Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-02-12
AsriemItnraI.

the value We derive from the entire wheat crop
of the United States in average seasons. The
reason of this difference is that the French CRANE
crop is manufactured into its most advanced
product-wine ready for use-whiIe the immense
proportion of our wheat crop is exported in buIk
not even manufactured into -four; and so eager
and short-sighted are we in our haste to ship
this crop that we invest millions of dollars in
great railroads, grain-elevators, marginal facili-
ties for export, piers, docks and steamships,
leaving the most of the profits to the foreigners
who manufacture this grain into -four and who
sell the flour to consumers. 1t would be as SEN
sibe to export iron-ore to England and bring
back the manufactured pig-iron. For the grain
we slip to England comes back to us in the
shape of hardware, dry-goods. rails, and fancy
articles of every kind. Our importations of
foreign wines are SO large that it is worthy of
note that California alone has S,0OO, 900 acres of
| land adapted to the culture of the grape vine.
being three millions more than the grape-culture
covers in France but at the present time she
has not much more than SC, 600 acres 80 planted:
the greater part of her agriculture being devoted
| to raising wheat for export in bulk to England
| by the long and perilous voyage around Cape
| Horn.
| So little profit is made in raising grain for ex-
port in bulk, that it is not surprising to find the
farmers in California and in the northwest turn
| ing their attention to other pursuits Thus in
| Califo MIA the grape-cuIture and the manufac-
ture ii wine, the raising OF the sugar-beet and
the making of sugar therefrom, the rearing OF
cattle ard the export of hides and beef and the
culture of the orange, the lemon, the fig, and
| other tropical fruits, all making headway;
while in the northwest butter and cheese faeto-
| ries are rapidly multiplying, wool hourishes,
cattle and flax receive increased attention and
some of the vast grain farms are breaking up
into vegetable or truck gardens. In fact the
| primitive forms of agriculture yield insufficient
| profit The crops require TO be put through the
| advanced processes before the money-value be-
gins TO tell. Nothing could show this more
| forcibly than the amazing contrast between the
value of the French wine crop and that of the
| American wheat crop. of the two the latter is
inherently BY far the more valuable and yet we
do not make it so simply because we export the
grain in bulk instead of putting i, into more ad-
vanced products Gsrnsanto'cn Telegraph.
CoRsS STUB ERADIcAToR.-A writer in the
Germantown Telegraph says: A very convenient,
| simple eontriyance for those who do not scalp
their corn-stubs Immediately after cutting their
corn-and a great many do not, either from
| scarcity of time or because il is severe labor to
| do so then-is made by taking plank or slab
| from two to four inches thick and eighteen inch
es to two feet broad-the wider the better to keep
| from turning overland boiling old tire along
| one edge of what is to rest on the ground-an
inch past flush will be best. Bore two holes four
inches from end and three iuehes from ironed
! edge, and one hole in the middle OF opposite
| side. If for one horse siI feet is long enough
| for plank. Then on some dry day, when the
| ground is hard frozen, hitch your horse to the
plank BY chains directly from end holes to the
harness, and at about five feet distance rope
or chain in the middle hole serves as u guide.
Start your horse between two rows, you walking
behind with guide-rope can keep your plank in
proper position with If you wish to make
a complete job, run back the same rows against
what may be bent over and If your horse walk.
a good gait you will make your work perfect,
| and about as fast as fast as three men would do
! il by hand. Your labor is next TO nothing except
/ the walking, and the horses but light. A longer
plank may be used if desired, and two horses,
| taking three rows. have seen almost every
/ kind of contrvance used for the purpose, but
nothing at all, except scalpiny hoe, to compare
| to the one | have described.
| Why FARMING DOES Nor PAY.-In this con-
nection it may not be out of place to allude to
! INN fat
ers that Farming does not pay.n Western
| farmers lay the cause of their troubles at the
| door of the railroads and the implement makers,
and the dairymen OF the East complain that the
prices for dairy goods are too low. But the
| question may be asked whether the difficulty
! does not lie partly in another channel-whcther
| the extravagant and wasteful style of living
which many farmers of late have adopted is not
the cause of small profits realized from the farml
If farmers spend much of their time away
from home, intrusting farm work to hired labor;
If they indulge in expressive equipages and en-
deavor to make the income from a $4,000 or
$4,000 farm pay Tor style of living that Is
hardly afforded by those who have accumulated
Large wealth, disaster, sooner later, must be
| expected. know of several instances Of farm
rrs aud darymen during the past year, who
have been sold out by the sheriff, and in every
case the trouble came from inattention TO busi-
ness and the indulgence of numerous expendi-
lures that the prudent and economical farmer
! avoids. Indeed. wastefulness, and the s.living
beyond ones means,'' is a fault peryading all
classes of society, and this often leads to dssat-
isfacliou and want of faith in ones business
RurGl Nev Yorker.
SPoILING HORSES FEET.-It is almost impos-
sible to get horse shod without having the frog
cut away. All veterinary surgeons. all horse
men, and all leading baeksmths agree that the
frog should not be pared one particle, nor even
trimmed--no matter how pliable and soft the
frog is, cut it away smooth on all sides, and in
two days it will be dry and hard as a chip. Yoa
might well cut all the leaves off trees aud ex-
pect them to flourish, as to pare away'the frog
and have healthy foot. The rough spougJ
part of the fog is to the foot what leaves are 70
the tree, the lungs. Never have red-h-~'1
put upon the foot, to burn ito,,;o i ,,,a,,.sS
-"1 - without a red hot iron, employ
..n~ II you do not think so, try the red hot
poker on your finger nail, and see how it will
affect the growth of that. There are many other
important points in shOeing horses; these two
are of more Importance than all the rest, and
the most disregarded. ''No frog; no FOOT no
horse - WesteTa Farm Journal.
A SCRAP BooK.-Every farmer should keepa
book in which to paste agricultural scraps
Every one, in reading a paper, will see things
which he will wish to remember. He will, per-
haps, see suggestions, the value OF which he will
want TO be governed by in future operations.
And yet, after reading the paper, he will thro"
it down, and will probably never see it again.
In such a case all the valuable articles will DC
lost. To prevent such loss, every reader should
clip from the papers such articles as he desires
to preserve, and paste them in a scrap-oook.
such a book, at the end of a year or two, will be
very interesting and valuable.
TREES, especially young ones, need looking
after, to prevent injury by rabbits and mice.
Fences and gates should be repaired and closed,
to prevent cattle from entering and destroying
the tree. When light SHOWS fall, tread down