The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-09
FARM NOTES.

Bee-hives are better in shady place
in hot weather.
Water in which fish wiz not live is
not fit for stock
The humane farmer has few shade
trees in his pasture.
A green crop plowed under is always
beneficial to the soil.
The wolves and eagles ara thinning
the focks of West Virginia.
''Gheap" help is expensive on the
farm, as it is everywhere else
The Jerusalem artichoke is cultiYat-
ed in France for making alcohol.
There ara known to be It's varieties
of insects that feed on the apple tree
A rat in the corn-crib will consume
and waste enough corn to keep a pig.
The Norway spruce, planted two
feet apart win soon form beautiful
hedge.
There are no .soff-years'' in ounce
culture. and there is always ready
market for the fruit.
Weeds. briars and bushes may be cut
from the pastures with as much profit
as from the meadows.
No labor performed on farm affords
greater pleasure or gives such sure
profits as stock raising.
It is said that 1000 new farms win
be opened up In Colorado this season.
They all have to be irrigated.
It is a common practice for Eastern
farmers to cut one crop of clover and
pillow the second crop under for manure.
The sorghum sugar-works at Cham
paign, H.. have been abandoned. The
venture is total loss to the stock
holders.
The Western Farmer recommends
the sowing of orchard grass with blue
grass, timothy and clover for pasture.
It starts early and grows late.
A loan agent who has had thirty-five
years. experience in Iowa, says he has
never known q mortgage to be fore
closed on dairy or stock farm.
An Englishman, who has recently
been investigating the agricultural re-
sources of the Soudan, says it is one of
the finest agricultural regions in the
world.
A Frenchman claims to have discov-
cred that butter can be separated from
milk by passing suitable electric cur
rent through the tactical fluid. He has
secured patent
A cow kept at the Governors man.
sion, in jefferson City, Mo-, has been
MIXED for the last five years by con-
victs. She now refuses to allow any
one to approach her who does not
wear striped suit
''The meanest man on EARTH" says
| 7. b. Terry, sis the one who hires his
children to do job and then forgets
to pay them-who gives them calf to
raise for their own, and sells it when
grown up and coolly pockets all the
money"
No green manure should be placed
| in contact with the roots of any trees
| newly set, but any kind of manure
may be spread on the surface and Gull
tivated in. 1t is well to prepare land
by liberal manuring year in advance
of setting trees.
An easy way to kill plantain. dands-
lion and other weeds in a lawn, says
/ an exchange, is to place a little sui
phuric acid with stick on the crown
of each plant carrying the acid in an
| open-mouthod bottle with long han
die, so as not to touch it with fingers
or clothes.
Grapevine mildew, says the Gard
e1ler's Monthly, can be prevented by
soaking stakes on which the vines
Irvine in solution of blue vitriol. A
recent experiment, where such stakes
were mixed with others not soaked
throughout the vineyard, showed thai
in every case where not soaked all the
leaves were entirely ruined, while
those in the soaked stakes were
healthy. A weaker solution of the
vitriol was not SO effective. The effeci
of the soaking gradually dies out, but
will last from. four to six wears.