Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-31
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

THE old Indian reservation of 100000
acres of swamp lands in Wisconsin, the
title to which has long been in dispute
between the State and United states,
has Just been awarded to the state.
No kind of labor is drudgery which
the operator likes, and is successful IN
doing. Drudgery is any kind of work
that the laborer has neither the taste or
intelligence requisite for carrying on
successfully.
DUcKLINGs need food every two or
three hours. A little wheat middlings
is good to mix with the meal; and they
should be confined in pen until several
weeks old, and not allowed to have access
to water, except in a pan or saucer Tor
drinking.
VIRGINIA farmers are utilizing their
old waste lands by planting sumac IN
drills and cultivating it as they do corn.
The Young stalks with the leaves are cut
and dried in the fall, ground in COM
mon bark mill, and sold at from 500 to
Sl20 per ton.
THIS year the southern countries of
California sent to San Francisco !, 4S0, 900
oranges, $4,000 lemons and $4,000
lines. The consumption of California
is about 100000 oranges year, and
100000 are brought from Mexico and
the Pacific Isles.
The cat-tail of our swamps is highly
esteemed in some countries as an article
of food. In Southern Russia the young
shoots are tied up like asparagus, and sold
in the market. When boiled and seasoned
with salt and spice, the cat-tail is pro-
nounced delicious.
BRITTANY raises very fine horses.
They are rendered docile and tractable
through kind usage. The parsnip is the
chief food of the horse there, and it is be-
lieved to contribute materially TO the
vigor and beauty for which the horses of
the country are remarkable.
IN one of the French departments
there is " Society for the Protection of
Birds Useful to the Farmer" All nests
found are reported to the society and
protected by it. In the past year the
society protected two hundred and
fourteen nests, from which came nine
hundred and four birds.
THE best method to obtain good trees,
and one that in the end will give the
best satisfaction 10 those who intend to
plant largely, is to have home nursery
where trees can be raised at One-half the
expense they can be purchased, and
1,o. Of, hat ha
ing.
A PLANTER in Montgomery county,
Ala, reports that last year he sowcd cow
pease freely between the rows in field
of corn. A drought came on before the
pease matured and so dried the vines
that they died. These he covered by
turning two burrows between the rows.
This Spring, cotton planted on that field
is far superior to that on other parts of
his plantation. From the results thus
far apparent, he judges the pea vines
equal to coat of guano in tertilizing
value.
THEN. y. Econ0mja says: Our latest
adyices from California Indicate that
they are driving good many sheep
into Arizona, and it is proposed to adj
wise but one shearing this year-that is,
do away with the Fall clip and allow the
wool one years growth. In case prices
SHOULD rule low the indications are
favorable that many will not shear their
sheep in the Fall-in order to secure
better price for longer staple in the
Spring when wool IS more likely to be
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