The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-01-24

INSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
$tock-Ebreedor, Bee Keepers Housewife,
and Kitchen Maid.
THE FARM.
Cabbages as a Farm Crop.


Market gardening is necessarily
mainly done near large cities, orvillages
where land is high. IL is only under
such conditions that necessary labor and
fertilizers can be procured The market
gardner cannot make more than a small
proportion of the fertilizers he is obliged
to use. He generally keeps only horses
enough to do his team work, and from
these he can get scarcely enough manure
fora single acre of aand. AS a rule, the
market gardiner fav0rs mosttthe crop that
requires the greatest amount of Labor.
The late cabbage crop does not come in
this category. 1t is cheapay and easily
grown, and there rs every year more dis
position en- the part of the market gard
ener to leave late cabbages to farmers.
Early cabbages require to be started In
hothoUses, and as it is q forced crop it
needs heavier manuring than most farm
ers will think of giving. But the farmer
can grow late cabbages altogether i'm the
open ground, planting the seed i'm beds
in April and May and transplanting in
June on Judy. The crop will grow on
any soil rich enough for corn, and gen.
orally pays better than most farm crops.
If cabbages are cheap they are worth the
cost OF growing as winter feed for cattle.
Sulphur as an Insecticide and Fungicide.
The Hatch Experiment Station at Ana
herst has been making some experiments
with sulphur, in order to demonstrate
its value In preventing fungoUs growths
which cause rust; blights, and mildew,
etc. A lot of rose bushes of large size
were badly widowed, and several solu-
tions were applied by boringa hole with
small gimlet, and forcing the liquid
into the opening with q medicine drop
ping tube. The solutions were three
different kinds, namely; potassium sui
phide, hydrogen sulphide, ammonium
sulphdde, all of these being saturated
solutions.
After forcingin all the liquidthe plant
would take (ab0Ut tubefuD, the holes
were plugged with hard grating wax
AIT FIRST slight improveme ntMas noticed
in the amount of mildew on the foliage,
but as the season advanced 1.-THE effect of
the holes made in the trunk became
more apparent, SO that by Sept. ~ all
the bushes were dead, except one Of
those treated with ammonium sulphide
This experiment was madein partto dem
onstFate the great injury that must re-
suit In making large incisions LII the
trunks of trees and shrubs, and that
while there Is some promise that the in
PRODUCTION of antlseptlcs into the circu-
lation of the sap may PREVENT the growth
of injurious fungi, like the blights, mill
deWs, etc. other means must be found
of introducing the solutions. The re
ports say it seems hardly possible to in
troduce amy substance into the cIrcula-
tion Of a plant in sufficient ,quantM les to
affect insect life.
In connection withthematter oftreat-
ingplants or trees with chemical injec-
tlons, for the purpose of destroying in
sects which prey upon them, the report
refers to neoent experiments upon trees
lnthe city of Boston, by introducing
sulphur to destroy beetles and worms,
and says that from the very nature of
things it is absurd no suppose that any
good result can come from this practice.
Trees plugged with sulphur have been
cut down after period of twenty-five
years, and the mass of sulphur found
wholly unchanged. The report expresses
a hope that some of these Boston trees
may be cut down in time and examined,
andthe result made public, for while
we8pend SO mach time in trying to pre-
vent injuries to our trees from borers,
We certainly ought ITO make holes in
them many times larger than those of
any known species of insect borers.-
AmeriCGD CaItjUGtor.