Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-30
Rural Notes.

- Beet seed has faint tinge of pale green If
is very doubtful if old.
= SCOT is an excellent "starter" for corn, as it
is rich in nitrogen. 1t is substance that is often
wasted, but which is really valuable.
- Soft-woOded plants should always be placed
nearest the light, while hard and smooth
leaved ones will not suffer in quite shaded stu
atoms.
spoonful of coal oil poured into the wound made
by peach-borers In the body or limbs of trees is
sure death to the borer.
- The roots OF clover and some other grasses
often find their way to very considerable depths,
but drains laid from three to four feet deep are
seldom choked by the roots.
Trees whose roots seek water should never
be allowed near tile drains. The roots entering
the pipes choke them. The willow has been
known to travel 100 feet to enter q well.
In the draining Of sloughs straighten the
much digging Because nature forms water
course: crooked is no reason why man should
follow the example bindly, however good ma
lures laws may be generally.
i Black pepper is the cabbage protector. says
the Fmming World. and the way to apply It is to
the plants. Go early in the morninx While Ill o the
dew is on the plants and AUST over each a small
quantity and the vermin will leave.
around the vines 1t prevents the attacks OF
insects and also serves as plant food, as well as
fastening chemical action in the soil, thereby
rendering the inert substances available.
-Lampblack mixed with strong vinegar is
said to make paint for marking sheep that
Will not T. inJurs the wool, and will remain tor
both blotching and difficult to scour from wool.
Barn owls are inveterate mousers, and in
summer time feed on night-fiying moths and
ture insects, thus preventing the laying Of the
snakes, lizards beetles small birds and various
an Omniverous feeder, but eats less corn than
any other food. The proportion OF hawks that
Kill chickens is small.
"A Boar and a Cow Fight to the Death.
On Monday morning last, when George v.
Rury, living In the town of Howard New
York, went out to feed his cow, he found
her lying in a pool of blood in the barnyard
There wasa great cash in her lower right side,
her legs were stripped of thefesh in some places,
and even her horn showed marks Of violence
She was nearly dead, and was shot to end her
misery. AS there was scarcely foot of ground
in the barnyard which was not torn up and as
blood was scattered about on the fence and
barn, II was plain that desperate conflict
had taken place during the night between the
neishbor of Rury's, owned very large and
ugly Berkshire boar, and on the same morning
that Rury found his cow dying in the BARNARD
Suttn missed his boar from Its enclosure 1t
had broken down one side of the pen and es-
capped, A similar break was found in the fence
around Rury barnyard. 1t was then made
plain that the fight in the barnyard had been
between the boar and the cow. A search was
q
mile away lying in the soft mud on the border
of mire hole. The mud was red with its
blood, which came from ten large holes in its
side where the cow had thrust her horns. The
boar was badly torn in other places, and one of
Its fusks was broken off. Its wounds being ne
cessarly fatal, it was also shot The duel
between the two animals was not seen by any,
one but all the indications are that it must
have been most terrific combat.
Following the Doctors Direction.
From the Medical World
About the middle Of January, an old German