The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-05-03


Goats flesh is not popular as mutton, although
young kid is often used az lamb without be-
ing discovered as such by the consumers.
Hence it is scarcely wise Just now to discard
sheep for the very much inferior goat.-Ez-
change
CORN PLANTING.
In rn-planting time the farmer is worried
By many pests. Crows and blackbird pull up
the sprouting seed, and if this is truly done in
pursuit of nefarious cut-worms and pestient
grabs the damage is in no way Modified or les
sened. Squirrels and chipmunks dig up the
seed and cut-worms sever the tender sprouts.
1t is useless and unreasonable to complain when
simple and effective precautions are ignored
and neglected Seed stirred in just sufficient
hot water in which tablespoonful of tar has
been mixed by agitation to coat each grain
with a film of the tar viii not be attacked by
crows or cut-worms or squirrels. We have
stepped the seed in solution of saltpeter in hot
water, with the result of fastening the germi-
nation by two days, and thus lessening the
danger Of mischief by these pests and by adj
ding a few drops Of carbolic acid to the quart
of solution the odor of the seed becomes too
offensive for all the common pests combined.
EARLY PLANTS.
However desirable it may be to secure early
vegetables by setting out those started in the
hotbed or in the living-room of the home, the
work of setting should not be attempted too
early in the season. 1t must be remembered
that house or hotbed grown plants are tender
and not susceptible to such degree of cold as
is frequently experienced In the early part Of
the season. 1t is therefore safer to omit trans
planting until the weather is quite uniform in
temperature Potted plants may be hardened
by putting out of doors, and 80 sooner prepared
for transplanting Esrliness of product is gov
erned largely by uninterrupted growth; the
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ed to as to prevent any shock to the growth.
FEEDING GIL MEAL.
Farmers frequently feel the want of food
that may be employed in the bringing up of
calves with skim milk, and that will, so to
speak, restore il to kull milk condition. Prof.
Stewart, who gives mach attention to the sub
ject of feeding, states that one ounce or less of
oi-meal to gallon of warm sweet whey will
make il nearly equal in feeding value to whole
milk for raising calf to three weeks DID, aud
after that another quarter of an ounce may
be safely added. The oil meal should be dis
solved in hot whey before mixing with that
! used for feed. About the same quantity could
be used with skim-nilk, and thus the cream be
saved.
NOTES.
To keep a rooster from growing very early
in the morning, suspend a small lath loosely
about Is inches above the perch.
10 make q COfn-cfiD anu mouse PROOF,
line it throughout overhead and all, with wire
cloth having meshes so small that these rodents
cannot enter This does not impede the air
| circulation.
Gypsum, when pure, is useful to many
crops, as is we'll known, but especially TO clover,
corn, oats, grass cabbage, turnips, etc. About
| 100 pounds per acre are usually applied early
in the Spring.
"A novel way of exterminating English
| sparrows comes TO as from a subscriber in Can
ada: The best way to get rid of English spar
rows is to feed them with bread moistened in
whisky. They will be senseless for few min
utes, and can be picked up like apples under a
| tree. "-Erchange
| - Experiments in transplanting the beauti-
! full Alpine flower, edelweiss, into the other
| mountain ranges of Europe show that the flower
! changes its character in new home. In the
| mountains of Bohemia it has become a new
| species, bearing red blossoms, instead of the
! beautiful pure white blooms of Switzerland.
| - strawberry grower in Bradford Co.. Fla,
! sold from quarter of an acre 1912 worth of
| strawberries. The only expense to be deducted
| from that sum were $12 for commercial ferti-
| lizer, and about SIS for hired labor in muching
and picking-$27 in all-leaving him S245 for
| his own labor, at the rate of $3.50 per acre.
- Cattle are frequently troubled with sore
| feet from standing in filthy stables or muddy
| yards. To prevent it keep the stable floor and
| yards dry and clean To cure the feet wash
them with warm water and carbolic soap. Break
| all blisters and scabs and get clean raw sur
!