Thrips
Thrips. These Are Minute Orange-colored Insects Found In, Growing Wheat Heads, And Said To Subsist By Sucking The Juices Of The Unripe Grains, Causing Them To Shrivel. A Usual Rem Edy Is To Thoroughly Dust The Field With Air-slaked, But Dry Lime. A Species Of Leaf Hrythro Neura, Is Popularly ...
Throwing For Operations
Throwing For Operations. When Any Painful Operation Is To Be Performed On An Animal, It Must Be Securely Fastened. This Is Done By Hobbling And Casting The Animal, And Then Securely Tying. For Operations Not Requiring A Long Time, A Pen May Be Made, Three Feet: Wide Six Feet Long, ...
Ticks
Ticks. Among Vegetable Productions What Is Known As Beggar Ticks Are The Ripe Seeds Of Bidens Ehrysanthemoides, And Also The Seeds Of Spanish Needle, B. Bipinnatus, Is Sometimes So Called. Sheep Ticks, Hippoboaca Mina, Is A Small Louse Fly, Without Wings, Often Exceedingly Troublesome, Especially To Lambs, The Insect Leaving ...
Timber
Timber. In The Article Forestry And In The Description Of The More Important Species Of Useful Trees, We Have Noticed Those Species Gen Erally Cultivated For Profit Or Ornament. Upon The Importance Of The Timber Resources Of The Country And The Yearly Increasing Scarcity, And The Need Of Planting For ...
Tobacco
Tobacco. Nieotiana. There Are Many Spe Cies Of Tobacco, Fourteen Being Enumerated By Loudon. The Two Principal Under Cultivation With Their Varieties Are N. Rustica, Grown In The Colder Portions Of Europe, And N. Tabaeum, Cul Tivated In The United States, Of This Latter, The Cuba, And The Connecticut Seed ...
Tobacco_2
Tobacco._ Until 1880, The Estimates Of The Tobacco Crop, One Of Great Importance To The Country, Was Neither Complete Nor Satisfactory. Since That Time, Great Care Has Been Exercised In Gathering Correct Figures. The Crops Of 1869 And 1870 Were Small, And Prices High; And That Of 1874 Was Very ...
Tool House
Tool House. An Indispensable Building, (either Separate Or Attached To Some Other) Dry And Well Ventilated, Where Tools, Implements, Machinery, Etc., May Be Stored, When Not In Use. Such Tools As Are Required For Use Every Day, Or At Short Intervals, Should Occupy Such A Position As To Be Easily ...
Transplanting
Transplanting. Transplanting Is The Art Of So Removing Plants That They Shall Receive The Slightest Possible Check In The Removal. The Objects In Transplanting Is, First, To Increase The Season Of Growth Of Exotic Plants By Previous Forcing In Hot Beds And Greenhouses, That We May Get Easier And Longer ...
Trees In Cities And
Trees In Cities And Villages. We Constantly Hear Complaints From Citizens That The Trees They Have Spent So Much Money In Having Planted And Cared For, Give But Little Satisfaction. A Large Majority Die In The Course Of A Few Years, Or At Least Become Dingy And Unhealthy From The ...
Trees Of The United
Trees Of The United States. In The Articles Forestry, Timber,timber Trees, Range Of, Etc., Will Be Found Much Valuable Informa Tion Which Has Not Been Commonly Known To The General Reader, And Indeed Which Has Not Come Under The Reading Of Many Who Take A Special Interest In Forestry And ...
Trembles
Trembles. This Disease Is Known By A Number Of Local Names, One Of The Most Common Being Milk-sick Or Milk-sickness. It Has Been Ascribed To A Variety Of Causes, Mineral And Veg Etable. It- Is Essentially A Disease Incidental To New Settlements, Seldom Found North Of Forty Degrees, And Then ...
Trichina Spiralis
Trichina Spiralis. This Parasite, Found Principally In The Flesh Of Swine, As Among Animals Used As Human Food, But Probably Also In That Of All Vermin, Insect And Garbage Eating Animals, Is Worthy Of Special Mention, From The Fact That, Of Late Years, Trichinosis Has Been Known In Quite A ...
Trotting Horses
Trotting Horses. The Use Of Trotting Horses Dates Back Many Years. As Long Ago As 1823 A Distinct Notice Of A Trotting Course Appeared In The Amark11141 Farmer Newspa Per Of That Day, And It Is Recorded That The First Time A Horse Ever Trotted In Public In The United ...
Turkey
Turkey. Iffeleagris. Of This Magnificent Domestic Fowl There Are But Two Species. M. Gallapavo, The Common Wild Species, And From Which Our Domestic Varieties Are Descended, And Ocellatus, A Wild Species, A Native Of Hondu Ras, And Indeed Extended Over Various Parts Of Central America. In Mexico, Is Found M. ...
