The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1869-05-21
AGRICULTURAL.

The committee appointed by the Pennsyl-
vania Agricultural Society to select place
for holding the next State Fair, have fixed
Harrisburg, the committee having adopted
the Ohio plan of holding two successive ex-
hibitions in one locality The next fair will
commence on the last Tuesday of September
next, and continue four days. They have
also adopted the Missouri plan of free entries,
and every entry, whether article, animal, or
invention, must be registered at the Office of
the society. This rule will be general, ex-
cept in cases of horses entered for speed,
where an entry fee will be charged. The
railroads offer the usual facilities and reduc-
tions.
Three dogs went mad at Y Yardleyvile, Pa,
on Saturday evening, and were killed. One
of them, belonging to Charles Shoemaker,
was attacked with convulsions in the bar
room, and showed evident symptoms of hy-
drophobia. He was seized by the neck by
Lewis Shoemaker, and dragged out before
any one was injured, and then shot An
other dog at Shoemaker's, one at Devlin's,
and one at Capt. Lovett's, were killed,
having given indications of the disease 1t
is said that all these dogs were bitten by
the one shot by Isaac H. Hillborn short
time ago. Bucks County Inteligencer.
The peanut is cultivated in the counties
of Sussex, Isle of Wight, Surry, Southamp-
ton, and Prince Georgia, which, although
very poor, and paying better revenue to
farmers than any counties in the State. The
probale number of bushels raised last year
was some 350,0 yielding an income of
nearly $1,000,000. The Virginia peanut
is bought in n orthern markets in preference
to any other, and the command continues
much greater than the supply. The planting
commences about the 1st Of May Virginia
paper
| The Cedar Rapids TINES claims the cham
ponship for young girl, "sweet SIXTEEN"
OF Linn county, Iowa, as follows: for six
weeks last winter, she attended forty-eight
head Of sheep, eight head of horses, fifteen
head of cattle, and two calves, besides milk
ing three cows, driving the COWS one quarter
of mile every day to water, cleaning the
horse stable, doing the house work, and TAX
ing care of her sick parents
The DIXIE FARMER says that wheat clubs
have been organized in different parts of the
South Each member pays so much into the
treasury, and all the money thus paid in is
to be given to the man who harvests the best
acre of wheat this year. The members all
pledge themselves to complete for the pre-
MUM. We are glad to see our Southern
friends holding out all the inducements they
| possibly can for improvement in the agricul-
ture of their section. The wheat clubs will
doubtless do good work.
The Grass Valley (Cal NATIONAL insists
that fruit raising is profitable and in proof
of the assertion remarks, "there is an exten-
sive home demand for fruits of all kinds;
many engaged in the business have already
become wealthy, as Lusk, of Alameda county,
and Briggs, of Marysville and Others are
rapidly growing rich. Thousands of men in
the vicinity of Oakland, Fruit Vale, San
Lorenzo, San Jose, and other good localities
are amassing fortunes solely from the raising
and selling of fruit"
The sending of seeds, scions, &C., by mail.
has become very common. Such articles can
be sent safely for long distance, properly
packed. The contents of each package
should be plainly marked on the wrapper to
entitle it to seed postage rates, which is two
cents for each four ounces and fraction of ar
ounce. -Four pounds is the limit of weight
in one package.
The Utica HERALD says: "Averagine
the results of several careful experiments in
feeding corn to hogs, shows that two bushels
of corn in the ear, or one bushel of shelleG
corn, made nine and seven-twentieths pounds
of pork, while the same amount ground into
meal and mixed with water made eleven anC
one-eight pounds of pork"