Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-05-08

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freszing that it only produced from one
third to one-half as much as that sown
three weeks later on the same kind of SOIL
in the same neighborhood. II all these
facts are not sufficient to make rule l
should like to know what would.
Peaches in Southern Illinois C D.
Sheldon. Yorkshire, H., inquiries about
locality, soil, profit, and price of land suit
Gble for growing peaches i'll the above Sec
!ion.
Reply Land planted with peach orch.
ards are worth 500 an acre high land is
required. There is crop about every
other year. The best locality for making
new peach orchards are on the high lands
south of Jonesboro, which can be bought
of the Ill. G. r. r. Co. for about $40 an
acre. The Reporter has place there all
planted. which he wants to sell Advcr-
tisement
Chap lands. NJ. Virgins, Ponchc-
toula, Livingston Parish. La: This re.
gion is what is called the Piney Woods
country, and lies on the Jackson Railroad
so miles north of New Orlcaus The soil
is light, sandy, warm, with clay subsoil
timber, magnificent yellow pine; country
healthy, and only one doctor in this par
ish. with population Of 5000 whi.es.
| am engaged in horticulture, am well &C,
qnainted with my business, and believe
this the best of all fruit growing coun-
tries. Pear and light curculio and grape
diseases are unknown. Peaches fail occa.
sionally; figs and bananas grow with lit
tic trouble; sweet potatoes yield from 800
to 500 bushels an acre. and they are fed
to stock. Rice produces so bushels an
acre. Stock does we'll. Vegetables are
grown the year round wherever the pop
ulation is sufficient there is school. The
country is perfectly quiet. | am from
Illinois am Union Radical, and express
my opinions without reserve. Improved
farms are from $40 to $40 an acre. |
have no land to sell, but | would like to
have any one call on me- and | will an
swer all inquiries.
Barn Ccllars.-Alfred Ruthburn, New
London N Y, / am about 10 build barn
and am undecided whether to arrange the
cellar for COW stable, or for storing man
ure.
Reply Our notion is this Cellar stables
usually are dark, and are likely to breed
disease. Cattle like to see what is going
on. They will even look through cracks
and knot-holes with all the curiosity of a
boy. Use the cellar for manure, hens and
the storing of farm implements. If much
stock is kept have elevated platforms or
bins below. to catch the manure, whence
it can be slid into cart. We know of a
small stable where all the manure falls
directly into cart below, and when load
ed it is drawn to the field. 70 handle
manure is the hardest work on farm.
Very often farming is made profitable or
otherwise by considering wisely the ques.
ton of saving labor.
Treatment Of Cons p Bushnell.
Bethany, Wayne County, Penn. : regard
good COW as heavens second bes gift to
man, and she should be treated accord
iugly. Her stall should permit her lying
comfortably on either side, or even cross
wise she should not be crowded by other
cattle so as to cause nightly pcrspiraton,
or SO as to be obliged to stand on her feet.
Every living thing needs repose. Trees,
plants, shrubs, aud even reptiles must
have it. But what kind of repose do
dairy cows get All Summer they are
married to the pasture; in Winter they
are thrust into hidecasly offensive stables,
and they are MIXED and stripped till the
mixer is kicked from the stool by new
born calf. 1t is no wonder that che
breaks down with her burdens, and is in.
capable of bearing calves.
Fence Posts.-C. G.. Caulkins, Ash
tabula. Ohio | believe, brethren, 10 NOV
able fences. They can be secured by var
ious methods Of supporting and anchor
ing. we'll known, with but little expense,
and can be kept in order. Thus could
move inside fences which now are in many
respects detrimental to farm. Illinois
is poorer to-day than if no attempts had
been made to fence the praires. | do not
refer to the Usage Orange.
Complaints from a Farmers Wis.-A
woman writing very neat hand. writes
that last year from one cow, with poor
place to set the milk, and small churn
she made over one hundred and fifty
pounds of butter, and yet her husband
told her she ought to have done better.
Theu she goes on and tells all. her troub-
les.
Happy country homes, successful farm
ing, and all that makes life dear depend