Nebraska advertiser., 1877-05-31
Agricultural Notes.

The best preventive for fever and
ague is thorough drainage.
Less than eight per cent. ofthe area
of the United States is under cultiva-
ton.
The second growth of wood makes
better fuel and timber than the first
growth.
Farmers in Travis county, Texas.
are about to commence cutting their
oats.
In France parsnips are made an
economical substitute for oats in feed
ing horses.
FOrty-two hundred barrels of flour
were shipped from Minneapolis one
day last week.
A dark colored bug is making a
heavy raid on grasshOppers in Mime
sofa, much to the joy of farmers.
Hon. Smith Wright of Vermont,
goes strong on poultry. He is now
feeding for market $500 geese, $500
turkeys, and l, 400 ducks.
Borers work in the currant bushes.
They are in the heart. Hunt them
up, if found cut them out if it takes
the whole bush.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has
lately decided that farmers having
wheat stored In warehouses and ele-
vators along railroads, have to run the
risk of fire, and not the owner of the
elevator.
Since Jan. 1. 1877, the sales of dairy
products at the Elgin board of trade
amounts to 1891 ,597 SO, larger amount
than the total sales of the first two
years of its existence.
Eleven head--ten bulls and one COW
of Channel Island cattle, from the
herd of Mr.. w. Bolton, lately sold at
auction In England, brought an aver
age of ESQ per head.
A law of Kansas compels the wom-
en- of that State, as well as the men,
to turn out and kill the grasshoppers
at the call of the road overseers, or pay
81 per day for their absence.
Charles Riddle, an English farmer,
has In his possession COW aged four
teen years, which has produced TWEEN
ty-one calves, having had twins nine
times and single calves three times.
Mr.. Blunt, in the Country Gentle
man, says that on each stool of wheat
there is bnt one stalk that bears seed
and that the centre one. The grain
from it keeps up the standard, and
seed from the other stalks deteriorates
and runs the crops out.
Mr.. Lewis, of King William county
Virginia, is planting this year seven
hundred acres of tomatoes. As this is
one of the eastern counties in Virgin
la. Mr.. Lewis is evidently preparing
for long extra session of Congress.
Farmers who grow turnips can get
the best seed by setting out the roots
very soon. They will mature their
seeds In season for the main crop, and
besides, the seeds will, in all probable
ity, be good. But it is necessary to
change seed occasionally.
When the canker attacks a fruit
tree, causing the bark to loosen, the
best remedy is to cut off the diseased
limb with a fine saw and cover the end
or place ofexcision with grating wax.
This will prevent the escape of sap,
and serve to check the progress of dis
ease.
Green clover makes better returns
as cattle food than the hay made from
it, because in the process of drying
many of its vegetable partic les are so
hardened that the digestive organs are
unequal to the task of assimilation.
Steaming clover hay improves its
IeedlnS qualities.
Mr.. H. c. Jordan. of Wapello coun-
ty, Ia, has received his medal and
diploma for the best corn exhibited
at the Centennial. 1t is stated that
Mr.. Jordan last year raised about
twelve thousand bushels of corn on a
farm of twelve hundred acres In the
southeast corner of Wapello county.
Rennet curdles milk because it con-
tains an acid. either natural or artific-
ial. which possesses the properties of
coagulation. In Holland muriatic ac-
i'd is used to produce rennet; but the
natural curdler of milk is the gastric
juice of the the sucking calf's stomach
in which milk is as rapidly ooagula-
ted as 1t is sucked.