The Osceola times., 1878-06-29
similar quantities in most OF the violet
powder ia use
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happy combination OF work and play; a
study and recreation source OF health
both Tor BODY and mind.
Ii you are farmer be good one.
Farm well. Have good orchard, good
garden good stock and an intelligent
family. Be intelligent yourself, and
thus secure the respect Of all who know
you Ploughman.
The addition OF slack lime TO rotten
manure while in the dunghesp is alto.
| gether Objectionable, becsu-e lime pos
-essts the power OF again hbsrsting the
combined and fixed ammonia, as the
powerful and pungent odor which is by
ibis means evolved makes sufficiently
evident.
A correspondent writes the Poultry
World that he has tried sunflower SEEDS
as food for his barnyard fowls with sue
cess. At first they refused to eat them,
| but soon they learned 10 open the seeds
take the kernel from the hull, and this
they eat with relish, and It rendered
their plumage mole glcssy room after
they bepan TO eat them.
Some experiments on spring barley,
published by Paul Sorsner, in the Bot.
anische Zsitung of January, 1878, afford
some interesting results In dry air,
branching was greater than in moist ;
the length oi leaves was greater in moist
mir but the breadth WAS les. A moist
atmosphere was found favorable to the
length of leai-shesth, to growth OF the
principal stem aud to ro,t development.
The Jersey milk has the largest glo-
bules, it will consequently make firmer
butter, winter and summtI; the cream
will rise quicker, hence it will retain
more OF its own fine flavor snd be less
exposed to taints. But then, Jersey
butter is slso yellower, and the reason
il, sccordipgto DIR. Sturtevant, that the
rats OF the jersey, ss q race, are colored
with an orange pigment which remains
in the butter COlman's Rural World.
At the exhibition of the Central
society OF Horticulture in France some
year or so ago, the pubic were enter
tained with the sight of yellow gourd,
into which had been inserted the stalk
of green, pear>-haped gourd, from
which large slice had been cut off and
replaced by corresponding section of a
white gourd. The operation of grating
squashes is stated to b. an easy one, and
offers opportunities for very interesting
combinations TO amuse the public at
exhibitions. One precaution is neces-
sary, and this is to raise the skin OF the
iruit to be united, 50 as to bring the
cellular tissues in course of formation
into contact Scientific Farmer.
In China, during the summer months,
all kinds OF vegetable refuse are mixed
with turf, straw, grass, peat, weeds and
earth, collected into h,aps and, when
quite dry, set on fire. After several dsys
OF slow combustion. the entire mass is
converted into kind Of black earth
This compost is only employed for the
manuriDg of seed. When seed time
arrives, one man makes holes in the
ground, another iollews with the seed,
which he places in the holes, while a
third adds this black eaith. The young
seed planted IN this manner grows with
such extraordinary vigor that it is there's
by enabled TO push its roJtlets through
the hard, SOLID soil, and to collect its
mineral constituents.
In marketing vegetables remember
tha. much depends on the attractivess of
their appearance. Don't heap them in
Con u-ei mass, but arrange garden
stuff so that their good quality shall be
apparent. O,teptimes the best selection
carried to market by the selves will
bring more than the whole crop, good,
bad and Indifferent, indiscrimnate
thrown together. A box OF strawberries,
each berry OF nearly uniform size and
appearance, will sell for more, and more
readily, than the box which gives con,
fused look to the berries. The good
farmer studies how to please his Gus.
toners, and doesn't grudge little care
in sorting or washing, in order that his
wares shall show the best they are
capable of.
S me experiments have been made at
Brussels 10 breaking in horses by means
Of an electric bride. The apparatus,
called the Engstorm bride, after its in.
ventor, consists simply in n couple OF
reins, along which run electric wires.
At the end of the reins a small electrict
battery is attached, which is entirely in
the hands of the experimenter. BY
pressing little knob the electric cur
rent acts on the corner of the horses
mouth, and, after few consecutive OF
intermittent shocks, the animal becomes
perfectly docile. A very intrsctable
mare was broken in after one experiment
with the bride The inventor erts
that runaway herses can Immediately be
brought to standstill by this appars-
| tus.
We talked recently with a stalwart
Delaware farmer who states some facts
as to the business in the northern part
OF the state. For a two hundred acre
farm his calculation would be a five
years rotation of crops - corn, oats,
wheat, grass, pasture forty acres each
Supposing he kept a moderate.s sized
dairy, say twelve cows (expecting to
iced some beef cattle besides), he should
need three arm hsnds besides himself, To
whom the current rate of wage. is Sl5 a
month, and the usual cost for board $40
more. This makes wages bill Of 5000
year to begin with, and our friend
says II he rented he should not expect
to pay less than 81 900 for a two hun
dred acre place, increasing his first ex.
penses to 81 900 year. With wheat at
sl25 and corn at fifty cents, he finds
! there il small marpir for nrof1t -rEaru