The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-23
AGRICULTURAL.

its President. Alfred Edward seems &c
be rising in public estimation
A Swedish immigration company Ina:
), been inaugurated in Florida Several
Swedes have arrived already and more
will probably follow soon. g.. II
He who rescues a tun OF offal from
streams or the sea does double service
he adds to our manure supply, and he
checks the pollution of our waters.
1t has been estimated, from what is
thought to be reliable data, that horse
weighing from 1000 to 200 pounds will
eat six tons Of hay in a year. s--
A. Scotch farmer says that. long ex,
perience has convinced him that for the
most purposes on a farm gas lime is
equal to quick lime and it costs less
than half.
Indiana proposes to consolidate its
present State University, its Agricultural
College and other State educational
Institutions into one great University,
to be located at Indianapolis.
John J. Thomas saws the true way
to kill weeds in manure is to get out
the manure in September and spread
and pulverize as fine as possible, and
plow the land the next spring before the
10th Of May.
Several extensive hog growers OF
Henry county, Illinois. say that feeding
steamed feed is a perfect preventive of
the hog cholera and that no one there
this season who fed steamed feed has
lost a hog by the cholera.
During the past year the expectation
of grain from Chicago, Milwaukee and
Toledo increased 100000 bushels
over the preceding year. This shows
the rapid agricultural growth OF the
West in a single product.
Keene, New Hampshire, claims the
champion pumpkin raiser, in the person
of Deacon Isaac Rand. From one seed
the good deacon coaxed up eighteen
lusty pumpkins, whose aggregate weight
| mounted up 10 ~ pouhue.
The South produced in 1870, 100000
bales Of cotton, against 100000 in
1860; but it is supposed that the in
creased product will bring no more
money. At all events, it will cheaper
cotton goods, which will be a good thing
for the mass of the people.
The country produced l,l00,0O0,00O
bushels of corn in 1870, and the rate OF
twenty-eight bushels per acre, against
twenty-three bushels in 1869. AT fifty
cents bushel our corn product is worth
twice as much as our cotton product at
fourteen cents per pound.
An English paper says7lat the year
1870 was not a profitable one for farmers.
The wheat crop was injured by bad
weather in the spring, and although the
yield Of the country was an average one,
it was not what it would have been with
entirely favorable conditions.
Alvah Beeman, Crawford county, Pa,
plowed ten inches deep, planted corn,
May 10Th, three and half feet each
way, five stalks in hill, no manure land
a cleared swamp, and harvested lI9
bushels ofears per acre. Was that beat
by an American farmer in the year 1870?
If so, report.
The Country Gentlemen, speaking Of
hair as a fertilizer, says that it contains
a. large amount Of nitrogen. 1t may be
spread evenly over the ground at the
rate OF peck or so to the square rod,
and turned in by shallow blowing; or
better, mixed in a compost heap at the
rate of tenth part more or less in snc-
cessive layers.
Strong efforts will be made at Albany
this winter to localize the state agricul-
tural fair and secure the erection of per-
manent buildings and the fitting Of per-
manent grounds opened by the society.
One of the officers most active in this
movement is Frank D. Curtis, and his
friends propose to push him for President
on this platform.
The cheese factory at Sycamore, H.
inois, distributes a large amount Of
money among the farmers. For milk
brought to the factory in the month Of
October alone Ephraim Hall received
1888. 81; S. C. Hale, Sl6529; }. S.
Waterman, Sl6335; Thomas II. Wood,
Sl24.Sl; Ii. V. Nedler, Sl3l62 n. l..
Cottrell, $l35.36. The milk produced
them twelve and quarter cents per gal
Ion for that month; Tor the year about
ten and a quarter cents,
4 writer in the Country Gentleman
saws that the capacity OF the largest
sugar factory in Europe is $4,000 tons
per annum; one OF the smallest is 1900
tons. The consumption OF sugar in the
Zollverein has increased from 467 pounds
per capita in lS40to 10 pounds in 1866.
In Austria it increased from l.6S pounds
per head in 1910 o5.l pounds in 1862.
This will look like an exceedingly small
amount to the American people, where
it is used in a thousand different ways
and is scarcely limited other than by
the wants Of the appetite.
The Western Farmer gives an account
Of farmer who bought field which
had been plowed for twenty successive
years, with a soil only four or five in
ches deep. He applied a subsoil pillow,
running it fourteen inches deep run it
the other way, and then narrowed it
twice, with an interval OF a few days,
and had his ground broken up without
the aid of an ordinary pillow. At one
time be marked ground for corn by run
ming a subsoil pillow fourteen inches
deep, both ways at proper distance, and
planting at the crossings. He had a
GOOD cron Notwithstanding q severe