The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-05-04
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

IT'S not yet too late 20 sow cloyer.
Put fully peck of seed to the acre.
THEpsachcropin Delaware Is repoft-
ed to have been pretty well '1aid ent'
by the cold snap in April.
THE season is fully two weeks laser
than last year, but farmers in this vi
cinity ars generally quite as forwsrd in
planting.
WOOD :ashes are beneficial to init
trees. Scatter them over the ground as
far as the limbs extend, but don't heap
any about the trunk.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Cham
pague county, Illinois, under data of
April 21st, says all the peach buds in
that part of the State are killed-not a
live bud left.
In few ofthe gardens in the vicinity
of Wheeling potatoes of the Early Good
rich variety are already up and growing
finely. We saw few very fine speci-
mems the other day from six to eight
inches high.
Pigs are so scarce in some sections
that common breeding SOW sells for
S75 to 500, and last falls pigs atprices
equal to 20 cents per pound; whils the
improved breeds such as the Chester
Whites are worth as much again.
THE collection and application Of ma.
nure should 60 on continually, for the
grasses and cereals, and all kinds of
cultivated plants, make an ANIMAL draft
on the soil for the Ingredients which en-.
able them to build up their stems, foil
age and seeds.
WILLIAM CLARK, leading gardener
and farmer of this vicinity, has kept, for
several years past, careful account OF
the dates of all his paintings, culture,
yield and much other matter that is of
both interest and value to him. Every
farmer and gardener should do the same,
but how few do it.
GRAPES FOR MARKET.-Wm. Parry
states in the HorticHlturist, that 20
years ago, his crop of grapes from the
eighth of an acre, sold in Philadelphia
fer six cents pound. Last year his
crop averaged fifteen cents pound in
the same market, and one salesman in
formed him that he had sold from his
fruit stand last autumn, ten thousand
dollars ,Corth Of grapes.
CONSIDERING the wet, cold spell we
are having the first days of May, have
not many of our farmers made haste not
wisely in planting their entire crop of
corn in April1 Even if the grain does
not ret in the ground, if it comes up be-
fore we have settled warm weather it
will maintain a sickly existence, strug-
Cling with insects and cut-worns, be-
tween life and death, until the hot suns
of early summer come to its relief.
THE old Indian rule of planting corn
when the oak leaves are the size of
squirrels ears, cannot we'll be improved
on. When the season is late, the oak |
leaves will be late, and corn should be
planted correspondingly late. Some
farmers say the seasons have changed
they are not as they used to be-earlier
planting is required. The change of
the season affects the oak as well as
the grain crops. By closely observing
the progress of tho trees, grasses and |
plants which Nature cultivates without
the assistance of man, we find the best
rules for onr guidance.
CARTS rerSu8 WAGoNs.-It seems
strange that so few carts should be used
by farmers in this country. They are
much more conveniently geared up,
more easily worked in cramped places,
are unloaded with less trou BILE, and are,
in all respects, for the jobbing work of
the farm, more economical and conve-
nient than wagons. Provided with q
good set of top-boards and hay rack,
they ought to become in this country, as
they have in England, the principal |
vehicle for use upon the farm, although
wagons are better for Journeys on the
road
WOoL.-A writer in the Ne,C England
Farmer says it is fully three months be-
for the new crop will be available.
With ordinary consumption and foreign
wool practically excluded, the present
supplies would not last. But the de-
mand must depend On the goods market;
and "unless the prospects of the latter
shall speedily improve, there will evil
IDENTIFY be ne lack of raw material, and
prices of some grades may possibly find
lower deep" In Liverpool and other
British markets, prices are rather on
the decline, for all except the better
kinds of bright lustre woods. Common
grades feel severely the competition of
Colonial woods.