The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-21
CRO.. ANDarOCK ITEMS.
Great crop of hay in Californi.
this year.

horses. Kindness is the secret.
A Greene county, Ind., farm
s. got 1850 kernels from one grain
k wheat.
d In severe eases of scratches
q horses use a pouliice of oil cake {
&c fax seed.
u The three states, Minnesota, Wi
c censin and lows, raised 70,OOO,O(
8 bushels of wheat in 1873.
Hale's early is Just ripenine /
this section, fully three weeks bS
u hind Amsden's June peach.-fCal
t thage, No, Advance.
An eccentric old Englishman, VIII
!. owned much live stock, in shee
desperation named twenty-four @
7 his COWS after the letters of the 81
| phabet.
About the time timothy see
: would naturally fail to the earth, il
considered the best time to SOY
: grass seed. Sow now, and it will b
rooted and strong enough to stanl
: the winds and cold of winter.
If the wheat, oats and barley ar
, stacked, let no time be lost in turn
ing the stlbble under, before an,
weeds perfect their seeds, and Il
give time for the stubble to deca,
and form rich manure for the mex
crop.
Six hundred ships of 1000 tom
each will be required TO transport
the California wheat crop to mar.
ket. The freight to Europe would
amount to $20;00O, 600 in gold each
ship would earn over $4,000 as its
own share of freight.
A pint or quart of meal, or lick
of salt each night, is cheaper way
to bring up cows at night than
spending an hour of valuable time
hunting them. Iffed regularly they
never fail to recOllect the hour. Be-
sides they pay for the meal in in
creased milk or beef. =
The report of the Department of
Agriculture for The month of July
says that the reports of its CORES
pondents indicate an appalling Wis
itation of Insect scourges In the
| Northwest. The chinch bug had
net been heard of last year in but a
single county east Of the Allegheny
MOuntains-Halifax, Va. This year
it has been quite destructive in sew
ersl counties in Virgins, North
Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio and
Indiana, In Illinois its ravages have
been severe and widespre ad; also
in Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. No
remedy is suggested for this pest.
ACCIDENTS FROM MowERs.-The
New England Farmer says: Acct
dents occur every year from the use
of moving machines, which might
be avoided by the exercise of lit
tie prudence and common sense. 1t
is always a piece of rockies careless
ness to allow yourself to sit or stand
in front of the knife bar when the
horses are attached; and little bet
ter to handle the knives when the
machine is in gear. In the first case
your legs are in danger of being
sawed oil, and in the other the hands
are liable to more or less injury,
even if the horses are perfectly gen.
tie. A very slight movement of the
horses in either direction, to nip q
mouthful of grass or drive away a
hHs " III tlIO" CullCI IhAO
motion, and if the fingers or hands
are i'll the way they are liable to
very serious injuries. Keep a good
lookout, too, that favorite dogs and
and cats, and all kinds of poultry
are out of reach of the machine
when in action. And above all
things, keep little children out of
the grass when moving. 1t is so
much easier to prevent an injury
than to cure one.
PROFITS OF FARMING.-We have
frequently urged upon farmers the
necessity of knowing what they are
doing financially. Those who are
careless and Indifferent about their
business at once decide that there
is no use of keeping book of ac-
count of farming. just as import
ant as in any other business. Indo-
lence begets carelessness, and the
latter is twin brother to reckless
ness in regard to contracts. 1t is
those men who know nothing about
the profits or loss of their farming
who are always grumbling; and if
they have any happiness in this
world it is in croaking. How many
vi OuE ESdOCE6 AHO" 0AaCJll "noL
it costs to raise q hundred bushels
of corn, bushel of wheat, or q
hundred weight of pork And yet
they will tell you they are not get
ting pay for their work. With due
attention to the cost of his crops,
and then exercising a wise judg-
ment in putting them into market,
with as much Intelligence as far
mer can and should possess, he can
tell whether he is losing or gaining
in his farming operations. But
there are too many clear illustra-
tons of the fact that careful and in
telligent farming invariably pays,
that, too, as literally as any other
industry, when pursued with like
energy and intelligence. There are
wrecks and ruins all around US.
But what is the reason? Reprehen-
sible ignorance and criminal care
lessness characterize all their opera
tions.-Des Moines Register.
The WHEAT CRoP.-The report
for July, from the Department of
Agriculture, gives the gratifying in
formation, in view of the general
complaint of an extended drouth,
that the most favorable conditions
for the growth of wheat were found
in those sections in which crops
suffered most from this cause. In
Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky,
West Virginia, and some portions
of Virginia, the dry weather begin
ming just before harvest gave the
wheat fine opportunity to ripen
thoroughly, but fearfully diminised
all spring and summer crops. The
general average for the whole coun-
Try for winter wheat is estimated at
| 1O4. Tie Middle States, and those
west of the Mississippi, as genef-
al rule, report yield above the av-
erage, while the states north of the
Ohio arc credited with being nearly
or quite up to it. In some few To-
calities in Virgins and North Car
DINA, the late sowings were caught
by the chinch bug, and in Talbot
and Calvert counties, Maryland, the
crop suffered, to some extent, from
rust and other diseases. Despite
this the yield in ali three of these
states is considerably above the av-
erage. For spring wheat the gen.
eraI average il placed at 81. The
CROP of the New England states,
ohio, Nebraska, and the Pacific
Slope, reached above that figure,
aud that of the Northwestern states
falls below it. We fear, however,
that the Department reports are toe
rOse-colored. Since the wheat has
been threshed, we hear great CON-
plants of the yield-many of the
heads filing very badly.-Baltimore
American.
A Washington dispatch states
that the plans for starting new
paper in New York, under ths
name of the Republican, have beer