Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-02-01
4 GRICULTURAL TOPICS.
.>srn UCTIvE SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
Some InfoffhstA"n of Value to tho Farmer
Stock Isr esdSr- s-kce?or' Ho"so""s'
md KitcheN-Masd.
TIE FARM.
Cabbayes ava Farm Crop

Market gardening is necessarilly
mainly done near large cities, crvlEages
where land is high. 1t is only under
such conditions that necessary labor and
fertilizers can be procured. lhe market
gardner cannot make more than 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
for a single acre of land. As Il rule, the
market gardner favors most the crop that
requires the greatest amount OF labor.
The late cabbage crop does not come IN
this category. 1t is cheaply and easily
grown, and there is every year more dis
position on the part of the market gard
ener to leave late cabbagcs to farmers.
Early cabbages require to be started III
lighthouses. and as it is a forced crop it
needs heavier manuring than most farm
ers will think of giving. But the farmer
can grow late cabbages altogether in the
open ground. planting the seed in beds
in April and May and transplonting in
June or July. The crop will grow on
any soil rich enough for corn, and gen
orally pays better than most farm crops.
Ii cabbages are cheap they are worth the
cost of growing as winter feed for cattle.
Sulphur as an Inscct,c,te and Funsicidc.
The Hatch Experiment Station at AM
herst has been making some experiments
with sulphur. in order to demonstrate
it's 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-
lions were applied by boringa hole with
small gimlet, and forcing the liquid
into the opening with medicine drop
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different kinds, namely; potassium sui
sulphide, all Of these being saturated
solutions.
After forcing in ali the liquid the plant
would take (about tupeful), the holes
were plugged with hard grating wax.
At first a slight improvement was noticed
in the amount of mildew on the foliage,
but as the season advanced, the effect OF
the holes made i'll 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 made in part to dem
onstrate the great injury that must re-
suit in making large missions in the
trunks of trees and shrubs. and that
while there is some promise that the in
PRODUCTION of antiseptics into the circu-
laClOn OIL lue sap Hltly prevent INC Sio"tu
of injurious fungi, like the blights, mil
dews, ETC., other means must be found
of introducing the solutions. The re-
ports say it seems hardly possible to in.
Produce any substance into the circula-
tion of plant in sufficient quantities tc
affect insect life.
In connection with the matter of treat.
ing plants or trees with chemical injec'
tions, for the purpose of destroying in
sects which prey upon them, the report
refers to recent experiments upon trees
in the city of Boston, by introducing
sulphur to destroy beetles and worms
and says that from the very nature OF
things it is absurd to suppose that any
H good result can come from this practice
Trees plugged with sulphur have beer
cut down after a period of twenty -tiv'
years, and the mass of sulphur fount
wholly unchanged. The report expresses
hope that some of these Boston trees
may be cut down i'll time and examined
and the result made public, for while
we spend so much time in trying to pre-
vent injuries to our trees from borers
we certainly ought not to make holes il
them many times larger than those o
any known species Of insect borers.-
American Cultir0tor.