Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-05-07
AND HOUSEHOLD.
From Hearth and Home
-AaRICULTURAL VOTES.


1t is estimated that the plague has
killed two hundred and ten thousand
cattle in England.
In Wisconsin, If a farmer plants trees
at the roadsides, he is exempt from
working on the highway. Any p in
turing these trees is fined hve dollars
and marked.
sheep are said to be SO plentiful in
Australia as to be sold by travelling
butchers at a cent a pound, and IN two
colonies alone, no less thai sixty thous-
and are boiled down each week.
A Western acknowledgements
the use Of sweet corn, tears and all.
as green fodder for cattle. II should
not be planted in drills, but IN hills
one foo apart, in rows three and n half
feet apart.
1t is said that if a sheep or calf is
covered with a rubber or leather spread
or thick blanket, and fobacco-smoke be
made under this covering, every TICK
and nit viii be destroyed in half an
hour or less.
Geese eggs carried to the cellar as
soon as taken from the nest, and turn
Above stairs b temperature is uneaF-
en-. Number the eggs, and let the hrst
goose setting have those first laid.
An exchange says: off a horse, az
hicted with the collie, be dreuched with
a preparation of c~lorine, n pernan-
ganic acid, a cure viii pc effected. Onr
authority Is 50 certain OF If, that ne
would be willing TO insure the recovery
of any horse not too long neglected"
At a late meeting Of the Western
Fruit-gro wers, one gentleman, who is
largely engaged in the cultivation OF
strawberries for market, stated that he
raised as many as seven thousand
quarts to the acre, and under some cir
cumstances averaged n quart to the
plant.
David Dickson says English far
mers formerly used ten hundred pounds
of ground bones per acre to grow a sin,
gle crop. Experiments proved that two
hundred pounds dissolved in acid pro
duced the same effect, and secured 8
saving in outlay of seventy per cent
The dryness of the Egyptian climate
is such that rain-scarcely ever fell in
the PIPER province, and not more for
merlY than five or six days a year IN
the Delta. But Mohamet Ali has plant
ed 10000, 900 of trees in these districts,
n the annual average has now increas-
ed to forty days.
The common practice of using pads
or sheep-skin under a horses collar is
Objectionable, especially in warm
weather, because it accumulates heat
and makes the breast tender. A better
way is TO take a piece of thick and
smooth leather, cut it out just the size
of the collar, or a little wider, and let ii
lie fiat on the neck and shoulders. II
will lie smooth, while the collar itsell
moves about, and chafing will thus be
prevented. 1t is also we'll to wash the
breast of a working horse every night
with clean water.
During last year there were in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain, 43,-
$50, 600 acres under cultivation, ofwhich
1 1,659,0O0 were devoted to cereals f.,
S65, 900 to vegetables $500, 900 to clover
and rotation grasses and p, 164 900 tC
permanent pasturage. England alone
possessed 3,179, 900 cattle and q, 900, OO(
sheep. In every 100 acres in England
A are pasture /; in Wales, Sc in Scot,
land, % ; and in Ireland, "a.
A lecturer before the Industrial Uni
Yersity of Illinois presented figures
showing hat the cost of seed, labor,
harvesting, and marketing an acre OF
corn is $40; of an acre of wheat, SILL
%. Allowing sixty bushels for the crop
of corn, and twenty for the wheat, the
price of the corn seventy-ive cents,
and the wheat 50, the gross value per
acre of h wheat is $40 OF the corn,
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