The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-05-19
AGRICULTURAL.
Gleanings For Changers.

Gieanings For Changers.
A cautious old granger significantly re-
marks: "Better be week or ten days later
in getting in the crop than to plant earlier
with the ground lndifferently prepared"
Stirring wet soil has such bad effect that
au entire seasons cultivation will frequently
fail to make it friable and mellow.
The codling worm on apples may be de-
stroyed By spraying the trees with mixture
of a tablespoonful OF Paris green dissolved in
four gallons of water.
According to experiments made at an agri-
cultural college in France, the yield of milk
may be Increased one-thTd by giving the
COWS water at temperature of sixty-six de-
grees.
An infusion of tobacco leaves or stems,
sprinkled over rose and other bushes, will de-
stroy the aphis or green fly, whose unchecked
ravages are sometimes quite serious.
Oats as food for working horses is recon-
mended in preference to corn, as the latter,
especially in summer, is apt to heat the sys-
tenn without replacing waste tissue. The
cheapness of oats at present adds to the adj
vantage of use in larger proportions for The
food of VOL king cattle.
The progress Of invention 10 utilizing al
most the entire product of flax has given
such an impetus to its cultivation, especially
in the west, that it will doubtless speedily
become one of the staple crops of the coun-
try.
The Norway spruce planted two feet apart
will speedily form perfect and beautiful
hedge for farm, with one clipping yearly.
Professor Arnold recommends four parts
of bran, two parts cornmeal and one part
linseed meal as the best and cheapest dry
food for mich COWS In relation to milk
production.
The season in England has been very try
ing on the sheep hocks, and as conse-
quence, daring March and April lambs have
been commanding twenty-five cents per
pound, live weight.
II is stated that the more wriDkled The
seeds of peas aud sugar corn are, the better
is the variety for the table.
A Missouri stock-raiser who had suffered
much loss from hog cholera found that an
infusion of tobacco given in buttermilk to
the hogs entirely checked the fatal charac-
ter of the disease.
The average weight of clover roots to the
acre has been found to be about three tons
producing about one hundred pounds of
available nitrogen, the most stimulating of
all manures. Il is this which renders clover
plOwed under such good preparation for a
wheat crop.
Ounce trees are very profitable, as an acre
will yield an average of at least one hundred
bushels, and there are no of years with the
fruit. There is always ready market for it.
To prevent the pilfering of seeds by birds,
especially corn aud peas, the seeds should be
slightly dampened by sprinkliug water while
stirring them in vessel. Then take dry red
lead, about teaspoopful to pint Of seed,
and sprinkle this, keeping the seeds stirred
al Il T. Al. -1e.I
gardeners assert that birds will leave such
seeds severely alone.
Experts now favor lime as a first dressing
to improve heavy soils. To further bring
such into thorough cultivation the following
rotation of crops is recommended: First, po-
tatees; then oats, then tares or peas, and
then potatoes again.