The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-11
EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IL, 1874.
FARSI AND sToCK NOrns


The lemon-growers in Florida
and Louisiana are raising fruit
edual to the Sicily crops and a
good deal of money is being
squeezed out Of the business.
The Grant county, Wis, gran.
gers have decided to organize an |
insurance company. At their last
meeting they raised $4,000 of
$4,000 necessary, and they feel
sure OF the whole amount. -
Simon Dickerson, of Marion
Livingston county, Mich, recently
threshed lis bushels of wheat
which grew upon two acres of
ground; and William Steadman.
OF Genoa, raised 3O7 bushels upon
six acres.
Tomatoes were first used in this
country as an edible in the wear
1919, by the late Hon. Bailey Bart
lett, OF Haverhill, but they did not
come into general use until more
than twenty years subsequent to
that date.
Mr.. Levi Ballou, of Woonsocket
X. l., bred from one pair of pigs
ten years without introducino a6v
fresh blood. Over 1, 900 pigs were
raised during the time, and with
out producing q single imperfect
specimen. Z d 81 - - IT
MIR. 5. G. Wilder, of Lawrence.
says he successfully fought the
grasshoppers out of his garden
and away from his vines and trees
by hlling loose sack with quick
lime, tying one end to pole, and
busting his trees and shrubs. He
says the grasshoppers have not
troubled the growth so treated.
Reliable statistics show that
there are $4,000, 900 head of neat
cattle in the United States, valued
at $2,00O,OO0,0O0 This is an av-
erage of $40 per head. BY care.
full breeding the value of our stock
IN six or eight years could be rails
ed to $50 per head. This would
add to the real capital OF the
United States the sum of $1,000
100000, nearly enough to pay the
national debt.
Too much cannot be said of the
absolute danger of using impure
water either for the horse or other
stock, especially mileh COWS. The
germ theory of disease seems tc
be fully established. Certain i'm
purities III water are as surely the
cause of typhoid fever as infec
tioH spreads smallpox The case
of the sickness of the Prince o
Wales and other members of the
royal family, caused by imperfec'
sewerage, is too notorious to be re
peated. Let every farmer watcl
his drinking well and spring, anC
his watering ponds, that no foreign
and decaying substance is left il
them. s.. ..ar... .-.
j. Il. Root a successful Illinoi.
market gardener, mentions som,
experiments in the Fruit Recorder
showing the importance of stirrins
the soil as q preventative of injury
from drought. He puts among
some OF his crops n horse cultiva
tor for every four acres, and keep,
it going early in summer. The Of
feet is always striking. The sol
becomes "splendidly loose" Ii
some instances the crop has beer
doubled. Nothing keeps the
moisture better in drought. The
result has been particularly salts
factory with melons, tomatoes, Gu
cumbers and cabbages. For on
ions he has found nothing equal tC
manure for retaining moisture il
the soil. .....
Some one who has tried it says
1 discovered many years ago thai
wood could be made to last longer
than iron in the ground, but
thought the process SO simple and
inexpensive that it was not worth
while making any stir about it
would as soon have poplar, bass
wood, or quaking asp as any othel
kind oftimber for fenceposts. AT
ter having been set seven years
they were as sound when taking
out as when they were first put il
the ground. Time and weathe
seem to have no effect on them
The posts can be prepared for les:
than two cents apiece. This il
the receipt: Take boiled linsee'
oil and stir il in pulverized char
coal to the consistency of paint
Put a coat of this over the timber
and there is not q man that viii
live to see it rot.