The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-31


 frame and just high enough from the ground 10 suit the lambs convenience. Al the bottom of the side of each pail a small hole is bored and into this is driven wooden plug with two tiny duets extending through it from end to end. The plug extends two inches be- yond the pail and has the outside end covered with a rubber nipple. such as are sold at drug stores for nursing bot ties. It Is not difficult 10 teach the lamb to draw it's nourishment from the pail through the nipple. The original of the contrivance was @ box with sev- eral plugs and nipples. but Farmer Parry considers the pail an improve ment as he can know from Its pail just how much food each lamb has taken. whereas when there was common reservoir some got more than their share and others went hungry.
 A French investigator tells us that the trees most attacked by insects are those whose wood contains ar abun- dance of starch; but the dust and the borings of these insects contains no starch. He therefore suggests az a way of preserving the wood from the at- tacks of insects that the starch be talk en from the trees by removing the bark some months In advance of cutting them. He asserts that by girdling the trees high up on the trunk and destroy ing all branches put out below this girdling the object will be attained. An experiment in this connection was with oak poles. One lot parked a year ago before cutting were sored with another lot stripped of the bark as soon as cut and third lot that had the bark on. At the end of three years those parked when standing and before cutting were perfectly preserved those stored, with the bark on were much injured and those that had been stripped after cut ting were in a condition between. An other experiment was with oak logs of years growth, part of which had been girdled in May and cut the Octo- Der following, the rest having been parked after being cut. All were left exposed for three years, when those parked before cutting showed no signs of insect work, but the others were badly injured. Another lot parked in May and cut in October were in the
 
 simply girdled, and with nothing of gain for the extra work. The spring, this investigator thinks, is the best time for the barking or girdling, as the starch will all have disappeared by au- tumn Professor J. F. Duggan, of the department of agriculture, calls atten- tion these experiments.
 The Mark Lane Express in show ing how little the English agricultural department has done for English farm CTS shows what European countries are doing. In France, we are told the agri- cultural department not only conducts experiments, but has secured reduc- tions of rates on railroads in favor of agriculture. The government has also placed $20,0O0,00O to the credit of bank for the special purpose of loaning to farmers at four per cent. In Ger many, public money is also loaned to farmers at 3k per cent. for the purpose of improving holdings. So long as this interest is paid the loan cannot be called in, but the tenant can pay 1t at convenience. In Austria, vast sums are spent to maintain f1rst-class breed- ing horses with service free to farmers and to furnish bulls, rams and boars at lowest cost prices. The government al so has power to relieve needy farmers from taxation. In Belgium, the farmer has even greater advantages, as he has l reduced railroad rates and can send | on waterways free of charge. | The railroads too, make no charge for l butter or eggs when the owner travels | with the goods.
 Editor Cheever of the New England | Farmer has very interesting reminis- cent article on berry culture that takes the writer back to the days when he 1 tramped through the moving fields | tie big, toothsome berries that grew in abundance in favored To- calities. The old fashioned milk-pan would be filled to overflow with luscious fruit without half trying-and with all l the improvements that experience and | tact have accomplished, no artificially | grown fruit has yet been produced that could out-do those wild, uncultivated 1 berries in richness of flavor and per- rume. MT. Cheever says: know there are thousands of bushels of strawber- ries consumed now where there were single quarts grown in cultivated lands when some of the readers of these notes were children. t
 I know that I find no cultivated now that taste quite as lid some of the small wild ones used 70 find in the fields when as boy a gill ,up full gathered from some sunny pasture knoll early in June, was lib- eral mess to go with my bread and milk .upper
 I know that occasionally on some newly cleared wood lot strawberries would sometimes be so abundant that ,ne could gather six quart pail full, items and all but that such luck was he talk of neighborhood and the memory of years. know, too, that in ome places in New England, even now, wild strawberries are abundant and ex- .ellent. But also know that there are thousands ofSfarmers' tables that are lot supplied as they should be with this delicious fruit in its season. There Is 10 fruit more easily grown, none that lives a quicker return for the labor xpended.' Plants set in the spring will field full crop the following year. md under careful management fall set Et 'lants will yield good crop in about { line or ten months. .- 'lt I know that when, little over forty { ears ago,I bought my first cultivated { trawberry plants for starting a bed of ( ny own my father said it was a foolish roject and that he had no land to ( pare for such foolishness. He wanted