The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-14
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

FROM one seed of clover grew, in Pot
ter county, Pennsylvania, sixty.five
stalks, bearing five hundred and thirty
seven blossoms.
A PARTY of Englishmen, who are
making the raising of beams specially
in Martin county, Minnesota, expect to
harvest this season thirty thousand
bushels.
AN old writer, in the american Rural
Home, thinks the reason the quality of
-four made in the famous Genesee Val
ley of New York has deteriorated is that
farmers have continuously cut the wheat
before fully ripe, using this wheat for
seed.
THE California Farmer claims that the
Angora goat business is now success in
that State; that there are over fifty
thousand of the goats in the State, and
that there is good demand abroad for
the fleece, with mill now in working
order for dressing the skins with the
fleece on, etc.
DR, y. p. CkowbER, near Litchfield,
Illinois, has been successful in prevent
ing chinch bugs destroying his wheat by
sowing timothy with the wheat. He
sows early in the fall. There is no doubt
that timothy or clover with the wheat
tends to prevent injury by the chinch
bugs, but it is not safe to rely on this in
all cases.
THE London Gazette says: At recent
shearing of the flock of Lincoln ram tegs
belonging to Captain Calling, one of the
heaviest feeces was weighed, the exact
weight being twenty-eight pounds four
ounces; several others weighed at the
same time turned the scale at twenty.
four pounds. The staple of the wool in
many cases measured twelve inches in
length.
The Registrar-General of Ireland has
made public the agricultural statistics
for the present year. The collection of
these statistics commenced June / and
occupied nearly two months. In the
work thirty-eight hundred persons were
employed, who visited each of the six
hundred thousand holdings. 1t is a
noteworthy fact that while the giving of
information was purely voluntary, but
one landed proprietor in all Ireland re-
fused to furnish the desired information.
A WRITER in the Ne,o England Farmer
gives bit of experience in manuring
which is against spreading manure over
the surface in autumn. Late in autumn
he carted out fourteen ox-loads on one
half acre and spread it, expecting to
plow the ground at once, but sudden
freeze prevented. In the spring he
carted out manure from the barn cellar
and covered the adjoining ground. The
whole was then plowed and planted
with corn. The crop was much better
on that portion manured in the spring,
although the land was poorer. The
writer believed the manure spread in the
fall lost its ammonia through the winter,
as he detected the volatile portions
whenever he passed near.
The best farmer is he who raises the
best and largest crops on the smallest
surface of land at the least expense, and
at the same time annually improves his
soil !; who understands his business and
attends to it; whose manure heap is very
large and always increasing; whose corn
crib and smoke-house are at home; who
is surrounded by all the necessaries and
comforts of life; who studies his profess
sion, and tries to reach perfection in it
who keeps strict account of his expenses
as we'll as his income, and who knows
how he stands at the end of each season.
Such farmer, in nine times out of ten,
will succeed, and not only make farming
a pleasant but profitable occupation.
Try it and see how it is yourself, reader