The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-05-28
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Agricultural Facts.


MIA are twice as sweet as those pro
duced in France and Germany.
A Vermont farmer says we pro,
duce in this country about seven
million pounds of maple sugar an
nually.
Keeping qualities in grated ap-
piles, and often tie flavor, are affect
ed by the stock upon which the graft
is set.
Rotten chips, decayed leaves, bard
wood ashes, lime, and old, we'll
rotted barn manure are the best
fertilizers for orchards.
Mr.. Lswes, writing of English
farmers, says he finds the best on
poor land, and the worst farming on
the fattest land.
In Kentucky the progressive, far
mers are introducing a new ssculent,
which is much praised-the Brazil
ian sweet potato.
George Waring says the farmer
who spends s300,a acre in manur-
ing his vegetable garden, is likely to
make $500. an acre.
The Gardeners Monthly says tie
people of this country have yet to
learn that the roots of the vine can
not be kept too dry.
Last year the farm of the Michi.
Agricultural College WIS so well
managed shat the receipts were ST..
2QQ lore than the expenditures.
The spring price of good factory
cheese, from 90 to %. cents, will
probably cause tae erection of 500
factories between this and the FIRST
ofJuly.
Barley has been a better crop fol-
returns than wheat for several years
past. The difficulty in barley grow
ing is that it all requires cutting al
one time.
A building suitable for a cheese
factory can be put up for about 81,
600. A full apparatus, consisting o
vats with heaters, curd vat, presses
hoops and vessels costs nearly 81,
600.
Apple trees five years old may b
forced into bearing by root pruning
or stripping some of the bark from
the trunk, but the trees do not llv'
over five or six years after sucf
mutilation.
The troubles in Cuba have stimu
lated sugar planting in Louisiana
and the farmers along the Gulf coas
are asking whether the cane will no
flourish on their places.
Many farmers are coming to tn
conclusion that close manure cellar
under barns are not well for tn
animals or the hay and grain above
A manure shed is a better arrange
ment.
Tincture of arnica is the bes
thing in the world for garget i
COWS. Give them teaspoonfui Q
the tincture in bran three times
day, and bathe the bag thorough
with it as often.
A writer in a Mobile paper call
tor legislation to prevent the vast
of fertilizers in their sinks, sewer
and factories, and to require the
application to the sterile lands mort
of the city.
In the Kingdom Of Great Britai
there were last year four and ha
million acres of oats, or one-tenth
the whole surface. In England tt
oat is food for horses, in Scotlan
for men.
A gentleman from New OrleaI
writes: We made. in Louisiana, la
wear, the largest crop in value th'
was ever raised in the State, thoue
it does not appear so on paper, b
cause it was principally compose
of edibles that were consumed
the spot.
la Vermont and New Hampshir
there there are mountain sides CO
cred with rock maple, tube or du
sometimes connects the sugar-hous
standing at the foot of the slor
with every tree in the orchard Th'
q stream of fresh sap flows constant
into the boiling pan.
The best articles in any of {
southern papers are those wbi,
urge upon planters the policy
making their own pork and raisil
their mules. Cotton at ten Ger
will not then bankrupt them.
The best soils are those viii
have the power of absorbing me
from the air. The most proftat
nlants are those which draw the
value from the air rather than fro
the earth. Sand takes up Dothin
Plaster is a great absorbent; so
dry pest.
Col Mallet, professor of appli
chemistry in the University Of "
o;n;s saws the droppings of a &C
for a wear are worth IS much as s
worth of guano and successi
da;ryman and farmer in Conuectic
reckons his stable manure ss wor
tas . year for each animal