The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-26
Farm, Garden and Household.

SLEANSE AMI E-NtLLAAE 1OOA SE-L4-
LARs.-Most cellars contain large
amount of decomposing vegetable mat
ter in the form of de,aying fruits and
vegetables, which give off their foul and
poisonous gases during the process OF
decay Then again they are usually
damp, close, unventilated and unsunned.
Air which is kept confined and without
the purifying influence OF sunlight soon
becomes impure and unfit to breathe,
and if to this we add the dampness and
the notwithstanding gases OF decom-
posing vegetation, we have the condition
OF the atmosphere of cellars. This at
mosphere is constantly finding its way
into the dwelling above, often causing
dangerous fevers, and always impairing
the health of its occupants,
THE NEED AND PROFIT OF IRR1GAT1oN.
Nowhere has human stoidity been more
forcibly demonstrated than in the aver
age farmers by gone dealings with wa
ter. This mobile, subtle fluid, which
will voluntarily travel wherever you will.
if YOU give it an inch of descent per
mile, ought to have long since been alb
solutely and everywhere at the beck and
call OF every criltivator. And yet,
have stood beside corn-field parched
and whitening from drouth, while mill
stream danced and brawled right through
its center, falling twenty feet in hun
bred rods, yet moistening the roots of
no plants but those of the two rows mex
its bed on either side, while three days
work of two men wonld have damned
and diverted its waters so that four or
five acres Of the corn would have been
unrolled and set to growing again by
their influence Whoever travels with
open eyes may note a thousand such
opportunities in almost any State-a
hundred or more in nearly every County.
Horace Greeley.
The BEST BREED OF SHEEP.-In an
swer to the query, which was the most
profitable breed, a speaker said that
considering the varied conditions pre-
suited in our climatology, botany and
agriculture, no other breed possessed so
many of the requisite conditions as the
American Merinos, it being peculiarly
fitted to occupy a yery wide range of the
desired points in any breed, and coming
nearer to universal adaptability than any
other. The Saxon sheep may have
fine fibre, and even the Silesian and the
French larger frame and greater length
of wool, but for compactness OF form,
sound constitution, strength OF fibre, and
81 ~ i 30 80, e
uses, our improved Merino is unap-
proachable. In some parts, where meats
are high, the English breeds are more
profitable and popular. The Cotswc Ids
appear to be preferred by some for their
niutton-producing qualities. The South
downs are, preferred by three-fourths OF
the breeders for their early production
of lambs The Leicesters are too highly
bred. The Lincoln, as modified by the
breeding of last year, is magnificent
animal, producing lustrous combing
wool of great length. 1t is greatly to be
desired that the efforts OF honest and re-
liable breeders of really fine animals
should receive encouragement.-J r.
Doige, Of he Department Of Agriculture.
KITCHEN G1RpEy- Weeds willreot,ire
fine constant nse Of the hoe and rake,
and IL attended TO now II requires much
less fine 10 DESTROY them than when
tbev are older Where the rows are
vide enougb to admit the cultiyator the
horse can he nsed with GOOD effect
SssIs-Sfany seeds re1nire 10 be sown
tbis month for n succession as we'll as
for late planting
4s5ar01ts nav he cut until green peas
are ready for table stop cutting, and
spade in n dressing Of manure between
the rows
BeDs.-Busb varieties NAV still be
nIanted for late crons and The Iimas
Stirred in the bot-bed NAV be set ont
Pnt poles TO all running varieties.
BEDS must be tLinned out as soon as
;,,s ,,,,,,. Ia, ,,ssl TO-. c,raane many,