The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-29
THE PALLADIUM.
WEDNESDAY. JULY 20, 1874.
Agricultural Isems.

AgFie1ltural Items.
Delaware peach crop is estimated
at 10000 baskets.
When the tree il fallen, every man
goeth to It with his Ratchet.
Flue ashes from the hot blast of an
thracite furnaces have been found
very destructive to potato bugs.
y i said that the wortleberry crop
will be an immense one throughout
Michigan during the present season.
The caterpillars stopped train on
the Ogdensburg and Caugnawauga
Railroad, near Montreal, on the 18th,
OBTAINING it an hour.
Says the Napa Register "Napa
County has an odd specimen of grass,
known by the name of rattlesnake
grass, which has q head much like q
club wheat head, and bearing strik-
ing resemblance to the rattles of a
snake"
A firm in Dyer County, Tenn, ship.
ped l28 crates Of strawberries from
three acres of vines, which brought
them about 1000. That is better
than raising corn.
A man in Victory, w., lost nineteen
lambs out Of flock Of twenty-seven,
by washing them in solution of arse
MIC to destroy the sheep ticks. The
ticks were all killed.
A fish farmer in Illinois gets seventy
five cents pound for his trout; thus
small string of fish will bring as
much as sheep, and they require Meth
er grain, hay, nor stabbing.
As many as SOC, 600 goats have per-
ished in the districts Of Angora, Cas-
tamboul, and Tehangri, from fatal
disease, and this years shearing of
tifik wool will show a great reduc-
ton.
In Vermont the prospects for album
dant crops never was better. The
fruit trees promise an abundant yield,
the grass is luxuriant, and the grain,
though somewhat late, is making great
Roadway.
Rattlesnakes are joining in now. In
Laporte county, Ind, they turn their
attention to horses, many of which
have been killed. What next in the
heavens above or the earth beneath,
will be after the farmers?
The Secretary of the Kansas Board
of Agriculture Indignantly denies in
print that chinch- bugs are there do.
ing any damage worthy of note, con.
stitutional grumblers and item gath.
erers to the contrary notwithstand.
ing.
Iowa farmers cherish the fond hope
that the seventeen-year locust, so lonf
promised, will really make its appear
ance this year, for they are tired of be
ing eaten out of house and home BY
the slow Operations of forty varieties
of different bugs now at work and wan
the job finished up at once.
j. G. Davis, of Algona, Wis, has
calf only nine months old that give
two to three quarts of milk daily
When the animal was only two month
old development of the udder com
menced, and it became necessary t
milk her for her own relief, sine,
which time the calf has given mill
regularly.
The Wisconsin State Agriculture
Society will offer upward Of $1,000 il
prizes at its twenty fifth Annual Fair
to be held in Milwaukee from Sept
7th to 18th, inclusive. The prizes ar
divided as follows: Horses, $2.774
cattle, 5000; sheep, 1925; swine
$3.50; poultry, $115; flowers and orna
mental plants, 1868; and fruit, $62z
Blackberry Wine. Put tho berrie
in large tub, to every gallon Of Der
ries pour on one pint Of boiling water
Bruise them with a mallet, and lie
them remain until the next day. Strai
through thick cloth. To every gal
Ion of juice add two and half pound
of sugar. Drain again and put into
cask cover the bung with muslin
put it into cool place, shake tn
cask daily until fermentation ceases
cork it tight and by September it wi
be ready for use, but improve wit
age. This recipe has been followe
for ten years, and never failed.