The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-07
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

The Amador (Cal Ledger asserts tha
garden of forty acres yields it's owner
William Avala, three miles from Jack
son, Amador County, $4,000 ayear ne
profit. He purchased the tract clever
years ago for 800. His fruit crop thi
year will aggregate one hundred tons.
A CORRESPONDENT in the Cos.ntr.
Gentleman says: Some years ago hearing
complaint of weevil in wheat about tn,
close of harvest, when was ricking my
wheat got fresh Stacked lime and threw
over the rick in building it laying two
courses of sheaves, then lime sufficient
to whiten the stack. There was NJ
weevil in my wheat. A neighbor wht
threshed his wheat from the shock came
to me few days after aud said he shOuld
lose his wheat, for it was alive with
weevil. / told him to throw lime ovel
it, and shovel it through his wheat
which he did. Two days afterward there
was not a weevil to be seen in it.
The king of the Texas cattle kings il
probably Captain Richard King, VINO has
farm about thirty miles from Corpus
Christy, in that State. A local journal
speaking of his great transactions in live
stock, says: In March last he sold to one
person from Kansas 26, 900 head of horned
cattle (all out of his own stock) for the
sum of 1927, 500, delivered in Hays City
Kansas, $780, 900 paid down in cash and
the balance on delivery; and in April he
sent of the stock in thirteen drOves
which arrived all safe. To be certain to
have the requisite number to be delivered
he added 5000 extra head, and still
has $4,000 head, besides $4,000 head OF
sheep and 1000 or 5000 head of horses
and mule stock. He has some 10000
acres of land under fence, and is now
fencing in 10000 acres more, and still
has lac, 900 acres in and about the same
tract. 1t took 700 men to drive this
lot of stock, and upward of $4,000 tor
the outfit.
To make farming successful, either on
grain or stock farma, or both combined,
the plans for conducting them should be
so we'll arranged that no one about the
place-either employer or hired labor
ers-should at any time be without
something to do that will be profitable
during the entire year. The speculative
tendency should be checked-the hold
ing of large areas of land with view OF
making large profit on its increased
value in the future. This is too common !;
taxes and interest on borrowed money
are more than match for constant labor.
Better to sell portion of the land
to raise money to properly stock the re-
mainder. All land tha; is not used is an
incubus on the farmers prosperity.
Some kind of return, either in the form
of grain, stock, or other product, should
beexpected from each acre of land owned.
To make the farm pay, sufficient capital
to the acre must be employed to work
the farm up to its full capacity of pro-
ductivcness.
THOSE having hogs to fatten should
see that they have clean quarters. Their
feeding places should be often changed.
If fed in one place, it soon becomes foul,
and the hogs in eating take more or less
excrement into their stomachs, and this
is thought to be one of the prime causes
of hog cholera. 1t is we'll to plow the
hog lot deeply every week or two, to
turn over clean, fresh soil. Stone coal,
charcoal, copperas-water, ETC., all mixed
up and kept where the hogs can have ac-
cess to the mixture, will do no harm,
and may keep the hogs in health. Pure
water and grass lots or woods pastures
are beneficial to hogs. There has been
wonderful loss of hogs by what is called
hog cholera. An ounce of prevention
is better than a pound of cure. Keep
hogs right, and they won't get sick. See
that they have all the conditions essen
tial to health, and they will keep healthy.
Be careful to breed only from matured
and from unrelated families, and
the progeny will be sound, vigorous, and
healthy.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Gardeners
Monthly says: Pears do not crack when
the soil is sufficiently supplied with lime
and potash and they crack most when
those salts are deficient. Common wood
ashes contain these salts, nearly in the
quantity and proportions that pear trees
on such soil require-forty per cent. of
potash and thirty per cent. of lime.
from these facts, applied
wood ashes at the rate of four hundred
bushels to the acre, after the fruit had
formed and cracked. Many Of them
healed up and made perfect fruit the
same season, others not until the next
season. A friend, at my suggestion, ap-
piled it heavily to favorite Butter
pear tree in his own garden for several
years in succession, and has had for sev-
eral years perfect and delicious pears,
and / will guarantee it to cure any case,
when the ashes are abundantly and fairly
applied. / was told by an experienced
hand that / would kill the trees, but on
the contrary, cured them. Therefore,
be not afraid; if one application do not
suffice, give them larger dose next year.
A moist atmosphere undoubtedly encour-
ages the growth of the tree and fruit.
while the insufficiency of proper food
prevents the perfection of either; hence,
cracked fruit and trough, old bark"