Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-06-29
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Agricultural Notes.
A garden is a constant amusement q
happy combination of work and play a
study and a recreation a source of health
both for body and mind.
II you are a farmer be a GOOD one.
Farm well. Have a good orchard, good
garden good stock snd an intelligent
family. Be intelligent yourself, aud
thus secure the respect of all who know
you Ploughman,
The addition Of slack line to rotten
manure while in the ~dungheap is alto.
geIher Objectionable, because lime pos.
sesS-s the power of again liberating the
combined and fixed ammonia, as the
powerful and pungent odor which is by
this means evolved makes sufficiently
evident.
A correspondent writes the Poultry
World that he has tried sunfower seeds
as food for his barnyard fowls with sue
cess. AT first they refused to eat them,
buJ soon they learned to open the seeds
take The kernel from the hull, and this
they eat with a relish, and it rendered
their p.umage more glossy soon after
they BEGAN to eat them.
Some experiments on spring barley,
published by Paul Sorsner, in the Bot.
anische I=itung of January, 1878, afford
some 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 10 the
length of leat.sheath, to growth Of the
principal stem and to rost development.
The Jersey milk has the largest glo-
hules, it will consequently make irmer
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 yellower, and the reason
i, accOrdingto DR.. Sturtevant, hat the
fats of the Jersey, as a 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.
tanned with the sight of a yellow gourd,
into which hal hcen 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 a
white gourd. The operation OF grating
squashes is stated to b. an easy one, aud
offers opportunities for very interesting
combinations to amuse the public at
exhibitions. One %precaution is neces>
saIy, and this is to raise the skin OF the
fruit 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 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
third adds this black eaith. The young
seed planted in this manner grows Will
such extraordinary vigor that it is there
by enabled to push its r~ootlets through
the hard, solid soil, and to collect it
mineral constituents.
In marketing vegetables remembe
that much depends on the attractivess 0
their appearance. Don't heap them il
a CON used mass, but arrange garden
stuff SC that their good quality shall b,
apparent. Olteptimes the best selection
carried to market by then selves vii
bring more than the whole crop, good
bad and indifferent, indiscriminately
thrown together. A box OF strawberries
each berry OF nearly uniform size anC
appearance, will sell for more, and NOR,
readily, than the box which gives a con
fused look to the berries. The gooc
farmer studies how to please his Gus
toners, and doesn't grudge a little car,
in sorting or washing, in order that hi
wares shall show the best they ar,
capable OF.
SINE experiments have been made a
Brussels in breaking,in horses by mean
Of an electric bride. The apparatus
called the Engstorm bride, after its in
y%entOr, consists simply in a couple o
reins, along which run electric wires
At the end of the reins a small electric
battery is attached, which is entirely il
the hands of the experimenter. B,
pressing a little knob the electric cur
rent acts on the corner of the horse
mouth, and, after a few consecutive o
intermittent shocks, the animal become
perfectly docile. A very intractabl
mare was broken in after one experimen
with the bridle. The inventor assert
that runaway herses can Immediately b
brought to a standstill by this appara
tuS.
We talked recently with a stalwar
Delaware farmer who states some fact
as to the business in the northern par
OF the state. For a two hundred acr
farm his calculation would be a fv
years rotation of crops corn, oats
wheat, grass, pasture forty acres each
Surprising he kept a moderate size,
dairy, say twelve cows expecting t
feed some beef cattle besides), he SHOULD
need three arm hands besides himself, I
whom the current rate of wage. is SI5
month, aud the usual cost for board 81
more. This makes a wages bill of 800
a year to begin with, and our frien
says ii be rented he should not expec
to pay less than 81, 900 for a two hur
bred acre place, increasing his first e1
penses to 81, 900 a year. With wheat a
SIPS and corn at fifty cents, he find
there is small margin for prOit.-Farr
Journal.