362               TH E WISCONSIN FARMER.

lut mentioned RieU may, perhaps, be better clay, no fear need be entertained
of valuable
known to farmers from the fact that many of fertilizing substances bheoming
wate. if the
                                             manure cannot be plowed in at
once. Fresh,
them, when crushed in the hand, emit a most and even well rotted dung contains
very little
powerful and nauseous odor.                  free ammonia; and since active
fermentation
             Seveal etremly  inut  Ifyenoperaand with it the further evolut~ion
of free am-
                   Severalextremey minute y   |monis, is stopped by spreading
out the man-
fieis, with four transparent wings, also destroy ure on the field, valuable
manuring matters
the plant lice by depositing an egg in eaeh cannot escape into the air by
adopting this
lig plantlouse. This egg          a gbplan.' If this is a reasonable conclusion,
it
           linng plant     produces        goes far to remove the dread of
loeing, on
which devours the interior of the louse and such soils, the better portions
of farmyard
changes into a pupa in the hardened skin, manures by top-dressings. AB theseasonwill
           and fiall, wen haned ntotheperectorsoon be here when these dressings
are com-
and, SD-Ialy, when changed into the perfect or ! monly applied to grass,
it will be useful to re-
fly state in the body of the louse, gnaws its member this fact.
way out of the empty skin, and, after pair- TI      ettm       o   ppyn 
   h    auei
                                            S  held hy the great Cheshire
grass farmers, to
ing, flies away to find other victims in which I be in the end of September
or the beginning
to deposit its eggs. The skins ot the aphides of October, particularly in
a showery period,
                                             i as the grass soon covers it,
and renders it less
or plant lice destroyed by these flies may ea- 1liable to he damaged by the
sun or drying
sily lhe recognized by their brown and dry winds
appearance and by the round hole through                             -
which the perfect fly has made its escape; al- ,      are  C'pi in 1862.
though the hard and indurated skin to the I Its a good thing for Wisconsin
credit taat
casual observer presents the same shape as we visited Europe last year instead
of this;
the living plant louise, and clings to the leaf | for the statistics of our
great wheat crop of
or plant in a similar life-like manner.   11860, then and there published
to all the na-
  In greenhouses plant lice may be destroyed tions, as the largest crop ever
yet produced
by fumigating with, tobacco smoke; also by by any one State, have since been
beaten by
syringing the plants with tobacco water, or the great state of Ohio.
whale oil soap mixed wi th water; but such re- I Our crop was 27.316,.t).'0
 bushels; thaL of
medies will only answer on a smail scale, and Ohio in 1862 is reported at
29,883,651.
not in fields of several acres. And, as one of  Nor is iltis all. That noble
agricultural
the objects of this office is to collect the best I State does equally well
in many other fields
information about the remedies for injuries of agriculture, its will be Peen
by the follow-
caused hy insects, and the diseases of plants. ing quotations front her imposing
table of sta-
will you be kind enough to write if any of tistics of the chief crop.t:
your neighbors have succeeded in destroying Wheat-nmiutsr of *,rtcres ................................
2,W9,047
them; and if so, what. in your opinio. is the R;- .       .................5...................
671o
bee remedy ?                                 Barley       acr.....      
            59,178
          I remain your obd't serv't          "           bushel.. 
              1 21,170
                                             C~rn   ''    cr. D.        
         2,175,531
                       TowmSgZED GLOVYR.      *'          bus hsihels  .
         TI. ....            ,014,314
                                             Ituckwheat--uuniber of ac e.
............. 13,608
                                                 *        1      I-buels.....
      173,b67
        Suiftoe App~ io of Manm           0atsa-nui ier of scres.. .  .....................
.. 574,04G
                                             I a         b er       ................................11,CM
o,5
                                                 numbteo wber of an,' . 
       81,069
  The Mark lAu c Exprcs8, in commenting up- .      0    bushels ..............................5
",128,756
on the various experiments of Prof. Voeleler, Meadow-unnuber of ares  ...
 . 1.571,766
states that the Prof, judging from the results |  nua-miter ef  tons .............
4753,U18
of these numerous trials, leans to the opinion         bo * h *-  bl,.s of
 t ....................s.  83,900
that the spreading of farmyard compost on      *       .iounde of fibre ....................
,0,9877
the surface of the soil, for even a considera- Sirgqiu-numler of a wres .
.30,872
                                                              1,ounds of
sugar ....... 27,486
ble period before it is plowed in, is by no,  .'  * I -avlons of r   p ............
2,560,69
means so injurious a practice as farmers have Maple sugar-pountl .....  ................4
9  ,820
been led hitherto to suppose.  He says that BDuter-pondn ..l ...f srup. .
   3,400
"on all soils with a moderate proportion of Ces  ousd . ................................-ponatt.
. .........:lD,7s8,074



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