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for this enemy. Pyrethrum or bubach, 
which last name applies to pyrethrum grown 
in California. I find to give entire satisfac¬ 
tion in treating the cherry slug. I mix it 
with water—one tablespoonful to two gal¬ 
lons. It should be thrown on to the tree by 
the use of a good force-pump, and a good 
spray-nozzle should be used. A. H. Nixon, 
Dayton, O., sells both pumps and nozzles that 
are excellent for this purpose. Indeed the 
Nixon nozzle is the best in the market. While 
it throws a very fine spray, it also throws 
with great force. This is all-important in 
spraying trees to kill insects. Many have 
failed because they have applied liquids in so 
mild a way that many of the insects were not 
at all disturbed. It is not so much that a 
great amount of the insecticide is required as 
that every insect should receive a little. Dash¬ 
ing the liquid on to plants distributes it so thor¬ 
oughly that all are reached and killed. Where 
many large trees are to be treated it pays to 
use the Moody-Field Force Pump, made at 
Lockport, New York. This and the Nixon 
nozzle are both made to run with gearing at¬ 
tached to the wheel, so that the team drawing 
the wagon does the pumping at the same time. 
Hellebore is a safe remedy for the currant slug, 
and, as before suggested, one of the best. Bu¬ 
bach does not seem thorough enough; and 
Paris-green and London purple are such viru¬ 
lent poisons that they should never be used on 
currant bushes. 
A SORELY AFFLICTED JACK. 
F. O. C., Washington , Kans. —My six-year- 
old Jack is out of condition. Something is 
wrong with his feet or legs. His legs swell 
somewhat and be doesn’t like to use them. 
Sometimes they seem stiff; at others, he will 
lift them quite high and make several motions 
as though he would take a step, and then sets 
his foot down again where it was before, and 
he won’t walk much unless urged to do so. 
He inclines to lie down, and it is hard for him 
to get up. He might have rheumatism or 
contraction of the feet or hoofs. Our family 
physician thinks his blood is out of order and 
that be ought to be bled every two weeks and 
have physic. He has had the skin rubbed off 
of a part of his body for two years past and 
the place doesn’t heal well. It forms a kind 
of running sore. He has now the skin off his 
hip for a space half as large as the hand, and 
it has been so for three months, and under his 
jaw there are five or six pimples,some of them 
as large as a half dollar, and his neck seems 
stiff. He doesn’t like to put his head to the 
ground. 
ANSWERED BY DR. F. L. KILBORNE. 
I suppose this is the same jack you were in¬ 
quiring about in 188(5. If that is the case, the 
variety of symptoms given then and now in¬ 
dicate that the animal is suffering from com¬ 
plicated troubles more or less chronic, so that 
his case is too difficult and obscure to treat 
satisfactorily through correspondence. Has the 
jack always received good care and been well 
fed with suitable food, or has he been obliged 
to shift largely for himself, and supplied 
mostly with coarse innutritious fodder ? The 
successful treatment of chronic cases of this 
kind, often depends more upon the diet and 
care the animals receive than upon the medi¬ 
cinal treatment. In this case I can only re¬ 
commend a general course of treatment, and 
trust to good care and a generous nutritious 
diet to do the rest. 
Apply a flaxseed poultice to the feet at night 
and when it is removed in the morning, cover 
the whole hoof with an ointment of tar and 
vaseline. Continue until the hoofs become sof¬ 
tened ; and all brittle, powdery or diseased horn 
has been pared away. Then cease poulticing 
and apply a mild fly blister around the top of 
the hoof in front and on the sides, and report 
in four weeks. Continue the daily dose of 
the ointment for several weeks to prevent the 
excessive drying of the hoofs after they have 
been softened by the poulticing. Internally 
give the following course of powders: One- 
half ounce each of powdered gentian, sodium 
bicarborate and sulphate of soda night and 
morning in the feed for a week. Then re¬ 
place with two drams each of sulphate of 
iron, aloes and niter twice daily for the sec¬ 
ond week. Give as a drench in a pint of 
water if the animal refuses to take it in the 
feed. Continue to alternate the two powders 
for several weeks. Wash the sores daily with 
a solution of one half dram each of sulphate 
of ziuc and lead acetate in a quart of water 
until a healthy action is established and the 
sores are healing, then dress only with carbo- 
lated vaseline daily. 
lice on lambs: feed for nursing ewes. 