Tussock Moth
Tussock Moth. The White Marked Tus Sock Moth (orygia Leucostigma) Is Often Most Destructive In Orchards Dr. Riley, In His First Missouri Report, Describes Them As Follows : Du Ring The Winter Little Bunches Of Dead Leaves Are Found To Be Quite Numerous On Our Apple Trees. They Are Generally ...
U Family
U. Family Falconid/e, (the Hawk.) Among Hawks, Genus Falco, We Have: Duck Hawk. Winter Resident, Very Rare; Carnivorous; Feeds On Ducks, Pigeons, Blackbirds, Etc.—pigeon Hawk. Wandering, Very Rare; Carnivorous ; Feeds On Pigeons And Smaller Birds, Field Mice, Etc.—sparrow Hawk. Resident, Common ; Less So In Winter; Carnivorous. As Its ...
Underdraining And Moisture
Underdraining And Moisture. In Addition To What Has Been Stated In The Body Of The Work, We Give Place To Some New Matter Just Made Publib By A Practical Drainage Expert Of Ohib, Who, Speaking Of Earlier Days, Says : Many Have Probably Passed Through This Country In An Early ...
Vapor
Vapor. The Late Prof. Henry, Secretary Of The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Has Contributed Much Valuable Literature On Meteor Ology To What Has Been Known Before. The Subject Of Vapor Is An Important One In Agricul Ture, And Hence We Extract, From An Article By The Distinguished Scholar, What Relates To ...
Varieties In Vegetation
Varieties In Vegetation. This Is An Important Subject And One In Which Every Culti Vator Of The Soil Is Interested. In Addition To What Has Been Heretofore Given In This Work We Append A Synopsis Of Facts And Conclusions Derived From Various Authentic Sources, Which Will He Of Value. The ...
Vegetation
Vegetation. The Complex Problems In Vegetable Life, And In The Act Of Vegetation, Have Caused It To Be Made The Careful Study Of Some Of The Most Profound Thinkers Of The Present Day. In The Articles, Germination And Physi Ology, Some Branches Of These Questions Are Noticed. A Plant From ...
Ventilation
Ventilation. The Subject Of Ventilation Is A Most Important One In Connection With Agri Culture, Since It Bears Not Only Directly Upon The Health Of The Family, The Farm Animals Kept, Up On The Perfect Saving Of Vegetables And Seeds, And Also Upon The Proper Curing Of Cheese, And, In ...
Ventilation In Stables
Ventilation In Stables. The Ab Sence Of Proper Ventilation In Stock Barns And Stables Is One Of The Most Serious Evils Known In The Care Of Stock. These Buildings Have Either No Means Of Ventilation Except The Doors And Windows, Causing Thorough Drafts And Suddenly Reducing The Temperature, Or Else ...
Verbena
Verbena. Vervain. Some Years Ago, And Until This Plant Began To Be Severely Attacked With Rust, On The Cutting Bench, It Was Perhaps The Most Popular Of Plants Both For The Window And For Bedding Purposes. Its Pretty Trusses Of Flowers, In Almost Endless Variety Of Color, And Its Profuse ...
Veterinary Science
Veterinary Science. The Care Of Sick Animals On The Farm Requires More Than Ordinary Prudence In Its Management. The Dumb Animal Can Not Tell Of Its Aches And Pains, Can Not Des Cribe Peculiar Symptoms, Except By Brute Signs, Quite Unintelligible To Those Who Have Not Given Particular Study And ...
Vinegar
Vinegar. The Juice Of Any Fruit, Especial Ly That Of The Grape And The Apple, Which, Having Gone Through The Vinous Fermentation, Enters Into The Acetic Fermentation, Acquiring A More Or Less Sharp Acid Taste. All Reference To Vinegar As A Preservative Must Be Understood As Being Made To A ...
Vineyard
'vineyard. The Cultivation Of Vineyards Has Always Occupied The Attention Of Man From The Earliest Ages, And The Grape Has Become One Of The Most Celebrated Fruits In History Both From Its Product In Wine, And From The Value Of Its Fruit In A Sanitary Point Of View And As ...
Walks
Walks. Walks, Drives And Roadways, In The Vicinity Of The Farm Or Rural Dwelling, Should Be So Carefully Made That They Are Good At All Times, And Should Approach As Directly To The Object Sought As Possible, And Without Unnecessary Curves, Especially Short Ones. Within The House Place, Curved Lines ...
Weeds
Weeds. Any Plant Growing Where It Is Not Wanted May Truly Be Classed As A Weed The Name, However, Is Only Properly Applied To Those Plants Not Valuable In Agriculture. So Long As The Slovenly Farmer, Who Grows Weeds, Can Get Nearly Or Quite As Much For His Illy Cleaned ...
Weevil
Weevil. A Name Applied To Various Insects Including Many Of The Curculios, Also To The Pea Weevil, And Also To Those Attacking The Bean. The Grain Weevil, Which Attacks Grain And The Rice Weevil Are Similar. During The Centennial Exhibition The Samples From Some Portions Of Europe, Especially From Spain, ...
