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Destroy Weeds-^ PTh liewash — Ma n ures. 



Vol. IV. 



will supply the place of this foreign a.ticle'! 

 We have no doubt there is, and that if ex- 

 periments should be tried with some of our 

 plants it would end in the discovery of one 

 that would answer every purpose. Who will 

 look it upl — lb. 



Destroy yowv Weeds. 



Every farmer should be up and doing, be 

 active and vigilant in waging a war of exter- 

 mination, against weeds of every name and 

 nature, from the Canada thistle to the insig- 

 nificant chickweed, that is such a grievous 

 annoyance in our garden. If you have not 

 had time to rid every part and portion of yaur 

 premises, around your buildings, and the sides 

 of the road opposite your land, from these 

 pests of the farmer, now is your time to 

 take your scythe or hoe and cut them down 

 to prevent their going to seed and returning 

 you a hundred fold more of trouble next year. 

 A double advantage may be gained by doing 

 this if you will take the trouble to gather 

 them up and throw them into your hog yard. 

 You will get the thanks of your swine in the? 

 form of a number of additional pounds of pork 

 in your barrel next fall, and a lot of good ma- 

 nure into the bargain. But if you have a 

 piece of land that is very weedy which you 

 wish to till next year, mow them by all means, 

 let them lay upon the ground until they get dry 

 and then burn it over. In this way you will 

 not only destroy the weeds, but all the eggs 

 and larvae of insects that may be deposited 

 therein, and clean the piece and prepare it 

 finely for a crop of grain. — lb. 



Wliitewasli your Cellars, Out Buildings, 



Last spring we reminded our readers of the 

 advantages of whitewashing, and as we know 

 that some neglected it then, we would again 

 remind them of the advantages to be derived 

 by it. Dog days are at hand when we always 

 have a great deal of close weather, in which 

 diseases are more apt to be generated than at 

 any other season of the year, and during which 

 most insects deposit their eggs. There are 

 also many rainy days, which cannot be em- 

 ployed out of doors, we therefore advise those 

 who have not before whitewashed their cellars 

 and those parts of their buildings which need 

 it, to do it now. By using a wash of quick- 

 lime while hot or as soon as it is slacked for 

 this purpose, they will destroy the eggs of in- 

 sects and do much to remove the cause of in- 

 fection and ctVcctually close up many places 

 which would otherwise be favorable deposito- 

 ries for the ogirs of insects, and produce a 

 sweet and healthy atmosphere around their 

 buildings. — lb. 



LiOts in Horses« 



It is said tha': bots in horses are caused by 

 a fly that deposits its eggs upon the hair of the 

 horse, which causes an itching, and as the 

 horse scratches himself with his teeth, the 

 eggs adhere to the glands of the mouth, and 

 are thence carried with the food and drink 

 into the stomach and there hatch and become 

 bots. It is also said if a horse be supplied 

 with salt frequently during the fly season thai 

 the eggs which go thus into the stomach will 

 be destroyed and pass off" without producing 

 bots. The season is now at hand when these 

 flies make their deposits, and farmers should 

 be employing the preventive. — lb. 



Accumulation of Manure. 



Manure is the true source of the cultiva- 

 tor's wealth. Every farmer should tax his 

 wits to the utmost with a view to the accu- 

 mulation of this article. He can never have 

 too much of it, and must fail for the want of 

 a competent supply. The barn of course, 

 will yield its heaps in due proportion to the 

 stock of cattle and horses kept. Sheep, too, 

 yarded in winter, will make considerable, and 

 this of an excellent, quality. But the hog 

 yard is the place to make it in any desirable 

 quantities. It is worth one's while to keep a 

 lot of swine, if for no other purpose than as 

 manufactures of manure. The yard should 

 be on a stiff" subsoil, dishing in the centre. — 

 If it is floored with stone or plank, and has a 

 cover over it, so much the better, as then 

 neither the salts will go downward, nor the 

 gasses upward. The whole strength will be 

 retained. Put into this, through the whole 

 vernal season, every thing of a wa.ste vege- 

 table description that you can rake and scrape 

 together. As fast, too, as the family makes 

 soap suds and dish water, in with every quart 

 of it. Let none of it go elsewhere. It is an 

 excellent plan to consult the road side for 

 rich soil and low places for boggy substances, 

 which have been washed down from elevated 

 grounds. Cart this home as so much gained, 

 and let your hogs saturate it with urine. Ev- 

 ery load of it will come out next spring so 

 much excellent manure. Go out too, half a 

 dozen times in the course of the summer, with 

 a stout .scythe, and mow down all thistles be- 

 fore they have l)lossomcd or gone to seed, cut 

 up brakes at a great rate and all unnecessary 

 bushes. Then take your hay cart and load 

 up. Bring the collection home and pile it up 

 outside the yard. Every little while throw a 

 lot of this over to the swine. If you occ.ision- 

 ally scatter a little corn or oats in the mass, it 

 will do the hogs no harm to root afler it, and 

 will do the collection good by producing fer- 

 mentation. A great many loads of tlie most 

 valuable manure may be made every year by- 

 some care and attention of this sort. 



