The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1874-09-08
FARM AND GARDEN.

Swallows nests breed vcrmin.
Sheep near Sacramento have the cpl
zoot
Bronson, Florida, is shipping cattle TO
Cdba.
The oat gnat is the last agricultural
worrimcnt.
The cranberry crop in Wisconsin
promises well
Ii YOU want to get sure crop and a
good yield, SOW wild oats.
MARYLAND produces more watcrmel-
ons than ahr other three States.
Green corn and watermelons are keep
ing the doctors pretty busy.
Grlsshopper shooting il reputed TO be
among the colorado rcereations.
Large numbers of Indians are en-
ployed in the Oregon harvest fields.
A Cairo paper declares that the entire
oat crop of Southern Illinois is failure.
'sTwenty to the ton" is the new way
OF estimating watermelons in Georgia.
A philanthropist proposes TO muzzle
the boys during the green apple season.
Cheyenne is smitten with dryness. and
the trees are dying for wart Of water.
or the agricultural products of Spain
46 per cent consists of the wine indus
tries
- Whether the tomato is vegetable or
n fruit is question as yet undecided
We think it is
1t is suggested that Chinese cheap la.
.bor might be used against the grasshop.
pers out west.
Bells on sheep are said to have the ef-
feetnot only of keeping off dogs, but
even wild animals.
There was man so intensely polite
that, as he passed hen on her nest, lie
said, 'Don't rise, ma'am."
Connecticut is Growing m a mild way
because the tobacco crop is failure in
the west and south.
-Four calves at birth, all alive and
doing well, is the record Of COW own.
ed by George Blanchard, Of Barre, Yer
mont
A little lime dissolved in water and
applied to the soil kills nearly every spe-
Gle of worm without injury to the plant.
Huckleberries, double the size of their
wild companions, are raised in East Otis.
One farmer has Is acres under circula.
tion.
A gentleman in Deerfield is paying
81 10 per 1000 for pickles, and engag-
edto take the growth Of about 30 acres
of cucumbers.
Alum water is quite as destructive to
insects as Paris green, and, unlike the
latter. is not at ol, dangerous to leave
about house.
The giant puff ball, when young, is an
edible fungus of great delicacy; but in
its mature state, and full of spores, it is
exceedingly dangerous.
Z The grasshoppers are coming east
ward with slow and solemn tread each
ore checked for the coast of Maine.
The American Stock Journal says for
gravel in horses, give two thirds Of Ia
blespoonful Of saltpeter in little salt,
for three consecutive days.
The spear blight has damaged the
pear orchard of the Hancock Shakers to
the extent of $4,000, and it is feared
that the whole orchard will he destroy
ed.
Two million peaches arrived in New
York in One day from Maryland aud
New Jerseys little more than two q
piece for every man, woman and child in
that city.
A Kansas farmer solemnly declares
that grasshopper sat on the gate-post
and threateningly asked: "William Bry-
ant, where in thunder is the balance OF
that cold meat? p
The simplest and best of the many
remedies for killing lice on cattle is to
wash the cattle two or three times with
.mackerel brine, and every louise will
leave and no harm be done.
80 A western manufacturer ventures the
prediction that in Ave years the bulk of
all the grain sent east will be put up in
barrels made of paper which will in turn
he manufactured from the straw.
"A barn full of produce should be full
~ insured. The ascending vapor from
sweating hay and grain forms good
conductor for lightning, and is, there
fore, dangerous.
An inquiring man thrust his fingers
into horses mouth to see how many
teeth he had The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had. The curiosity OF each was fully
satisfied.
Many of the chickens they give you
at the resta urants are called spring
chickens because they live through the
fall and winter, and are starved and
smothered to death in the spring.
Oscar Bardwell, of Shelburne. has a
crossbred shorthorn COW, weighing L.
300 pounds, that calved about the first of
April, and from her milk the first two
weeks of June, "a pounds of butter were
made. Can Ayreshires beat that!
EFThe colored youth who has
charge of the hat.rack at Congress
Hall, Saratoga, is a prodigy. He has