The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-04
AGRICULTURAL.

out IN the vicinity OK San jose, Cal, this
season.
CRUDE csrboic acid mixed with sixty
ticks on sheep.
HAY is sold fer SIG TO $29 per ton in
California. Holders have been expect
ing to realize $40.
BETWEEN the drouth, the VIVID and
the worm, says the Boulder (Col) News,
the wheat prospect is not very faltering.
The rice crop of this country is COM
ing to the fore again. South Carolina
has al estimated yield of $4,000 tiercea
this year, and Georgia $4,000.
A LITTLE green bug is destroying the
blue grass in Kentucky. Great fields are
said to be ravIshed by 1t, the grass look
ing as if it had suffered protrscted
drOuth.
PRUNING wounds should be covered as
soon us the sap ceases flowing. Grating
WAX, applied hot, will make good cover
ing aud will avoid further serious trouble.
A SOCIETY is beng formed in England
to purchase the copyright of the Here.
ford Herd Book" and conduct it on the
plan OF the "English Short-horn Herd
Book"
Mr.. A. LATTER, of King, Canada, has
half a dozen white Brahms hens that
have laid 1850 eggs, Matched and raised
three broods of chickens, from January
Is, 1877, to January -, 1878.
EMINENCE GRANGE. KY, sold its this
year clip OF wool at the following prices:
Combing, 3OIc; delsine, 25!c; clothing,
2llci black 2Oc; bury, l5c-buyer to
classify.
No FARMER can afford to sell wood
ashes for any price that the sOap-bOller
would pay. Where oats lodge, as they
are apt to do upon heavily MANFRED
land, al application OF ashes would save
the crop.
SHEET are being imported from Ger
many to England at the rate about 10
zoo week When American farmers
set about 10 raise tine mutton, this branch
OF foreign trade will rapidly increase with
us.
MRS S. MILTON, Colchester, Canada,
has a COW that gave birth TO two calves
on Friday, March 20, snd'the same COW
had twin calves in May, 1877, thus max.
Ing four calves inside Of eleven months.
a SUGAR beet factory is to be started
IN Hesldsburg, Ca. 1t is proposed to
erect works with capacity of about 40
tons OF sugar per diem, which will re-
quire the planting Of over 500 acres in
beets.
RUIKIN, the famous art critic and
writer on general literature, says: ITO
watch corn grow and the bloom set, to
draw hard breath over the plOwshaTe and
spade, to read, 10 think, TO love, to hope,
to pray; these are the things to make a
man happy
AMERICAN peanuts have been trans
planted IL the south OF France, whore
they grow well. Oil is made from them,
which comes back TO this country, and
after paying duty, is used on salads as
olive oil Meanwhile in Florida, where
the nuts grow abuntantly they are fed
TO hogs.
The National Lire Stock Journal
squelches several prevalent diseases by
saying. The so.called black teeth III
hogs Is an imaginary ailment, like "wolf
teeth and "lampas" in horses, and "hO,-
low horn" and tail all" IN cattle This
subject occupies n prominent place in the
vocabulary of quscks and cow-leeches.
4 DARKEY thought the reason why
manure made corn grow was that the corn
stretched its head up as high rs possible
in order 10 get away from the stink. A
correspondent thinks this will apply to
the bone snd-bIood phosphate in an emil
nent degree Chicago Prairie Farmer.
WEEDS IN lawns, if ANIMALS, are soon
killed by frequent moving; thlstles,
docks, plantslns, and other perennisiS
can be pulled, when small if the ground
is moist; or if too large, cut below the
surface with knife. A few children
will soon clear them out at little ex-
pense.
A GERMAN paper gives the following
as test tor purity OF milk. A well
polished knitting needless dipped into
deep vessel Of milk, and Immediately
Withdrawn in an upright positions when,
If the sample be pure, some OF the fuld
will be found to adhere TO 1t, while such
Is not the case if water has been added TO
the milk even IN the smallest proportions
For wstermelons, break up the ground
deep, harrow, cheek Twelve feet apart.
Have little or no hill; leave the hill con-
cave. Six or eight inches from the hill
put stable manure two and half inches
thick. Cultivate well; plant good Seed
have no squsshes, pumpkins or gourds
near. Clip the ends of the vines If you
wish large melons instead Of great num-
be-s.
TIE prices obtained at the Howden
great horse show in England will furnish
an index of the value of the several
classes of horses there: Strong sgricul-
tural and dray horses brought from $3.50
to $500 each; harness horses from $500
to $780, hign steppers, suitable, Tor car
rsges, in pairs, from 1850 to $500 each;
hunters, at all rates, from $3.50 to $3.50
each.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Marx Lane
ErDress saws that in the island q lslsy,
owing to the heavy rainfall of the last
two wears, rot has made is appearance,
and stockholders in sheep are suffering,
the dea,h-rate in many farms berg a
hirh as 20 per cent already, which, along
with the probable low price for wool IN
the coming season, will tell heavily
agalrst sheep farmers in that quarter.
THIS is how, il is SAID, the GermaDs
get rid OF rats: A mixture of two parts
Of well bruised common squi.ls and three
parts Of finely chopped bacon is made into
= .titf mss. with a, much meal IS msy be
required, and thcn baked into small cake,
which are put down for rats to eat.
Several correspondents Of the German
Igr..HHg'ql Gazette write to announce
the complete eXurpstion Ct rats and mice
from their COW stalls and PiSger!cs since
tue adoption OF tins simple pan.
A DOZEN years ago farmer and his
son in law made partial payment on 4
seventv.dyc acre farm in Niagars county,
NY, the price OF which was eXtin-
,,,srnI tpyO families having meanwhile