The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1866-11-30
Agrifnltaral.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.


II is intimated that those that can afford
to hold wool ill about April or May, will be
remuneraled.
November is good time to pick up
fallen wood, or in fact to cut a supply fol
the coming year.
Last Spring man in New York sold
$500 worth Of Northern Spy apples from
thirty trees.
A Devonshire calf was strangled lately
near Davenport, Iowa, by the shrinking o
the rope around its neck during severe
rain.
According to Professor Voelcker, a lear
hog contains eighteen per cent. more wa,
ter than fat one; and other authorities
state the difference on beef, &c., to he still
greater; consequently fat meat Is the cheup
est to buy.
The following Is said to be a copy Of .
written notice pasted in Shrewsbury, Eng
land: " Lost or slrade from the subscriber
a sheep all over white, one leg was blacl
and half his body. All persons shall re
ceive five shillings to bring him. He wa,
a she gote."
Dr. Amber, of Fauquier county Virginia
has been furnished with one thousan,
sheep iy citizen Of New York, to b.
grazed on the Doctors farm for a term o
years aud then restored to the owner, OF
the like number accounted for. The par
ties in the meantime divided equally be
tween themselves the wool and increase o.
the flock.
A correspondent Of the Detroit Rural
just returned through Pennsylvania, Mary.
land and Virginia, says; "As whole
however, was quite disappointed in the
apparent sterility and absence Of good cul
ture. I did not see, especially in Maryland
or Virginia, single field but that looked
worn aud seedy."
Tho russell fields and tho beaten paths
| With yellow leaves are strewnj
The north wind stirs mid the naked trees
With n sullen, atful moan.
And earth, In her mourning vestments clad
For the dying year looks drear and sad.
Mr.. Tegctmeir recently maintained be-
fore the London chronological Society
that bees have no instinct in shaping theil
cells, as has been usually supposed, but the
form is the consequence Of the law OF
property OF space; that of several circle.
of equal radii, six will just surround til,
seventh. The cell of the bee is invariably
hernispherical at its commencement, and
the section Of cell not in contact witt
another always circular.
A modern threshing machine Of the hes
class il operating by eight TO ten horses and
from ten to twelve men. and cnn tlresl ant
clean for market, per day, 400 bushels o.
wheat, 500 to GOO Of barley, and all the
oats one man can feed in, beside stacking
the straw; yet many Of tho grain raising
farmers complain OF the vexaton, waste
and huhbub of 80 great force, aud are cx,
perimenting with smaller though slower
and more simple machines.
The Prarie Farmer lately visited sub
scriber in the central part Of Illinois who
some years since, when corn was ten cents
per bushel, put up his crop, into cribs
eight feet wide, ,hirty.two feet long and
eight feet high. They weru covered with
double roof, made Of boarls, sixteen feet
long. Over this room he had a floor fol
storage. When this ten cent corn went ~,
to dollar bushel he sold fifteen hundred
bushels, the surplus Of three crops.
A boy sixteen years Of age, residing
near Mariana. Fla, this season has cult.
vated fifteen acres in corn, aud FIVE acres Ia
cotton; has housed Two hundred and rev
cnly-two bushels Of corn, and picked f6'
the gin two and half bales OF cotton
With the usual appliances the crop wa.
made by himself With corn at $3.50 and
cotton at twenty-five cents (ruther below
than above the market pricc) his croT
would yield S7i7.50.