The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-10

pair of5piow handles and he will EN-
brace the first opportunity to run away
with circus company.
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Press.
\ NEw-ENGLAND FAIR.
Tbs Massachusetts, Plougknsan pub,
fishes eighteen columns about the re.
cent fair al, Mancb ester, upon which it
naturally congratulates itself lnsome
editorial comments with regard to. the
exhibition, it has the following;
Placing the grand stand and the
track in the foreground gives the i'm
preston that these. are the main and
leading features of the fair. 1t is, be
sure, giving the chief place and dignity
to the horsetrot rather than to the great
industry which such an exhibition ought
to exemplify. This, however, was not to
be considered Of any great importance
among those who consider the pure az
ricultural horse-trot' as the strong point
of modern agricultural society, but as
for us we should prefer a little different
arrangement and one more in accord
ance with the prejudices Of those who
90 to seek stock and to learn something
from the exhibition itself, rather than
to be excited and amused By break
neck race" "a ''. .f
FARMERS PICNIC
A CORRESPONDENT Of the american
FARMER, Rochester, tells pleasant story
of gathering Of the farmers ofCayuga
County, near Owasco Lake, where ten
acre grove was filled with people,
young and old. who spent the day in
rational enjoyment
The ladies provided bountiful feast,
and what with speeches, singing etc,
the day was one of the largest delight
Why cannot such festivals as this be
held in a hundred other localities dur
ing the fall II Why should not farmers
have holiday as well as other classes =?
FAILURE OF FORESTS
A WRITER in tile Ohio Farmer attrib-
utes the failure Of trees TO sprout-and'
what is worse, the dying Of those already
half grown-in the forests of the West
to the fact that young stock is allowed
to run at large and eat the underbrush.
1t suggests that, instead Of allowing the
lands to be eaten over, they be fenced,
and that the leaves be allowed to remain
under the trees instead of being utilized
by being hauled into the harnyards.
WOOL AT THE WEST. &.
THE Michigan Farmer is of the opn-
ion that when the rain comes at the
East, and the mills that have been
standing still by reason of the drought
start up, there will be a great rush for
wool, and that prices will consequently
stiffen-all of which seems quite i'm
probable, as the supply in Eastern mills
is very much larger than usual
MAMMOTH MILLEr.
THE Northern Farmer tells Of farm
er in its neigborhood who has recently
harvested some millet which averages
seven and halffeet high. There were
ten acres in the field, and the yield was
enormous. His method was to thresh
the grass as other grain is threshed,
carefully saving the seed which makes
the very best food for mich cows The
seed is sold at 81 so bushel
ROOTS FOR STOCK.
A WRITER in the st. Louis Jowrnal
Of agriculture says that the only root
that can be recommended for Missouri,
Kansas, and other Western States fully
adapted to the climate, never failing,
yielding immense crops, requiring little
care, aud tolerably well liked by all
kinds of animals, is the Jerusalem artl-
choke.
This tuber contains starch, some
saccharine matter, tannin. and perhaps
phosphate, and is certainly equal to the
tuInip
at costs much less to raise it, and the
crop is sure
We think this writer undertakes the
artichoke in comparing it with the
turnip. 1t is far more nutritious.
KEEP OUT OF DEBT.
The Kansas Farmer, with its usual
positiveness, urges its readers to keep ont
debt. 1t says that in new country
where merchants many times give I'M
limited credit to the settlers-no matter
whether their crops are good or other
wise-they continue their careless and
sometimes reckless expenditures until
confronted by a store bill that they
know they cannot pay. They grow dis
pirited and sometimes dissipated, and,
losing heart, lose industry, and, in few
cases, lose their farms, whereas if they
had been obliged to adopt the ''pay as
you 60" principle, they would have sue
ceeded.