W. A. G., Gloucester , Co., N. J. —1. What 
s the safest and best remedy for lice on ewes 
that are now dropping their lambs? 2. What 
is the best proportion for mixing the follow¬ 
ing feed: whole corn, cracked corn, wheat 
bran, and old process oil cake? The ewes 
have been fed enough of this mixture, and all 
the bright corn fodder they will eat to keep 
them in good condition. After they lamb, 
they will have clover hay once daily, besides 
corn fodder, and all the grain they will eat. 
I want to feed to get the most milk for the 
lambs while keeping the ewes fat? 
Ans. —1. The Thymo-Cresol or cold water 
sheep dip made by T. W. Lawford & Co., of 
Baltimore, Md., is an excellent remedy 
against all insect vermin on sheep or other 
animals. It is free from poisonous qualities. 
Sheep should be freed from vermin, especially 
at this season, when the weather exhausts 
them and makes trouble and misery from 
parasites exceedingly injurious. 2. Feeding 
ewes for milk should be managed with caution, 
as no other animals are so easily injured by 
errors in feeding. For ewes nursing lambs, 
the main feed of clover hay may be supple¬ 
mented by a pint or more of cracked corn, 
wheat bran, and old-process linseed meal in 
equal parts. If the laxative effect of the lin¬ 
seed meal is found to be excessive, reduce the 
proportion one-half and add an equivalent of 
bran. 
EVAPORATED SWEET CORN. 
C. E. F., Lyons, N. Y. —1. Is there any mar¬ 
ket for evaporated sweet corn in quantity? If 
so, where? 2. What are the average yield and 
price? 4. What varieties would be best for 
August and September evaporation? 5. Is 
any machinery required beyond the evapora¬ 
tor? 
Ans. —1. Yes. 2. Consult any leading 
wholesale grocer. 3. Stowell’s Evergreen is 
one of the best; if your season is too short for 
it, then the next early large-eared, sweet and 
productive sort. Two sorts may be used for 
succession, but Stowell is long in condition, 
though two successive plantings of it may be 
advantageous. 4. The yield and price both 
vary so much that an average is hard to strike. 
5. There is a simple machine used for remov¬ 
ing the corn from the cob. 
Miscellaneous. 
C. C. DuB., Nashville , Ind. —1. Is it profit¬ 
able to use land plaster on a clay soil? 2 . 
What is the best fertilizer for oats? 3. Is the 
Cahoon broadcast seed sower easily used, and 
is it more profitable to use it than to sow by 
hand or drill? 4. Is the seed firm of John 
Lewis Childs responsible? 5. Which produces 
the better apple tree—a root-grafted or stem- 
grafted tree? 6 . In clearing land, does it 
injure it to cut the trees off green? 
Ans. —1. The question can not be answered, 
except by trial. 2. In the absence of infor¬ 
mation derived from trials, we should choose 
a high grade, complete fertilizer, such as 
those mixed for this crop. 3. Yes, the Cahoon 
is a fine thing. We can speak well of it in 
every way. It will pay you to use it in broad¬ 
cast sowing. 4. Entirely so, in so far as we 
have ever heard. 5. We should prefer the 
stem graft. 6 . We scarcely understand the 
question. 
.7. F. 77., Craw for dsville, Ind. —1. Where 
can a good grinder or cutter for preparing 
horse-radish be obtained? 2 . I want to plant 
a new orchard in spring; would it be advis¬ 
able to plant two dozen trees on Paradise 
stock for early bearing, in addition to the 
standard sorts? 3. What kinds of apples 
would be best for summer, fall, and winter? 
Ans. —1. Hardware stores keep them. 2. 
