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FARH AND GARDEN HOTES
ITEMS CF T
MELY
Far?
INTEREST TO THE
1ERS
Treatise An
in Fertilizing the Peach.-Hints
Hor SQaeeeii]
the Chinch Bug.«-New Points
About
akinz Butter,
ARE BAR.
of any plant or
HAL lien of
there
the
tS OWI,
ase of some
and equally with
12 often necessary to
list
near another
be fertilized.
kind of cherry
net Kind
IIS nny
© other
ted near
and
} { thor
Caerries wines
is donbtless due
urcunlio or some
fruit
it is
ings the
by which
Ch must
ir inches higher than the
them all to a wide
th a 2x4, notched and bolted
Pump
aud as they are
fasten
to solidify them.
pirest one,
th ¢ach other by a short
ull fill equally
r to tar tl
Riv ar easily
gated by es!
welghing thoy "The ro or finding
the numl
body will be
grit himet ie or ec hanics 211 je
8
mwensuration,
ekg and
any solid
i auy good sd hoot
. to
TREATISE ON THE CHINCH BUG.
Bulletin 66, of Ohio Station, just is-
sued, is an exhaustive treatise on the
chiueh bug, The farmers of that state
are warned that many of last year's sec.
oid brood have survived the winter,
and are row laying eggs. If May and
June are dry, the post may become se.
rivug. Each female lays about 500
eggs, usually depositing them at the
surface of the grouml on stems of
grass and grain, and ia rare cases on
other plants. Buming such harbors
will destroy milions. The first brood
appears in May or June, the second in
July or August, according to latitude
the farther north the later. The second
brood lives through the winter, if not
exposed to exceedingly severe weather,
he young are red, but grow darker,
the mature bug befng black and hav-
ing wings. The station distributed 700
packages of diseased bugs to 37 coun
and if so this will
ITeavy rains are
but moist
the dis
Plowing and ditch
open fields, mater
fally aid the farmers
not only fatal to young bugs,
wenther favors the spread of
nmong them,
ahead of
thine
the column,
the
effective
ing advancing
and
ort
kerosene
fr-
This Ingeet never troubles rough
spraying bugs with
Ision are mieans of w
fitie
broken confines
Home and Farm
countries, but Hs ray
i
plains
ages to level
MAKING BUTTER.
from
barter
farmer that igolated
markets and is obliged
butter the for
cents a pound will never get
thing
his neighbors
The in
to his
at store eight or ten
wealthy,
an do is to join
and the best he ¢
with induce
I'he
given
and to
in a
0 to
try
mumery.
5 and
year, if
some one to put
worth from
worth of feed
ciously handled, one dairyman
near a good market will make a
She
COW
Ni in a Judy
RAVE,
proit
should
to 4
sold
of
SiN
for her owner. produce
6,000 pounds of 4 nnd one-half
milk,
at the
hundred,
wr cent nm
Ni} cents n
to $54 a
would be the skim
er) average price
return
would
year lesldes there
milk, the calf ¢ the manur "wen
ty dollars to ered a good
ng after paying feed
the
for
about
product
do
she
profit 0
rid bar,
In
by-products
nO
300 pounds of butter a year w
il
ii
cost of ten cents a pound, if
at a
well managed how
r Average cost
ever, is about a pound,
on the price of ( rom ye
The
pounds a
ir to yeas
COW ti i pProauces only ie
veanr would do so at a cost
15 cents a pound, al
Year vow
POINT FOR THE
report
- ' t ¢
i show that oh rop o
100 baskets, here | contained of
nitrogen 190.7 pounds, potash 21.9, soda
F dress
oxide of iron
i
acid
1.2, lime 1, magnesia 1,
1.1, phosphoric ae id 4.2
hd gu
sulphuric
Jenkins
I and chlorine unds
that, contrary to the commonly
received idea, the pulp of the fruit con-
rt of both the nitro.
ghn and mineral matters. Only about
one-fourth of the nitrogen and
tenth of the ash elements are contained
in the stones,
In a paper fertilizing
ir. Johnson that
healthy peach twigs of one year's
growth, from the orchard of the late
I’. M. Augur, contained 1.87 per cent of
ash, of which 54 per cent was lite,
magnesia 0 per cent, potash 16, phos.
phorie acid 4, and sulphuric acid 7 per
cent.
It will thus be seen that both tree and
tains the greater pa
one
orchards,
woud of
on
shows the
elements, expecially Hime,
tain, with about 39 per cent of water,
3 to 4 per cent of ash, and of the latter,
30 to 40 per cent is lime,
“Where the water of wells or springs
soil is
to be supplied. This substance dis
solves rather freely in the
In case of soil found in
which is pow increasing, and will he
prepared to suppy all demands from
Ohio. There are indications that the
disense disserninated last year survived
the winter along with the bugs in the
(boulders,
and rock-dust) which
contain but little and yield it up very
|
i
i
|
gown to gather nitrogen, this drossing
of lHme and a liberal of
alts will probaby be essential
highest
Use potash
to the
"
BUCUCONS,
ONE WAY TO MAKE A LAWN.
