The Lake County star., 1876-06-22
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

| EANOI Oil, WulCu WAS uIbJ maze III
the South during the war, is said to b
taking the place of almond and olive oil
There is room for this new industry t
be greatly extended.
The manurial value of bushel O
corn is estimated chemically at twent,
cents, but if rightly treated and skill
fully applied, the agricultural value i
considerably higher.
AN Illinois farmer reported to th,
Chicago Tribune, that the cobs of corr
are worth for fuel, ton for ton, as much
as common Illinois coal, the price O
which was then $3.50 per ton.
AT Urbana, Illinois, single kernel o.
corn produced three ears that shelled
over 2 1000 grains. If the product of that
kernel had been replanted with similar
yield the second years result would have
been 1000. 900 grains.
FARMERS, as we'll as other people,
should have hobby, and the best kind
OF one is some particular crop under
cultivation. 1t makes no difference what
it is-corn, potatoes, or wheat-but push
some one or more with all your might.
If the farmers have occasion to suspect
that their dogs have been worrying sheep,
they have only to give them an emetic
to get at the bottom of the affair. The
wool swallowed with the meat and blood
will be very likely in such cases to come
to light.
vt is found that wherever Indian corn
can be raised at cost as low as ten
cents a bushel, which sometimes occurs
at the West, it will pay to use it as
fuel unless either firewOod or coal is near
enough at hand to be delivered without
extra charge for hauling.
The ashes produced by ton of corn
have been found to contain thirteen and
one-half pounds of phosphoric acid, nine
and three-fourths pounds of potash and
soda, and nearly four pounds of mag
nesia. When these are skillfully applied
to the land 80 as to be reconverted into
corn it restores the mineral element pre-
viously abstracted by the crop.
TURKISH clover is recommended by
Western apiarian as an excellent plant
for bee pasturage. We conclude, from
the description he gives, that it is moth
ing more than the common Sweet or
Tree clover (MeRlotns alba), which has
become naturalized over the greater por-
tiOn of the older States. TO call this
plant Turkish clover, would doubtless
lead many persons to think it something
new, and give somebody chance to sell
the seed at an advanced price.
In the competition at Elmira year be-
fore last for the Wilson premium, Mr..
Van Sickle, of Cayuga County, New
York, produced forty-three and one half
ounces of corn from single kernel. At
this rate of production, seven hills of
three grains each would give bushel,
and allowing to each grain four square
feet of soil, the yield would be over five
hundred bushels per acre.
The largest yield of corn on record
for an entire acre was obtained by DIR.
Parker, of South Carolina, and measured
over two hundred bushels of shelled
grain. If that crop had been all re-
planted at the rate ,,sf one peck of seed
per acre, it would have covered eight
hundred acres, and if the yield had been
at the same rate as the first year the crop
would have amounted to 160, 900 bushels
of grain and IA, 400, 900 pounds of stover.
A CROW shot in the orchard of Deacon
of Plymouth, Me-, was found
to have in his crop twenty or thirty
nests of caterpillar eggs, showing that
the much abused crow had made a salts
factory dinner on about 1000 or 5000
caterpillar eggs. As these eggs are
plenty, we bid the whole crow family 10
eat their fill three times daily or much
oftener, and there will be "enough and
to spare" then.
THERE ought to be some improvement
in haying as to the selection of time to
begin. A majority of farmers wait too
long, and lose much. in the value of hav
thereby. If timo thy and clover are
grown together, rLore is lost by waiting
tor the timothy co flower, than would be
BY cutting when the clover is in prime.
Clover and orchard grass should be cut
when in full bloom, before the formation
Of seed, to reap the full benefit of the
crop.