The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-01-13
FARM mi

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with pure water; particularly do we be-
lieve such to be the case in the majority
of instances where chicken cholera pre-
walls. The omission to furnish fowls with
suitable drinking water is one of the
worst features of cruelty to animals. 1t
is a neglect that is decidedly adverse to
success, hence tends to diminish indi-
vidual fancy for fowls, and works detri-
ment to poultry interests. Those whom
we occasionally hear say that "there is
no profit in poultry" are not qualified to
have the management of the same, and
in their attentions may be classed with
the thriftless and neglected parties who
keep fowls that get drink when it rains.
THREsHING OUT.-Have a close floor;
take two saw horses, two and a half feet
high, put them about three feet apart,
take hickory poles about three inches
thick, bend the under side at each end,
then nail down about two inches apart;
let one hand stand on each side and beat
on the poles. One hand can thresh out
twenty or twenty-five bushels per day.
Wind out the straw that is left in the
rice s you do oats; put away very dry,
and in the husk it will keep for several
years.
l should have mentioned above that
you should irrigate, when in your power,
after the crop is put in good condition.
Good, black swamp land will make, if
well cultivated, one hundred bushels of
rough rice per acre. Red or upland rice,
will do well on almost any good upland
is we'll adapted to pine lands and all
seapy hill-sides; if pine lands are well
cow-penned, it will make a very good
yield. if the seasons are good.
/ regard rice as one of the best crops
we can make, as we can raise it especially
swamp rice), on land that will make moth
ing else it is the cheapest food for man
or beast that we can raise. One and q
half or two acres will feed a mule twelve
months. 1t has a heavier per cent. of
nutriment than any other grain, being
~eighty-seven parts in one hundred.
The above applies to the cultivation of
rice on a small scale, and to all the farms
in the cotton States.
A REMEDY FOR HARD TMEs.-The
need of more attention to agriculture is
not sufficiently considered by those who
are contriving ways and means by which
the hard times may be brought to an
end. An editorial article in the Phila-
delphia Enquirer presents the following
startling statistics:
The census of 1870 shows that only Is
per cent. of the population was engaged
in agriculture, and that while the gen.
eral increase throughout tine United
States was 274 per cent, the increase in
the cities was 70 per cent, showing a
tendency to flock into the cities in search
of the artificial sources of wealth and to
forsake the natural, the true, solid found
alton of all riches, the farm. We raised
rs, 900, 900 bushels of corn less in 1870
than we did in 1860. We had 1,000,000
oxen less in 1870 than in 1850. We had
nearly S,000,0 900 hogs less in 1870 than
in 1860, while the general increase Of
live stock from 1850 to 1860 was 100 pei
cent. From 1850 to 1860, the increase
of cows was S5 per cent, and from 1866
to 1870 it was but 4 per cent.
That agriculture is a profitable EN-.
ployment ought to be apparent to al
who have supplies of farm products tc
buy, but the annexed statement by the
New York Tribune presents the fact in 6
very impressive light:
Taking the farmers and planters as {
class, we do say that there is ample
statistical proof of the fact that they ar,
better off than they have been any tim,
for three years past. We point in thu
first place to the quantities of wheat
corn, cotton, beef, pork, cheese, hams
and bacon exported in the second plac'
to the prices obtained for those articles
not at the port of New York, but at tn,
places where they were produced, for thu
farmer has had the advantage for over
year of the internal freights low beyond
precedent; in the third place, to the lowe
rate of wages at which farmers anc
planters have this year procured thei-
labor; and in the fourth place, to the fac
which naturally,follows from the three al
ready mentioned, that the imports o
tea, coffee, and sugar have been muci
larger in the fiscal year ended with Jun,
last than in any previous year in tn,
history of the country. In her dealing
with the United States, Great Britain
has proved a good customer. While gu
imports from the British Isles have beef
enormously curtailed, our exports tt
those regions have greatly increased
since the close of the year 1872. In eithe
one of the three calendar years 1873, 1874
and 1875, we had a market for NOR,
grain in Great Britain than we ever die
before. Much of that grain has gone Il
reduce Indebtedness, but nevertheless tn,
farmers who produced it have been pait
for it, too.
Evidently the panic has not hurt tn
farmers. Evidently, too, we have no
enough farmers, especially in the East
Why, then, should not unemployed o.
poorly-paid mechanics, clerks, lawyers
teachers, and other residents of town
and cities seriously consider whether i
is not possible for each of them to OBJ
tain a bit of land and become indie
pendent?
GROWING RICE ON UPLAND.-Mr. R
E. Huey, of Brundige, Ala, writes in tn,
Southern Plantation on the culture of rio
on uplands, a subject which is attracting
considerable attention in the South. w,
quote as follows:
Let the land be we'll drained, so thati
may U0 well pISpdI0u Will 1hc plOW H.
off two and a half feet; bed up as sool
after Christmas as convenient, with fou
or five inch halfturn. If you intent
planting early, say the LIST of March, re
bed in four or five weeks; butif you wisl
to plant about the 10th of May, it vii
be best to bed again about the middle o
April, so that the lands will be free iron
weeds and grass when planted. II rice i
not planted very early it is best {. plan
in May, for if planted in April the tim
of its maturity will be in the dryest an,
warmest time of the summer; but
planted the first of March it will matur
before that time if it is pIanted from tn
10th to the goth of May its maturity wi
be in September and the first of October
When the seasons are good and tn
weather cool, l prefer planting old lane
unless we'll drained, in May, for the 70
lowing reasons: First-The seap waite
has dried up. and when the time COME
to cultivate it, the land is in a conditio
To DESTROY all weeds and grass.