the old house behind, one of
the prairies in the late
means leaving the yard in this
habitation
«oils from the old one, writes LL, C,
The nowy location well
with Bluegrass, but the lay of
the land in its natural state was scarce
to tificial make-up
about a completed dwelling, so no sign
jrut off the ’
When moving the diet from the cellar it
would the
yard in the the
wall was completed the dirt was grad
A few
shower
into the
Leavi
the first
forties,
ng
tO dot
nse, as our present is 0
fow
wis
sodded
siitable the il
Was up, “Keep ETIsK
where it
Pent
wis put arrange
manner. Soon nx
ed up around it in good shape
days previous to this a heavy
of a cornfield
tons about
We off this dirt
and covered the new dirt to a depth of
winter wheat
That was done in
elle
or
out
washed din
roadside twenty Or mare
ten rods distant drew
four Inches, then sowed
and red clover on it
Fhey made an ex: nt growth.
allow
July
id not nny OCKs pieces of
or mortar to scattered about
wr tramped into the ground It hap
pened to be dry wh
The grou
i the vard covered
vith clover halm, whi
The
December was
h was never tak
wheat and clover wintered
about
wns
i
i
market
goods for the
rerit features of the
1
nie
apness, lasting
gs. SInoOt
'
ana
Two Neglected Craves,
P'rogperity frequently ig not parti 1
iar to remember fittingly the heroes of
previous generations Especially is this
true of Francis Scott Key author of the
Kiar Spangled Baoper,” whose grave
hag been allowed to lie unmarked for
any years oxcept by an insignificant
locking marble The
a public cemetery far
erck, Md, and almost
with weeds and bushes
Efforts are being made by a few pa-
triotic Southerners raise money
enough to mark in a suitable manner
the grave of the author of our only
national hymn,
Another grave left unmarked is that
of Major Owen Hale of Troy, N. Y.
Major Hale served with distinction all
through the ecivii war. He enlisted as
a private and came out a captain, He
reconlisted in 1868 and was Killed in the
battle with the Indians at Big Bear
Mountain in 187%, where he was in
grave is ip
from Fred
overgrown
slab
not
is
fo
alry. Citizens of Troy buried him with
military honors, and have allowed his
to go unmarked except for a
small flag. New York Journal
An Epileptic Colony.
A home for twenty women has been
added to the epileptic colony at Chal
font, England, where thirty-six men
have been employed for the last two
yenrs in market gardening, carpenter
ing, and shoemaking. Their general
condition bas improved, and the doe
If, as is becoming more eom-
*
Son aA. bo
Gold has been found in Chen Chow,
NOTES / ND COMMENTS.
of tiie
product of
{United
aver
r wealth
moive fl
bill dolla
the
yearly
4] He twice
of all
earth Is
Or than
virlue of entire output
mines Yer nowhere
ealth of the
wantonly
on
Ww forests wasted
this «
more
than in ntry
York,
tii
¥.
declared SiN
of New
lent tone cmmo late with
nll the of
$50,000,000 in number, and
feet to
In a in New
I'rancis
recent nddregs
Hyde
m
Yorkwas
standing
the earth, 1,
allow,
vidual
that
les of arep
iti
root
guare Greater
inhabitants
KIX square each indi
have
pubs
French authors
to
will henceforth
the 1esoks of
Huhers examined order
whether they have been
royalty in full A
been rendered
Bourget
jeeted to
and this w
have their
power
in to ascertain
paid
has just
of Paul
Lemerre
their
decision
in f= case
versus Lemerre ob-
of his
an ingjection books,
as the cause of the suit
Electric
the United
horses,
raflways have displaced in
States than 275,
[is
no less
says the Pittsburg
patch ) would require
about 125.000 bushels of grain
feed tl
bushels
1
an day to
45 00K) (HK)
the
grain in
rallways run me
mmnoun
a vear COIN
des the
an
transportation
raflways ome 02,
ve is a
(question
tiunt
eg
- } 113
is AX of them
Maw ever
Cire
Fonqguin China,
11 ag Havtl, Trinidad,
"ara
and
Brazil
the most remarkable new
he freight
Bartlett
the
business,”
gajd Mr. Omar Hi general
freight a Louisville
or
3
Nashville
geet of and
Bailroad, “ia the dea of icing
It has been tried spasmodically in other
but, never until year was
the plan carried out to any extent. Now
the New Orleans shippers are icing
We have
aiteady this season hauled twenty-five
cars to New York city alone that con
tained vegetables, and the ship-
ments to Boston, Buffalo,
years, this
iced
all the Northern cities, have followed
out this new Idea You know,
shipment of cocumbers,
beans and all Kinds of garden
found it necessary to ice them. The
we
Times Democrat,
The Railroad Gazette says: “The
records of the new railroad building in
the United States in 1806, which have
ing. New Orleans
road has been built in the firet half of
the year. The total is not very different
frof:i the amount of railroad which has
been constructed in the first half of any
year, since the conditions in 18363
called a sharp halt in rallroad building.
