The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-01
FARM AND CROP ITEMS,

Every farmer should have a compost
heap. Collect every kind of fertilizer,
and to prevent any from liberating the
gases, keep the whole covered with
earth or straw.
Straw berries should have thin Gov
erins of coarse manure, to be raked off
in the spring. This will prevent winter
killing, and it more than doubles the
crop.
At sale of sbort-horns, in, England,
Moss Rose, famous COW, but somewhat
sged, sold for 400 gIineas. Two others,
Princess. Second and Third. brought
$50 yuineas. Flfty-six cows averaged
over f67, and ten bulls averaged over
&64.
B. L. Kingsbury, Of the Alton Horti-
culture Society, says that every owner o.
a vineyard should dig mp every vine
that dies, that if it has been destroyed
by borer, hunt him up and destroy
hun. Each one that is left may be the
parent of many Others, and II they once
become established IN the vineyard,
farewell TO success.
Mr.. Noah Paine, of Chelsea, Vermont,
has a yCarling Ayrshire heifer th,t was
two years old on the 18th day of Sep
TENDER last. On the LIST of July last she
calved, and before that time she had Civ
en- SIX hundred ana five quarts Of milk.
This is considered TO he an eXtraordina-
nv instance, aud challenges the world.
Farming, even in Vermont, can be
made profitable, where skill and indus
try are brought 10 bear. \ citizen of
Woodstock bought farm for less than
$500, ana raised this year 1000 bushels
of putatOes-about loo Of which were
merchantable At fifty cents per bushel.
He also secured fifty tons OF hay, and
wintcrcd scvcIty-cIGht sheep. which al
turned Out well. lie sold SllO worth
of wool, besides what he received TO:
his own use; sold 500 worth of lambs,
and kept fifteen for the flock.
The Canada Farmer, While admitting
that the sol, Of orr Western States is
more uniformly Of excellent quality
than that in Canada, that our prairie
lands can not he surpassed in richness
and fertility, and that for the growth of
Indian corn both sell and climate sur
pass that of Canada, insists that the &C.
reals do best there; that the average
Weld of wheat TIA on Shout the wheat
growing region of the Dominion Is larg.
e. tuan anywhere IN the United Sta'eS,
and that the place OF cora, as winter
food for stocks, is wtil supplied by
roots. 1t also thinks that In respect TO
climate Canada Is superior to the
Western States generally.
1t is frequently very important for
farmers to know Low long the different
domestic animals go with young. The
following table is believed TO be very
nearly exact: Mares, eleven months;
jennet, eleven months: CIV, eight
months; goat, four and one-half months;
eve, five months; SOW, four months;
bitch, two months; cat, eight weeks;
rabbit, four and a-halt weeks; rat, five
and a-haif weeks, mouse, four and a
half weeks; guinea pig, three weeks.
The period of Incubation of domest c
fowls Is: Swan, SIX weeks; turkey, four
weeks; goose, four weeks; duek, four
weeks; pea hen, four weeks; guinea
hen, three weeks; common hen, three
weeks; pigeon, two weeks.
NJ. Fullington, President of the OHIO
State Board Of Agriculture, vas in con
ssltation with Governor Hayes on
Tuesday, in regard to the appointment
10 represent Ohio at the Cattle Plague
Convention at SpTiag deid, Illinois, De-
csmber l. The Governor decided to
recommend the appointment of such a
committee to the Legislature on the 23d
II was suggested that the Cattle Plague
Commissioners, appointed last summer,
should serve rs this committee also,
epressnting OHIO in this Convention.
Ii they declined, that the State bOar0
should recommend 10 the Governor suit
able persons for appointment. IL Is
safe 10 say than such steps will be tax
en- as will secure the representation OF
Ohio in the Springfield Convention
Farmers Chronicle, Columbus, Ohio.