The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-11-09
AgrifnItnral.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.


Grape vines may be pruned as soon n
the leaves fall.
An told observer" informs the Main
Farmer that apples and pumpkins neve
flourish well the same year. ."
A Connecticut man says lis way Of driv
ing rats from his premises is to ca,cI, one
dip !, in red paint, except the head, and lc
II go ngain. ..r.,
Mr.. Mechi clears his land Of witch GINS
by employing men and women. at cost o
IS per acre, to fork il ont and curry il from
the field. t.....r 1.. "u.
The processes Of manufacturing spark
ling wine" are so long continued that 1t il
said each hottie when finished has been
handled ut least two hundred tines.
A pound or two of either ca,istic soda ~
a similar quantity Of what Is called concen
trn,ed I've, both Of which may be oinnine,
at the druggists, will purify s,agnant o'lor.
ous water in cisterns. ....'
In New York choice crops are held q,
Goa cts, with few transactions, while goo,
hops move freely at about so cts. but irnde
Is represented Us less active in the city than
in the country. .....
Thayer & Sargent Of Northampton, Mass
have raised this season, at Beneit, Ill.,, five
hundred arres of broom corn, the brlsli oi
which is said To be fiir better than any ever
produced in the Connecticut valley.
Under the stringent law Of England the
now cases Of the cattle disease have been
reduced to "a for the week ending Sept. ~
while in Holland, where there nre no sicll
laws, the cases have increased from ;sij for
the week ending June Both, to 1913 for the
week ending September !. .
Speaking Of dairy farming in Cheshire
county, England, Mr.. Willard says: The
lands arc bone,l every !? to Is years. at the
r,tc of 10 cwt. to l5 cwt. bones to the acre
and I ann sure if our dairy farmers could
see what vast improvements have been
made in the ,,se OF this material on pastures
they would Immediately commence apply.
ing u.
The n,mner of sheep in Michigan has
more than doubled in the last decalc-tl,c
quantity of wool slearcd has advanced in
u much larger ntio, and has also materially
improved in quality. The ayerngc amount
sl,enrcd in Michigan (cxcl'iding very small
irac,ions,) is as follows: IN 1910, 9 pounds
u ounces per sheep; in 1859, 9 pounds ~
ounces; in 1853, 3 pounds 8 ounces.
When the "stamping.out" Act Of Fcbr,I-
ary last, wns applied to Cheshire county,
England, ,7;D animals hal bcen RtiHck ked
~, 45i had been permitted to lnger iilI
they died and 747 had been killed. by the
9Th of September the disease was so far
checked that there were only0 new cases
for the week ending that date; ut which
time the totals stood thus; Attacked, az,
5s5; killed, %, 742; died. 32.7i0 ...
Dairying has been nlInos, wholly broken
up in Cheshire county, England, by the
plague. Farmers who once MIXED sixty Ia
eighty cows, have only half n dozen, and IN
some cases none at all left. Mr.. Willard,
while on n farm near Chester, England,
asked the proprietor 10 show him his stock
The farmer took him down patti IN the
meadow and pointed out an old mari ,it or
excavation, saying that the best par of n
herd of eighty cows lay in that snail en-.
closure, eight feet below the surface.
The St. Johnsbrry. VI. Caiedoninn gives
the particulars Of the management Of a
piece Of land in that town owned by Messrs,
T.. 4 Il. Fairbanks and Co, containing two
and onc-half acres, which had not produced
for several years over one ton of lmy per
acre. !, was plowed IN the month Of An.
gust, 1865, top. dressed with thirty loads OF
yuri manure to the acre, well lnrr,wrd
and OF this was sowed one.l,alf blishel oi
timothy and ten pounds Of clover seed tu
the acre, and ngain narrowed and rolled
There were cut from this piece Of land Ia
ls6,i the last week in June, eight tons
and a second crop the first week IN Sep.
ten,bcr, of five anl one.l'alf tops-in all
thirteen an,l one half tons Of fine timothy
well n,nturd aud made l,ny, bcing five and
two.iilills tons to the acre. No clover mp
peared.