Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-08-01
Agricultural Items.

THERE are Sc farms in New York oi
over l ZOO acres each.
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer, while plow.
ing deep-most likely "while sluggards
sleep"-plowed up a petriied Indian
eight inches long.
INSECTS rob American farmers OF
$500, 900 every year.
ALL European accounts agree that the
grain crops of Europe, especially in
Russia and Hungary, will be very de
ficient this year, and all that America
can spare will find a ready market on
the other side of the Atlantic.
THERE were in 1870 nearly 1000 farms
in the United States of three acres or
less, on which at least $500 worth of
produce had been raised for sale in that
year; amongst these are included mar
ket gardens, but not family gardens or
vegetable patches from which the own
ers did not procure a living.
THE Legislature of New Jersey has
passed a law to encourage the mapufac-
ture of beet-root sugar in that State, by
exempting from taxation for ten years
any factory with the necessary machine
ry which may be put into operation after
April, 1872.
The champion tree-planter of Nebras-
ka, and doubtless of the world, is J. D.
Smith, who lives near Lincoln, in that
State, who planted on "Arbor day" one
tree per second for nearly ten hours.
The result is grove of $3.50 trees.
AT sale of estates in England, lately,
farms were sold at $3.50 per acre. These
farms rented at SIS per acre, or less than
% per cent. on the value. Few good
farms in New York or Pennsylvania
could be purchased or rented for any
less.
STEEP some cut hay in boiling water
for two or three hours; pour off the
water, and give it to the animal to
drink, either warm or cold, as thought
best. 1t is capital thing for horse,
cow, calf, sheep, or pig. Clover hay is
best.
THE impression is rife that land is
rarely for sale in England on the con-
trary, the chief advertising mediums OF
England are plentifully furnished with
announcements of sales of estates, farms,
and lots of all sizes, from single roods
and acres up to immense estates, sc
that it would seem the possession OF
land is only circumscribed by the
ability to purchase it, there as else
where.
CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS has ap'
peared among the cattle in the vicinity
of Jamaica, L. 1. One farmer has lost
several COWS by that disease, and several
other cases are reported as likely to ter
inmate fatally.
The wheat crop of 1869 was 2S7, ,000, ,00C
bushels; that of 1871, 23O,oOO,O0O bush
els; while that of the present year will
be, it is expected, 22O,OOO,OOo bushels
The crop of 1869 was much above the
average.
Mr.: WILLIAMS, a gentleman of great
experience, says: "People expect great
er results than they should in purchas
ing eggs for Matching. The breeder
however much experience he may have
may not mate up his breeding pens a:
they should be, and hence every birc
may not be perfect"
HENS nests should be made by placing
IN the bottom of the nest basket or boz
cut turf and shovelful of dry earth
or ashes; on this place short straw, frs
following out the earth in the shape o
a nest. A more even temperature il
obtained for the eggs than in straw
nests alone. Such nests are particu
larly adapted for early setting, wher
| the weather is cold.