The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-10
AGRICULTURAL.

The Boston CUltiodtor notices the ar
rival in that city of June and July fac
tory cheese, from Hebron, McHenry
county, Illinois, in fine condition and
good quality, as tasted.
The sweet corn canning factory at
South Paris, Maine, has this year 200
acres planted with sweet corn. The
proprietors expect to put up 250,000
cans this season, against $4,000 last year.
The Haywood (Cal.) Adpocate says
"John Minges, near Grayson, in the
San joaquin valley, will send to market
from his ranch this year four thousand
tons of wheat. This is over $4,000
bushels, and enough to keep mill run
ming for year, and making one hum
dred barrels of flour per day" Such
statements as this suggest the inquiry
whether there is not too much farming
done, and whether it would not be
policy for agriculturists to initiate
manufacturers in guaging production
by consumption and demand.
The English agricultural papers are
lamenting over the almost entire failure
of the fruit crop in that country. 1t is
stated that the crop of apples, pears,
and even the smaller fruits, is the small
est ever known there. The cause is at
tributed to the severe weather in March
and April, which is believed to have in
jured the trees and fruit buds. There
were heavy frosts later in the season,
which destroyed the blossoms on trees
that had escaped the winter This pre-
sents remarkable contrast with the
fruit crop in the United States, which
is one of unusual abundance.
OIL-MEAL FOR Cows AND CALVES
IN SUMMER.-The following, which we
find in an exchange, accords SO fully
with our own idea that we cannot with
hold or endorsement. Our experience
has convinced us that two quarts of
cotton seed oil cake meal fed daily to a
cow, on grass, will increase the flow of
milk one quart. Try it:
"When cows are i'll profit, little extra
feed in the shape of oil-meal will be
amply repaid in the yield of milk and
butter. 1t must not be supposed that
because a COW is on pasture there is no
longer need for stimulating food. The
fact is, that with an ample supply of
grass, the appetite of the COW for meal
is quite as vigorous as during the win
ter, when she was fed on hay. Cows
may be very profitably fed with quart
each of oil-meal morning and night.
They will lick it up from trough, if it
is made sufficiently large, without
waste. When cows are not tied up at
night, good plan of feeding them is to
have a square box for each COW, large
enough for her to put her nose in easily,
and six inches deep. Put the allowance
of meal in these boxes. They may be
scattered about the yard, at such dis
tance as will give each animal an oppor-
tunity to eat without being driven away
by others. Calves will soon show, in
their improved appearance and hastened
growth, that oil-meal is good for them
also. A small handful given them in
their pasture daily will push them for
ward rapidly. 1t is well to use small
tin pan to feed them with, and a few
minutes spent with this young stock
daily isnot only an agreeable occupation,
but highly profitable; for the more
regularly the owners attention is given
to his cattle, the sooner he will perceive
anything wrong, and be able at once tc
remedy it; and daily visit is seldom
made unless there is some express pur-
pose in it. Let the purpose then be tc
give them a little extra feed, and 6
double benefit will result"
How THE LARGE PEARS ARE RAISED
Mr.. G. F. B. Leighton, of Norfolk
Va, has produced some of the larges
pears ever grown in this country. In 6
late interview with this gentleman ht
told us that he has now in bearing 81,
thousand trees, the most of them being
Bartletts, Louise Bonne de Jersey, ant
Seckel. The soil upon which they ar,
grown is stiff, blue clay, overlayins
sand to the depth of three or four feet
In planting out pear trees, Mr.. Leighton
digs hole in the clay some two Of
three feet deep, and sufficiently wide fo
the roots to ramify, and then bores ,
hole with post augur through to th'
sand. This augur hole and small por
ton of the excavation is filled with
sticks (cut brush) this forms complet,
underdrain. A soil to set the roots O
the trees in is composed of tide-washeC
muck, which is brackish, she'll lime, anC
the surface or alluvial earth. The tree
grow with wondrous rapidity and pro
duce such fruit as has astonished fruit
growers everywhere. First premium
have been taken far and near at tn,
largest horticultural shows. Duches
d'Angouleme were shipped to New Yorl
last season from Mr.. Leighton's orchard
weighing over thirty ounces, or abou
two pounds-forty- y-eight pears on al
average making bushel. This frui
brought $l2 per bushel, just twenty five
cents apiece for the pears. They re
tailed at fifty cents each upon Broadway
Mr.. Leighton much prefers the stand
ard to the dwarfs, and plants his tree
twenty-five feet apart each way. In {
portion of his orchard he has dwarf
between the rows, but does not allow
them TO remain long enough to inter
fere with the full development of thu
standards. Decomposed bone is used t.
revive the standards when they appear
to be falling into decline, and work
to perfection. The bones are broken III
into small pieces and put into boxes o.
barrels, with alternate layers of WOOD
ashes, and kept moist until they arr
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