Little Falls transcript., 1886-01-22
Farm and Il ehold.
lIiscoIIanoous Farm r1otas.

any public guide -bo oard, Is You would
keep out of prison Don't sue the
town if you find q ow-bank or an
icy spot@in the highway, for in this lat
itude such distractions are natural
and not always the fault OF the town.
| Don't keep q dog with the habit ofrun-
lining into the street and barking at
people passing; if this causes 9 horse
to run away you may be called upon.
to pay double the damage done.
The new wheat pest lately discov-.
cred in Milwaukee, when viewed by
the naked eye, was scarcely discerni-.
| BILE, being the merest atom. When
! put under the rays Of q powerful mag
nifying glass, it is seen to be an active
midget, transparent in body and ap-
parently terminated from the grain
Its industry is shown by the samples
| of the berry, which are reduced al.
most to dust through it's workings.
The bin in which these workers We're
discovered is, strangely enough, select
ed wheat, culled from the choicest lots
that had been sent in. .@ .8s ss.. 1.ea e
Having known the carp in the wa
ters of Bushnell Park, Hartford, The
Connecticut Farmer thus celebrates
that "great and glorious" Govern
ment gudgeon: "Given q fair start,
he can say the multiplication table
backward in seven different languages.
lie is as gamey as a printing office
to vel, and, according to the most re-
liable accounts, as toothsome as
sawdust pie. But wecontidently COM
mend him to farmers in possession of
convenient mudhole and wishing to
topdress their lands with him three
or fouryear hence.' .-.
A neighbor has sold large COW
which gave the most milk of any in his
dairy. It came about in this way:
Her milk happened to come into the
! house one day by itself, and his wife
"took g. notion" to set it by itself, and
thus found that this favorite COW was
really the poorest. No doubt there
! are many more such COWS, but they
are not tested. This was good COW
to sell, as most farmers think big
mess OF milk makes d good COW. This
notion is a costly one, as such COWS
are big eaters with small returns.
This cow could have been put to good
use by her owner in raising calves, for
which she was especially adapted, or
she could have been turned to good
account for the cheese factory or for
the milkman.
Tomatoes will always be a profta~
BILE market garden crop, but like sweet
corn, the greatest return will come
from the earliest and latest, as in the
height of the season tho market is in
variably slutted. For the early crop
SEED should be sown under glass in
February. A very small sash will suf-
| flee to start large number, as several
hundred can be grown to the square
foot large enough to prick out in the.
hotbed, but besure to have the beds
into which to transplant them ready
in time, and transplant promptly, as
when large enough to begin to crowd
each other in a very few days will
will cause them to spindle. In from
three to four weeks from sowing they
| will be ready to prick out, and may be
set three inches apart each way. A
bed four feet by ten will hold about
59Oplants.
The most frequent pests which in
fest cabbage are the small lice and the
green worms. These are both destroy
ed by Persian insect powder. Fine air.
Stacked lime will kill the lice, but not
the worms. The kerosene emulsion
will destroy both and will not in;ure
| the cabbage unless it is nearly mature.
This is made by mixing one pint OF
kerosene oil or crude petroleum with
one gallon OF strong soft soap suds
and churning it into we'll mingled
emulsion. Hand picking OF the worms
once g. day is a good plan where the
plot is small, but for a large plot the
Persian insect powder is preferable to
any other method. 49, - /,
Mr.. Samuel Preston describes in
The Farmers Review his ways Of Win
tering seed corn which has given salts
faction during q dozen years: "Select
the seed before it freezes, take pieces of
twine about sixteen inches long, make
a slip loop in each end, put an ear in
each loop, hang up in q warm room
until thoroughly dry. Then pack it
away in barrels or boxes with drv oats,
put a layer of oats first, then corn,
alternating until the cask is full; cover
it to keep out mice, and it will need no
further attention until wanted to
plant. The oats act as an absorbent
Of the moisture that may be in the
room, and no matter how cold, the
. corn is safe. .
I ~-l Resources of tho Farmer,
1T is a. SeriOlS question with farnnars