Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-03-16
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

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In France there are 436 beet SUI
gar factories, for making sugar of
beets, a culture hal is introduced
in Illinois.
In 1871, 2O,OG4 short-horn cattle
were sold ut public sale in Great
Britain, at an average price OF $3.50
per head.
Land under irrigation in Spain
sells for $500 per acre, while land
lying alongside of it will scarcely
bring fifty dollars per acre.
4 farmer in Winslow, Maine,
raised 2S bushels of wheat on three
quarters of an acre, and sold it for
$40, for seed, and the straw for SAT.
At the Poultry and Pigeon Show,
Wilds County, England, recently,
white geese were exhibited weighing
thirty pounds each.
4 writer claims hat an acre Of
ground can be set out in cotton
wood-tree plants at a cost Of about
$40, and that in ten years the ground
will yield fifty cords of wood.
Kincaird, johnson, Menard 4 Co,
Illinois, recently shipped to Chicago
ii oxen, generally 5 years old, the
average weight Of the IA being q
$50 pounds each. Oae weighed .
800 pounds.
4 shipment of American short
horns to England is exported by Mr..
Alexander, of Woodburn, Kentucky,
who sold to an English gentleman
two Durham heifers-the eldest two
years old-for $4,000.
The raising Of improved stock is
every year attracting more and more
the attention of farmers, and very
Justly. Why should not good stock
on the farm be considered as essen
tial as good machinery in the shop.
Ohio has 1873, 424 dogs, which have
manned and killed within q year
23,9S5 sheep, damaging sheep herds
to the amount estimated Of $143,-
009 50. Including the cost OF keep
ing them, it is estimated that the
dogs Of OHIO cost $4,000, 900.
Mr.. G, Z. Morrow, of the Western
Farmer, in a late address, urged at
tention to the purely ornamental
features Of horticulture. There is
no good reason why farmers homes
should not be beautifed, and he was
glad to note increasing interest
shown in that direction.
SOWING CLoyER-RED CLOVER Is
THE BEsr,-It should be sown at the
rate of u or Is pounds per acre, as
andeArly in the Spring''as practicable
slightly rolled in. Much depends
on the condition of the surface soil
for its success, a fine, rich, mellow
surface giving a better growth with
10 pounds per acre, than q poor,
hard soil with 20 pounds.
SALT FOR CATrLE.-Cows now in
full flow of milk absolutely require
salt, without which their milk will
notbe perfect. 1t is not only be-
cause the COWS are fond of salt that
it should be given them, but also for
the fact that if they are deprived Of
it either the yield of the milk will be.
come diminished or the quality de-
Perforated, Further than this, salt
is m assistant to digestion, and as
such Is conducive to the health Of
animals.
OncHARDs.-Many young orchards
that are growing where the soil is
thin, having a complete substratum
beneath are often root-pruned to
their serious injury when the ground
is plowed. Young fruit trees sell
dom have any roots to part with,
consequently every rootlet that the
pillow sewers tends to retard the
growth of the tree. But where the
soil is SO porous that most o fthe roots
strike deep and spread out below the
range Of the pillow; that implement
may be employed for working the
soil.
A correspondent kept an account
of the milk from his herd of nine
grade short-horned COWS, beginning
June l and continuing for l42 days,
together with the butter made from
the same, and ascertained that it has
taken "a pounds Of milk to make l
pound of butter, Or "about eleven
quarts to the pound" This is not
guess-work, he adds, but the actual
result of a correct record.