The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-10-28
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

The Connecticut apple crop has faller
of ninety per cent. as compared with
last years yield.
THE corn crop in Georgia is reported
at fifteen per cent. less than last year
and the cotton crop will be little more
than two-thirds.
The potato crop in the West is very
large, and prices will undoubtedly rule
low. A large part of the crop will be
fed to stock this season.
PoTATOEs sell at twenty-five dollars
in gold per barrel in Havana. Fifteen
thousand barrels were shipped thither
from New York recently.
GUANo was first brought to this coun-
try from Peru in 1925. The demand for
it has since increased so much that whole
islands have disappeared under the pick
and shovel.
The sugar-cane in Louisiana is said to
be very fine, and promises an abundant
yield. The cotton crop has greatly i'm
proved of late, and the corn crop is the
best for many years.
FRESH meat scraps, liver, ETC., should
be fed to fowls. 1t is much to the ad-
vantage of fowls to have iron in their
drinking water. Clean gravel and
broken oyster shells may be given them
with advantage, especially where their
quarters are limited.
SHEEP on a farm yield both wool and
mutton. They multiply with great ra-
pidity. They are the best of farm scav-
engers, cleaning field" as no 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 a view to
the future fertility of the soil.
VERMONT is big on sheep, but not
much on dogs. A dog known or sus-
pected of killing, worrying or even
chasing sheep in Vermont is about as
safe as a hen-hawk would be in Massa-
chusetts poultry-yard when there was
boy with new gun which he wanted to
try. The dog laws are very severe on
+" bad dogs" and the laws are backed up
bp strong public sentiment.
AMONG all the strawberries, saws the
Garden, that come to Covent Garden
Market, Myatt's British Queen still re-
tains the first position, both as to flavor,
price and quantity sold. The fact is, of
course, we'll known to most London
strawberry growers, but in many coun-
try gardens this fine variety is so often
discarded for newer and less meritori-
GUS one that the above factmay be worth
bearing in mind.
The Culpepper (Va) Observer says:
We are glad to announce that Judge
William Fullerton, of New York, who
has fine farm in Fairfax county, we'll
stocked with the purest breeds, has con-
sented to bring herd of the celebrated
HOlstein or Dutch cattle to our next fair
for exhibition. These cattle ale some
thing new to our people-in fact we
doubt if half a dozen men in our
county have ever seen them. They are
large, thrifty cattle, black and white,
and are said to be the very best mixers,
and combine a great many excellencies
entirely novel to our people.
THE following is the testimony of DIR.
Loring respecting Hungarian grass:
believe that l can get more milk with
this grass, cat and mixed with cOrn-meal
and shorts, than l can with the best tim
Othy hay cut and mixed in the same
manner. And when you remember that
you can raise on ordinary land, by SOW
ing the seed of Hungarian grass late in
June, from two and half to three and
half tons of good fodder to the acre, and
that this crop can be sown after we have
ascertained whether We are to have a
good crop of hay or not, you will see the
value of this grass. ! have such high
opinion of it that on my own farm kave
this year and last year raised seventy
five to one hundred tons of it for the
purpose of feeding to my milch COWS
during the winter.