The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-10-24
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ibi iIIlOuhu Vi IlONCl pCCd ga POhb
ed from the United States this sea-
son is about 100000 bags, not vary
ing materially from 2S.00O,O0o
pounds,
NATHAN Johnson, Of Buchanon,
Michigan, raised u tomato weighing
twenty-three and three-fourths
ounces. He piled sGwdust about the
plants.
HOLDING Up MME.-A writer in the
hmerjcan A~griculturiSt says he hos
found his cows will always let down
their milk when inclined to hold it
up il he gives them some salt to
lick.
THE sweet corn canning factory at
Routh Paris, Maine, has this year
200 acres planted with sweet corr
The rroprietors expect to put up
250,000 cans this season, against
800, 900 last year.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Prairie
Farmer BAYS the live stock--horses,
cattle, sheep and swine-sent from
this country to Japan early last
spring, all reached that country in
good condition, and gave unquali-
fled satisfaction to the Government.
The Haywood (California) Adro-
cate says: John Minger near Gray
son, in tho San JoaquiA Valley, will
send to market from his ranch this
ear four thousand tons Of wheat.
This is over $4,000 bushels, and
enough to keep u mill running for a
year, and making m hundred bar
rels per day"
AYANREE has invented a device for
preventing a horse from kicking in
harness. The hind legs arc strap
ped at the knee joints, with a strap
running through II ring on the sur
cingle, 50 that when one foot adj
vanccs the slack slips through the
ring fur enough to allow tho other
leg to remain behind,
TIE English agricultural papers
are lamentlng oye the ontire failure
Of fruit in that country. 1t is stated
that tho crop of apples, pears and
even the smaller fruits, is the small
est ever known there. The cause is
attributed to the severe weather in
March and April, which is believed
to have injured the trees and fruit
buds.
A CORRESPONDENT of the american
Rurai Home on the way from Deca-
tur TO Cassopolis, Michigan, passed
a farm surrounded by an immense
he llo OF black awa nut trees. It's
owner on "taking up the land had
plowod n furrow round his eighty
acres. in which he dropped black
walnuts that now had grown to
large sized trees" II was quite an
Interesting sight.
LIME FOR Peach TREEs.-From
two to four quarts of air-slaked lime,
according to the size of your peach
trees, may be applied to each one,
early in che spring or late in the
fall. EXcavate u shallow basin
around the trunk, place the lime in
that cavity for n month or more,
and then mix with the surrounding
soil, filing the cavity with fresh
earth Our Home JoMnGl.
SMUT - not u disease, properly
speaking, but it is tire cause of an
injury which may be regarded rs n
disease. 1t is II minute fungus, liv.
ing in and upon tho grain, and is
propn@nted by spores, which answers
the purpose OF seeds. These spores
are so very small hat they may ad-
here to the seed grain unnoticed,
and from the smut will be developod
moro tabuadahtly, as the season is
favorable or otherwise to its growth.
The usual preventive is soaking the
seed wheat. just before sowing, in Il
strong solution Of vitrol (sulphate of
copper drying the grain by the use
of quick-.ime.-Imcrican Agr,cui-
triSt.
Cows usually become addicted to
kicking when hcifcrs, from being
MIXED by abusive mixers. | have
never seen IN old COW become Il
kicker unless abused. Instead of
COWS being vcrsc to being MIXED
when giving large quantity, | have
ever found it the reverse. When
pasturago is good, and cows come
home at night with uddcrs distcnd.
ed with milk, thoy seem grateful to
have it removed. Milking u hcifcr
tor the first time requires patience,
for they will almost invariably kick.
In such II case put II broad strap
around her body Just front of the
uddcr, and buckle it up moderately
tight, and as soon as she gets quiet
(tor she may dance around II little
at iirst) take your pail, sit down and
go to milking, for she is as helpless
as Il kitten. Do not attempt to use
II rope instead of Il strap, for it will
not answer. This is Il much better
method than tying the legs, etc, as
it does not hurt the animal in the
least. A few applications of the
strap, with plenty of patience, and