The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-10-03
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oots, our very decided preference for
'he principal crop is for beets. We
Jiace first among varieties the American
imperial sugar beet. 1t grows mostly
,ut of ground, and although it grows
largef and heavier than any other, it is
Inc, compact, sweet, and nutritious.
The sugar beets that grow in the ground
we have discarded. The long red man.
gold grows very much like the better
9uriety of sugar beets, will bear little
closer planting, and yield about the
same weight of roots. 1t is not quito SO
sweet or juicy as the other, and we
think ranks second in feeding qualities
On " soil Inclined to be sandy, we have
most excellent crops of the yellow globe
mangold. Between this and the long
red there is little if any choice, except
that the globe is better adapted to- the
Lighter soils On land quite free from
weeds, carrots and ptrsnips may be pro-
titably grown; but we would not, after
all, recommend them as at all comptr-
able with beots fer general crop.
BROADCAST VS.. DRILLED WHEAT
, SJme time since i'll an article III Your
paper q writer said: Winter when
irllled in stood the severe weather bet
Ter than wheat sown broadcast" Other
writer's to other papers says that winter
wheat that was drilled i'll was all right,
md one of the gentlemen wrote that
my wheat which was drilled in was all
right, and that his was all killed. For
my own satisfaction | have inquired,
and find that there are 35I acres Ut win
ter wheat alive and that will Weld u
thir crop, which was sown broadcast,
tnd only fifteen acres sown with drill.
There IS not in this place one acre of
good winter wheat that was drilled III.
while there are over $50 acres of good
winter wheat that was sown broadcast.
NOW, don't mean to say, nor to he un-
derStood, that all wheat broadcast suwn
Is alive, or that all that was drilled in is
lead. Bat | do mean to say and be
understood that broadcast sown stood
the long-to- o-be-remembered winter of
1872 better than that which was drilled
iu.-CO. of Prairie Farmer.
To MAKE PEARS CoLoR.-A gentle
man OF West Chester, Pa, saws: "To
make pears color handsomely, spread a
blanket on the floor of cool room, and
then thinly and evenly place the fruit
on the floor A second blanket must be
spread over them, and in short time
the effects of this treatment will be ap-
parent in the most golden colored Bart
let's and rich ruddy looking Seckels
imaginable. Pears perfected in this
manner rarely have the mealiness OF
their naturally ripened companions, nor
do they permature,y decay at the core -
An experiment made in England shows
that one hundred sheep, fed unler
shelter, on twenty pounds of Swedish
turnipS each per day, at the end of IL
few weeks had gained three pounds each
more than another hundred which were
fed twenty pounds Of the same kind OF
turnips each, but in the open air or
field. Five sheep were fed IN the open
air in November, the temperature being
at torty-tour degrees. They consumed
ninety pounds OF food per day. At the
end of ten days they weighed two
pounds less than when at first exposed
Five other sheep We're then placed in II
shed, the temperature being torty-nine
degrees; at first, they consumed eighty
two pounds per day, then seventy
pounds, and at the end of the time they
had gained twenty three pounds This
is proof sufficient Of the advantages OF
sheltering stock in winter.
1t is said that milk can be kept a
year or more as sweet as when taken
rom the COW, by the following method
Procure bottles, which must be perfect
ly clean, sweet, and dry; draw the milk
from the cow into the bottles and as
they are filled, Immediately cork them
well, and fasten the cork with pack
thread or wire. Then spread a little
straw in the bottom of a boiler, on
which place the bottles, with straw be-
tween them, until the boiler CONTAINS Il
sufficient quantity. Fill it up with
cold water, heat the water, and as soon
as it begins TO boil, draw the fire, and
let the whole gradually cool. When
quite cold, take out the bottles and
pack them in sawdust in hampers, and
stow them away in the coolest part OF
the house.
A correspondent of the Rpral Nei,
Yorker says that last year on piece o
ground 10 by 20 feet, he raised tel
bushels of onions from black seed. III,
raised onions on the same piece o
ground the year before, and they did no
pay for the seed they were destroyed b,
maggots and wire wroms. He procured
three bushels of salt and two barrels o
fish and pork brine and top dressed hi
garden (about one-fourth of an acre
with it, after he had gathered all hi
vegetables. Last spring he ploughe,
the garden and put on three OK car
loads OF we'll rotted hog and chip ma
nure. and such vegetables he neve
raised before.
In Maple Grove, Barry county, Mich
is white oak tree twenty-seven feet i
circumference, claimed t be the larges
tree IN the world of that particular spe
cies. This tree is three feet larger tina
was the Charter Oak, and eightee
inches larger than the big oak of Gen
esee.
Naples, large enough to make thre
ten feet rails each, with LOO trees t
the acre, have been raised from the see
in seven years, i'll Monroe county, low,
Thomas Meehan says ne has neve
known any trees of the European larc
to produce perfect seeds in America.
Mrs. W. II. Wherritt, of Lancastej
from pints of milk. from an Alderne
COW, made pounds of butter.