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NKWH, KA<"lit AMI HUtitH-XITIONN.
til a Tier ne Tin siTinatL elllili la Till laratLf
nam a a raoai-tairv or mt raanaa.
Every farmer in AU annual ex/ttrumre
t/taroi-er* iwmetliinij uf value. Write it anil
>end 11 In the "Agricultural Editor of the
I>KMoi HAT, llellefonte, I'inn'u," that ot/nr
farmeri 'nay hare the benefit of it. l.et
commitmratwnt lie timely, anil hr Hurt (hut
they are brief and weld pointed.
Farm NotoH.
A ft-wr ariinll boxi-H filled willi cliar.
coal, grouml lionu and ponnded oys*
Lcr kln-IIH, and placed within reach of
poultry, will be of service dur
ing this season, when the fowls are
moulting.
Tobacco smoke prevents the at
tacks of all insects that infest plants,
and does no injury to the plants un
less they are confined in it for too
long a. time. While it often keeps
olf insects it does not always destroy
tin in, though it is fatal to man}'.
Almost 100 purls of water to one
of I'aris green may safely be used to
prevent insect depredations on fruit,
provided the last application IK; made
a month before the fruit is eaten, as
the poison, Is-ing very soluble, is
easily washed olf by rains. This is
promulgated by the professors of the
It ichigun Agricultural College.
The Kimira farmers' club has been
discussing the barbed wire fence
question, nnd arrived at the conclu
sion that the wire furnished with ilat
pointed pieces of metal so attached
that they projected above and below
the wire, was a dangerous material
to employ, whereas the wire barbs*
pointed sharp, were much less liable
to injure stock in case of accident or
entanglement.
A correspondent of the Country
(ientleman says: "To kill the strip
ed bugs which cat melon, squash or
cucumlwr vines use sulphur. Dip
the fingers in the sulphur and tou h
each leaf in the morning when the j
dew is on the plants. It ia entirely
harmless to the plant*. Khould the
beetles leave the plants and go into
the ground use it around the stems
of the plants."
<. M. Tinkharn, secretary of the
crrnont dairymen's association, has !
devised some improvements in pack
ing butter. Instead of lining his
packing lioxes with muslin he uses a
certain kind of brown pajicr, which
is odorless and tasteless, ami costs
very little. He also lines his cases
throughout with a layer of felling
hall an inch thick. This, it is al
leged keeps out the heat most etfect
unlly.
Orchardists are more thoroughly
convinced than ever that orchards
should 1* spread broadcast with ma
nure when the trees arc sot out, that
the extremities of the roots may be
benefited. Manuring heavily a cer
tain section about the tree—and this
applies only to trees that are in bear
ing condition—tends to aid only the
immediate part alleclcd. It is raueh
better to stir up the entire orchard
than to cultivate a small circle at the
foot of the tree.
A sensible suggestion from U. W.
I arlec in the lirtriiert' liarettr: "Let
us try to breed as many twenty-one
pound cows as is (lossiblc, with con
stitutions and digestions that can
boar a severe test, and we will not
find it necessary to continue the
forcing process to get superior yields.
We cannot expect nnd do not want
our road horses to trot his mile in
2:lf every day, but if he has once
shown that he can do it he is pretty
safe to rely on for a 2:40 gait when
ever we call on him."
Direction of Rows of Wheat.
COUNTRY FLENLLRATKH.
An old wheat raiser, who is gen
erally successful, said in conversation
the other day that in his experience
he found it best to drill his wheat
east and west instead of north and
south. His argument was that in
the winter and early spring when we
have thawing weather during the
day, and frcexing at nights, wheat
drilled cast and west would not heave
out or wiutcr kill, aa would that
drilled north and south. . lie assert
ed that the sun being in the sooth,
and the wheat stalks being between
the ridges msdc by the drill hoes,
the sides of the ridges would thaw
out, while the north sides, being
shaded, would not thaw out so mucin
and the wheat roots would not lie so
liable to lie killed. If drilled north
and south the sun would shine alike
on both sides of the ridge, thawing
it out and eausing it to spew up,
• throwing the wheat up and letting
the roots be exposed to the freezing
at night, hence he had always, if pos
' sible, run his drill east and west.
Again, lie suid that in the early
| spring uiid summer, when the wheat
liegati growing, it received more lien
cflt from the sun's rays drilled in
this way than if drilled north nnd
south, consequently the yield on
field* drilled east and west were bet
ter than if drilled in any other direc
! tion. His argument impressed me
so that 1 concluded to try the expe
riment of sowing two plats adjoining
eacli other, the quality ol the land
being as nearly alike as possible,
sowing one and one-fourth bushels to
the acre on corn land that had been
plowed well and kept reasonably
I clean of weeds when the corn was
growing, and thoroughly harrowed
before drilling. I bad never before
taken any notice of which way I
drilled.
| Tlio llceil 11 Fly.
It is possible tnat many farmers
do not recognize, for a certainty, the
Hessian Fly. On the wing it can
not lie distinguished from other Hies
of the same family which are not
only harmless but beneficial to farm
ers. A mistake in their identity
) often gives rise to false fears. In
i the Hessian Fly the head, feelers,
and thorax are black. The body
measures one-tenth of an inch in
I length and the wings expand one
-1 fourth inch, or more,
j Two broods, or generations are
brought to maturity in the course of
a year, and the llies appear in the
spring and fall, earlier in the south
; and later toward the north. In Penn
sylvania the fall brood comes to ma
-1 turity and the females deposit eggs
about the last of September and the
first of October. When the wheat
plant has put forth its second or
thin! blade she lays from twenty to
forty eggs in the little hollow that
runs lengthwise lietwcen the little
ridges of the blade. These eggs arc
mere reddish specks, not more than
one fiftieth of an inch long. In from
four to eight days they hatch out a
small reddish worm, which at once
crawls down the blade and disapju-ars
in the cavity lw-twecn the blade and
the stem, lodging at the point just
IK low the surface of the ground, with
their heads toward the root of the
plant. They do not eat the stalk,
nor bite it or penetrate it at all.
