The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-16
AGRICULTURAL.


How 10 Treat q Burning Chimney.
If it is desired to extinguish the fire
in chimney which has been lighted
by fire in the fireplace, shut all the
doors of the apartment so as TO prevent
any current Of air up the chimney, then
throw a few handfuls of common fine
salt upon the fire, which will immedi-
ately extinguish the same. The phi
losophy of this is, that in the process
of burning the salt, muriatic acid gas
is evolved, which is prompt ex-
tinguisher of fire.
Chester Whites and soffoIks I'm Brad.
ford County, Pa.
A. L. Cooper, Bradford county, Penn
sylvania, writes that the Chester Whites
are chosen by farmers thereabouts for
wintering and killing at the age of one
year or one year and a half, as they
are large, fine-boned and easy keepers.
For spring pigs, to butcher in the tall,
a cross OF the Chester White and SUI
folk are preferred since they fatten
easier at that age than the Chester
Whites do Farmers, he says, make
more pork with twenty bushels Of corn
now than they did with thirty, fifteen
years ago, the difference being due to
improved breeds Of swine.
Peas for Pigs.
Few things would pay grain grow
ing farmer better than to raise peas for
his pigs. No matter how buggy" the
peas may be, the bugs or beetles remain
in the peas until about the first OF No
vember, and when the peas are fed ont
before this time, the pigs will eat peas
and bug together, and there will be
little loss. Nothing makes firmer or
better pork and lard than peas, and the
manure from pea-fed pigs is exceedingly
rich. A heavy crop of peas, too, is
capital crop to precede winter wheat
Harris on tie Pig.
String Beans.
We like to hear those who expect to
have a good garden begin to talk about
it before the season arrives for planting
Lizzie B. saws she is fond Of string or
snap beans, and desires us to give her
the names Of two of the best varieties.
Upon this question there is great
diversity of opinion; but we will ven
ture to name few that are good,
although there may be better. Our
favorite is the Neootington Wonder. The
pods are long, slender, green, crisp
and tender-a wonderfully productive
variety.
Refugee-Pods very tender, good fla
vor, extensively cultivated for picking.
Early Talcntine-An old favorite,
very early, and the pods tender and ex-
cellent, continuing a long time in a
green state.
As pale, snap bean, the Indian
Chief is, perhaps, the best, unless the
Giant War bean should prove to be
superior. TO keep up succession and
constant supply OF snap beans during
summer, several paintings are neces-
sary but there is little use Of putting
any kind into the ground until it be-
comes warm. Plant peas early and
beans late, is a good safe rule.
Getting Rich by Farming.
J. r. Garretsee describes in the inner
lean RraL Home, his visit to the farm
of E. B. Root, well known as an enter
prising farmer living west Of Rochester.
lie began farming when eighteen years
old, on thirty acres which his father
left him. We have on former occa-
sion published statement Of his sue.
cess, but we may now recapitulate from
the. account before us, that from the
products of his farm as he increased it
in size, he paid off all the heirs, bought
and improved 400 acres more, then
worth $50 an acre and now more than
double; put up some $4,000 worth of
buildings, and now lives on a fiae estate
of 700 acres, with thousands invested
besides. lie has never made dollar
by any outside speculation. lie takes
hold with his own hands, or is always
in the midst of his business. He adopts
the following rotation: One-tourth OF
the plow-land in wheat, one-half OF
which is on fallow and half on barley
stubble; oneeighth in corn and other
hoed crops; oue-eighth in barley; one
fourth in pasture and fallow, and one
fourth in meadow-clover always after
wheat-and the fallow deeply inverted