Daily Republican., 1886-09-06
AGRICULTURAL.
MOVING RoADsIDKs.

II should be o part of the road work
every where to keep the weeds cut down
which spring up along the sides OF the
hiqhwa and this work should never
be neglected. There is scarcely neigh
borhood In which tue highways do not
mature enc ugh weeds to seed half the |
adjoining fields. 1t would be to the ID
terests of the owners Of those fields TO |
have the highways mown; but they fall |
/ to do this because the roads are public
property, and they feel that every item
OF their care should be part OF the pub
| lie expense. Usually nearly all OF the
work could be done with two horse
mower, the scythe being necessary only
where there are projecting posts, sharp
Off sets in the fence, etc Thus done
i the work would cost but little, com
pared with the damage it would avoid.
L IL the road overseers DO not feel dis
posed to have this work done, fearing
THAT 1t is outside their duties, 1t should
be brought up before the annual town
meeting and voted npon. II properly
presented before the vote Is taken, very
few W, IL any, will vote agairst 1t. 1t
may be we'll to suggest that not only
those who have fields by the high ways
, " Ill be benefited, but every man who
, passes along the road.
SOILING CATTLE.
r As the results of experiments 1t has
I made, the Ohio Agricultural College
= publishes the following: The old sys.
G tenn of pasturing Ia not consistent with
4 an advanced and progressive agrtcul-
: lure, and the time is not far distant
j. when nearly all the food of cattle will,
Q In the State of Ohio, be cut and fed to
II them, 1t Is perfectly safe to say that
q almost any farm within the borders oil
1t our State will carry twice as m uch stock
10 IL the latter plan Is pursued. A general
b, change from pasturing TO selling would
double the gross receipts, and would
o add largely TO the net income OF many
t. q stock and dairy farmer. To allow
o. cattle to run at large over good meadow
10 land ia wasteful, Lnthrifty and improvi
,yIdent. Half the number of acres viii
ct Il ed the same amount OF stock ar d keel
or them in better condition, II the product
OF be cut and placed before them.
Of Rye, orchard grass. clover, mtllet
% sowed corn, sorghum and other crop
n can be chesply and prohtably grown 10
~ 1.-The purpose, and each fed in Its season
ket With good one horse mower and car
10. lo1e man can easily cut and feed IN
sh ,aai!y ration OF herd of twenty head
h. In an hours time.
20 WHITEw ASKING FRUIT TREES
w Josiah Hopes, In the New York Til
10 lhune, says one Of the most creditabl
r, practices of old-t!me orchardists, now
: am sorry to say almost obsolete, wa
that of whitewashing the trunks an
l.. larger limbs of fruit trees. 1t ma
,st prove unsightly from an aesthetic poin
M of view, but the result Is death to q
no manner of insects and their eggs hid
~ den away under the rough, scaly bari
az besides leaving in time healthy
oy emooth surface after the rains hav
, n Washed the greater part Of the lin
s aw az to act on fertilizer to the root
no Another old time idea had its goo
'he uses. Scraping the bark of IouRl
ino disc ased trees and then scrubbing Il
!, ,o ~ surface with soap-suds made from goo'
-. ~, home made, soft soap, with lit
,oh flower OF sulphur. Above all let ever
~ one owning q single tree or many III
~, ~ around the surface Of the soil a goe
'o'o top dressing OF some itch fertilizs
, ron Bear In mind our trees exhaust tt
',,a plant food from the earth, and 1t nee'
~, ~; to be replaced Just as much as do veg
- tables OF the garden annually lioer
"a supply oil fresh nutrimeAt.