Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — Agricultural Department. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural Department.

I A horticulturist furnishes i the following recipe to preserve all kinds of grain from i the ravages of cut worms, birds, etc: One pound sulphate of iron, one ounce aloes. Dissolve in water heated to ninety or ninety-five* degrees, and pour over one bushel of grain.- Ohio Farmer. Many young fruit trees, especially pears, are burned to i death during the hot season. Even when the ground is kept wet, and their roots are moist enough; young and newly-set trees upon which the bark is thin and tender are cooked by the sun as by a fire, and the branches and trunks die • while the roots remain alive. This may often be prevented by winding the trunks with cloths, which shut out the sun.—Mirror and Farmer.