The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-08-26
FARM AND GARDEN.

we're exported to foreign countries.
Always set your hens in the evening
rather than by daylight. They will be
more sure to stick to the nest.
The Canadian Bee Keeper says a hive
which has held foul brood may be dis
infected by inverting it over fire until
it is scorched inside.
Sprinkling eggs at or near the time
Of Matching does not weaken the shell.
but softens the membrane lining the
she'll, thereby enabling the chick in
side to more easily break out of its
prison house.
Tennessee pays 80, 900. 600 to support
it's dogs and $50, 600. 600 to educate its
children. Three dollars for dogs to
one for the children of the State. We
suppose it is in about the same ratio in
Arkansas; and may be little more so.
arkansas Meteor.
An experienced horticulturist thus
describes his mode of planting fruit
trees: He makes holes eighteen inches
deep and three feet in diameter, fills in
four inches of strong, short horse man
ure, then two or three inches of street
dirt, sets the trees and fills in with
earth.
The best gravel for road-making has
no stones larger than hens egg, and
is free from dirt, and has no more sand
among it than will barely fill the inter
stices between the pebbles. Clean
gravel free from dirt and stones will
pack uniformly. make a smooth road,
and last indefinitely.
There is a growing tendency in
France to give horses old rather than
new hay. The former is believed to
affect the skin and irritate the diges-
tive tubes. Too much hay certainly
produces indigestion, and in the coun-
try hay almost exclusively forms the
rations of the horse.
One thousand pounds of dry corn
cobs will burn down to four and a halt
pounds of ash, and of this. two and a
half pounds will be pure potash. The
fact that cows often like corncobs may
be due to the potash they contain, and
which may serve to correct disordered
digestion.
The Country Gentleman says that as
the peach crop has, in certain sections,
been again destroyed. it is good time
to prune the trees, especially where the
limbs axe beginning to push to need
less length. The trees may he greatly
improved, without the fear of pruning
away a part of the crop.
The rule about feeding hens -1..ies
with the breed The A.,iatic varieties
are easily over-fed, especially with
corn, grow fat lay but few eggs. and
work of their fat only by sitting.
Leghorns and other nonsitters can
scarcely be fed too much if given slow
ly, and so the hens are compelled to
scratch for it.
For erect growing trees the head
should be formed at about three feet
from the ground; bHt spreading trees
should have the head five feet high
A tree with low head is less likely Is
be broken down by the wind, and the
branches will then be able to keep of
The scorching rays of the sun from the
trunks.
Mr.. j. S. Woodward holds that nc
man has q moral, nor should be per
mitted legal right, to allow his
orchard to become a nursery for can
ker worms and codling moths, to the
continuance of the species and the de
struction Of his ighbors' fruit HI
should be compelled to destroy the inl
scots or to cut down the trees.
A New Hampshire farmer has mark
ed success with blueberries by trans
planting them from their native local.
ties by cutting sods and setting in soc
ground. They do not succeed in cult
yated ground, but in an old worn ou
/ pasture the transplanted sods viii
spread, and when established give
twenty-five to fifty barrels of berries o
per acre.
Professor Cook says the following
mixture will not only vanquish thu
apple tree louise, but keep off thu
oorers as we'll. It is to heat to thu
boiling point one quart of soft soap il
Two gallons of water, and while still
not thoroughly stir into the mixture
one pint Of crude carbolic acid. Fl.
thinks the best way to apply it is t
rub it on thoroughly with heay.
cloth, using the hands also during tn
operation.
In Massachusetts,, by better agricul
tural methods the corn crop has beef
80 increased and improved that will
the present value of slower, they Cal
raise corn cheaper than it can be pur
chased from the West, and at tn
same time improve the fertility o
their lands for other purposes. Corr
fodder is now fed largely in the plac
of hay, the product Of the grass land
being sold in towns, Green fodder j
preserved in silos to considerable ex
lent.
The Poultry Yard gives the followin!
remedy for the disease known a
"bumble-foot:' As soon as the swell
Ing ripens fairly. cut open the puff.
protuberancs aad let out the gathered
pus freely, To effect this thoroughly
the incision should be made crucially
thus; x, and quite down to the bone o
ligament, beneath the skin. 1t is use
less merely to prick the swelling.
must BE- cpt' through, cleansed Of til
matter entirely and washed il amix
ture of alcohol and water, equal part
to cleanse it. If it gathers secon,
time, repeat the process.
Those who raise melons to shi
should ship none but large ones, TO
small ones seldom pay. To ship a