Welsh Cattle
Welsh Cattle. Naturally We Should Look To Wales, In England, For Types Of The An Cient Race Of English Cattle, Since Its Climate Be Ing Comparatively Mild, And Its People Not Hav Ing Been Entirely Conquered By Either The Saxon Or Roman Invasions, We Confidently Expect .to Here Find Cattle ...
Wheat
Wheat. Tritwum Vulgare. Wheat Has In All Ages Of The World Been The Chief Reliance Among Nations For Bread. Those Countries Export Ing Bread Grains Even To-day Relying Upon It As A Great Money Crop. This Is Due To Two Reasons, It Carries Well, And Its Large And Uniform Price ...
Wheat_2
Wheat. The Increased Production Of Wheat, Through The Opening Of Vast Farm Areas Over The Productive West, Has Been Most Won Derful. Between 1875 And 1880, A Series Of Crop Failures In Western Europe Stimulated Demand Never Existing Before, And Which May Not / Again Be Brought About In This ...
White Wash
White Wash. Ordinary Lime Wash Made By Putting Half A Peck Or A Peck Of Lumps Of Quick-lime Into A Tight Barrel, And Pouring On Hot Water To Slake It; When Slaked Add Water To Make It Of The Consistency Of Thin Cream And It Is Ready For Use. It ...
Window Gardening
Window Gardening. The Culture Of Flowers, Odorous Plants, And Those Kept For The Beauty Of Their Foliage, In Dwellings, Is Probably As Old As The Era Of Comfortable Dwellings Them Selves. It Is So Old In Fact That Its Beginning Has Dever Been Chronicled. The Love Of Flowers Is As ...
Wine
Wine. In The Article Gallizing We Have Treated Of The Manufacture Of Fruit Wines, And Of Increasing The Strength Of Wines By The Addition Of Sugar. It Is Well Known That The Juice Of Any Fruit Containing Acid, Starch Or Sugar, May Be Converted Into A Kind Of Wine, By ...
Winter And Summer Pruning
'winter And Summer Pruning. The Principal Object To Be Kept In View In Pruning I Is To Calculate So We May Keep The Top In Proper Shape, And So Equalize All That Each Por Tion Of The Tree May Have A Due Proportion Of Light And Air, So Far As ...
Wire Fencing
Wire Fencing. A Correspondent Of The Farm, Field And Stockman Furnishes That Paper Some Very Practically Illustrated Matter On Wire Fencing, And The Means Of Bracing Gates And The Ultimate Facts Of Distribution, And Are Made En Tirely From The Crop Records Of The Year. The Per Capita Rate Of ...
Wood Pulp
Wood Pulp. The Invention Of Forming Paper Pulp From Wood Has Revolutionized The Paper Trade In The United States, Especially In Printing Paper. It Now Constitutes A Vast Indus Try. The Poplars—quaking Ash Is The Best— And Others, Soft Without Being Gummy, Are Espe Cially Useful. In Europe, The Industry ...
Wool
Wool. Ranking With Cotton, As A Clothing Material, The Wool Industry Of The World Is, Year By Year Assuming Greater And Greater Proportions. Large As Is The Area In The United States Adapted To The Keeping Of Sheep, The Wool Supply Has Al Ways Been Unable To Keep Up With ...
Wounds
:wounds. The Treatment Of Wounds, Says The Late Dr. Dadd, Depends Altogether Upon Their Nature And Cause. It Is Very Difficult In The Horse—although Not So In Man—to Heal A Wound By What Is Called First Intention, Which Means Union By Medium Of Coagulable Lymph Without Suppuration. The Definition Of ...
Xantrophyl
Xantrophyl. The Yellow Coloring Mat Ter Of Autumnal Foliage. Yak. The Himalayan Bison, Resembling The Buffalo, Three And A Half Feet High, And With Fine, Longhair. Yam. The Yam—iguame—dioscorea Elate, Is Cultivated In Every Tropical Portion Of The Earth, And Also Some Temperate Climates, Where The Young Plants Are Brought ...
Yellow Necked Caterpillar
Yellow-necked Caterpillar. Hand Maid Moth. Datana Ministra. There Are A Number Of Caterpillars Called " Tent Worms." The True Tent Caterpillars Build Webs Under Which They Feed. Others, As In The Case Of The Yellow-necked Caterpillar, Transform Only Under Webs, Within Which They Congregate, For The Pur Pose, Though They ...
Yellows
Yellows. For Yellows In Horses See Jaun Dice. In Cattle The Disease Is Much Similar, And Produced By Congestion And Inflammation Of The Liver. Over-feeding With Rich And Heating Food, Sudden Changes In The Weather, Excessive Milk Ing, Are The Principal Causes. The Animal Ceases To Ruminate Is Dull, Languid, ...