The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-27
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

ola writer in the Fdncier's journal that
many of the diseases incident to poultry
are due to neglect in providing them
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
lisa 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
i'm their attentions may be classed with
the thriftless and neglected parties who
keep fowls that get drink when it rains.
THREsHING OUT.-Have close floor;
take two saw horses, two and 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 as you do oats; put away very dry,
and in the husk it will keep for several
years.
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
we'll cultivated, one hundred bushels of
rough rice per acre. Red or upland rice,
will do well on almost any good upland
is well adapted to pine lands and all
seapy hill-sides; if pine lands are well
cow-penned, it will make 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), OH land that will make moth
ing else; it is the cheapest food for man
or beast that we can raise. One and a
half or two acres will feed a mule twelve
months. 1t has 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 small scale, and to all the farms
in the cotton States.
A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMEs.-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 IL hat NH Ia ha
eral increase throughout the United
States was 279 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
100000 bushels of corn less in 1870
than we did in 1860. We had 200, 900
oxen less in 1870 than in 1860. We had
nearly 100000 hogs less in 1870 than
in 1860, while the general increase of
live stock from 1850 to 1860 was 100 per
cent. From 1850 to 1860, the increase
of cows was 35 per cent, and from 1860
to 1870 it was but per cent.
That agriculture is profitable EN-
plOyment ought to be apparent to all
who have supplies of farm products to
buy, but the annexed statement by the
New York Tribune presents the fact in q
very impressive light:
Taking the farmers and planters as a
class, we do say that there is ample
statistical proof of the fact that they are
better of than they have been any time
for three years past. We point in the
first place to the quantities of wheat,
corn, cotton, beef pork, cheese, hams,
and bacon exported in the second place
to the prices obtained for those articles,
not at the port of New York, but at the
places where they were produced, for the
farmer has had the advantage for over a
year of the internal freights low beyond
precedent; in the third place, to the lower
rae of wages at which farmers and
planters have this year procured their
labor; and in the fourth place, to the fact
which naturally.follows from the three al
ready mentioned, that the imports of
tea, coffee, and sugar have been much
larger in the fiscal year ended with June
last than in any previous year in the
history Of the country. In her dealings
with the United States, Great Britain
has proved good customer. While our
imports from the British Isles have been
enormously curtailed, our exports to
those regions have greatly increased
since the close of the year 1872. In either
one of the three calendar years 1873, 1874,
and 1876, we had market for more
grain in Great Britain than we ever did
before. Much of that grain has gone to
reduce Indebtedness, but nevertheless the
farmers who produced it have been paid
for it, too.
Evidently the panic has not hurt the
farmers. Evidently, too, we have not
enough farmers, especially in the East.
Why, then, should not unemployed or
poorly-paid mechanics, clerks, lawyers,
teachers, and other residents of towns
and cities seriously consider whether it
is not possible for each of them to OBJ
tain bit of land and become indie.
pendent?
GROWING RICE ON UpLAND.-Mr. II.
f. Huey, of Brundige, Ala, writes in the
Southern Plantation on the culture of rice
on uplands, subject which is attracting
considerable attention in the South. We
quote as follows:
Let the land be well drained, so that it
may be well prepared with the pillow lay
off two and half feet bed up as soon
after Christmas as convenient, with four
or five inch halfturn. If you intend
planting early, say the LIST of March, re-
bed in four or five weeks; but if you wish
to plant about the 10th of May, it will
be best to bed again about the middle of
April, so that the lands will be free from
weeds and grass when planted. II rice is
not planted very early it is best to plant
in May, for if planted in April the time
of its maturity will be in the dryest and
warmest time of the summer; but If
planted the first of March it will mature
before that time /; If it is planted from the
10th to the Goth of May its maturity will
be in September and the first of October.
When the seasons are good and the
weather cool, prefer planting old land,
unless well drained, in May, for the fol-
lowing reasons: First-The seap water
has dried up, and when the time comes
to cultivate it, the land is in condition
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