The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-17
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm Items.

keep the rats as to keep a cow. He
who can clear farms of rats will get
rich without advertising.
This Fall English farmers are pay
ing 2 cents a bushel for gathering
acorns, and ~ cents for chestnuts,
both needed for feeding hogs.
Tt is recommended to Winter bees
IN dark unoccupied room, or large
closet. and to FIJI the honey boxes
with cobs to absorb the moisture.
Buenos Ayres is so favorable for
sheep that wool can be grown for 10
cents a pound, but this is because it
costs no more to raise ashepherd than
a sheep.
Two things, not. to be had, are
wanted in England. One is an act of
Parliament for putting down rabbits,
and the other a privilege for the poor
man to brew his own beer.
A California paper recommends all
producers to meet the market at once
that the crops may be got out Of the
country, and there may be better
prices for what remains.
In the care of cattle nothing keeps
them in better order than the light of
the eye of the owners several times a
day. The eyes of the boys and hired
men are covered with film.
When cattle are fed on straw, the
boys on SKINNED milk, the odd man
on fat pork, and the hens are obliged
to scratch gravel, the breath Of the
beaus of the girls will smell of whisky.
A farmer has liberty to pay 10 per
cent. for money, that he may shelter
his stock, and liberty, also, to work
seven days running for this purpose,
if he can prove that he can do more
than In six.
During the war the rebels made
horse-collars of bass wood, and now
they are recommended for general
use, for they are light, they do not
get heavy with rain, nor freeze, nor
wear out, nor gall.
On settling the Cape de Verde
Island the people cut away the tim
Der, when severe drouths, sometimes
Of three years duration, followed, and
more than 10000 people have perish
ed with famine.
An agricultural writer in Tennessee
says that the east part of the State
offers great inducements for Northern
men to go into the sheep business,
but he adds they should bring a good
stock of grass seed.
The English are getting enterpris-
ing, and have caught the grape fever
new seedlings, SURPRISING all others,
are for sale. If they keep on they
will have a new potato, and sell the
seed at 81 a pound. 7. Sour last
new potato is called the Grecian
Bend.
The HARRow.-The harrow, as a
farming implement, is fast losing IA
vor. In recent club discussion, Mr..
Lewis, of Herkimer, said he consid-
cred the harrow as one of the poorest
OF farm implements. 1t was good for
making a firm road and for nothing
else. The cuitivator was deemed
much better for farming purposes.
SALT ON WHEAT GRoUND.-F. f.
T., Hannibal, Mo, writes the journal
of agriculture about applying salt to
wheat ground. In 1858, he resided
near Rochester, New York, aud s0we5
that Fall twelve acres of wheat. The
ground was badly infested with wire
worms, which destroyed previously,
on. the same ground, two crops Of
wheat and barley each. This time
the ground was Summer falloWed, the
wheat put in with drill, and SIX bar
rels OF Syracuse salt sOwn broadcast
on the twelve acres. The result was
forty bushels of nice white flint
wheat to the acre, and the extinction,
for che time being, of the worm pest.
QUEEN VIcToRIA's FARM.-About
mile from Winsor, Queen Victoria
has q farm which, in agricultural
phrase, carries sixty fine mich COWS,
while as many more are out grazing
and preparing TO come in. This dairy,
which has all the richest appliances,
supplies all the royal family with
milk, cream and butter of the richest
kind, and a surplus for sale in ex-
eSa0ge for ready money, which the
owners like to handle as well as poor.
er folks.
LEAGHED ASHES AHEAD-Every
year accumulates testimony In favor
of the value Of leached ashes as fer
tiliziug agent At recent meetins
OF he Mohawk Farmers Club, Mr.
Lewis stated that as an experiment h'
marked off equal strips of his fla
lands, applying different manures t
each Horse manure on one, cow oil
another, the sweeping OF the barn yart
on the third, and leached ashes OF
the fourth. The last produced tn
most favorable and marked results.