Year: 1877

tO-bug year. 1t is also confidently as
serted that this is grasshopper year.
And now it is more than limited that it
is a locust year. Hence these t-years
Rural Nea0 Yorker.


SHOULD your wheat be too rank and in
danger of lodging, you may go over it
with a long roller before it shoots into
head. It will check the growth the
wheat will rise again. 1t has been
known to save a crop.-F'arnaers' Id
oOcoto.


DRAINING .PLow.-A ditching or
draining plow with share shaped
something Like an egg, and fastened to
thin, strong standard, is often used for
making drains. It leaves a round hole
or space in the ground, similar to
mole's burrow, for which reason it is
called "mole plow" They are
most useful in clay -Anaerican
Agricultauist.


STEEPNa SEED WHEAT.-No wheat
should be sown without being stepped,
as a preventive of rust and smut. These
are supposed, with good reason, to be
different developments of the same fun
gold plant which preys upon the wheat
plant, and the spores of which adhere to
the seed and are sown with it. A steep
which is highly recommended is a solu-
ton of four ounces of bluestone (sul-
phate of copper, dissolved in one gallon
of water; this is poured over five bush
els of seed, which is left to soak for
twenty-four hours.


A MEMBER of the American Institute
Farmers Club, at a recent meeting, said
he desired to speak good word for the
cottonwood, which wonderful tree is
fast commencing itself to Western farm
ers, on account of its exceedingly rapid
growth and the reluctance with which
dies. He could not understand why this
tree, so easily cultivated and so useful,
has not been adopted in the Eastern
States. The cuttings can be obtained
from nurserymen West, at small cost.
The cottonwood not only furnishes good
fuel in a short time but makes shade
tree unsurpassed for cattle.


Growing PEAS ON LARGE SCALE
Peas succeed well both when broadcast
and drilled, but the extra expense of the
latter process and the hoeing would be
reimbursed hv increased Weld The
best way is to drill in single or double
rows from two to three feet apart, the
Io44 =,
used. When single rows are used, the
hoeing can all be done by horsepower,
and this is a great saving. A we'll
manured rich loan is the soil fiat suits
peas best. A good average crop would
be about thirty bushels to the acre. If
hoed and kept free from weeds the yield
might be increased five or ten bushels
more.


THE garden culture of the grape is SO
simple that it is wonder that no more
vines are planted. Plants may be grown
easily from either cuttings or layers.
They need but little room if properly
trained If they are neglected, and
allowed to grow year after year without
pruning the result will be very unsatis-
factory. The matter of pruning is not
difficult; the main thing to be borne in
mind is that the fruit is produced on the
new growth which starts in the spring
of the year. All the buds are cut away
except those needed to form new canes.
Fresh manure should not be used, as it
produces too vigorous growth, and the
wood will not ripen properly in the fall.
Wood ashes and ground bone are best
Exchange.


The Lancaster Farmer gives this
remedy for gapes in chickens "In a
recent conversation with an experienced
chicken-grower, he informed us that he
had been very successful in conquerlng
that precarious disease in his young fowls,
by the application of air-slacked lime.
As soon as manifestation of gapes in his
fowls appears, he confines his chickens
in box, one at a time, sufficiently large
to contain the bird, and places a coarse
piece of cotton or linen cloth over the top.
Upon this he places the pulverized lime,
and taps the screen sufficiently to cause
the lime to fall through. This lime dust
| the fowl inhales and causes it to sneeze.
and in a short time the cause of the
gapes is thrown out in the form of a
shiny mass or masses of worms, which
had accumulated in the windpipe and
smaller air vessels. This remedy he
considers superior to any he has ever
tried, and he seldom fails to effect a per-
feet cure"