They just lie lengthwise along it,
never moving, and arc nourished by
the sap which they take into their
stomachs through their bodies by
absorption. One maggot seldom in
jures a plant, but when two or three
are thus fixed around one stem it
weakens it and either falls down or
dies. These maggots come to their
full size in about six weeks .middle
of November to first of December)
and then measure three-twentieths of
an inch in length. liy this time they
are covered with a hard brownish
skin and resembles flaxseed. On
opening this flaxseed case the insect
will be found lying loose within it in
the maggot form. The maggots re
main in their cases, unchanged, till
the end of April or first of May,
when the case o|ens and the insect
comes out transformed into a fly.
Soon afvcr they come out in the
spring they begin to lay their eggs
on the blades of wheat as before, on
higher places, of course, and con
tinue to lay for three weeks. The
maggot's hatched eggs run down the
stem of the wheat nearly to the root,
become stationary, take the flaxseed
form the last of June and first of
July, and when the grain is harvest
ed arc left in the stubble to tie trans
formed into flies in the fall. They
usually migrate in Immense swarms
and seem to follow warm currents of
wind. This accounts, In a measure,
for the ravages of some fields and
the escape of other*.
Llmo as a Fertiliser.
Wherever agriculture has been ad
vanced to the of an art, univer
sal experience testifies that the pres
ence of lime in I soil is useful. All
4 Although plant* take from to !)!>
per ct-nt. of Ihtir growth from the
) air, yet the air affords them no lime,
j This, in order to avail the growing
s crop, mut be mingled with the noil.
5 The plant can receive it from no
, other source. As noils are formed
5 from rocks, and as most rocks con-
tain more or less lime, it follows
- that nearly all soils in their virgin
state contain more or less lime enough
f in most cases to bring good crops
t without the addition of more. Tfu;
. pioneer farmer, for a few years, sel
i dom has occasion to apply lime.
1 Handy soils, in which there is little
i jor no lime, require it from the first.
I Clay KOIIH sometimes contain no lime,
• ! and in this case the addition of lime
•j is of great service. Felspar soils,
land those derived from the disint
egration of serpentine ra'kx, usually
i are destitute of lime, and conse
. quenlly are barren till lime Is added.
> In soils lung cultivated lime is
1 wanting, for the following reasons:
1 A portion of the lime once in the
i soil has leen carried oil in the crops ;
1 another portion has sunk too deeply
in the soil to be reached hy the roots
I j of plants ; it is the nature of lime,
having a metallic basis, and being
divided by the process of slacking
into exceedingly minute particles, to
sink between the coaser particles of
earth to a depth at which it becomes
1 unavailable. If, therefore, you long
' cultivate field without liming it,
you may well suspect that you have
carried off half the lime originally in
the soil, and the other half has sunk
1 beyond the reach of plant roots—
• i though'it i.- quite possible thst you
might avail yourself of this latter
' half by plowing four or five inches
deeper than before, thus turning the
sunken lime up again to the surface.
The objects to l>e sought by the
r application of lime arc three-fold:
First, to feed growing plants with so
i mucL lime as the constitution of each
requires : second, to change the con
dition of plant foods already in the
' soil, so that from Ix ing una\ailab'c
' they may become available to plants,
> and third, to so modify the soil,
physically and chemically, as to ren
' der it easier toculti\atc and more
■ productive.
Destroy Noxious Weeds.
Such weed* as duckweed and purs
lane, which very quickly go to seed,
•houl l be carefully removed from the
land, in order to destroy the seeds
they contain : the safest way is to
dump them in some out-of-the-way
corner where they can do no harm,
or to compost them carefully with
hot horse dung, which w ill effectual
ly destroy the seeds, if the compost
is turned carefully so as to bring all
parts into the heat of the central
portion of the heap. The outside of
the heap does not become hot enough
to destroy ail the seeds, but the mid
dle does.
WIT lands should not L>e plowed
deep until they haTc l>ecn thorough
ly drained. Alluvial soils and deep
clay loams, where the surface and
subsoils do not materially differ, can
scarcely be tilled too deeply. Thin
soils, however, should not I* plowed
below the available plant food. It
takes twice as much manure to fer
tilize land when it is plowed to a
depth bf ten inches, as when it is
plowed five inches lon the other hand,
by plowing only five inches deep the
soil will be exhausted much quicker
than when the plowing is only ten
inches.
A FARMER observed a ilock of
quails running along Wlwren the
rows of corn, which was just sprout
ing; conceiving the idea that they
were pulling up his corn, one of the
birds was killed and ila craw exam
ined. Instead ol corn, it waa found
to contain one cutworm, 21 striped
bugs mid over 100 chinch bugs. A
valuable bird to the farmer is the
quail, and one that should IM> pro
-1 tected, instead of being hunted and
J shot for the mere amusement of
sporuloving hunters.
An Illinois farmer bought a Jersey
cow for $2OO. He has sold two of
bcr calves for $l,OOO each and the
oow herself for $lO,OOO.
THICK* is no cure for A horse with
confirmed heaves ; climate, food and
care will do much for it* alleviation.