The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-15
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

AN old Quaker whose bees had insult
ficient winter food used candy with ex-
cellent results.
UPLAND cranberries grow very dark,
and consequently bring one-third moro
in the market.
HLLEN B. KINGSLEY, of Olathc, Kan
sas, has been invited to address the Leg
islature of that State on the industrial
education of woman.
NEW YORK has one-sixth of all the
milch cows in the United States, and
produces one-fourth of the butter, two
fifths of the cheese, and one-half of the
milk sold in this country.
NoTHINa should be grown or suffered
to grow on farm that can not be con-
yerted into money. Weeds and briers,
therefore, should not be permitted to
grow, as there is no money value in
them.
A BINeHAMPToN farmer says it pays
better to make both butter and cheese
He finds it best to keep his cheese late.
The receipts and expenses of his farm
showed a net increase of 5000 over
seven per cent. on the amount invested
rating his 220 acres at 800 per acre.
The Ayrshires are best adapted to the
production of cheese, and the Alderneys
of butter. If the milk of the Alderneys
is set for cream we find the cream read.
lily separates, and the balance is poor and
watery. The Ayrshire is capable OF
making more milk from a given quantity
of feed than any other stock.
SOME of our best cultivators of fruit
attach great Importance to inviting the
roots of fruit trees to run near the surface
of the soil, and with this end in view
they never cultivate or tear up the
surface, applying top dressing oi
manure to make up the deficient cult
vation. They raise excellent crops in
this way.
In the greenhouse of Mr.. Mansfield, al
Newton, Penn, is a white Lamarque
rose, now over twenty years old, covering
over one hundred square feet of ground
which has furnished twenty or thirty
buds daily since December. 1t is esti
mated that its yield for the season will be
$500 buds, which, at nine dollars 8
hundred, gives profit of 1925.
The London market gardeners pay
| 5000 per acre yearly rent for the land
they cultivate, and their average profit
amounts to $500 per acre. Ono English
penny equal to two of our cents) pei
square yard is equal to 500 an acre. and
as there are nine early lettuces raised in
every square yard, these figures are not
at all improbable.
SHEEP on farm yield both wool and
mutton. They multiply with great
rapidity. They are the best of farm
scavengers, "cleanisg field" as nc
other class of animals will. They give
back to the farm more in proportion to
what they take from it than any other
animal, and distribute it better with @
view to the future fertility of the soil.
A. Nj. PURDY, in his paper, says il
strawberries, raspberries and blackberries
sell in any city market within hundred
miles by railway at from ten to fifteen
cents per quart you can make them pay,
but if lower than ten cents, as an aver
age, let them alone. If you can peddle
them in neighboring villages for ten OF
twelve cents you can go ahead.
THE. Japanese have wonderful skill in
dwarfng fruit trees. All kinds are
dwarfed without diminishing the size Of
the fruit. The trees are set out in regu.
ular rows. At the height they want the
trees to grow, say four to six feet, a
lattice work of small bamboo poles is
built over the whole orchard. AS soon
as the shoots of the pear tree grow to this
lattice they are trained to run along il
horizontally, and are confined to the
poles by hempen strings. When first
seen it looks like grapery. The wind
can not shake the tree to disturb either
the flowers or the fruits.
"MY daughter keeps my farm &C.
counts, sir, and she is as systematic and
particular as ever my son was, who kept
them before he left home. tell you it
does girls" land he might have added
boys also) "good to give them some
responsibility, and set them to watching
things about the farm and household
They learn, find, economy by it, and
soon discover their father is not-necessa'
rily a Grabbed old curmudgeon, because
he does not loosen his purse-string when
ever they see something they happen tc
fancy, for they discover the reason why
the purse should not be opened"
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