The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-07-15
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

THE estimated value of the last French
vintage is $400, 900, 900.
CLOVER has proved valuable mulch
for pear trees.
THE Osborne fancy bean is remarkable
for its early maturity.
A WRITER discussing the comparative
economy of horses and mules, after say
ing "the only superiority see in the
mule is that he will stand rough treat
ment BETTER" adds what is very true
when he says, "but there is neither re-
ligion nor greenbacks in harsh treatment
of stock"
NONE but lazy teamster will allow
the harness or yoke to remain on teams
while they eat the midday meal. Teams
will perform more labor on the same feed
in given time by giving them water
every two or three hours. The water
should stand in the sun if practicable.
1t should not be cold on any account.
THE singular ideas possessed by many
persons is we'll illustrated by the follow
ing inquiry addressed to the Cincinnati
Times: PLEASE inform me how to make
sugar from beets with a small capital"
Sugar can not be successfully made from
beets with small capital, and as mat
ter of fact it has never been successfully
made in this country, unless in Califor-
MIA.
THE Gardeners Monthly states that +.
f. Merceron, of Catawassa, and probably
the best grape grower in Pennsylvania,
was once incredulous as to the propriety
of growing any trees in grass, but has
now become strong advocate of growing
grass in vineyards even. At the present
time his finest and highest priced fruits
are grown in this way.
THE seeding of land to grass frequently
is one among the best means for keeping
it permanently in a highly productive
condition. 1t is also the very best
method of curing land of intolerable
weediness; and the growing of grass,
after long cultivation, rests the land
when wearied and vexed and scorched
by the plow and harrow, and by exposure
to the burning heats of the summers
sun.
FIGURES tell us that agriculture is the
leading interest in the country; that
forty-fve per cent. of our population are
engaged in agricultural pursuits-more
than one half larger than those who
are engaged in manufactures and the
leading trades; more than four times
larger than those engaged in merchandise,
and near ten times larger than those en-
gagged in the professions.
ACCOUNTS of report made by the
ambassador from Peru at London, on
the supply of guano in that country,
have come to hand, and are calculated
to relieve the fears so widely entertained
of an early failure of the guanO supply.
On some forty-fve different localities on
the mainland and islands of the Peruvian
dominions, guano deposits are found,
some of them amounting to millions of
tons.
The Journal Of agriculture says that
the practice of turning hogs into the
woods to make their own living till cold
weather, and then shutting them up and
feeding them on corn alone, is q very
expensive way of making pork. To be
sure, the summer feed costs nothing, but
then, as a general fact, the hogs make
very little grOwth-nOt half so much as
they would if they were supplied with
proper food.
THE cows of Alderney, according to
recent visitor to that island, are MIXED
three times day, and the milk is
churned without skimming. They are
fed on grass and vraie, the latter being
seawced, and are kept much of the time
in the shade. A pound of butter day
is not an unusual yield for good cow.
The breed is defended against admixture
by stringent laws, and no cattle are al
lowed to be taken into the island except
to be slaughtered.
GET all the bones you can find. Put
into a wide wooden trough 500 or 1000
pounds at time; take pure sulphuric
acid (6O0 quality, at the rate of two car
boys to ton Of bones. Mix half and
half with warm water, and apply direct
ly over the bones. Sprinkle over the top
with dirt; allow them to remain day
or two, and uncovering, the bones will
fall to pieces at the slightest touch.
Spread out on the floor to dry, and you
will have a superphosphate better than
can be bought.