Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — AGRICULTURAL. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL.

A good remedy against the scale insect to to me a suds made of carbolic acan, and brush the affected parts with it thoroughly, leaving it dry thereon. For throat distemper, grate fine a small green wild turnip, or, If dry, give a heaping spoonftil, mixed with bran oats. Never fails. Good for cough aho. An old woman who went Into the poultry business, thinking she oouid make a fortune by selling eggs, gave it up in abguest, because, as she said, the hens’ll never lay when eggs to cheapj* * a ** us e 6 ins as soon as tney’re “I say, Sambo, does you know what makes de Corn grow so feat when you put the manure on it?’ “No, I don’t, hardly, ’cept it makes ae ground stronger for dfe con).” “Now, I’ll jest tell ye. When the corn begins to smell de manure, it don’t like the ’fumery, so It hurries outob de ground snd gets up as high as possible, so as not to breath the had sir.” Prof. Stock bridge recently said before the State Board of Agriculture of Connecticut: “The soil to nest plowed when it is most thoroughly crushed, twisted and broken, with the sod well covered. On some kinds of land I would have furrows lapped an inch, as the Canadian former plows. Let the air and water have a chance to circulate underneath the surface. Light lands, however, should have a flat furrow if we wish to make such lands more compact. To rejuvenate old orchards, cut put all the dying wood, and three-fourths of the suckers, scrape the trunks of the trees completely, removing all the old, hard, broken bark; wash with a preparation of Whale-oil, soap and water, a pound of soap to a bucket of water; and give the orchard, not merely under the trees, but every part of it, a heavy top-dressiug of good barnyard or compose manure. If there is any life or dPbductiveness in the trees this will bring it out. L ■

Choice flowers have been sent across the continent from California by a novel method, which is described as follows: “A large potato of a California variety, the largest in the world, was cut in two and part of the pulp scooped out of the center of both pieces. Into the halves were laid the “Occidental bloom,” and the potato was joined together again with a strip of thin paper about the edges. The moisture from the potato kept the flowers fresh during their journey, and their color was as beautiful on reaching their destination as when first plucked. The odor, however, was gone from the flowers, and they gave forth a decidedly “potatoish” scent. We presume a scooped-out pumpkin would answer the purpose equally as well aud afford greater room for storage. The American Cultivator gives this satisfactory experience with sweet corn as stock feed: “During the past two seasons I have had an acre or more to cut up when suitable for roasting ears, besides what I have fed in its green state direct to the cows, and I think it is the best feed I have ever used for feeding dairy cows or fottening animals. In either case it seems a feed nearly perfect. The ears furnish material.for fattening or milk, as the farmer wishes and the stalks, if cut when green and well cured, will be eaten very clean and serve the purpose of hay, especially for working oxen; and while they are supfrfied they feel the effects feeang as readily as on any feed I have ever given to working oxen.