The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-07-04
similar quantities in most OF the violet
powder in use.
Agricultural NOies.

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ANicGiturnL NOies,
A palden is q constant amusement q
happy combination Of work and play a
study and recreation asou1ce OF heaith
both for body and mind,
II YOU are = farmer be II coed one.
Farm well. Have a good orchard, good
garden good stock and mn Intelligent
family. Be intelligent yourself, and
thus secure the respect Of all who know
you P~Ioughman.
The addition of slack lime to rotten
manure while in the dungheap is alto
gether Objectionable, becau,e lime pos
sessfs the power Of again liberating The
combined and fixed ammonia, AZ the
powerful and pungent od0r which Is by
his means evolved makes sufficiently
evident,
A correspondent writes the Poultry
World that he has tried sunfiower seeds
as food tor his barnyard fowls with sue
cess. At first they refused to eat them,
but soon they learned TO open the seeds
taRe the kernel from The hull, and this
they eat with a relish, and it rendered
their plumage more glossy o after
they began to eat them.
Some experiments on spring barley,
published by Paul Sorsner, in the Bot.
ani:che Zsitung Of January, 1878, afford
sOlue interesting results In dry air,
branching was greater than in moist
The length OF leaves was greater in moist
air, but the breadth WAS less, A moist
atmosphere was found favorable to the
length of lea. sheath, to growth OF the
principal stem aud t. rott development
The jersey milk has the largest glo'
bules, it will consequently make frmer
butter, winter and summer the cream
will rise quicker, hence it will retain
more OF its own fine flavor and be less
exposed to taints. But then, Jersey
butter is also yeIlower, and the reason
il, accordingto DR.. Sturteyant, that the
lats of the Jersey, as a race, are colored
with an orange pigment which remains
in the butter Colman's Raral World.
At the exhibition of the Central
society OF Horticulture in France some
year or so ago, the pubic were enter
tanned with the sight of a yellow gourd,
into which had been inserted the stalk
of a green, pear>shaped gourd, from
which a large slice had been cut off and
replaced by a corresponding section of q
white gourd. The operation OF grating
| squashes ia stated to be 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
fruit to he united, so 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 heaps and, when
quite dry, set on fire. After several days
OF slow combustion. the entire mass is
converted into a kind of black earth.
This compost is only employed for the
manuring of seed. When seed time
arrives, one man makes holes in the
ground, another follows with the seed,
which he places in the holes, while a
third adds this black cath. The young
seed planted N this manner grows with
such extraordinary vigor that it is there's
by enabled to push its rootlets through
the hard, solid soil, and to collect its
mineral constituents.
In marketing vegetables remember
thai much depends on the %atJractivess of
their appearance. Don't heap them in
a con u1e1 mass, but arrange garden
stuff so that their good quality shall be
apparent. o tertimes the best selection
carried TO market by the selves will
bring more than the whole crop, good,
bad and Indifferent, Unfortunately
thrown together. A box OF strawberries,
each berry OF nearly uniform size and
appearance, will sell for more, aud more
readily, than the box which gives a con
fused look to the berries. The good
farmer studies how to please his Gus.
toners, and doesn't grudge a little care
in sorting or washing, in order that his
wares shall show the best they are
capable OF.
SINE experiments have been made at
Brussels in breaking in horses by means
of an electric bride. The apparatus,
called the Engstorm bride, after its in.
ventor, consists simply in q couple of
reins, along which u electric wires.
At the end of the reins. a small e'ectrict
battery is attached, which is entirely in
the hands of tho Experimental. BY
pressing a little knob the electric cur
rent acts on the corner of the horses
mouth, and, after a few consecutive or
intermittent shocks, the animal becomes
perfectly docile. A very intractable
mare was broken in after Que experiment
with the bride. The inventor asserts
that runaway horses caa Immediately be
brought to a standstill by this appara-
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 n two hundred acre
farm his calculation would be a five
years rotation of crops corn, oats,
wheat, grass, pasture forty acres each.
Surprising he kept a moderate.sized
dairy, say twelve COWS expecting to
feed some beef cattle besides), he should
need three arm hands besides himself, to
whom the current rate Of wage. is SIS a
month, and the usual cost for board $40
more. This makes a wages bill of 5000
a year to begin with, and our friend
says il 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 a year. With wheat at
Sl.25 and corn at fifty cents, he finds
there is small margin for Farm