Yes, we should plant as many as two dozen 
if we could afford to experiment in the mat¬ 
ter. We favor the Paradise stock only as we 
would favor the quince for pears—that is for 
the garden, and without much thought of pro¬ 
fit. 3. Red Astrachan, Primate, Alexander, 
Gravenstein, Maiden’s Blush, Northern Spy, 
Mother, Wagener. 
W. H. C., Great Neck, N. Y — I have a 
large dung pit with stone wall sides. The bot¬ 
tom is paved with cobble stones and then ce¬ 
mented to make it water-tight. This pit con¬ 
tains the manure from my cow and horse sta¬ 
bles, and to it my pigs have constant access. 
One of my neighbors (an old farmer) says pigs 
will not do well in this pit. I think the 
contrary. Who is correct? 
Ans. —There is no reason why the pigs may 
not do well in this manure pit, and be made 
to do valuable service in turning over and 
mixing the manure, if they are not permitted 
to bury themselves in the heated mass for the 
sake of the warmth. Pigs will do this some¬ 
times, and lying in the steaming manure will 
get so tender as to take cold and suffer in va¬ 
rious ways, such as by diseases of the skin, 
rheumatism, etc. 
C. H., Fountain Green , III.—I have some 
raspberries which are known simply as “ yel¬ 
low.” They are quite hardy, the canes re¬ 
maining fresh and bright, without protection, 
not more than three inches of tips being 
killed last winter: they bloom very fully in 
clusters like the “ blackcaps,” also propagate 
from tips like them, but from some cause 
nearly all blast. As they are of very fine 
quality, I regret this very much. 1. Are they 
the Caroline? 2. Would the tendency to blast 
be obviated by planting some other kinds 
among them? 3. If so, what kind is best? 
Ans. No, it is not the Caroline. 2. Prob¬ 
ably. Plant any variety of cap that blooms 
with the yellow. Try Caroline and Golden 
Queen. 
C. H. C., Bedford , Va —What is the earli¬ 
est and most prolific white field corn for this 
section—five miles west of Lynchburg? 
ANSWERED BY PROF. C. S. PLUMB, UNIVERSITY 
OF TENNESSEE. 
Mr. Ephraim Link of Greenville, Tenn., 
can supply a most excellent white, dent, 
horse-tooth corn that he has grown most 
carefully for 40 years or more, making seed se¬ 
lections from it for over 30 years.’ It is first- 
class and has been quite widely distributed. 
It has never failed to grow well with Mr. 
Link. Neither has it ever suffered injury 
from frost. Mr. Link also has another white 
dent, said to make fine bread flour, and pro¬ 
ducing a great abundance of ensilage fodder. 
A. E. S , Torrington , Conn. —What can I 
afford to give for stable manure to be hauled 
2 X miles? 
Ans.— Samples of good stable manure have 
analyzed about 11 pounds of nitrogen, 10 
pounds of potash and six pounds of phosphoric 
acid to the ton, but most of the city stable 
manure sold near us is too strawy to give this 
analysis It costs us $2 per ton at the station 
or $2.50 when delivered over a very hilly mile. 
At auctions or manure sales, $1.75 is a high 
price for a ton of manure. 
J. D. T., Eehoboth, Del.— 1. Is there any 
grass I can sow on wheat this spring, with 
Red Clover, to insure pasture next year, with¬ 
out bothering with corn-planting the follow¬ 
ing year? 2. Can peach trees grown last year 
be budded this spring? 3. Which is the best 
creamery? 
Ans.— 1. Why not Timothy or Timothy 
and Red Top? 2. Yes. 3. We do not know. 
All those advertised in our columns are good, 
and each modestly claims to be the best. 
C. B. G., Laingsburg, Mich. — How, when, 
and where did Shropshire sheep originate? 
Ans.— The Shropshire is a cross-bred sheep 
that owes its origin in part to the Cots wold 
and in part to the “Morfe Common” sheep, a 
rare original in Shropshire, Morfe Common 
being a tract of (500,000 acres in that county. 
Leicester and South Downs were afterwards 
crossed on the progeny, the improvement 
beginning in 1792. 
