The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-07-21
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
From the Prnirie Farmer.

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MIsTAKEs.-Ar. Editor While the Ag-
| ricultuial press serves 20 disseminate great
amount of useful knowledge in our indus
trial pursuits, il is also a medium through
which many errors are propagated.
For example: we see an article headed.
'.bosc to hare peaches every gear % What
could be more desirable > With eager eye
we glance through it to obtain the informa-
ton. Well, what is it We fin 4 we have
only to Bud the Peach on the Wild Plum"
| We are told that peach trees thus propaga-
ted will parlake of the character of the wild
plum, and will hence be hardy and stand
| our winters; that they viii bloom much la
ter and thus escape frosts, and consequent
IL .'6eoy every gear" Nonsense
The stock only serves as conductor for
the ascending sap. II is tie ieoves of the
tree that constitute the laboratory through
which the material of growth is manufac
tured; the elements being supplied from
the atmosphere and the constant current of
ascending sap. Hence it is the leaves, and
not the stock or roots, that must determine
the character of the growing tree.
Dissimilar stocks may relard or acceler-
ste the free flow of sap; and thus give the
tree dwarfish habit or increased growth.
This is the only influence the stock can
have on the graft. The p"ach is neither re.
tarded in its time of bloom or rendered
more hardy by being budded on the WVd
Plum.
l notice in some of our Agricultural
| j ulna's, the old fallacy il again resnrrect-
ed. about splitting and uniting the halves
of The buds "f dissimilar varieties, produc-
ing fruit half saOeet. and h0yf soar.
| Whom w. Siuar that Ito huu ia Con1 +.
posed of conceniric folds of leaves we must
at once see the impossibiIiIv of splitting two
buds so as TO make all these minute folds
correspond, without which there could be
no union. And if such union were pos
sible, the result on the fruit would not be
what has been supposed. The sueet and
soar apple is only freak of nature it was
never produced by splitting Juds.
Tyler McWHcRTER.
SHEEP FOR MrrTnN-Col. J. w. Ware
of Va. writes "a the Gennesee Farmer :
.'Of all sheep prefer the Cotswold, from
experience. They mature early, are large
and hardy and take on lat easy. During
the summer and fall that they are one year
old. mot fed on grain) no mutton can be
moe delicstely favored, jury and tender
Over two years old. many muttons are
better. "A they then tallow too heavily fol-
the appetite; but The butcher will then give
almost any price for them; and what Pru
dent man wishes TO keep muttons to four
j years old, when he can sell them at one
year old at much better prices than any
other sheep aszfoar? have rarely. if ev.
er, sold my muttons of this breed. the fall
after one year old. under $40 each. and
have sold older ones much higher; and new
er sold them at The same age under So each
without LAYING fed grain AT all; and the
1eeces amply pay the keep. Can any breed
of hogs show such clear profit and in Sc
short a time and they have no wool to pay
the cost of keep
FLAX CorToN.-The Davenport Gozene
announces that the subject of raising fax
in Iowa, for the manufacture of cheap cloth
ing fabrics. is going TO lave the attention OF
the farmers of that State-that Col. VIM
Duane Wilson. Secretary of the Farmer
College is about setting out on a featuring
tour. and will take with him specimens Of
calicoes and jeans manufactured from flax
cotton. The Gazette says:
These goods are finished with brighter
color than those printed upon pure cotton
cloth. besides promising greater durability,
the fiber of fax. Satinets are also manu-
featured with flax filling. the warp being
cntton. Also yarns half cotton and halt
f1ax-and three quarters wool and one quar-
ter fax-said to be fiEer, softer and more
durable than though of all wool. These
warns and satinets we have not seen. We
intend TO ,cear tie fret pair of fax stock
ings we meet with, and then t. speak from
experience. But one thing is demonstrated
! All sorts of common cloths and clothing
can be made from fl * which are now made
from cotton. The goods also are as cI.esp
as cotton goods and handsomer and the
raw material can be raised in any Northern
State.
When the Chevalier C!aussen. in 1851.
announced to the world that fax could be
manufactured into a cotton not distin-
guishable by old cotton growers from the
cotton of the Soutl.-and spun and wove
upon ordinary cotton machinrry-the world
was incredulous. But il is no use TO doubt
! when one las seen the goods.
/ For hundred years experiments have
been going on in the cottonizing of fax.
Il was not however. till the spying of 1857
that the first bale Of tow was prepared ty
the new process at Niagara Falls, N. Y. BY
Flax Cotton was first used in manufacture
ing with cotton and wool. at East Green.
wich, Rhode Island. In The spring of 1855
the machinery was perfected at Watertown,
Mass, near Boston. Other mills in differ
ent parts of New England are now adopt.
ing this machinery. and il is 10 be introduc-
ed into the West. as soon as il can be con-
structed. As soon as the farmers of the
West are awake TO this great work of rails
ing their own clothing by the cultivation
of fax. the machinery for turning it into
cotton will be at their doors. After thai
process is gone through wi.h-as we have
said before--the machinery of an ordinary
cotton mill viii turn it into cloth.
The difficulties in reducing fax to cotton
(which it has taken a century of expert.
menting TO overcome-grow out of the diff
ference between the fibre of native cotton
and that of native fax. The one is fiat like
: 4 ribbon. the other is tubular; the one is the
~ eool sho oeko- e efaft. fI,e