The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-26
AGRICULTURAL.

The 1I9lnt FdTTleT tells oil premium
col. thSt was given sir eggs per day -
part Of his food. =" ~
The Prairie Farmer sdyises a Gums
mer ialloW a. the surest and easiest
means Of subduiug Colorado thistles.
Wheat really requires less manure
than most other crops, but it wants It
most where Il can be best got st-on top.
-Blosted cattle can be quiekley reliey.
ed by The insertion in the mouth Of 3
straw rope Of good siEs. tying 1t over the
head.
"A correspondent Of the New York
Tribune says tea made Of cayenne pep.
per, used twice 4 day, will kill cabbags
worms.
Sheep will eat what no other stock
will eat. and thus save the labor required
BY the thrifty farmer to keep down nox.
ious weeds.
h 1.-The ErEoI Record saysthAt POUNDS
In animals are quickly cured by washing
several times 3 day with turpentiHe' 10
which the yolk ofeggs has been thorough.
ly mixed. "a ,r.t
Worse and worse. 10 North Car
olina ii costs from-fye to ten times as
much 10 fence the stock 10 as the stock ie
worth, In other words, $40 for pocket
to put 81 In, 49, .-. - .l.a.l
Every farmer should use a part Of
his garden as an experimental plot. In
no way can he so advance his own inter-
es,s and promote The agricultural advant-
age Of the country. 4
The Practical Former says that II .
tablespoonful Of saltpetre is dissolved in
| 4 pailiut OF EIter, pint Of the solution
put around each hill will destroy bugs on
squashes aud cucumbers. = Pr
-Thomas ]. Edge, Secretary Of the
Pennsylvania Board Of Agriculture, says
that 1itcosts 10 this State 81 worth Of fence
70 keep 81 worth OF farm stock in place"
This Is . frightful tax paid TO tradition.
"A French paper says that the rains
and consequent luIuriant growth Of this
season has been 90 favorable TO the ex-
pansion Of all slug life As TO prove in
furious to the health OF horses and cattle,
and the writer recommends sprinkling
salt over the pastures and meadows as =
means OF destroying the slugs when very
young. s,.,
Charcoal should be given to pigs and
poultry. Coal dust, either anthracite or
bitumiuous il also good for pigs. A
pound day to hog willbe Of advant-
age; and II you have never fed 1t, try it
and you will be surprised to see the avid.
i,y with which hogs will eat "stone coal."
The coal yards will gladly give Tito you
to get rid Of it. --a.Ia.
The experiments made 10 Lancaster
county OF cultiyatipg wheat are said to
have been successful. We know that
narrowing wheat In The spring ia an adj
yantage. Our practice is 10 harrow and
Icroes harrow as soon as we can get on the
land, and then sow clover: It helps the
wheat, and il almost certain TO secure q
good catch for the clover.
Professor 3. W. Stewart, Of Lake
View, New York, sAys: "The day is
certainly not far distant when all
enterprisipg farmers will soil their stock
10 a great extent. The best way to soil
is to begin raising grain. Make calcula.
ton a. 10 how much corn and other grain
crops you Will!require, raise good crops
and you will soon zee the folly OF using
three TO Eve acres TO pastures COW when
she can be soiled on . half acte." (.
DIR s,urieyant says sone Of the
bed resuib which could happen2to our
taIkihg agricnltnrisls. wonld ,be'to sweep
from existence the idea that cheap results
can be Of other than Of cheap value. The
uue results are always costly oil time and
'oithought. Let the agricultural thinker
receive recognition, Ia accordance as biz
thought Is based on facts" Josh Billings
says What cosIs nothing IL worth just
what n costs-nothing. We, too -
The MV Enstand FnrmT says: at
IL estimated that the loss 10 agriculture
from the growth Of weeds instead OF the
useful grasses in meadow and pasture
lands, Is not lesS Than one hundred mil
lion dollars per year in the United stattf.
Nothing will sooner or more cheaply
bring about the desired change in this
direction than 4 more general employ
ment Of sheep az scayengers on every farm
where their Introduction is indicated"
Mr.. N. B. Batchsm. Of Painesville,
Ohio, 10 an address before the American
Dairymen's Association, advised the SOW.
ing Of the following SIX kinds of Grass
Seeds for pasture lands Is known TO be
adapted to clayeJ coils: Timothy, Blue
Grass, Red Top Orchard Grass, Meadow
Piscue snd English Rye Grass, add!ng
White Clover II desired. II either kind
il omitted II should be the Bye Grass, -
il sometimes winter.kills Oh fat, clsyey
soils. ,sa HsasI.,
Mr.. &C. W. Horr, OF WelIingtob,
Ohio, SAYS: No man has moral right %
waste either Code blessings or bis own
opportunities. lii . moral crime 20
poroduce only Eve dollars worth OF milk
10 cleared acre Of land, when il Z quite
possible V produce, tea dollars worth.
God Intended < COW that give only 9, 600
bounds Of milk in q season for the butch
ID shamhle and pot ior The milking
WA ma b INTENDED I,he iarnet who
will continue 70 keep such q COW, year
after year, for mixer Of goats In come
benigh,ed land, and not for mixer Of
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