The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-29

To prevent iron lusting give it coat o.
linseed oil and whiting mixed together il
the form OF past. 1t is easily removed, and
Will preserve iron from rus.ing for years.
The kansas harley crops.
[Chicago Inter-Ocean, 21.l
In Kansas a fair amount of barley Is
grown-about 100000 acres-and the quail.
ity this year is reported fair, and the crop
an average one.
To Preserve KNIVES and Forks.
kansas Farmer, 81
Knives and forks wrapped in dry wood
ashes, will not rust The ashes are more
easily removed than rust, when the knives
are wanted for use.
Land il Natures Machine.
1t is the extra feed and the extra ma.
nure applied that produces the profit
Land is bat natures machinery to pro-
duce crops; the better the machine is
tended and led, the better it will manuf2c-
ture.
The Care OF Chickens.
Poultry Journal
The French, and they are very successful
chicken ralsers, have light portable coops,
which they move from place to place over
their farms, at one time set upon the
new-plowed fields and again upon the grass
lands
sugar from Sorghum.
A Nebraska farmer reports 600 pounds
of bright sugar and l53 gallons of nice syrup
from two acres of early sorghum, He got
the sugar by hanging the thick syrup in
coffee sacks after it began TO granulate.
How To Economics Labor.
The farmer who wishes to avoid an ex-
cess OF labor, with Improbable result, will
nots spread small quantity OF
manure over large surface OF poor land,
but Will only pillow as much as he can
highly manure, when his income will be as
large, and his labor nearly one-half saved.
To Destroy Weevil.
\ small bag OF hops, say as large as ones
head, placed in bin OF grain, it is said,
will destroy weevil and other insects which
find lodgment. 1t costs but little, and is
easily tried.
Feed Hogs Plenty Charcoal.
Charcoal should be fed to hogs and poul
try. Experiment has demonstrated that
the same amount of feed will produce a far
greater amount of flesh and lat when fed
with plenty of charcoal.
Ahe "
Estate butter" as superior to Western. The
igriculttEiSt New York says: Good Wes-
tern butter brings as good price as any
other IN the market"
ABOUT NasihS tr"it Seeos.
lhansas FARMER al
Fruit seeds saved during the present sea-
son with intent 70 plant, SHOULD not De al
lowed TO roast from DAY 10 DAY IN Inc MOI
sun: AS soon as inc outside oil lne seea Is
ava! IN d cooi pace liil PiaiIaeu OUT iyi
INC "inief iioS'S " ".t uPon' a.''
- No.
49,,
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any country mat mas farms win groves
OF i"reSt trees Win orchaIus, "un 'egeta,
pc anu howei sa,us, 10 eau.iui anu
'aiuaDie. ".hout ,'ese no ooun.iy' nv"
ever riGn III soii a"i iooa'ion' Is a''i "''i.T &c;
, uo IL st''s IL
anu V" W e -
-.
Inc arr oil gardening was nrst Practiceu
In the East, anu the ancient ureeEs appear
to have received the iruit, along WIN the
kho"ieuge oi grazing u improve anu VAR
II, iloui .heuia. hhes asai, u"hsu,''eu
'leI! mn " ' ne ~ wy ..iiu a,ie
- - H. - T.,;a,,as - pI;rr
no ie''
"roe'
Inc "e". oioP c' INC
Irra'iie aiiheI,@
The wheat crop OF the Northwest as II
Is being threshed, Is turning out better than
was I'll o w, ~ 4 nt aansdi;da,;:n
- -: 80,
rn..u,,....,.,n
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ro"ueieu poiaI VI alum - 5e'o;nN a1'iu
eo as an inseolioiu PoI ~: .ni
uissoiSeI N '.I fua VI oos "a
anu aPPiieu WI" NJ ~ -
VIII oii'e away "e'' an AiAO' u '
mn.
Inc 70 "
inere Is no oet'er time than Tue present.
Tor uIaiu'hs w s,ounu smP
10" Vi: So, ~. shnela - -
OF iann q ias,ns' o"ns snouiu ~
Pfon'apie' anu - 'n n,on -.
70 pas anu t ~. 81. o,.Is,nn;,r -
mus o.o .e opPS
As'one M.Ans len
tfrairie ariher
Thousands Of barrels oil terra alba or
white earth are every year mixed IN var
ioas forms with our sugars and other