Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-05-25
AGRICULTURAL,
Crons in the West.

a correspondent Of the 1IlOuneJ MIItluB
from Illinois, gives fhe following:
A large breadth of Spring wheat and
cats has been sowr, and corn viii be plant.
ed by every farmer to an extent equal to
his power to work it. Potatoes, onions,
cabbage and garden vegetables will be
largely raised. | never knew the farmers
so determined and anxious to plant and
cultivate we'll as they are this Spring
Three things stimulate them; the present
and prospective high prices, the necessity
for supplying their own families, and the
patriotic desire TO help the National cause
by raising abundance for our armies in the
field. Thee are thousands aad tens Of
thousands of farmers who are willing to
give to the Government the fruit Of from
one acre to 20 acres, year after year, for
their whole lives, rather than that the
Rebels should conquer.
An immense number of farmers, since
the war commenced, have paid off old
debts, and having attained an independ
ence, for which they had looked long, they
are how in a condition to work their land
much better, to make improvements, aud
TO enjoy themselves As an indication OF
this, Mr.. Phoenix, the great nursery mau
of Bloomington, informs me that his sales
Of fruit trees have more than doubled the
two past years Hence, notwithstanding
the great discouragements of the past grow
ing season, there are probably no more re-
ally prosperous and happy farmers in the
world than exist in the West.
The new crop of sorgo has been of i'm
mense benefit to the West 1t stands ev-
ry farmer to be on the look out for new
crops, for they will make US rich, in fact
they are doing it. Of those | feel per-
mitted to mention one, which every one
safely can plant, and that is canary seed.
Last year, NJ. i. Dunlay Of Champaign
sowed five acres Of canary seed, obtained
from New York, costing four or FIVE dol
lars bushel, aud his success was so great
that this Spring he has put in, during
March, thirty acres 1saw the crop last
Summer, after it was cut, and from appear
ances should judge it would yield twenty
or thirty bushels to the acre.
Canary seed has been exported from the
South of Europe, and we have ann ually
paid for what We required millions of dollars,
AS we have for other things which we can
raise as we'll, if not better, in our own
country. So far as [ know, Mr. Dunlap
is the first one who has made the expert
ment, and | think debt of gratitude is
due him
The seed has qualities similar to fax
seed and the yield is much greater. At
the Hamburg fair last year, Count Pinto
OF Mettkan, in Prussian Silica, showed
COW, named Black Tett' for which he was
offered Sl,400 and refused it. 1t appear
cd, on trial at the fair, that, 115 days after
calving, she daily gave SO! quarts of milk,
from which 3 pounds and 49, ounces of
butter were made-eqnal to q pounds
week | gather these facts from the Coun-
try Gentleman, aud without going into
particulars, | add, this COW usually was
kept stabbed, groomed, and ted on plenty
OF hay and linseed. During the trial at
the fair she was fed seven pounds of lin.
seed day; and two pounds and half of
butter was the profit Of this seven pounds.
Dairy men generally are accepting the
statement that such tattening feed is re-
qulred to produce so much butter-and it
seems to me that canary seed, if raised in
excess of the demand at 50 or S5 bushel.
can be raised most proftably for feed for
milk cows
Winter wheat, on some soils, was injur-
ed by the hard freeze in February, when
the ground was bare, but on the whole,
this grain never looked better than it does
this spring. l saw very many pieces with
a first rate stand and of dark beautiful
green. 1t may be said that wheat put in
after clover, or on good ground and the
work faithfully done, promises to yield
largely. OF course, where these conditions
were disregarded, we shall hear of the fly,
and other insects of the rust and Winter
killing. There are men who never will
raise good crops of wheat, and there are
others who find it most profitable.