The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-07-31
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
RAkfNa HAY.

A correspondent of the Country Gen
,leman writes from Canada: As having
will soon be on, 1 will give you the
method of harvester which noticed in
'cme parts of the country last year,
which l eonsider a great saving of labor
The nay, when cured, is raked into
then rope or chain, about
thirty feet long, 10 laid with the centre
On the end of the windrow the horses
ire placed one on each side and hitched
one to each end of the rope the checks
are let out long, s., thai they will not
trample ovet ene hay. A boy can drive
tho horses up the Window until they
get sufficient quantity, or as much as
the horses can draw, Then, If it is
stacked in the held, it is taken direct to
the stack, or barn, if near by. One
man and boy this way will draw as
much as four men will stack or NOW
away. If the distance requires the hay
to be loaded on q wagon, three heaps
put together this way will make load
or, in case of threatening rain, with
little topping up. will stand great deal
of rain without much injury. Hay put
together this way will pitch easier than
out of the windnow. The boy can ride
also on the hay while drawing it to-
gether.
PoTAToE- on RICH SOIL.
A correspondent of the New England
Homestead does not believe in the the
DRY OF growing potatoes on poor, infer
tile soil to prevent rot. He gives his
last years experience as follows, with a
half bushel Breese's Prolific potatoes
81 cut them in pieces of one and two
eyes each, prepared my land "a light
chestnut loam, inclining to SANDY, by
blowing o liberal dressing of compost
manure and then putting a shovel of
well-rotted compost, consisting OF horse,
COW and pig manure mixed, in the hill.
The sets were planted two feet apart in
rows three feet apart, were Kept free
from wesds, and hoed four times. From
that half bushel of seed, I took up
eleven barrels of potatoes for the table
and two bushels of small potatoes for
the pigs. There were no signs of rot or
any other defect except a superabund-
ance of very large ttbers, too large for
baking purposes. Better potatoes I
have not had on my table at any time
during the last ten years. The crop in
1872, on the same ground, WIS potatoes.
From n Aye years experience I am
forced to the conviction that the potato
should be as we'll fed and nursed as
beets or cabbages. When I see fields
of potatoes crowded with Roman worm
wood, pigweed, cocklebrrre, and other
foul stuff, rant help feeling for them
as one would for family of small chill
dren with a dissipated father and q
feeble, sickiy mother-they need out
side help and inside comforts"
ORIGIN OF FOWLS AND VEGETABLES.
To Asia, and probably India, where
wild chickens yet abound uuder the
designation of jungle fowl, the English
owe their domestic poultry. The dis
tribution of this useful bird is strangely
irregular. Throughout the negro king
doms of west Africa, for instance, fowls
are plentiful, while in more civilized
Abyssinia and Arabia they are compare
lively scarce. Persia abounds in poul-
try, while in Turkey few domestic birds,
except the sacred pigeons, are to be
seen. To Asia, too, belong the fallow
deer and gorgeous peacock. while to
her, also, we owe all our vegetables,
with the brilliant exception Of the
potato. 1t is impossible to conceive the
poverty, so far as vegetables were con-
celned, of the England that passed
under the sway of Norman and Angevine
kings. Some hardy varieties of the
| cabbage did exist, and were supple
mented by long forgotten herbs, which
have since been deemed only suitable
! to the rabbit hutch. The peas and
beans brought in by returning cru
saders were presently eked out by car
rots; but down to the rain of Elizabeth
the garden yielded little tribute to the
kitchen in Britain.
CHRISTOPHER Law IN RUSSIA.
A correspondent of The Pacific Rura
Press writes ''every land owner ii
obliged to send into court yearly 100 grass
hoppers dead ones) to each acre of lani
owned by him say, if John Smith own
ten acres of farming land, he is to bring
on the LIST eff August in the court 1,00'
dead hoppers, and for ever, Isl, sbogtu s So
are engaged in catching the hoppers, be
ginning in May, and sell them on tn
market where they average about tw'
cents apiece, thus giving an opportunit,
for farmers to buy them in case the,
fail to fulfill their taxes on them. N
farmer is allowed to catch hoppers no
on his own land. The method of catch
ing them is very easy. They boil waite
on the field, and supply themselves witt
tin cans made especially for the purpos
and fill them with boiling water, an,
then they hunt along the place for tn
nests : they pour the water in the hole
which kills them, and after they pic
them out with hook. This keeps tn
hoppers decreasing yearly, until som
years they have to appeal to the govern
ment to reduce the percentage, as Their
are none to be found. This would b
the best and cheapest remedy for til
farmers of this country to adopt"
THE BEST LATE KEEPING POTATO.
The editor of the Rural New Yorke
writes Among the hundred or NOR
varieties of potato which I have teste
during the past ten years, none exec
the "Snow-F Flake" as late keeper: i
fact, do not know as there is bette
sort for any season. But am reminde.
OF its excellent keeping qualities at thi
. time, as all the more common and oIde
varieties, and especially the Early Ros
and similar we'll known sorts, 500
w1ther and become worthless for use i
spring, or as soon as warm weather set
IN bat my Snow-Flakes are eound an
firm, and of such excellent quality this
, we are 10 no haste for new potatoes, q
we WOULD be were it not for this yer
promising new sort. If it continues (
be as good in the future as my on
years experience with it leads me t
hope, then shall place it very high O
the list of excellent sorts.
THE MARKET GARDENS OF PARIS.
The Garden says that ssthe ground
} cultivated by the market gardeners i
and around Paris amounts to over 3. 90
acres. 1t is stated that 100000 glaze
frames and more than 1900, 900 cloche
} are employed in the production of vegt
tables alone. The annual amount e.
pended for manure is said to be f72, 4O(
and the total receipts from the sale c
vegetables, and other productions c
the market gardens, to exceed half
million sterling rum probably muc
under the mark" The cloches referre
to are merely the bell glasses and glaze
frames used to protect plants in til
field from the frost. Gould we not us
them with profit to greater exten
than we do in this country.
HORSES FOR FARM WORK.
A writer in the Mark Lane EXPIRES
gives the following as the desirale point
for consideration in the breeding @