The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-10-08
Notes About Husbandry.

Notes About Husbandry.
In France whole cherry orchards are
protected from birds by fish nets.
English sparrows played havoc with
Strawberries in some gardens near
Philadelphia last summer.
During the last summer q stable in
Philadelphia burned, undoubtedly
from heat generated by manure piled
against the building.
In the north of England thirteen tons
of Jerusalem artichokes to the acre
were raised, last year, by CORES
p0ndent of theAondon Garden.
Spontaneous combustion in haymows
has been suspected, but, so far as is
generally known, has not been proven.
Recently haystack near Dorchester,
England, was burned by fire which
originated from overheating.
Oil thrown into ponds and standing
water will prevent mosquitoes from
Matching. We don't care so much
about preventing them; in fact we
would like to encourage them to hatch
continually and never take day off to
come and visit us.
Many farmer will readily yield a
hearty disbelief to the statement that
on the experiment grounds of the rural
New Yorker 1 1914 bushels per acre of
potatoes were this year raised. The
crop was dug Aug: 81, weighed, and
the yield figured by disinterested per-
sons: Compare that with the usual
yield.
Water and boring insects cause rapid
decay of wood. Wounds from cutting
off limbs furnish favorable openings
for the destructive agents; therefore
all such wounds should be thoroughly
protected by coating of varnish or
paint to keep water out until the en-
tire wound becomes covered by new
wood.
In view of the evils that have follow
ed the introduction into Australia of
rabbits, sparrows, thistles. and other
things that have become costly and
seemingly unconquerable plaques; the
importation into the United States of
the English sparrow, the enlargement,
and other pests; and the presence in
England of the potato-bug from Amer
lea and the parasite from Australia that
is destroying their clover, does it not
seem that the time has come when
more care should be taken to prevent
such damaging exchanges?
A forestry company has issued
circulars from Waverly, N. Y, offering
its shares at the low price of 81 each,
although quarter of that sum will DO
acceptable. This company" which,
by the way, shows the name IF only
one person in its circulars, proposes to
plant the eucalyptus enormously in few
er-stricken districts. 1t is not impossi
BILE that men who will growl about
paying their few dollars Of taxes will
invest in the cheap shares of this ''com-
pany.'
The survey or-general of the Domin-
ion announces that fully 100000, 900
acres of the Canadian Northwest are
particularly we'll adapted to wheat
growing. IF this were all brought in
into wheat-growing at an average of
fifteen bushels per acre, the result
would be crop of 5000, 900, 900 BUSH
els. Half that amount added to the
present annual wheat product would
make bread cheaper than it is now.
There is little doubt that English cap
ital will bring large part of the area
mentioned into in-growing as soon
as some practicable and profitable
means shall have been found for apply
ing steam to the now slow and costly
work of blowing, harvesting and thresh-
ing.
1T is now some years since the
Gardeners Monthly pointed out that
the close cutting which came into use
with impl loved 1awn-mowers was the
ruination of. good lawns, and when
complaint has been made about lawns
wearing ou:, or small, creeping weeds
crowding out the enervated grass, we
have recommended to set the knives
higher" So says Thomas Meehan's
Gardeners Monthly, and adds: 1--WE
now find by the London Gardeners
Chronicle that even in that lawn
favored region they find close moving
destroys the grass. 1t recommends in
many cases the knives to be set half
or three-quarters higher than they are.
Even this is very high to an American
lawnkeeper.
E. L. Sturtevant, director of the
New York Experimental Station,
Geneva, N. Y, says: "The disease
known as pear-blight is infectious and
may be transmitted from one tree to
another by incubation. It is not con-
fined to the pear, but may attack other
pomaceous fruits. as the apple, ounce
English hawthorn and Juneberry. II
is more active and progresses most
rapidly upon young and succulent por-
tons of the tree. Under the microscope
any bit of diseased tissue shows incon-
ceivable myriads of minute bacteria.
which fill the water of the slide in
which it is mounted like a cloud.
There can not be rational doubt
that the bacteria are the cause of the
disease.
There Shall he No Alps.
When Napoleon talked of invading