The National tribune., 1889-08-08
OUR RURAL TOPICS,
Some Practical Suggestions for Our
Agricultural Readers
AFTER HAYrNa

AFTER HAVING
Now that the hay is gathered, the question OF
what should DO done with the meadows, comes
up for interesting consideration. Should they
be pastured, or left for second crop Of hayf
Many farmers pasture them as closely as posi-
BILE to get rid of the dry "fog," which If left on
the ground interferes with the next years
moving. Others think this pasturing is an
injury. The writer thinks so, too, and escapes
both horns Of the dilemma by running the
mower over the grass, cutting off all the late
weeds which spring up, raking up the cut herb
age and feeding 1t in tho stables or the pasture
lots Pasturing the moving meadows leaves
them in an unsightly and inconvenient shape !;
the cattle pick here and there and leave the
manure in spots, which are left untouched and
cause dense tufts Of herbage to remain in the
field. If meadows are pastured the droppings
should bo broken up and spread and the I'M
eaten heritage cut off with tho mower, and TO do
this Is more laborious and less satisfactory than
to cut aud carry home the second growth for
late feeding.
at is generally supposed" says s. Rufus Ma
son in the Germantown Telegraph, that when
farm shows every year heavy crops Of extra
quality, the land must DO rich, in good care |;
that the owner must have head on his shout
ders, not mere pimplo; that his head is full OF
brains, kept as bright as new hoe, etc. But in
reality, the crops may DO heavy, of fine quality,
and yet only one of the above requisites be al
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stuff in the world, and is only scarce on tho best
farms On poor farm, covered with weedy
hedge rows, foul head lands, musk ponds, hog
wallows slop holes ut the home door, old stack
bottoms. and a universal coat of rubbish COW
ering the land entirely out of sight, rs have
seen on some farms, then you will find man
ure in an embryo state, filling tho air with
poisonous efiluvia instead of being converted
into plant food and filling the owners pockets
with the almighty dollar" that little golden
haired cherub which lightens labor TO It's own
color If all the refuse on tho face Of the habit
able surface of the civilized world was boiled
down lso to speak,, "a 1t is in the power Of man
to do, every aero of tillahlo land would be as
luxuriant as the wonderful jungles Of the
Indies. Crops, with scarcely moro labor than
necessary to gather them in, would cover the
land. Want would vanish, and crime would
be q thing of the past, only to be known by the
records OF che old. day times, when people were
too ignorant to know what they really wanted.
Let one.half your land go TO grass literally,
work mp all your rubbish, put IL on the other
half. grow everything that will sell, and there
will be the millennium before you expect It."
APPLE AND PEACH BoRER.
".Tho borer." says A. d. Smith, " Is one of the
greatest detriments 10 the success Of the Or
chardist. and 10 in q common thing TO SEQ
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by it. because the owner knows no way 70
destroy 1t. not wishing to pay out money to
try the many recipes given by the newspapers.
A great many have heon given for the extermi-
nation Of the borer, but most OF them cost
more than some arc willing 20 pay for somo-
thing of which they know nothing. have a
recipe which ! think will never fall IL well
applied. 1t costs nothing but little labor. aud
when man can save his orchard by little
labor, he has no excuse for letting IL be eaten
up by the borer. i use boiling water. IL will
not kill the trees or ininre them, but will do
stFoy the borer. IL should be applied at least
once each month, about two feet from tbs
ground. beginning about the middle Of April
aud quitting about tho middle of September.
Apply about one.half gallon TO tree Of three
or four inches In diameter, aud be sure that II
vets ail parts Of tho tree nearest the ground"
SoTFA
--0nions may be kept long while II put In
cool place aud kept dry.
lit costs no more 10 raise and harvest 30(
bushels Of turnips than IL does for $50 bushei,
OF potatoes. So says tho Maryland Farmer.
- Rhode Island has seven cTeameries, making
about 1000 pounds OF butter por day, and
boasts OF being the second State in the manu-
factnre Of oieomargaTins.
49, More apples have beeu shipped from Amer
lea 10 Europe tho past year than ever before In
single year. the total being ,40l ,382 barrels
The largest previous shipments were in the
year 1901, when the exports reached l, 328
BOG barrels.
~ Good boxes should be provided for ths
harness The pins behind each stall for hang
ing The harness upon should 20. II need cost
bat little 60 make good boxes Ia which all tho
trappings can be easily kept. and the saving Il
the harness viii moro than pay for the trouble
and expense.
~ The common quail Is the best exterminatoI
Of the ehnoh-bng. and is followed by the prairie
chicken. If protection were given these birds
and they were provided with opportunity fol
increase, and considered TO be private property
the insect pest would undoubtedly be- very
much decreased.
-Ifyon have horse which has the mango
bathe tho diseased parts with the following
preparation Two and half pints OF whale oil
two ounces oil Of tar; mix and add eight ounce:
oil ulphnr. IA mango - q very contagiou dis
ease the afflicted animal should be- removed
from the rest, and the stables cleansed also the
harness, blankets aud other stable equipments
- The Rural World has au idea that for al th,
diseases of domestic animals there is cause
| and that the suTest and quickest road to cure Il
in discovering and removing It, This Is trut
with regard 10 all tho animal creation. human
and otherwise. Ii would be difficult to trace thu
cause; but be you sure that unless you do SO
the remedy 10 much more problematical If no
vastly more dangerous.
| - Hay baled directly from tho field will keel
| in some cases, but 30 far the evidence is that i
will oftener spoil. and that battling hay from the
| field can ut present be recommended only on
very limited experimental scale. We must hav,
more trials, very carefully conducted, bofor,
the matter can be definitely settled one way o.
the other. With our present knowledge, i
appears that hay baled from the swath requires
for its preservation certain conditions not re
| quired by loose hay. or any hay baled after I
has been stored for some time; and what thos
| conditions are is not yet known,
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