Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1879 — HOME, FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—ln planting late cabbages on potato ground there is no need to plow the whole area before planting. Plow open furrows, three feet from center to center, and mark out by cross fnrrows two feet apart. Drop a forkful of manure at each crossing, close the furrows over the manure, and set the plants in the lines of the cross furrows. After the planting is finished the ground may bo worked out with a light plow or a Cultivator. —Cincinnati Times. —ln an old agricultural paper, of forty-seven years ago, we learn that it is a good plan to put a piece of chalk in the pen with the young calves. They will lick it, and thus correct the acidity of their stomachs and assist digestion and prevent dyspepsia, which often leads to scours. There is no doubt but that this is a most excellent practice. Prepared chalk is often prescribed by doctors as a remedy for heart-bum, which is a symptom of dyspepsia, and for diarrhea. The crude chalk (carbonate ot lime) is, unquestionably, a food preventive and remedy for similar isorders in stock. The prepared chalk is the crude with all the gritty particles worked out, —Rural NewYorker. * —No quarter should be given to the insect pests, which remain year after year simply because we permit them. The potato beetle exists so plentifully because some careless farmers actually breed myriads of them. Many fields of potatoes were abandoned to them last year, and the neighboring country was thus stocked for this year. This is one insect that might be abolished by a combined effort for a year or two. Another is the cattle gad-fly, which may be found in the backs of the cows ana oxen in small lumps or tumors, called warbles. The grubs may be squeezed out of these tumors through the breathing holes and destroyed. (Otherwise they will escape, change to flies and continue the mischief. —The desire for large animals is not always judicious. With cows it is questionable if the largest are the best, when the oast of feeding is considered. There are cases in which a dairyman’s fancy for large, showy animals may be justified, and it may be granted that a stable well filled with large, showy Dutch' or shorthorn a very pleasing exhibition. But when we come to figure up the cost of the product, it may be a question whether, if the same amount of food wore'expended upon ah equally good-looking herd of smaller cows, the milk might not be more cheaply produced. Where the final end of the eow is considered and - the amount of beef is an object, that, of courste, alters.the bearings of the question. But bigness in cows is not always best, either for beauty or profit to the owner.:— Agricultural Exchange. —A lady writes: 44 For three years I have lived in a town, and during that time my sitting-room has been free from flies, three or four only walking about my breakfast-table, while all my neighbors’ rooms were crowded. I often congratulated myself on my escape, but never knew the reason of it until a few days ago. I then had occasion to move my goods to another house, while I remained on for a few days longer. Among other things moved were two boxes of geraniums and calceolarias, which stood in my windows, being always open to their full extent, top and bottom. The boxes wero not gone half an hour when my room was as full of flies as those around me. This, to me, is a new discovory, and perhaps it may serve to encourago others in that which is always a sourco of pleasure, namely, window-gardening. Migndnette planted in long, shallow boxes, placed on the window-sill will be found excellent for this purpose.”