The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-07-12
agricultural.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

The prospect Is good for an abundant
apple crop in Iowa.
Tho peach trees in Deleware are said to
be groaning under burden Of fruit
The Suites OF the Pacific coast are rs
populous and as wealthy as were the whole
Colonies in tho tinic Of the Revolution.
Somebody has calculated that the time
and strength wasted in one years churning
would build railroad across the continent.
Secretary Klippat, Of Ohio, has ascer-
tanned that there arc about fifty different
draining.tile manufactures in Ohio. Y
A correspondent Of the Country Gentle.
man complains that his own md his neigh
bos' Brahlna setting hen eat their eggs
badly.
Factory cheese ut Little Falls, N. Y,
June IL, was selling at l5al5 IA per pound |;
from dairies, l0al4. r
Air Stacked lime sprinkled over currnnt
bushes will prove n perfect preventive to
the rayages Of tho currnnt worm. So says
a correspondent Of tho Rural yNsto Yorker.
The most wonderful labor-saving con.
trivunco Is to bc the Pennsylvania Agricul-
tuml College. The students will be taught
farming without learning to work.
Through the whole South tho earliest
vegetables aud the first spring chickens arc
brought into the towns by tho freedmen.
"And they save their money to buy them
farm, TO lead different life.''
Horace Greeley says that he lost $1,000
by the Fawks steam plough failure in I'LL
nois, but hc still expresses the belief that
within ten years land will be ploughed
twenty inches deep at cost Of 81 per
acrc.
A correspondent Of the Country Gentle
man says that tho corn. planting machines
IN use in Illinois, though operating well
when new and OIL land in good order, are
liable to clog, and leave tho work badly
done. An improvement Is needed by which
tho driver shall have warning when tho kcr-
nels ceuso to tall into the furrow.
Mr.. ]. Stricklcr, Monroe, Pa, who has
been farmer filty-six years, wishes to know
how the Yankees manage to give their
sons good college learning and keep them
u
Who said they did do it?
A piece Of roofing slate, any Thin Hat
stone, or even a shingle, placed under cau.
teloupes, wnter-melons, &c., will prevent
the ground from extracting the flavor from
the lower part Of tho melon, and also con-
siderably hasten its ripening. . ..'-.
From eve 221 months old, Mr.. w. n.
DEMO of East Rupert, VT, sheared q fleece,
the growth of III months, which weighed
l8 lbs., aud shc had a lamb by her side.
Her first fleece weighed IL IA lbs. She
was sired by =. ID. Sweets (Hammond)
buck Of North Bennington.
Cattle are becoming so scarce in the
Northern States that II was encouraging TO
read in tho Jacksonville, Fla, Union, that
such immense herds Of cattle arc roaming
at will through the wilds of that State aud
Georgia, as 10 prove serious incOnycni-
ence to the railroad trims which truverse
those sections. F' ."..r ...
A correspondent Of the American Agri.
cult,Irist Gays that rats dislike coal tar very
much, and that he is in the habit Of daub.
ing il about their holes and runs, with good
results. Coal tar mixed with sand to the
consistency Of thick mortar, ID an effectual
stopper to rat.holea .... ... . ..-
In regard TO killing Canada tl'istles by
ploughing and hocing, correspondent OF
the New York Farmers Club says that he
has piece Of land that has been hoed Is
years, AMI thero arc ten thistles now to one
where hc commenced. lie succeeds better
in moving them when in blossom.