The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-07

Crops would snffer less from
many noxious insect or ANNA
and it's progeny were it not for til,
shelter of hedge or of the rubbish il
the fencerow.
Pear trees that refuse to grow
may be treated with wood ashes
placed about the roots of the trees
The trunks should be washed with
strong soapsuds.
DIR. Lintner, the entomologist
says that insects destroy 100000.
900 worth each year, and that a
single insect caused a loss of $15,-
10000 year in the state of New
York.
One DIR. Tere, in England is advo-
eating the string of bees as rem
edy for the rheumatism. He de-
clares that he has treated with sue.
cess 173 cases, and has given in all
$4,000 strings.
The Miliing Worid says Ameri-
can -four sells in Europe on its
merit, and that 80 per cent of the
flour exported hence last year went
to England. Our roller is the best
in the world.
Easy working is a grand element
of success in farm work. The fore
hand farmer gets ahead ofdrouths,
rains and other impediments, while
the belated farmer is behind all
these and struggles in vain to get
ahead of them.
1t is estimated that there are 320,-
900 known species of insects which
prey upon the crops of farmers.
The work of successfully CON-
batting these pests is one which will
keep the new cabinet department
busy for some time to come.
The American 4griculturist re-
marks: Rotation of crops is taught
by nature. Any one may see how
nature practices this rotation, in the
springing up of pines and other soft
woods on lands from which hard
woods have been removed, and the
growths of hard wood upon cleared
pine lands.
The McGregor Neos tell of a
Henry county farmer who sent a
green hand to salt the calf. The
boy took quart Of salt and rubbed
it all over the calf working it in the
hair. A gang ofeolts in the pasture
scented the salt and got after the
calf They licked the hair all off
the calfs back and tried the lick the
skin off, too.
In deciding what crop to raise
this year for marketing, remember
late potatoes, apples, cabbage,
squashes and tnrnips. They can
be sent to the market in ordinary
cars with little liability to injury.
They can be held till there is de
mand for them. They can be stored
and kept for use during the coming
winter and spring.
The Southern Planter well says:
Feed the stomach of the earth ia
the natural way, as the animal
stomach is fed, and the same life
giving influence will be given plants
as are impaired To the bones flesh
and blood of the animal body. 1t
will no more do fer men to live by
the agency of patent medicines
than for crops to be wholly raised
by patent manurcs.
1t does not pay to delay manur-
ing the garden until nearly the time
for blowing. The better way is to
manure in the fall and allow the
rains and melting SHOWS to wash
the soluble parts into the soil. If
fall plowed it will be still better, as
the surface will he ready for plan
ting merely cultivating the manure
under to the depth Of two OF three
inches.
The farmers insect foes are at
work night and day. They increase
rapidly. They breed under pieces Of
boards, bark, sticks, weeds, and any,
kind of rubbish. Remove all such
hiding places. Clean yards and
clean farms are good for half the
evil. Paris green, London purple, or
hellebore,if thoroughly used in spray
ing fruit trees, vines, and bushes,
will do wonders with the other half
1t has been found that a ton of
hay absorbs in its growth thirty
pounds of nitrogen, worth $3.50;
forty pounds Of potash, SO; and
fourteen pounds of phosphoric acid,
worth SLIP. Therefore each ton of
hay shipped from the farm takes
with it 1892 worth of these elements,
which must be replaced or the land
will be weakened by just this sum.
1t does not pay to sell hay at So
per ton. Better feed where grown,
and sell in the form of beef, pork
butter or milk
The value of salt to make crops
grow does not mainly depend on the
manurig elements that it contains.
1t makes those in the soil available.
1t is of little value on land poor in
vegetable matter. Wherever manure
has been used without due result,
apply salt and note its effect. Tue
best salt is now very cheap, and con-
sidering it's greater ease in distribu-
ton, costs less on the land than the
coarse Jumps of impure salt mixed
with earth that used to be sold for
putting on land.
A large share of the fruit trees an
nually planted are foredoomed to
failure from the start Men become
fired with enthusiasm in fruit grow
ing by highly colored plates, or, per-
haps, the taste of luscious fruit itself,
and knowing little Of the conditions
needed in growing fruit they plant
and then leave their trees in neglect.
1t is not a difficult matter to grow
fruit. The labor needed is mainly
the lightest and pleasantest that
falls to farmea's lot. 1t requires
some skill to prune and care for
growing trees or vines to bring them
into profitable fruit bearing; but
all that is really necessary is easily
and quickly learned. The only
trouble is in getting the work done
at the proper time. If the inisdirec-
ted work in fruit-growing were omit
ted, what was left would always be
profitable.
A snow-apple tree which had
borne fruit for teu years was last
season tieated az follows with very