The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-02-04
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
FARM land that is allowed to run down
Is so much loss of capital.

FARM land that is allowed to run down
is so much loss of capital.
If your farm is not growing better
every year, it is getting poorer.
MEADOW land once plowed, frequently
refuses to sod permanently afterward.
AS condiment and appetizer for fat
tening animals, molasses has no equal.
JUICY roots are worth more than shorts
or grain for feeding stock during the
winter.
THE annual reports of the Wool Ex-
change gives the product of wool in Cali
fornia for 1874 at nearly 100000
pounds, a large increase over any previous
year.
A FARMER who can double the yield
of one acre does better than he who buys
a second acre.
FARMERS should plan to raise plenty
OF roots, etc., to feed stock, with dry hay,
during the winter.
The farmer who is best posted as to
the market reports will get the best
returns from his labor.
STRAW spread thickly over worn out
meadow land will bring back heavy
growth of grass.
IT is generally more profitable to bring
up old meadows with manure than it is
to pillow them under.
On pasture lands it will pay to cut
down shade trees, and to build sheds
to shelter the stock during hot summer
days.
PROF. KNAPP, of Michigan, says that
the Northern Spy" is becoming the
greatest market apple in that State, and
is likely to supersede many other favOrite
kinds.
Mr.. JOHN M. MARSHALL, of Hamp-
ton Falls, recently lost colt, which
died from the effect of eating apple POM
ace from the cider press; and two or
three other horses have died from the
same cause in that town.
No advantage which can possibly be
gained from trees in cultivated field,
will compensate for the loss from ex-
haustion of the soil by the roots of the
trees.
DRAW and apply all the leached and
unleached ashes you can get to your light,
sandy soil. 1t will pay you not only this,
but the next twenty years to do it.
A HANOVER, N. H., man is largely
engaged in trapping skunks. Last year
he sent ninety skins to Boston, the year
before l, 500, and this year he expects to
send 1000.
THE mushroom crop in Anglesey was
so heavy this seasol that for three days
the London and Northwestern Railway
Company were obliged to run special
trains for the conveyance of the crop to
the English market.
Mr.. KIRK, of Pennsylvania, says it
pays to grind hay for stock. Machines
have been made for this purpose. When
ground, it resembles ground oats, and
weighs thirty-two pounds to the bushel.
The statistician of the Agricultural
Bureau reports that in September last
there were fully twenty-four per cent.
less hogs then fattening for market than
were reported at the same date in the
year preceding.
FLENT says: Whoever has limestone
land has bluegrass whoever has blue
grass has the basis of agricultural pros
perlty; and still man, II he has not the
finest horses, cattle and sheep, has no
one to blame but himself"
WE have known an old Usage Orange
hedge so to draw the moisture from a
strip over rod in width, on the cult
waited side, in a dry season, as to almost
destroy the cultivated crops.
THREE pints of molasses may be fed to
fattening animals per day, but to cows
and breeding stock it must be fed spar
ingly, not more than pint per day to a
COW, as too much sweet will prevent their
breeding.
WHEN the small and feeble roots of
young plants are forced to compete with
the strong roots of trees for supply of
water, insufficient for both, it needs no
shrewdness to predict which party in the
contest must succumb.