Last year 622 miles of new road was
built up to July 1, and the record in
1504, only 405 miles between January
1 and July 1, showed how decisively
extension work had been stopped. IK
will be seen how greatly railroad ex-
tension has been checked by the condi
tions of the last few years, and there
are po substantial signs that any
large relative iucrouse is (0 be expect:
Much the
| ‘
{edd In the neay future
out
| 4
mileage credited to any
the
thnt
Pittsburg
One con
of total given for the six
buil 1s
nns Gulf
Arkansn
Territory
pany,
months,
(ity,
5.
Texas nnd
The sed
1 his
miles-—in
inn
Hine
and San Joaquin
andl
Kan |
road
was buadlt by
Valle
in California,’
State,
of a small town In this
Philadel
tecord
story
twelve mi from
1 t .y
the long Brauch
phia”
form
BAYH
a fitting object lesson rood
In consequence of the bad ro:
on
roads 1d
wagon-makers thereabouts built
fifty-five
lond
| the
bushel
horse w ALONS
baskets
regarded
estate
1o caryy
which
Heal
for yenrs.
ff 4 maximuin
Wns as a hes one
har gone ix
Ing
for it It
there was ins
oitle up ORIaleR, Iw
could found
years ago the people
no market
been impossible 10
cause buyers
the land, A few
of the community
S40 00m)
Ho In for
WOKe
of
proceeds to
up. The town
issued
plied 1
roads
worth bonds and ap
he gould
Wagon makers
making
building
As a result the
in the vicinity ure Lhorse
wagons to carry. not fifty-fi
five bushel
of
still
baskets, but loads
125
loads ars
made up
ninety
to bushel baskets, and the
horses are i
fou horses
greater
men and four
ng 1.900
ifr
1 Ai tons
iz back
FENCE 400 MILES LONC.
Battles of the With
structive Rabbit,
S L
Austra ians the De-
rece
from all
them was regal
s offer was w
The
final
{
found to be the con
proof netting
animals « kept from
off
i
an be ACT
¢
od infested, can be shut from
supplies and can be more effectually
dealt with lox alls
The length of
IS fnormons
Barringun,
and following the
from Bourke to
407 miles: and there is another along
the entire western boundary of New
South Walesa distance of 346 miles
The Queensland government,
erected a similar fence along a consid
of the northern bound-
ary of New South Wales, but the sur
veyvor general of Queensland, in the re
port already referred to, says that “the
rabbits must have come through
fence in mobs and droves of innumer.
able multitudes at time,” and
thus have established themselves in
of i
ROIne lies fenoes
There ix one starting at
on the Queensiand border
Main Trunk line
Corowa-—a distance of
has
100,
OMe
This, of conrse, is the weak point in
in times of flood and where
cross over creeks, while keeping of
so that immediate repairs can be done
when openings appear, is quite imprac-
ticable where the distances are
In many instances
one side of a fence dead or dying of
starvation, after eating all the avail
able food supplies, and leaping up at
the fence In their attempts to surmount
it. One can imagine how they would
rush through in the event of any open-
{ug appearing, and how a single break
in the fence might be the doom of a
country not previously infested.
It is noted that since the extensive
planting of eucalyptus trees in south.
ern California there have been no
droughts, ;
Labor in South Africa
1 fie
carry
English carpenter Las a “boy” to
for him: the English
bricklayer has a native bodman to hand
Iiis tools
i
the bricks to him, which he
Wor kK
proceeds to
“i requiring skil very often
| (do it
Oh
eo rail
gunrds
Wich
Ay
fare white bit } i jobs w
need Vittle skill fall to the blacks
ands nud tho ily herd
Vi ee
are
Lion
countries skilled lalx "
Mouth Africs CXOPD
because the sb wl white
#tw on having blacks
beneath
and biack i
if measured
is really dear
necomplishe
ertain
» older y, not yet
tof steady and
ve Work
nigh at
fh Luree
A Novel Storm Pit.
has built a no
vit at Hea
3
ling Springs
uforme fiat he jad been tron
ory 4
great YOus guests
from covclope districts, and
lieve thelr anx
under the hill
would be im
» #torm pit {o
Hl I=
manner
™
built
that it
possible for the severest storm to reach
it, and is so arranged that should all the
cottages at the Springs be blown there
on and burned it would affect the
refugees in «ide. Ample provisions have
been made for ventilation, apd it can be
truthfully said Healing Springs has “a
refuge in time of storm.” Washington
{Ala News
not
A Bicycle Dog.
At last a bicycle dog has been-—well,
developed. 1t ix a well known fact that
any dog of the ordinary breeds will
either Ie left behind by the confirned
Bicyelist or killed by exhaustion. But
an English breeder has discovered that
ticular =ortx of dog be ean obtain a
travel fast, and to stay almost any die
tance. For nearly three years he has
been experimenting, and during that
very strange beasts,
Successful New Fuel
A new kind of fuel has recently been
made in Boston It is a mixture of
Mexican asphalt and peat and turf,
compacted and baked together. The
compressed fuel was ted February 7,
at the headquarters of the Boston Fire
Department, by running a fire engine
with it. It got up steam quicker and
beld a higher pressure while the engine
was operating than cannel coal would
do. with a smaller consumption of fuel
for a given amount of work.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland re-
coives a salary of $100,000 per year.