The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-07-12
AGRICULTURAL.

nearly all the wool held over by the farmer
ia portage county, Ohio, has been sold a
an average of forty cents per pound.
you want a horse ralish bed, select
small strip in the garden moist and rich
Make cuttings of roots two OF three inche
long, and drop them into holes nine inche
deep and cover.
"A Massachusetts, farmer saws that he car
winter his cows on steamed feed for one.
ohlrd less expense than on dry feed, and GET
one-fOurth more milk. This is the result O,
hve years experience.
The Galveston NeUs states that mar
near that place bought, five years ago, nine
worth thirty thousand dollars-all derived
from this investment.
The Beet Sugar Company Mt Chatsworth
| Illinois, is said to have fed about four hun
/ dred head of cattle through the winter or
beet pulps, with q small amount of grain,
the cattle fattening finely on the pulp.
In setting hens, first test the eggs to see
whether they are fertilized and sOund---in
this manner place the end of your tongue
to the large end of the egg. If it is all right
very perceptible warmth will he observed.
If cold, like the small end, reject it !; it will
never hatch.
A farmer at Terre Haute, Indiana, raised
last year three hundred and fifteen bushels
of early Goodrich potatoes to the acre. He
planted on dark sandy loan, having ma
nured the ground the previous fall, and
plowed the ground under eight or ten inches
deep. Manure should be well rotted for
potatoes.
A hen has the capacity of laying six hun
dred eggs. Usually they lay q few the
first year /; from three hundred and twenty
to three hundred and seventy in the next
three years and the rest from the fifth to
the ninth year inclusive. The true ecOno-
my, therefore, it will be seen, is not to keep
hens after their fourth year.
LONGEVITY OF FowLs.-A common hen
will live, in some cases, from ten to fifteen
years, but is not profitable after the third
and fourth year. A hen is in her prime the
first and second years. We do not keep
any after the third year, except some of our
choice birds.
persons who have tried the plan we pub
lished some weeks ago, to-w wit: Strapping
up one fore leg and driving the animal at a
quick gait, assert that it succeeded to their
entire satisfaction each time. One farmer
had COW choked by eating corn in the ear
died in half an hour. Theabove mentioned
plan was tried, and at the third hop the COW
elected the piece of corn with great force
Farmers Home Journal
GIVE THE HENS LIME.-A little Stacked
lime mixed with bran and meal and fed to
young chickens is said to prevent gapes,
and a teaspoonful in q quart of clean water
every morning, for all the hens, will pro-
mote their health. When hens get plenty
Of lime they do not lay soft-shelled eggs.
1t is the province of agricultural papers
to repeat knowledge, rather than to give
new. People forget, and must be reminded.
New facts worth recording, are few and far
between.
The following items are taken from the |
a nericnn Agricultural:
PROLIFIC Sow.-James Bell, of Bloom
ingtOn, has a SOW that farrowed a few |
weeks since, dropping nineteen pigs, which,
when we saw them were four weeks old |
and doing well. She can take care of but |
twelve.
RAILROADS AND HoRT1CULTURE.-Paul
Cradle, of Dutch Flat, California, writes us
an account of his orchard, where most fruits
flourish at the altitude of thirty eight hun
bred feet above the sea. He is near the
Pacific railroad, though thousand feet
below it. Last year he sold to the passen-
gers on the railroad, cherries, the crop of
one tree eight years old, for $ll2, which is
good for both Paul and the passengers.
BREEDING FROM YOUNG FowLs.-The
dock will run down in size and vigor if this
is followed habitually. Pullets lay more
eggs than old hens, but they do not lay so
arge ones, or make SO good mothers. The
cock should be two or more years old, ard
ing. A rooster from another flock should
be introduced every other year.
POULTRY ON A LARGE SCALE.-We have
read some very interesting romances upon
his subject, but have never seen q case of
success. We do know of failures. Because
= farmer with ample room can keep twentyi
hens and raise two hundred chicken
ioes not follow that he can keep two mr.
lred hens and raise two thousand chickens
IN the same ground, or on ten times the
space. The figures mislead sanguine people,
and many learn at great expense for tuition,
hat few hens pay and many do not.
The Laughter-Provoking Scrub Race, in which
he last Mule wins OF to-day, at the Oakland
Riding Park