Show agricultural agricultural NOTES the following was one of the rules of practice tico adopted by a good farmer of the past generation pay a hand band if lie ho is a poor band all you promise him if ho he is a good nand land pay him a little more it ift will encourage him to do still better A farmer in pennsylvania who thoroughly under drained his land s says the money thus used paid him better than if he had invested in bonds or bank or railway stocks as ills his capital is doubled every five years I 1 destroying caterpillars an excellent remedy which has been been used on a largo scale in sou southern thern france consists in a dilute solution of sulphide of potassium at the rate of about one part in five hundred the infested plants are to be sprinkled with tile tiie decoction by means of a garden syringe and it is said that vegetation is not the least injured by its application 4 how to WATER avater HORSES honses one writer says never water immediately before or after feeding I 1 say that if a horse Is thirsty al always ways give him drink and he will thank you for it 11 I 1 have often seen horses put in the stable at noon for an I 1 hour or two and not eat a pound of hay or grain but hut looking wistfully for water and then their careful owner who would not let them have water when warm will come to give them enough to kill and drive the remainder of the day on two buckets of water and no feed ten chances to one his horse gives out with him or gets sick before night now I 1 say give the tile horse water if he is ever so warm give him a swallow rinse out his mouth and nostrils give him a bito of hay bay in a short time a little more water but not too much if he is watered several times a little at a time I 1 until he is satisfied he lie will not drink more than half what he would if you let him gulp it down all at once cor xon jy Y tribune FEED FOR PRODUCING MILK MILE the thu f radical farmer parmer says it is well settled in the opinion of all our best dairymen that bran greatly promotes the milk secretion in cows and it is fed almost universally about equally mixed with corn cora meal is the usual proportion this mixture re seems to promote both quality and quantity of milk from several sources source 8 we hear that buckwheat bran is a great milk producer and it ift is now being used considerably among ourches burches our chester county dairymen in about the same proportions as the other thomas gawthrop near west grove chester county bounty also by repeated trials with his own cows has fully satisfied himself that the they do as well with corn and and cob meal and bran as with pare corn meal and bran the Th amount damouDt of nutriment in corn cobs is so very small that this result will have to be explained on the supposition of jhb ground cob acting to promote digestion by Z dis tending the stomach the presence of bulky material being necessary to promote diste distension and fill up the stomach of ruminating rumination animals before perfect digestion can be accomplished is frequently lost sight of hungarian grass is also found for cows to be rather superior to the ordinary run of hay thelast the last year tr dr two hungarian grass has loomed up wonderfully in the e estimation of our dairy farmers and a large scope of land will be rowed bowed with it the them coming season it matures for cutting in about sixty days and produces two to four tons per acre the latter of course on good soils three pecks to the acre is the usual allowance of deed seed where a good hay market is convenient veni ent this substitution of hu hungarian n grass for common hay in home feeding will be a clear additional source of profit destruction OF tife rife rim TIIE CODLING G MOTIL MOTH it is denem generally ily lly conceded that the worst enemy we have to contend with in apple culture in this region is the codling moth our trees grow well weil and flow now erwell ervell the fruit sets as abundantly as a healthy tree ought to set fruit but tilo the worm comes cornea along by and by and ultimately nips nipa all our hopes of fruit during the past few years reports 11 have adelen been made of tho the the quan quantities tit cs of codling moths which have been caught by using usina wide mouthed bot trog of liquid as traps fur jur the purpose these T hese heso hung in the trees aro are said to get filled with in sects sec tsin jn the tile course of a single night and among the number largely of the codling moth on the strength of these reports we have recommended in times past attention to such a simple manner of destruction we vve observe however that Mis missouri souris devoted and enthusiastic entomologist prof riley jriley is satisfied that if any are cau eau caught ht in I 1 n this way they are too few to have havo ave avo much influence and besides a large number of insects which are really bane beneficial to the fruit grower he be thinks are destroyed at the same time so that the prof profit t and arid loss of the account shows no gain at any rate mr riley however goes farther than this and shows what seems to bo be a much better plan he says that there are two boods of young every year that the first brood leave the appie apple before it falls generally nally and an in the night time crawl down the stem in order to reach the tile ground in order to undergo transformation if a band of old bagging be placed around the tree and left there for a few weeks they go into this nest instead of the ground round antl and may then bo be readily destroyed es troyed A permanent roll of bagging can be used by having an elastic rubber and hook book to fasten it to the dxee tree we suppose the pupa e can an bo be destroyed des dea troyed in these permanent bags by dipping them into a boiler of hot water some do the same with straw bands and others merely screw loose shingles together the principle in all being the same namely to furnish a hiding place for the little worms this will effectually do for the first brood and we su suppose pose the last one which comes iown sown down with the fallen apples must be seen to by gathering up the fallen and worthless fruit there will still be the objection so often made when these remedies are proposed what use is it for tor one to destroy his insects they will only come from ones neighbors but it has ling seemed to us that these arguments are little more to baregard be regarded than in the destruction of rats or mice blit bilt who ever hesitated to seta trap in his cellar beca because a mouse might come from his neigh bors bars in search of his trapped and rand departed friend the argument if of any worth asin favor of missionary work it will urge to induce our neighbors to go and do likewise indeed there is bothin nothing M so valuable to a whole neighborhood as a good example let them see that you are destroying thousands of codling moths in this way and with hardly any trouble and A it is a rare chance if many mani many come long from the 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