The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-05-09
THE FARM.
Experience With Small Fruit

We give summary of paper on this
topic presented at the State Agricul-
tural Society meeting in Albany by an
authority of the highest rank, M. J. II.
Hale, of South Glastonbury, Ct.]
The requisites of success are:
/. love of fruits for their own sake,
and pleasure in their culture.
z. soil fairly we'll adopted.
s. Markets within easy reach.
4. A supply of extra laborers near
enough to be promptly available in
! emergencies.
5. Plant no more than can be thor
oughly cultivated andl proftably mar
keted.
Strawberries-Any good corn or wheat
land will do, but must be very rich,
though it should not have too much
nitrogen, fer fear of undue foliage
growth. Sandy or loamy soil is best en-
riched with phosphoric acid. It should
have been in cultivation yeer or two.
Then pillow deep, early in the Spring,
and narrowed repeatedly. Check off
rows three feet apart with corn marker,
and set plants twelve to twenty inches
in row.
Farm Notes.
The best kind of hired man is the
one shat is eager to manufacture all the
manure he can.
IMPROVE your cattle by using a good
pure bred male. 1t would put money in
your pocket in the end.
WE hear only good accounts of the
So called Japanese buckwheat-an item
to be borne in mind until next summer.
ARTIFICIAL Matching is said to leave
chickens absolutely free from lice, and
promotes, therefore, strong develop
ment.
COOLING moth-A writer says: Or
chardists may feel sure that they have
means without great expense of de-
stroying cooling moth. A greater num-
Der than ever tried spraying trees with
paris green or London purple solutions
the past year, and their testimony is all
ito the effect that the destruction Of in
sects was nearly complete.
~ HENRY STEWART has some good words
to say in the RuraI Near Yorker in favor
OF raising hogs in the South. judging
from experience with native breeds he
thinks that civilized Berkshires, fed
upon clover pasture and the nuts of the
woods, with milk only added, in average
years will furnish pork for less than two
cents pound.
The experienced Mr.. n. Oehmer, of
Montgomery Co., o., has been very sue
cessful with pears. He has now %, 600
trees. He planted 1900, twenty five
years ago. He would not hesitate to-
day to plant an orchard of a good many
thousand trees, but would only plant
some half dozen varieties-the Bartlett,
Flemish Beauty, Lawrence, Duchess,
and Louise Bonnie. He would not plant
dwarfs, except the Duchess. For a win
ter pear, he planted the Vicar of Wake
field, but the blight took most of them.
He has grown them to- great perfection,
beautiful in color, and sold them for
high prices. He has tried the Sheldon
They are excellent. He has also tried
the Swans Orange. 1t is large, hand
some, round pear and will sell. The
Tyson is very fine, but he would not
plant many as they do not bear we'll.
The Seckel, he pronounces the finest
pear that grows.
THE English and Scotch practice of
smearing sheep in preparation for the
storms of winter, says the Times, has
some value which presents it for favor
able consideration Or adoption by the
American shepherds. The wool is
thoroughly saturated with cheap grease;
usually the ancient and odiferous but
ter which is rejected by the inspectors,
and is stirred by them with a tarry stick
SO as to prevent it's fraudulent sale for
ordinary consumption, is used for this
purpose. The effect is to cause the
fleece toshed rain as do ducks feathers.
which owe this property to their oili-
ness. The sheep is thus spared them
furious effect of soaking with ice
cold water, which chills the lions and
ainjuriously effects the nervous system,
which is connected with the spine. The
cost is trifing and is more than repaid
by the better quality of the wool, and
there is abundance of the greasy material
produced-sad to say-,by the many
neglectful dairymen who make butter
that is fit for only this purpose.
THE STOCK-RANCH.