J. V., Essexville, Mich. —Where can I get 
beech nuts or one-year-old shoots, for starting 
a hedge in the spring, and what will they 
cost 3 
Ans. —You will find beech seeds offered in 
2tti,$reUaneou,$ ^rtmtistnch 
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It is-specially designed for planting Field and 
Ensilage Corn. Beans Peas, and Beet *»eed. 
It is easily adjusted to drop the seed and fertilizer in 
hills, drills or checks- also adapted for rough and stony 
ground. Six changes may be made for the am unt of 
fertilizer used, varying from 50 pounds to 4 j 0 pounds 
per acre, either wet or dry. by simply inserting a pin, 
or turning a thumb nut on the cover without removing 
the contents ef the hopper. *s small an amount as 5U 
pounds per acre, wet or dry, can be dropped with just 
th° same degree of certainty as can be 300or450 pounds 
per acre. This clearly illustrates the accuracy with 
which damp and sticky fertilizing material may be 
used in this machine, and it is capable of doing all 
that is claimed for it when properly managed. Farm¬ 
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Enfield, N. H._ 
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and grass seed. Ex-Gov. Robie, Master. Me., State 
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PARNELL’S m FURROWER 
PATENT I In & MARKER 
J. M. Thorburn & Co.’s catalogue, 15 John 
Street, New York, on page 59 (Fagus), for 60 
cents per pound or 10 cents per ounce. 
C. H. A., Fort Keogh, M. T.— What kind of 
thermometer is used for determining the tem¬ 
perature of cream? 
Ans. —Dairymen use glass thermometers, 
which answer well. Bartlett & Dow, Lowell, 
Mass., sell them. 
L. W. P., Cornwall, Ft.—The following 
books will be of service to you: Grasses of 
America, published by W. J. Beal, Lansing, 
Mich.; Agriculture, by F. A. Storer, Chas. 
Scribner’s Sons. New York; Culture of Farm 
Crops, by Henry Stewart; Talks on Manures, 
by Joseph Harris. 
J. K., Stroudsburg, Pa. —Is a special potato 
fertilizer as good when kept over a year or 
two as it was when freshly made? 
Ans. —If the fertilizer is dry, it is just as 
good now as when it was sent out by the man¬ 
ufacturers; otherwise not. 
J. W. R., Troutville, Va. —Which is the 
better—to put fresh stable manure on land 
that is to be planted with Irish potatoes in 
spring, or to use commercial manures? 
Ans. —We should never use fresh manure 
spread in the spring upon potatoes. 
F. B. S., Chardon, O. —Where can I get 
the best book on market gardening, and what 
does it cost? 
Ans. —Market Gardening by W. W. Raw- 
son, W. W. Rawson & Co., Boston, Mass., is 
as good as any. 
Several Subscribers. —F. A. Frank, of the 
“American Wonder” churn, states that he is 
having a new lot of churns made and that all 
who have sent for them will be supplied as 
early as possible. 
U. S. W., (no address.) —A copper tank is 
considered best for the incubator described 
by Mr. Jacobs, but iron will answer. 
To Several Subscribers. —We find that Peter 
Henderson & Co., catalogue both seeds of 
Japan Clover and cuttings of Bermuda Grass. 
T. H. F., Loami, III. —Knapp Bros., Fab- 
ius, N. Y., keep fine White Leghorn fowls. 
A. L. R., Idaho .—Who manufactures a 
good lamp chimney? 
Ans. —Geo. A.Macbeth & Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 
Opens a „ 
acj^ustablp.^^^H| ^ better row in 
to all inequal-^fj iMweither soft or hard 
Ities of ground ground than any other Marker. 
Leaves the earth well pulverized at bottom of f urro\r* 
Marks any width from to 5 feet, and from a mere 
> mark to 6 inches deep. 
“Take pleasure in recommending it. It does the business; Is 
well made and will last for years.’V.S. Collin*,Moorestown,N.J. 
“It far exoceds my expectations. If the real merits of this 
cheap implement were known to potato growers alone, the sale* 
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B °y 520 lbs - of Powell’s 
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