The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-02-26
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AGRICULTURAL FACTS.

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The average price of productive land
is highest III New Jersey, lowest in
Florida.
In, 1851 Mr.. Mechi made e75 an acre
in meat and corn for every acre of his
Tiptree Hall Farm.
OF the Southern States Kentucky has
changed less than any other insthe VAL
ue of its real property within ten years..
Norfolk, Va, sent over a million dol
lars worth ofearly vegetables and small
fruits to the New York market last
year.
Mr.. Mechi thinks the three chief
evils OF English farming are bad drain
age, shallow tillage, and waste of grain
seed.
LII estimating hay by measurement
allow 450 cubic feet for ton in the up
per half of a NOW, and 400 in the lower
half. t'0 ~
1t has been found out that the secret
OF making sugar from sorghum Juice, is
in making the liquid clear before 1t is
boiled. i
The Southern papers reports general
zeal for cotton planting. The bales of
1863 will probably fall little shor: OF the
crop of 1860.
In the pastoral regions of the Rocky
Mountains butter is now made which Is
superior to any made elsewhere in our
country.
AS rule, the English farm horse has
better lodging and takes fewer steps in
getting to his work than the English
farm laborer; horse comfort is more
studied than human comfort.
The farmers near the seashore in
Maine have learned that fish make as
good feed as hay, and that one fish
makes full meal for a sheep.
The time is fast coming when landed
proprietors will be esteemed. for the
condition of their acres rather than for
their extent of territory.
He is good farmer who makes good
compost heaps; he is a better who man.,
ages 20 have the manure applied,a as fast
as IL is made.
Some of the sugar plantations of
Louisiana had done so we'll this wear as
to have yielded sums equal in, value to
lands, houses, and machinery.
Gen. Lee announces that o. new de-
partment is to be attached to the Wash
ington College, Va, in which agricul-
ture, commerce, and chemistry are to
be taught. rat -
Tippecan0e County, Indiana, offers,
$50, 900 If the State will locate the Ag-
ricultural College within their limits.
That is not only public spirit, but true
thrift.
Esparto grass will be sowe tfconsid-
erably In South Carolina this Spring.
1t is raised as easily as clover, and af-
fords good substitute for rags,in max
ing paper.
In the past the chief study has been
to take the greatest weights of grain
from land; in future the chief care will
be to take the greatest weight OF meat
from an. acre.. ilii
The good time coming will begin
when the horsepower in firm work
eats coal instead of corn, and when the
scum of cities enriches the earth instead
of polluting air anil dctiling water.
When ton of wheat Is marketed it
leaves nothing behind but s5 worth of
straw. When a ton of meat is sold, 1t
has left behind it nine-tenths of the ma
nurial value Of the food consumed in
making.it,. $1,000.
Experiments Is proving to the pro-
gressive pfanters thai few crops pay
better for deepstiIAges and high nanur-i
ing than cotton. Instead of y bale on
three acres, some &re getting at the rate
Of three bales to the acre.
In the South the States best for cot
ton make the least corn, and those best
for corn make the least cotton. Ten
nessee heads the list of corn States. and
brings up the rear on cotton; Louisiana
makes the most cotton per acre and buys
the most corn.
Wheat bran. oatmeal, scraps Of meat,
cheese rinds should be fed to hens at
this time of the year, because they con-
tain albumen, of which there is much in
an egg. Chopped vegetables Will mako
them healthy; corr meal Is Hore useful
In fattening poultry. 81 sIfes
The Fruit-Growers' Associations at
Rochester have been discussing whether
It pays best to raise a large crop of q
prolific variety or a few OF the choice
and high-priced sorts. One gentleman
said, that in Rochester it costs six cents
to grow quart of Wilson ST trawberries,
The testimony was, that it is more
profitable to raise the finer varieties.
The following kinds ofapples for yir-
ginia are recommended by q. Gilling-
ham, an old and experienced nursery
man, as those best suited to. that cli-
mate: Limbertwig, DONNA, Royal
Winter Sweet. Paradise Lip
penent, Summer Red, Edwar(ls's Ear
Iy, strawberry. Jersey Sweet, Maidens