THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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hue. The wings almost cover the body, and ai'e 

 prettily striped and veined. 



The popular theory that the grub causes death 

 by boring through the walls of the brain, is absurd. 

 The experiments of Valisnieei go to show that the 

 (Estrus ovis never eats; and this is the now received 

 opinion. 



Few sheep are exempt from the presence of these 

 grubs, and they may, and probably do, add to the 

 irritation of the animal when aifected with catarrh. 

 iJiit it is the fly that produces the evil ascribed to 

 this insect, by the annoyance it causes the sheep 

 while endeavoring to form a lodgement for its eggs, 

 in the warm weather of summer. 



The best preventive of the attacks of this insect 

 is. to thoroughly tar the noses of the sheep in the 

 early part of summer, and to mix a little tar with 

 their salt occasionally. Tobacco smoke, when 

 forced into the nostrils of the sheep, will cause the 

 worms to drop out and thus perish. Or, take four 

 ounces of Scotch snuif, and pour over it a quart of 

 boiling water ; stir it well; and when cold, take a 

 syringe and inject about a tablespoonful up each 

 nostril. The sheep should be placed on its back, 

 with its head on the ground. Force the mixture 

 as much as possible into the cavities of the head, 

 keeping the point of the syringe up for this pur- 

 pose, or the liquid will run into the throat. It will 

 make the sheep very drunk, but no danger need be 

 apprehended. 



WHEAT MILDEW OE SUST. 



This disease produced even greater injury to the 

 wheat crop of portions of the United States and 

 Canada, last year, than that terrible little insect 

 the midge or weevil. "We have no remedy to offer 

 for either the midge or the mildew. One thing, 

 however, is certain — the drier we can make the 

 soil, and the earlier we can bring the crop to ma- 

 turity, the less danger is there of injury. Under- 

 draining, good summer-fallows, appropriate ma- 

 nuring, and sowing early varieties of wheat, will 

 oe found the best methods of mitigating the injuri- 

 ous eft'ects of the mildew as well as of the midge. 

 Land that abounds in organic matter, and which 

 produces an excess of straw, is favorable to mildew. 

 la the majority of seasons, it is poor policy to sow 

 low, rich land, to wheat. We should r,]ant such 

 land with corn, or lay it down in meadow, and use 

 I the produce for making manure to be used on the 

 j dry, upland portions of the farm. Sow wheat only 

 .on the best land, cultivate and manure it as well as 

 possible ; and it will be found that a fewer number 

 j of acres, properly managed, will yield more wheat, 



or at all events more profit, than the too prevalent 

 practice of sowing a large breadth, irrespective of 

 its adaptation or culture. 



WHEAT MILDEW. 



Wheat mildew or rust is due to the attack of a 

 parasitic fungus, a cut of which, greatly magnified, 

 we annex. There are few wheat crops, be the sea- 

 son what it may, in which mildew does not exist ; 

 but it is only when atmospheric circumstances are 

 favorable that its growth is so rapid as to be very 

 injurious. We can not control these climatic cir- 

 cumstances. All we can do is to avoid sowing on 

 low land and in situations favorable to the spread 

 of mildew. 



The fbllowing plan is said to have been adopted 

 with considerable advantage : 



In the morning, while the dew is still on the 

 ground, two men start to the field with a piece of 

 stout twine or a small rope ; each takes hold of 

 one end, and, taking their stations in the ladjoining 

 furrows, they walk together across the field, draw- 

 ing the string over the heads of the wheat, causing 

 them to bend and spring up again, thus shaking off 

 all moisture on the stalk. It is necessary to wateii 

 the weather after the wheat commences to blossom, 

 and repeat the operation every time-danger is ap- 

 prehended from the appearance of a heavy dew or 

 shower followed by a still atmosphere and strong 

 sunshine, till the grain is out of the milk, when aH 

 danger of rust may be considered over. 



Wiix Mares produce Colts after Mules? — 

 Several correspondents give us some facts whioii 

 prove that they will. 



