Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-05-02
Agricultural Paragraphs,


aXles and tires.
III. G. has written to a friend in the
west that thepresent is good time to
graft boot trees.
Joseph Harris says red clover must al
ways be the great renovating crop in
America wherever it does we'll
On the west side Of the San Joaquin,
in Stanislaus county, CAL, there are
over 100, 900 acres of continuous wheat
fields.
Wire fencing is not a success in Mime
sofa. Three fourths of the farmers
who have tried it are disguised with its
use.
A man who had travelled through New
Jersey says that he saw some land so
poor that you could not raise a disturb
ance on it,
A bill has been introduced into the
Legislature of Ontario, to prohibit horse
racing within five miles of any agricul-
tural fair.
One farmer in California, during last
season, trapped and skinned 10000
squirrels, selling the skins for glove
making, at fifteen cents each.
The beet sugar factory at Freeport,
H., expects to pay out 100000 for
beets, this season. The factory is 200
by 300 feet and two stories high.
1t is estimated that China will be a
market for American butter and cheese
to the amount of $4,000 tons annually.
This is equal to 100000 pounds.
1t is claimed that onions planted in a
bed upon which cabbage-seed is sown,
will protect the plants from the depre-
dations of the beetle known as the black
cabbage fly.
The Wells (Minn.,) AtLaS says that
Col. Thompson's steam pillow will be set
at work blowing as soon as the frost is
out of the ground. 1t is believed that
it will be successful
Somebody tells scientific journal
way to clean a well Of CarbOnic acid gas.
1t is to lower red hot iron to the water
50 as to produce little steam. The va
pOr instantly absorbs the gas.
Louis BOehmer, a well known agriCul
turist of Rochester, n. Y, has been en-
gagged by the japanese government to
charge of the practical details of a bu-
reau of agriculture at Yeddo.
In grating young orchard, graft ey-
cry alternate row different years, that is,
graft every other row this year, and the
Others next. By this means you will
probably have a crop every year on half
your trees.
Between the ninth day of November,
1871, and the fifth day of April, 1872,
there have been but four nights in the
vicinity of Chicago but what has been
cold enough to freeze water, a Circum-
stance unprecedented in the history of
the West
The increased capacity of the Chicago
elevators by the time the next grain crop
shall be ready for market will be about
three and one-half million bushels over
the capacity before the fire.
As much depends on the man as on
the farm. Common sense, skill, a wise
forecast, or whatever else we may choose
to call it, combined with energy and
perseverance, are prime factors in max
ing really successful farmer.
A num-bskull or block-head can DIG a
ditch, plant corn, cut cord wood, grub
stumps, and do fair days work gener-
ally, but give him farm to manage and
expect success, and most likely you will
be disappointed in the long run.
The estimates of the beet sugar pro-
ducts of Europe for the present manu-
featuring season somewhat exceed I ,000,-
900 tons, a small increase on last years
products, France will make about 350,-
900 tons. The business is yearly eX-
tending.
In Siberia, during the winter, milk
is bought and sold in frozen state, and
can be carried for a long period in
simple bag. When required for use the
requisite quantity is chopped off with a
Ratchet or sheath knife and thawed as
needed
The Mount Sterling, (Ky.) Sentinel is
reliably informed that a Mr.. Jones, of
Bath county, has a COW which recently
drpped forty calves at one time One
of the calves was of good size, and is
now living. The others ranged from
the size OF mouse to the size of an OPP
pOssum. This is a tough story. but the
Sentinel puts full faith in it. If true it
would seem that there had been no less
than forty perfect conceptions.
Roll your wheat 10y all means, SAYS
the correspondent Of an exchange, the
name of which we have forgotten. 1t
viii do il good even when six inches
high in very dry weather. | sowcd 72
acres last fail. when the ground was very
dry. My wheat came up and stood two
and one half inches high, and stopped
growing. put on 4 heavy roller. and
il grew more in one week after than in
the three weeks before.
A correspondent of the Rua Ne1r
Y0rber, who was in the habitOf wetting
his seed wheat before sowing, and dry
ing it off with new slaked lime. on one
occasion fell short Of six or eight quarts |
of seed. His man went to the barn, |
took the same kind of seed, but finding |
no lime, wet the wheat and put on some |
plaster, which adhered to every kernel. |
At harvest time the little parcel of |
ground with the plastered seed was a
bed Of smut-nOt one head in |
ten had a sound kernel in it.
Mr. c. NJ. Nichols, the editor of the |
Springfield, (OhiO) Republican, says: "A |
few day ago jenney belonging to ST. |
mon Buffenburger, Madison township, |
Clarke county, injured herself by fall |
On the ice, and, as a consequence fOaled |
The production was twins,
one jack colt and the other mule colt |
The case is IA singular one, and unques-
tionably there was double conception |
After being bred to the jack, the jenny .
was turned into a pasture with a num- |
Der of two year old stallion colts, where |
It. is presumed she conceived the second |
time.
A correspondent of the Maine Farmer
says A year ago | noticed an item
in newspaper stating that ground bone |
and good unleached wood ashes mixed. |
in equal parts, and a barrel full of the |
mixture wet with three parts of water.
10 stand for ten days, made fertilizer
equal to the best phosphate of lime. | |
tried this mixture last season on corn, |
using phosphate on half the piece and
bones and ashes on the other half both .
in the hill. ] found the corn planted on
bones ard ashes looked the best while |
growing, and yielded the best when har-
vested. Let the composition be well
mixed.
Mr.. George Sinclair wrote a very in
structive essay on Grasses" in which
be says, after advancing some reasons
why variety of grasses should he sown,
''There is another important law in the