Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-07
For the Winter Window

years. many of them fully deserving
all the honors claimed for them, there
is nothing that can displace the Gala.
California grows acres of them, and
because they are always in demand,
suitable for all occasions. Presenting
that it has rested during the summer,
for there are few plants which will
flourish without a period of rest, it
should be repotted in early autumn in
rich soil. Black muck from the swamp.
leaf mould, or ordinary garden soil
may be used as the basis for potting,
enriched literally with well decaved
barnyard manure for the Gala is a
pronounced gormand, and only the
richest food satisfies the taste. The
castor oil diet is now ridiculed by high
authorities; but fertilizer once a
week-and nothing is better for this
than liquid nanure-is prime neces-
sity If one would secure the best re-
suits. If the pot is of generous size
and the soil is rich, young plants are
better left at the base of the parent
for the foliage is highly ornamental.
and In the new growth is found the
short stems which so nicely border the
tall stalks of mature years. Sunshine
is highly essential, and the bottom
heat still more important. me latter
may be secured in various ways. one
OF the most convenient being hot
bricks. By keeping tive sets of these.
one on the stove and the other under
the plant, alternating every twelve
hours, uniformly high root tempera-
ture may be maintained. But this
means more care than every one can
oestow upon a single plant. These
VIII find hot water applied upon the
soil at a little distance from the plant
itself-neyer near the foliage quite
satisfactory. When two leaves come
out from the same sheaf one may look
Tor bud next. If the plant appears
ID nave some fine dust on the leaves.
either red or black, watch it closely
with the glass or naked eye. Should
II prove to be tiny spiders. shower
daily with cold water and they win
soon take their departure. The scale
IS about the only other insect enemy
OF the Gala, and by washing with a
suds OF carbolic or other soap andthen
rinsing with clear water one need an
ucipate little trouble. For continuous
bloom during the winter months the
Primula has few equals. Strong.
thrifty plants are easily grown from
Seed and are more symmetrical in
form than of year or two old. The
Iohage is ornamental, and seldom at
tackled by any insect executing the
aphis. For them, spraying with car
Doiic soap suds is generally sufficient
When flower stems once appear one
may safely count upon continuous
bloom for months without a single dav
OF intermission. The flowers vary in
color from white or shell tinted to
deep carmine. The odor reminds one
somewhat OF the dandelion. The foil
age is rough and hairy, and some have
gained the impression that it will not
stand water; hence that the plant is
noe desirable for room where there's
much dust. This is mistake. 1t may
De sprayed with impunity if the sun
light is not allowed to strike il until
dry. By the way, one advantage in
the plant is that it requires very hrcle
sunshine, in fact, will not indure the
hot rays in which many plants delight.
Grit for Poultry.
Grit should form part or every ra-
ton for hens or any other poultry.
but in feeding young chickens or other
poultry it should be very fine and as
they get older let it be coarse. 1t is only
too true that many times a flock of
mems have showed every indication of
laying, yet do not. Give them a mint
OF grit or fine gravel to the dozen
lowies and they will almost tumble
over one another to get to the nest To
Ray. A case within the writer's knowI-
edge was in December. 1898. A man
mad some forty hens and was getting
about one dozen eggs per week He
got ten pounas of nice crystal grit and
lea them the last ten days of Decem.
Der and during the month of January
1899 he sold s12 worth of eggs selling
some OF them for twenty-five cents and
the last of the month for sixteen cents
per dozen. He thought it paid I'M So
well that he will not be without it here.
after. Many persons use oyster shells
Tor grit, but they are too costly as they
are but of very little use. Neither are
they of much use for making egg
shells unless they have been previous
~ burned as they are practically indi-
gestible without it.
Observation-Disclosures
Plaster is an uncertain quantity as
far as its action is concerned. II is not
many years since plaster was used in
large quantities. and was thought to he
especially beneficial when applied to
young clover seeding. At the present
time its use is very largely discontin-
NED. 1t is probable that if applied To
wheat 1t would not produce any appar.
eat results. Gypsum or land plaster
belongs to that class of fertilizers
known as 'fndirect'-that is. II Is vain.
able not so much for what II sunnIies
directly as for its action in Iiharatine-
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