Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-08-27
For the Alexandria ii,zcttc.
Agricultural Items.

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Virginia Farmers.
! Every farmer should be the owner If a good
straw cutter \ third and fourth rate one Is Z
nuisance Get the best II ii requires the sale of
III TX. steer or colt II raise the money 10 buy II.
! Farmers. look 10 Your insurance: many have a
good deal Of property IN the form ut bay grain
and wool exposed II fire. ~; covered by n>ur-
anre. 1t i the part ui wisdom IL be partially.
II NOT fully insured. AT all times.
Let the br-cin. >ow> and pigs have the run
Of the Stuhhle. Pigs intended 10 lie tatfed this
fall should now be Ted literally. but allowed 10
run III the pasture
Ia preparing fruit and vegetables for marker.
great care should be taken 10 assert and pack
in such y way that the highest price can be Oh
ket hy railroad. 1t will hardly pay the freight
peaches. sweet aud Irish potatoes. We'll culIei.
good. Dad and Indifferent promi>curu>iy thrown
together We repeat. send ouly good articles.
The freight and other expenses eat up poor
goods
tIather seeds as they commence to rlpeU, and
after they are thoroughly dry. clean aud put
away in dry pace. secure rom the mice.
The AsricuIturlSt says that Tape seed will
succeed III the South wherever the soil Is IN
good heart. and il it be >own in the earl y part
ot, the fail. - y u ret Well started before
winter.
Rape. cal,iage. and turaip> grow well as far
South as Florida
! \ writer TO the Agriculturist says his dairy
is thriving. He is now making about III lbs. OF
butter per week. fully too lbs per month.
rom - COWS. old aud young. big and little,
good bad and Indifferent How many Nir-
GINA farmers do as we'll
My swamp land. SAYS Mr. g.. used to
grow Only smart weed The first year after it
had been under.drained it grew about s. bush
els Of corn per acre The next year ~ bushels
per acre The third year ISL ) bushels per
acre Ii is now in corn again. l. not that bet
ter than letting II produce smart weed and
| fever and ague PROGRESS.
PRErARIHG WHEAT FOB MARKET =
Wheat t,r market should be carefully cleans
ed from all impurities aud eStraueouS seeds.
Rye and Sprcuted grains are by far the most ~
icctiouab!e oats garlic and cockle next. Rye
and Sprouicl grains cannot De separated from
the wheat and hence make the flour Inferior
, Sending damp or tough wheat 10 market IS
simply suicidal. l. cannot De bulked and this
has to De done whore mills buy heavily. -Four
made Of II Is liable 70 SOUR and when large GUAM
titles 81 this wheat comes in;o marke: it becomes
uoSaeable or rather. the farmer who has it be-
comes prey T. the manipulation and >peculator
Il should be dried before thre>ninG. Nature has
made the necc>>ary provision Tor 1t III the i>ola-
ton Of each grain. L the farmer is 50 uutor-
tuuate. however. as - have his wheat damp or
tough when thre>hed, lie should spread it on
bis foor> aDd constantly stir it. TIE labor aud
time >peot IN getting it into dry condition will
pay him better than any work he can DO On the
farm. The scaling Of price against wheat with
exirapeou> seeds Or IN damp or tough condition
is altogether 100 serious 4 matter Tor the farmer
to overlook We have this season seen tough
wheat sell a: s. -. when fit had been dry 1t
would have brought s. 20 Any man who hap
dies grain largely viii tell YOU at once whether
!, was dried brt3re or Al er thre>hiog. That
dried before. making better -four brings The bet
ter pr:ce: that dried after having the appearance
OF being weather beaten OF course commands
less. b. sending in wheat III loi' screenings the
farmer pays the buyer, IL tie low price he gets
for his wheat tor taking what he could make
good use Of a. home - say nothing Of the cast
ot freight aud handing on it.
About three hundred co!ored men have late
Is lett this cliy II work On I railroad now 10
prosrrS> Of construction between Taste! 4 and
Perth Amt-,y. in New .Iersey-a large gang
left yesterday. They are paid one Gv.!-r aal
fifty cents day