The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-07-21
The SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY,
FARM AND GARDEN.

with all her cattlaI {Tf 20.
Now the green apple doubles the little
boys into quarto form,
California produces lemons weighing
~ ounces apiece.
An ingenious farmer is training flock
of,swallows TO skim his milk.
Now mind your Ps and Qs--that is
to say, your peas and q-cumbers.
A hen in Carlisle, Pa, is exercising
the civil right Of laying black eggs.
Those Iowa grashoppers wink at
Paris green and smile at hot water.
Three young ladies are running large
stock farm near Dallas, Texas
A Minnesota granger is blowing about
his 1900 acre patch of beans. ri.
Aslamb with seven legs and three tails
has been sent to New York for exhibi.
ton.
A Terra Hsute, Ind, man reports
$40 net profit from one acre Of grapes
last season.
The grain crop of. stanislaus County
CAL, is estimated at not less than 1900,
600 bushels,
An inventive genius in Ohio proposes
to furnish horses With false teeth, so as
to conceal their age, =.
Grapeyines must st.have the supernume-
rary shoots rubbed off as soon as their
needlessness is seen.
The Colorado beetle or potato bug
will, it is estimated, do $1,000 damage
in Baltimore County, Mo. this year,
Bradford, Pa, produces more butter
than any other countein the State, the
yield last year being 3,70f pounds.
1.-THE Watertown IN " Times says
the pear crop of Jefferson County will
amount e almost nothing this year.,
Miss Haggie Price, of Norfolk, Va ,
has a duck which laid ninety eggs in
ninety days, and then went to setting.
IBy.fhe inundation Of the Mississippi
tie cotton product of the year will be
reduced three or four hundred thousand
bales.
One farmer i'm Monmouth, County, N,
j., who has six acres in blackberries.
sold last season fruit to the value Of 49,
900.
Iowa raises most of the eggs "whole-
saled' in New York City. Fifteen thou
sand barrels have been forwarded since
January ssha t II. -oi Bpa Hoq
At Humboldt, Ind, the Ggrasshoppers
haYe become SO ravenous that. the citi,
zsns are getting their a e ere2 2s39f Of 81 ssawloss
uhueE fGofef' % % sfr bloi E,ts ,fs,ss az ~
Hoet crops cannot be cultivated too
much; and tits better to cultivate with
horse labor than the hand hoe-Rochcs
te, Democrat . .Le'2.,4@ s'..
"A clover root was torn up by Cam
bria Mich. farmer, while plowing, which
measured 4 feetsand 6 inches nlength
Richmond (Va papers complain that
the tobacco recently sold in that market
has not brought the money the. guano
A California sheep raiser owning 80,
600 sheep, from which he realizes an in
come Of 800, 600 commenced 90 years
ago with q flock of 800.
. The, farmers in Illinois area importing
Norman horses. The animals are heay-
ly'btiilt, and are especially adapted fol
agricultural purposes. SO - 3e
Suckers which have been. permitted tc
spring up at the foot of the stems IN ap
ples0rchards, may now be taken off te
the Disadvantage. isse 80, Iii
It1is stated as d bovinological fact tha
the milk OF a young cow is apt to b'
foaming Which is highly probable, al
the creAture is heiferyescent. 81
busting with white hellebore from I
dredgingsbox has been widely and sue
cessfully practiced for many years in ex
terminating the icurrant worm. ss Z
A farmer at Victory, Vt, last weel
lost, nineteen lambs. out of q flock o
twenty seven by washing them in, so
lntien OF Arsenic to destroy the sheel
ticks lrsr sRassS sse siee ! sve8s ,ea
The silver beet is being raised in Can
ada as d crop for blowing under as ma
pure., It produces mass. of leaves 3
inches high, which furnish large guam
tity OF green manure. s..a.ls syi.,ssa -
In the San Joaquin Valley, Califofnis
one. man, n,owns 350, 900 acres of land ,an
u others, in alt own 2,7S5,oO0 acres
One man pasture has 65 miles Of lenc
aresndsit and his farm is 45- milesglong
Rub off all starting shoots below tn
young gratis on their first appearance
the larger they become the greater vii
be the, check to the tree by the loss. o
the leaves, The same care is needed o
buds set, last summer. ,li-sagss. .sa,.g,
Never water young trees--dependeS
clusively on cultivation, and, if necessa
ry, muiching added. Continue to brea
the, crust and to maintaip a clean, me
low surface for several feet around th
base Of the stem.
Raspberries and b,ackberries shoul
have the same treatment, pinching bac
theblark caps at tive or three feet, an
the red sort 3 f5ot higher, and at th
sanie dine cut ontfat the start all need
less suckers from both blackberry an
raspberry rows, as they will crowd an
retard the reserved canes the same a
weeds.
For stumbling horses shoe the foot a
fiat as possible, not having corks on til
shoe except in slippery going, and the
as low and short as possible and yet pre-
vent the horse from slipping. The OF
posite foot should be shod like the lam
one. Never let the smith pare the fro
of the foot, whether sound or otherwise
An observing farmer much prefers
slort-legged. broad boned, full-bodie
COW that will.keep in good condition o
sg0odiphstare to a large, loose built CO..
that gives more milk IN the season, bt
will not yield, as much taking the sesso
He finds that the larges
mo means the most profits
n.
iooseness Of the .bowe