Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-18
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS

Sow vacant places to turnips. Now
is the time.
Linseed oil il now highly recon.
mended for pear blight. Wash the
limbs with it.
Apples will be light crop this
year, nearly every where in the Unit
ed States.
Beans are from ~ so to ~ S5 al
New York, and yet Iowa does not
raise enough for home consumption.
In the reports of the Illinois short
horn sales, the names of Iowa men do
not appear as frequently as they did
last year.
Common SCOT from the house Chin
ney is one Of the best fertilizers for
house plants. One pint in a pail OF
water, to be used in watering the
plants.
Suckers should be pulled off of ap.
pie trees before they get large, hard
and tough. They draw nearly all the
nourishment from the other parts OF
the tree.
A man at Pawlet, VT, has recently
lost IA cows, who broke into his po.
tato-tield and ate vines that had been
annointed with kerosene to keep of
bugs.
Now is the time that newly set fruit
aud shade trees have their hard trial.
Hot sun and probably dry earth il
too much for them. They should be
mulched.
Ifthe borer has been neglected un-
til he has now just entered the body
OF the apple tree, now IL the time tG
follow him with the knife before he
is out of reach.
/ With the right breed, suitable hogs
can be raised aud forwarded to mar.
ket at twelve months of age, as good
as were few years since at eighteen
or twenty months.
The apple crop is likely to be q fail.
ure in Missouri this year. The cater.
pliers stripped the trees 80 thorough
ly last June and July, that few of them
had strength to blossom this spring
Forty-five per cent of all the pork
now packed in Chicago is packed in
the summer by the aid Of ice, and il
is said that it finds reader sale in
the foreign markets than the winter
packed.
The Alta California says: "The
signs that the California farmers gen.
orally have a hard year before them
continue to increase. At least one.
third of tho area of wheat and barley
is now beyond the hope Of yielding
enough to pay for threshing, and an
other third is in serious danger
Many fields will not even make hay
i The blackberry industry in Geor
gia. North Carolina aud other South
ern States is about to open. The lit
tie town Of Salem, North Carolina
containing only 1000 inhabitants, hal
shipped during three years over },
100000 pounds of blackberries, fol
which nearly half million dollar,
was received. This was equal II
over 5000 h.lcs Of cotton at ten cent
a pound, and is a resource certainly
not to be despised.
For several years past the local gen
ius OF the cotton States has been try
ing to solve the problem of cotton
, picking by machinery. 1t is said tn
question has been practically solve.
r finally by u North Carolinian, VIII,
has perfected cotton picker tha
: will do the work of one hundre,
!. men. 1t is q wagon-like machine
which is driven through the ripene
5 fields, and picks clean every scrap q
! cotton lint, and nothing except cottol
/. The cotton-gin created revOlutio
: in the cost and production Of cottol
and the invention of the s'picker" ca
hardly have less influence upon tn
!, price and production Of this impol
tant staple.