The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-01-28
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
The merciful farmer will not overwork


The merciful farmer will not overwork
his wife.
MRS. WILLIAM PAsCoE, of Dodgeville,
Wis, dressed a chicken that had three
well-developed, full-sized hearts, all
united by ligament.
If a man does net have food enough,
or food of a suitable quality, he cannot
work to advantage. And animals, like
men, need suitable food.
The hop plantations of England are
much increased the past two years, and
it is reported that the area Sin full bear
ing" will, another season equal, $4,000
acres.
ACCORDING to an English agricultural
most successful in the north of England
are the Early Rose, Late Rose and Yer
mont Beauty, all American varieties,
and quite free from disease.
The Canadian way of measuring a
tree is said to be as certain as it is gro
tesque. You walk from the tree, looking
at it from time to time between your
knees. When you are able to see the top
OF tree in this way, your distance from
the root of the tree equals its height.
A DOG worried and bit several sheep
in Sussex, England-bit them about the
mouth 50 that they were unable to Craze.
They were carefully treated, turned out
to pasture, and appeared for time to be
progressing favorably, but finally they
began barking like dog, and would fly
at any one that came near them. A vet
Urinary surgeon finally ordered them to
be killed.
The majority of a convention of Ger
man pomolOgists expressed decided pref
erence for the pyramidal form for fruit
trees. The advantages claimed for it are
the minimum of shade, greatest strength,
avoidance of severe wOunding of the
tree, production of better fruit, and at
the same time, fewer disadvantages from
storms, weight of snow, excess of fruit,
theft, etc.
THE ground cultivated by market gar
deners in and around Paris amounts to
over 5000 acres. 1t is stated that over
$50, 900 glazed frames and more than
100000 cloches bell-glasses1 are en-
plOyed in the production of vegetables
alone. The amount annually expended
for manure is about 100000 and the
receipts from the sale of vegetables ex-
ceeds $2,500,O00.
The great lifting squash-the squash
that lifted 4, 120 pounds at the Massachu-
sets Agricultural COllege-was recently
exhibited before the Massachusetts, Board
of Agriculture, the manner of itsexploits
detailed by President Clarke, and finally
the hard, knobby and mishappen fruit
was sawed in two by the distinguished
President and the seeds thereof distrib-
uted to the ladies present.
A PURE bred merino ram owned by a
Mr.. Gibson, of Tasmania, and reared by
him there, was sold in Melbourne n short
time ago for $50 guineas. While the ram
was in Mr.. Gibson's possession the
amount of money raised by the animals
male progeny alone was estimated at up
ward of 5000 guineas. Merino rams and
their breeding of merino sheep seem to
be almost as profitable in Australia as
gold digging.
DIR. HURsBY says in the Western Plan.
ter, that he protects trees from rabbits by
putting on the bodies whitewash made
from Stacked lime and soft soap, brought
to the consistency of ordinary paint, with
common flour paste added to make it adj
hesive. To keep winter pears have them
in rooms where the mercury does not 90
below 80 degrees, in a tight barrel or
box. They will remain hard until JAN
uary, when, by bringing them out into a
warm room they will ripen.
w III. ODINs, Yates County, N. Y,
writes the Germantown Telegraph -
"Persons purchasing trees to plant should
look closely to it that they are clean and
bright. If they are discol0red to any
great extent and show black streaks down
from where limbs have been cut in prun-
ing, the probability is that they will be
tender and break in two with a little
bending, and will be black in the middle.
Avoid them: they will not make good,
thrifty trees after transplanting."
WITH a little taste, charming minia-
ture sceneries" can be made by taking
an old table waiter or suitable board, lay
ing on a piece of broken looking-glass,
and surrounding by patches of moss, bits
of dwarf fern and small evergreen plants
from the woods, the whole forming a
beautiful little landscape, with lake look
ing-glass surrounded by hills and vii
lagos. Rocks and mountains-stones and
earth covered with moss-tbe whole very
pleasant to look upon, and costing moth
ing.
The Suffer, CAL, Banner, says 1--WE
are informed by Mr.. VIM. Mason, one of
the champion watermelon growers of
Sutter county, of novel way of produc-
ing scedless watermelons When the
vine begins to bear he lets the
first watermelon OH each branch
grow undisturbed, but covers the branch
up with dirt, from the first melon to the
second one, or within six inches or more
from the end of the vine will be a seed
less watermelon. the melon nearest
the body of the vine having kept all the
seed"
The California hop vine has the singu-
lar habit of only growing in the winter.
The colder the weather is the better it
thrives, and on clear, frosty nights, it
sometimes grows an inch in five hours.
II bears beautiful snOw-white flowers,
something like tuberoses, only much
more fragile and fragrant. Ladies wear
them with diamonds ut evening parties.
They withcr in daylight and open only
at night. When the mercury is lowest,
and the stars are almost reflected on the
crisp, shining snow, then this delicate
flower opens its petals and fills the frosty
air with its perfume.
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