The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
PARAGRApns FOR FARMERS.

ly cast asf9;o5- atlantic Hedjcal
Journal.
PARAGRAPHS FOR FARMERS.
Mrs. w. H WHERRIrr, of Lancas-
ter, fran seven pints of milk, from
an Alderney COW, made II pounds
of butter.
NAPLES, large enough to make
three ten-feet rails each, with 100
trees to the acre, have been raised
from the seed in seven years, in Mon
roe county, Iowa.
IN Maple Grove, Barry county,
Michigan is white oak tree twenty
seven feet in circumference, claimed
| to be the largest tree in the world of
that particular species. This tree is
three feet larger than was the Char
ter OAK, and eighteen inches larger
than the big oak of Gennessee.
A NEGRO, who was suspected Of sur
reptitiously meddling with his ne gh-
bor's fruit, being caught il a garden
by moonlight nonplussed his detec-
/ tors by raising his eyes, exclaimlng !:
Good Lord dis yere darkey can't
/ so nowhere's to pray any more, wild
out being 'sturbed."
THERE arc four great varieties Of
! the peanut Known TO the dealers ; the
/ African, which is small and black !;
I tho Georgia, which is a little better /;
/ the North Carolina, better still, and
/ the large Virginia peanut, which is
best Of all The Tennessee peanut
has three meats, but is ill-navored
( About 100000 bushels were raised
IN the United States last year
THE catalogue of fruits of the
American Pomologic i Society gives
a list Of 81 varieties Of pears with
their adaptation to different parts of
the country. The Bartlett leads the
list with votes from thirty Stat. and
Territories, Beure d'Anjou comes
next with &c votes the Seckel third
with 25 voies. Fleming, Beauty.
Duchess d'Angouleme aud Blood
good stand nearly as high.
LouD DERBY recently said at an ag-
ricultursl dinns in Liverpool 8, My
belief is-thoash | give II only as a
thing win h seems TO me probable,
not as a thing proved-tnat both
very great and very small properties
are becoming fewer, and those of a
middle class more numerous. Poor
landowners prefer ten per cent. IN
trade to tsgO per cent. rom land
they sell and 60 into business; and,
on the other hand, there is limit
beyond which most men do not de-
sire to extend their holding OF what
Is essentially an unremuneraiive in
vestm ent.
AN American gardener in England
writes to the New York EUenilq Post
that the love of Horticulture in Lon
don is universal. He says: From
the poor woman with her broken
nosed teapot with n geranium grow
ing in it, to the Prince OF Wales with
his elegant title-covored trays in his
palatial windows, the love for WIN
dow flowers seem universal. Ishould
think that half, at least, of all the
first story houses in London have
flowers or plants before or behind
the glass. In some streets every
window has its tray on the sill"
A cow in a pasture on the line of
railroad was the unwilling instru
ment of a good advertisement few
days ago. The parties posting up
certain bills espied mistress COW qui
etly grazing, and having board sus-
pended in front of her face, when,
like all other bill posters they
thought this to be an available point,
Catching the COW, bill was quickly
posted upon the board, when she
took up her march alongside the
railroad track, and wondering PAS
sengers, as the train thundnred by,
smiled at the ingenious expedient
which thus advertised Orion's Lus-
tire.
The Santa Clara California; Agri-
cultural Society offers premium of
SO for the best one hundred fruit
trees of mixed varieties, planted out
within the last year in one body, or
in difTerens place on the same farm
or plantation for the best five hun
dred, $40; for the best one hundred,
single variety, S..
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Ne1C
Yorker says that last year on a piece
of ground 10 by 20 feet, he rai7ed
ten bushels Of onions from black
seed. He raised onions on the same
piece of ground the previous year,
and they did not pay for the seed
they were destroyed by maggots and
wire-worms. He procured three
bushels of salt and two barrels of tlsh |
and pork brine and top dressed his |
garden (about one-fourth of an acre. |
with il, after he had gathered all has
vegei ables. Last sprng he ploughed |
the garden and put on three OK cart
loads OF well rotted hag and chip |
manure, and such vegetables he new
or raised before.