The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-14
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Tn France there are 43G beet SUI
gar factories, for making sugar OF
Il culture that is introduced
in Illinois.
In 1871, 20,0Gl short-horn cattle
were sold at public sale in Great
Britain, at an average price OF $3.50
per head.
Land under irrigation in Spain
sells for $500 per acre, while land
lying alongside Ct it will scarcely
bring fifty dollars per acre.
4 farmer in Winslow, Maine,
raised % bushels Of wheat on three
quarters Of an acre, and sold it for
so, for seed, and the straw for $l1'
at the Poultry and Pigeon Show,
Wilds County, England, recently
white geese were exhibited weighing
thirty pounds each.
4 writer Claims that an acre OF
ground can be set out i'll cotton
wood-trce plants at a cost OF about
$40, and that in ten yearsthe ground
win yield fifty cords Of wood.
Kincaird, Johnson, Mcnard & Co.,
Illinois, recently shipped to Chicago
If oxen, g"ncrally 5 years old, the
average weight Of the II being q
$50 pounds each. Oae weighed q
900 pounds.
4 shipment of American short
horns TO England is exported by MIR.
Alexander, Of Woodburn, Kentucky,
vino sold to an English gentleman
two Durham heifers--tho eldest two
years old-for $4,000.
The raising Of improved stock is
cycryycar attracting moro and more
the attention Of farmers, and very
Justly. Why should not good stock
on the farm be considered as essen
tial 40 good machinery in the shop.
OHIO has 1873, l2l dogs, which have
manned and killed within o year
1885 sheep, damaging sheep herds
to the amount estimated Of $143,-
OO9 So. Including the cost OF keep
ing them, it is estimated that the
dogs Of OHIO cost $5,00O,0OO.
Mr.. q. Il. Morrow, OF the Western
Tormcr, in n late address, urged at
t]ention to the purely ornamental
features of horticulture. There is
no good reason why farmers homes
should not be bcautiGed, and he was
glad 10 note increasing interest
shown in that direction.
SowISG CLoyEn--RED CLOVER IS
THE BEST 1t should DC Gown at the
rate Of II or Is pounds per acre, as
anderly in the Spring''as practicable
slightly rolled in. Much depends
On the condition Of tho surface soil
for its success, n fine, rich, mellow
surracotiying u better growth with
10 pounds per acre, than u poor,
hard soil with 20 pounds.
SALT FOR CNrTLE.-Cows now in
full how Of milk absolutely require
salt, without which their milk will
notbo perfect. 1t is not only be-
cause the COWS are fond Of salt that
il should be given them, but also for
the fact that i. thoy are deprived OF
it eithcrtho yield Of the milk will be-
come diminished or the quality de-
Perforated, Further than this, salt
is an assistant to digestion, and as
such il conducive to tho health OF
animals.
ONmAnDs.-Many young orchards
that are growing where the soil is
thin, having II complete substratum
boneath are often root-pruned to
Their serious injury when the ground
is plowod. Young fruit trees sell
dom have any roots to part with,
consequently every rootlct that the
pillow sewers tends to rctard the
growth Of the tree. But whore the
soil isso porous that most of the roots
strike deep and spread out below the
range Of the pillow; that implement
may be employed for working the
sod.
A correspondent kept IN account
uf the milk from his herd of nine
Grade short-horned cows, beginning
June | and continuing for li2 days,
together with the butter made from
The same, and asccrtained that it has
taken a pounds of milk to make l
pound of butter, or "about eleven
qu,rts to the pound" This is not
guoa work, he adds, but tho actual
result Of u correct record.