The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-08-13
FARuAND HOUSEHOLD.
Do not plant corn too deep.

but it seems to have a good backing
from abroad.
The Kansas Board of Agriculture re-
port thirty per cent. of the winter wheat
killed the area decreased sixteen per
cent. from 1885, and the condition
eighty per cent.
Fences cost on most farms each year
more aud more costly as material gets
scarce. The true policy is to take up
interior fences so far as practicable.
The states of New York, PennsyIva-
MIA, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri,
and Kansas have 7, ,524 CAB cows, not an
inUonsiderabIe sum invested IN the dairy
business.
The safest way to destroy milk weed
is to plow very shallow, not cutting the
roots then to plant a hoed crop, and
keep the ground cultivated quite shallow
and frequently worked, so as to prevent
any leas growLhs. Il this is done, the
roots perish.
a strong tea made from sassafras root
is recommended for killing lice on cattle
or horses. In applying it, take an old
cloth and wash the animal so as to wet
the hair and hide thoroughly. No injury
will be done TO the animal, and the lice
will be effectually killed.
a recent writer on swine truly says
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and that the hog which can be made to
grow the most lean meat, at the least
expense, in a given time, is the best
hog, and concludes that the breeders
have not yet produced such a type.
The mallard duck is the original of all
our Rouens, Pekins, Cayugas and other
varieties, the male of which has the re-
curved feathers in his tail. No wild
breed but the mallard resembles the
ROuen drake in plumage almost exactly.
though in proportion the latter is fuller
and deeper, especially behind.
Clover bloat on cattle, it is said, can
be easily cured by tying in the animals
mouth a round stick from three to four
inches in diameter, and then put a lit
tie salt In the mouth to make them
chew and swallow. In tweEty to thirty
minutes the gas will pass off through
the animals mouth, when the stick
may be removed.
With regard to the eggs of the feath-
cred kingdom, if you pick the largest
out OF nest, they are the ones that
generally produce males, especially il
they happen to be the first laid. Even
in a canary's nest It Is noticeable that
the first egg laid is very often the largest,
the young from 1t is the first out, keeps
ahead Of its comrades, is the fist to
quit the nest and the first to sing,
Keep your tomato vines on their feet.
Some gardeners assert that they yield
better and ripen earlier when reclining
gracefully in the dirt. This is a legend,
friends, of the far off o'den time. Some
who put out from one to i've thousand
plants naturally have not time or tim
Der TO furnish stakes, but those who
grow fifty have both. Drive in four
lath TO the hill, allowing them to meet
at the top. As the plants grow tie with
wOOlen twine. as that will not cut the
tender branches. The variety knowh
as the Acme is pretty sure to rot more
or less, whether tied up or not. And
yet it is one of the earliest and best va
rieCies grown.
The cabbage worm, the Larvae of the
common butterfly, may be easily des-
tTOyed in several ways. That the hand
picking, if begun before the first brood
has passed into It's perfect state, is eff
fectual. We have also found that pvre-
thTum powder mixed with five times its
bulk of plaster and busted into the CEN
ter of the leaves with sulphur bellows
is certain destruction to every one of
them. Tie application of insecticides
in liquids to the cabbage has not been
satisfactory on account of the peculiar
structure Of the leaf surface which al
lows the water to fall off in drops and
not adhere to any part of it. Paris
green is unsafe to use after the leaves
have become over four inches in diam
eter.
If farmers would observe more closely
the habits of those insects which prev
upon their crops they would be much
be much better prepared to battle with
them. Take for instance, the large.
black squash-bug which makes its ap-
Pearance when the vines are of large
size, and if left alone will surely des-
troy them. The observing farmer
will notice that the eggs are
deposited on the under side of
the leaves in groups. which can be cas-
lily crushed, and thus destroyed. He
will also observe that the bug in ques-
tion will get under a stone or leaf. or
other covering, as night approaches.
and by placing a shingle beside the hill
at night large numbers of bugs will take
shelter under it, and can be DESTROYED in
the morning.
An Ohio farmer writes to the Co,rTt-
try Gentleman that last year he raised
100000 cabbages, and kept the flea bee
ties away at cost of a single dollar
His method is to pour a gallon of spir-
its Of turpentine into a barrel of land
plaster, and when the plaster is damp
ened all through, as it will be in a few
days, spread it broadcast over the field.
1t is better than lime or ashes. and may
be applied when the plants are wet with
dew or rain. It is also said that the
mixture will keen for savara1 vaars