments. The sheltering board should project some inches on all sides. Planting grapevine at the
 back of each hive and training it to trel- iise in time may be made to afford enough shade and add beauty to the bee yard, be- sides yielding fruit in otherwise unoccupied ground
 The Great Lawes Experiments.-The last harvest but one was the fortieth, in which | wheat was grown year after year on the same | land, under the supervision of Dr. Lawes, at the Rothamstead experimental farm in Eng l land The result of the cultural tests there | made possess wide interest. With wheat year after year for such a length of time, but
 no manure whatever, an average yield of l fourteen bushels per acre was harvested. On
 plot receiving fourteen tons of farm yard
 manure per each year the average yield per acre was thirty-two bushels and twelve | quarts. Even higher than this was the aver 1 age for forty years, where the artificial but | theoretically complete, fertilizer of nitrogen, l phosphoric acid soda and magnesium were 1 applied, the returns being equal to thirty two bushels and twenty-four quarts per acre for each year With nitrogen alone (nitrate | of soda) the average yield for 8 period of
 thirty-two years has been twenty-three and | one-half bushels, although for the last hal of this time the average per year fell to twenty and ne-fourth bushels. One impor- tant conclusion derived from these expert ments is that the soil of we'll cultivated l and properly manured field garden should
 go on increasing in fertility, however much l it may be cropped. No arguments for the | 'Eworn out'' farm notion are found i'll these | valuable trials ia cropping.