The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1867-10-04
Agrifnltnral.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Proper care Of our horses would obviate
many painful diseases.
The remarkable fertility Of the waters o'
the river Nile in Egypt was ascribed by
Baron Humboldt to slime, the product o
fish.
by burning small quantity Of sulphur
in and near places invested by ants, II is said
they may be driven off.
In the Mississippi swanps herds grass
has been found which was five feet three
inches high, with heats eight inches long
The seed was from forage scattered during
the war.
An Iowa correspondent OF the Rnrd
American lays down land by sowing the
seed Immediately after harvesting his oats
trusting to the cattle, which are turned IN
to pasture off the stubble, to tramp in the
seed.
The Walter Wood Reaper Factory, nj
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, employs ahout 4OC
men, and is capable Of turning out 81 ma,
chimes per day. Sales last year amounted
to about million Of dollars
The Cotswolh ram, and other sheep
which we mentioned week or two since
as having been purchased in England 10y
Mr.. LOOMS, Of Windsor Locks, Conn.
have arrived at his farm. Mr.. LOOMS re-
mains abroad until November.
The subject Of destroying wire. worms
was discussed by the Herkimer County, N
Y, Farmers Club, and Judge Owen said
he had tried many things to kill them of
Intellectually. Finally he Let field go fal
low one year, plowing IL three or four times
The worms rot starved and left the prem
ises and have not returned yet.
The Boston Journal of Chemistry say:
,ha, when person is mortnlly bitten by
the cobra, molecules Of living gcrnini mat
ter are thrown into the blood, and 80 rapid
" multiply that in few hours million,
upon millions are produced. Chemical nc
ton is interiered with, combustion is extin
guished; coldness, sleepiness, insenshiliiy
slow breathing, and death follow. How
mysterious is the influence Of poison
The chicken cholera that has proved Sc
fatal in many places at the West, is ascribed
by X. III. Murray of Calumet, ILL.,, TO n spe-
cies of putrcfaciion caused by a too eSclu.
siyc barn-yard diet in hot weather. lie
has been successful in It's cure by a mixture
of teaspooninl Of cayenne pepper and a
tablespoonful of charcoal with quart Ol
corn meal dough fed to the chickens.
Agricultural writers occasionally recon.
mend the cultivation of sun flowers for
seed. 1t is said to yield gallon Of oil to
bnshel. A Mr.. Spear recently remarked
at discussion Of the subject by the New
York Farmers Club, that When l was
farming in the West we all had the sun.
flower fever. and huge quantities were
raised but there were two difficulties, one
was to get the seeds from the hulls, anrl the
other to find any market for the seed after
we got il out. We fed il to our poultry,
and in this way found il very useful, for
they decidedly preferred il to corn"
Mr.. C.. G. Taylor. Rock Island County,
ILL.,. writes to the Country Gentleman that in
all his travels aud observations he does not
find good old.iashioned cornfeld. lie
has seen none tha, he dares estimate ut
over fifty bushels TO the acre, while there
are many fields that won't yield ten bushels
to the acre. Where the heavy, well iatled
beef and pork will come from In fill Chica
20 market this fall and winter, he can't say,
hut really Northern Illinois can furnish hut
small share Of its usual amount. Corn
at seventy five cents to a dollar a bushel
won't make beef and pork at FIVE TO six
cents a pound, which are the present prices.
Industry is commcndablc, hut there is
danger, especially on the farm, of working
too harl. The case of an Iowa farmer was
mentioned at late meeting Of the Now
York Farmers Club, who ,oilcd and grub.
bed and broke down his constitution, and
made himself decrepit, to secure farm for
each of his boys, adjacent to his own, hop.
ing they would he all about him in his old
age-childrcn aud grandclillren-to cheer
and comfort him. He succeeded in secur
ing the farms. But what then Why the
boys lived 1000 miles away, and the bent
nm nll man has stranpers ior neinhbOrs.