The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-23
FARM AID HOUSEHOLD.
Arr.cultural Notos.

Agricultural Notos.
Tho Christian Union, which finds
space for occasional consideration of
rural affairs, prints n brief plea for the
toad, an excellent help against insect
enemies.
A Dakota farmer, in 1881, planted a
single grain Of wheat in one Of his oat
fields. From it grew twenty-five stalks,
each bearing a full head. These yield
ed $50 grains, 7GO of which were plant
ed the next year, producing one-ffth OF
n bushel of splendid wheat. This was
planted last Spring, yielding seventeen
bushels, making 1.o20 pounds of wheat
from one grain in three years.
A correspondent of the Kansas Farm
er says that the following ship-dip re-
ceipt has been used quite successfully:
One pound of sulphur to one-llalf
pound of lime, and n gallon of water;
boil II hour; when ready to use, add
three gallons OF water to one of the
liquid, then dip hot. The cost of this
dip is 2 cents por head.
A good way to use corn drills for SOW
ing corn for fodder is to remove the
brush or iron regulator, as the cas- may
be, and use the largest plates, or the
plates having the largest holes, and
then drill in the corn three feet apart.
With doublc-row planters that drop
four feet apart, the machine may be III
half way between the first drills, thus
planting drills two feet apart. A cab
bnge pillow will serve to cultivate be-
tween the rows and keep down the
weeds. The. Black Sweet Corn or
Stowell's Evergreen, is excellent to
plant for this purpose.
a correspondent of tho Husbandman
says that sulphur is q preventative of
potato rot, and this is confirmed by the
experience of q Vermont farmer, who
rolled his cut potatoes in fine sulphur
ut planting and busted the plants as
they appeared above the ground. Meth
er rot, worn nor insect touched them,
though potatoes on n%eighboring farms
We're badly damaged. His potatoes were
excellent and the crop yielded we'll.
There is no doubt that sulphur will as
sist materially in preventing fungus
growth in other plants rs well as pota-
toes, and it would be we'll if farmers
gave it q trial for such purposes the
coming season.
The first thing many persons do in
purchasing aplot OF ground and build
ing a residence thereon is to stock the
lawn with so large a number of trees
and so much shrubbory, which, while
small, look very pretty, but in the course
OF years increase in size to such an cx-
tent as to turn the beautiful lawn intoa
forest, screening the dwelling from pub
lie view, destroying the symmetry of the
trees, and running the grass; besides, if
there are any hedges near, they will
loon become irregular in form and rag
ged in appearance and frequently die.
But in addition otllis, o. a general rule,
we plant too many ornamental trees upon
promises, and too few fruit trees.
Some of tho latter are as comely in form
and yield as fine shade as the former
Germantown Telegraph.
eff potatoes show signs of decay, dust
them with air-slacked lime" This item
is going the rouads of the press, and rs
lime seems q powerful application for
such a juicy tuber, we would like to
know what they mean by "air-slacked."
The term is often used p~romiscuously.
Proper i r-slacked lime that was Stacked
by the slow process of absorbing mois-
ture from the air may have lost some of
its properties so as to be safe to apply
to potatoes, but simple dry-slacked
lime, rapidly prepared, with just water
enough to slack it and leave it dry, may
be more powerful.