Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-07-06

should not be a source of discomfort among
the friends of agriculture, for grain grow
ing for export is undoubtedly the most IL
lusory and least remunerative of all agri-
cultural operations, and its worst feature
is the exhaustion of the soil which invari
ably follows its culture in undue proper
ton to stock raising. The farmers of the
West are realizing the truth made by an
eminent American farmer more than TWEEN
ty years ago, that "the profits of wheat APP
pear well in expectation on paper, but the
prospect is blasted by the appearance of in
sects, bad weather in harvesting or trans
portation to market, or lost by a fuctua-
ton in the market ITSELF" and many are
inclining to the belief of Lord Brougham
chat grazing countries are always the most
prosperous, and their population the most
contented and happy"
1t is well for the American farmer to con-
slider the improvidence and reckless waste
which is stripping the fairest fields of their
fertility, exposing them to constant action
of the elements, and subjecting them to
an annual drain of the same constituents,
none of which are ever returned to the soil.
The estimate Of the average productions
of wheat in 1868, in Ohio, was about four
bushels per acre; the State statistics so far
as returned, made the yield scarcely three
bushels There is no doubt that more is
owing to bad culture and want of drainage,
than to the severity of the season, that the
product did not average twenty bushels.
Every new state is always sending out
boastful reports Of great crops of wheat ;
and the same states, in few years, are
equally remarkable for reduction in the
Weld of wheat, increase of insects and prev
alence of disease.
The freshest soil in the culture of bread
stuffs, east of California, scarcely yielded
an average of twelve bushels per acre last
year. A systematic rotation, some atten-
ton to fertilization, greater care in the Sc
lection ofsoil, better tillage and more thor
ough cultivation, will alone prevent a de-
cline in products, and real values of farm
property. This aspersion upon the agri-
culture of the United States is attributable
in part to the cheapness of western lands
the original price of which bears so small
proportion to their intrinsic value, thai
the owner enormously deems it cheaper t.
remove to new lands, than to sustain anC
increase the productive capacity of thu
present farm. One result of this fatal er
ror is the removal westward every year OF
the center of wheat production, thus ad
ding transportation and other charges t,
its ultimate cost, threatening to make diff
ficult the future supply Of our population
and to render export impossible. The fact
| o,,l 81 ,.,n,+ NV ha ~
tentiOn of the agricultural population OF
the country by none more than the farm
ers Of Vermont-Rutlaad Herald.
BOTs In HORsEs.-James Little, Sin
Sing, n. Y, bought horse which died o
the bots before he had paid for it. H
wants to know if the Club knows NOR
about the bots than the horse doctors i
his locality for he says he would not Civ
a dried herring for what the latter knO7
about them. Mr. Gregory said that ia
blespoonful of chlOroform had been recon
mended as a remedy. Mr. Trimble say
: the bot fly deposites its eggs on the insid
Of the knee and on the shoulder Of til
, horse-always where the horse reachC
/ them with his tongue, and they are thu
transferred to the stomach where they be
come maggOts and feed upon the food whic
the animal takes into the stomach, and al
e thence passed out through the alimentar
A canal. If by abstinence the supply of foe
: is exhausted they feed upon the stOmac
= itself. Keep up the supply Of food an
e they do no harm to the horse. If the
F. have commenced feeding upon the stomaC
}, they will cease if it (the stomach) is SUI
+. piled with food that they like better. b
|, the practice of horse doctors is barbarOus
o they often introduce nOstrums into Il
stomach Of the horse, which is more I'M
r rious to the animal than the bots. II
Il Professor Of Chemistry recommended mi
v and molasses as food that would eau
+ the maggots to cease feeding upon t
# stomach because they like it better.
,r strong decoction of white oak bark was re
ar commended; also feeding the animal re
/ potatoes two or three times a week won
n prevent any trouble-Rural NeW YOrke
r Would you force garden plants? Spri
ID kle every 4S hours with liquid manu-
70 made by teaching yard manure, ashes a
! bone dust If the stuff is strong, dit
n largely.
! To cure mango in calves, the New Ell
~ land Farmer recommends a saturated so
OF ton of carbolic acid, one ounce in pint
,e water, for this disease. Apply with a 5
n. sponge.
" To cure dog of sheep-killing, let h
see the sheep he has killed; in his prese1
take off the pelt, fasten it tightly arOu
i him, make him wear it from one to tn
or days.
~ The newest thing under the sun is grs
' ing potatoes. The mode of operation is
- take two potatoes, one of each variety
e good qualities of which it is wished to co
~ bine With pocket knife cut all the e
vi clearly out of one of them, and substit
. in their places eyes cut out of the Otl
q The eyes to be inserted should be sprou
% and cut of the same shape and size in
y" other pOtatoe; they are held in place
hairpins, and bound with bass mating
We Irvine. The fit must be exact, and the r
u of each must just meet. The grated pc
en- toes are then to be planted.
ng As some of the gratis may fall it is v
ire to operate upon dozen or more sets a
,ut time. The produce of these grated pC
ar toes are to be kept separate and plan
ng out the following year, when their quail
will be proved. Many varieties will sol
n times result from only two kinds into e
r other, and the results are said to have
on tonished the originator of the system
- two reds have produced white pota
on, Kidneys ard rounds grated into each
er, produced rounds, notified and kidn
al differing from both parents.
mt YEAST FOR HoT WEATHER.-The
ur- joined recipe for yeast, adapted to
q a weather or hot climates, is given in \
CHI gan's Trade Journal:
9th "Boil two ounces of the best hops in
lille quarts of water for half an hour; strait
for and let the liquor cool down to a new-r
new warmth, then put in a small handful
salt and half a pound of sugar (brov
beat up one pound of the best -four
Inc some of the liquor, and mix all well tog
,a err The third day add three pounds Of
tatoes, boiled and mashed, and let it ST
IuI II the uayt dow Then Strain and