Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-07-06
Agricultural Iaenss.

There is no room for incompetent
men---on the farm lin the Office
or ia the world.
| Prof. Riley says there will be no
grasshoppers IN Missouri or Kansas
this year.
Mrs. Turner says "good bread
is positively essential to domestic
happiness" 80 e 80
Musty hay is fit for nothing. 1t
poisons the blood of the horses that
eat it.
Now Is the. time to pinch back
raspbcrries and blackberries. And
it win have tosbc done several times
before frost.
| Rub off the sprouts about gratis,
so that the greater energy may be
throwHinto the graft. eTY psT -
! During the past ten days of rain
the weeds have stolen the march on
many farmers. Go at them with
renewed energy. 5 w
June 10th, at Boston, common
mich cows were from 800 to 275,
and at New York from $50 to
$50, in both cases the calves in
| clnded As -
Do we want more trees! The
telegraph lines, now in operation in
the United States, require for re-
pairs 250, 900 trees annually Il IL
Dan. Mccarthy, of Ames, deal
er in fine horses, has gone again to
Europe to purchase Norman stall
lions and brood mares.
Prof. johnson says, from 95 to
80 per cent. Of agricultural plants
derive their entire mass weight
directly, or indirectly from the at
mosphere.
There are many orchards set the
past spring suffering at this date for
want Of mnlching or the dirt pull
verified for three feet about their
roots.
If not mulched, break the crust
and pulverize tile dirt about trees
set out last fall or this spring. If
the earth becomes baked hard it
is almost impossible for trees to live.
The New Century, Orion, Iowa,
| says: 1t is believed that more Of the
turf of Grundy county viii be
turned over the present season than
Mt any previous season for many q
year.
There are many cases Of men
failing in other business, resorting
to farming. Many such fail for
want Of practical knowledge of
the business. BE not discouraged,
| III at first you don't succeed
Try, try again"
Insurance of farm buildings is
never omitted by prudent farmers,
but the home mutual is the best.
In Grundy county, on the 21st
inst, when the whole community
was excited almost to mob action,
other sharpers came in and sympa-
thised with the shorn, but the poor
dupes fell victims to the same sym
pathisers in another game.
Farmers should not be dependent
on the market for the sale Of pro-
ducts Of their farms. Corn, pota-
toes, hay, oats, and vegetables can
be condensed into other articles
which will keep until they will sell.
Nitrogen, phosphoric acid and pot
ash are important articles Of plant
food, and knowledge of their ma
ture and the agency they perform in
the production of food is an impor-
tant and interesting study for every
farmers son.
We warned our farmers against
buying Ivory wheat" The Amer
lean Agriculturist says of it that it
is one Of the forms Of Sorghum,
Indian Millet, or Guinea corn.
The offering Of this stuff as "Ivory"
or any other kind of wheat" is a
fraud apon farmers. ys7.gbF4t
| There is a new enemy at work Mt
the wheat. The alarm at the de-
struction is great in many neighbor-
hoods, but more time is necessary to
determine the extent Of the injury.
1t is small worm working at the
roots. Some fields at present are
apparently ruined.
| We visited neighbor last week,
and as it rained for four days, We
are reminded to say that every one
should have dry walks to the barn,
| wood house, and to the road. IL is
not necessary to say whether it was
the absence or presence Of these
things that SO impressed it on our
minds.
The price Of jacks and jennies is
very low in Kentucky. The Coun-
try gentleman reports that car
load Of .jaeksand jcnnies was bought
in Doyle county, w., llastweek to
90 to Alabama, jennies bringing
only So to 1850, and jacks $25
cach-4-ohe thntieth the prices be-
fore the war. ~
L A man in Hardin county had
lightning rods on his house and
barn; but his corn crib, which cost
| him fifty dollars, was without pro-
lection. The tramps advised him to
have one on Tit would cost but
| trne. When the bill was rendered,
thirty minutes after, it was sixty
dollars, and yet he was not happy.
/ The four days Of cold rain June
18th, 10Th, 10Th and 2lst), had the
most injurious effect on. corn that it
has been our privilege TO witness.
1t made it soft, tender and feeble,
so that it would neither stand the
| wind nor the slightest dirt i'm plow-