The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-09-04
The MorristOwn Gazette.
AGRICULTURAL.

ABOUT hait tins inventions patent
ed Of late are farm implements.
Many wet pasture fields could be
made productive by little laborgiven
to surface drain; and the best drains
are those nearest straight. Do not
see how little fall you think will do.
but give all you can.
In Prussia it is said the potato is
cultivated with peculiar success. As
the stalk grows the earth is heaped
up, leaving only three leaves at the
top; roots are thus greatly increas-
ed. while the produce is said to be
astonishing.
Cows should not be kept over
eight years old and ewes oyer five.
Now is the time of year to deter
mine what disposition IS to be made
ofold stock. whether to be prepared
for the butcher or continued as at
present for another.
German beet-sugar Manufacturers
offer $40 per ton for dried sugar
beets, delivered at their seaports.
At this price their culture. prepare
ton and freighting would leave a
handsome profit to American far
mere aud shipowners.
Farmers in England sowing ar
senicated wheat are. by the recent
act of Parliament. made subject to a
heavy penalty. The farmers poison
their seed wheat to protect it from
birds and insects, but the sacred
game-birds are apt to suffer. Hence
the penalty. r&@-. e.f-.aa
High price for the service OF
blooded stock sires have not been
Confined to the present century. In
176O Robert Blackwell, the most
eminent breeder of that period. let
his rams for about $500 each season,
and in 1890 he let one ram for 81
O87. In enc year he made over
$4,000.
The Michigan Farmer gives the
record Of COW owner by Mr.. John
Heath, near Tekonsha, Mich, three
quarters Shorthorn and one-quarter
Devon. The daily yield Of milk for
the mouth Of May and three days in
June aggregated 2,161 pounds. She
was MIXED three times day.
1t is beginning to be understood
by breeders that the confinement of
stations is detrimental to their sue
cess. We have always thought that
the daily use of Ham6letoEian as an
everyday horse-one of all work, as
it were-was one Of the causes that
showed to such great advantage in
his early colts;- and it was upon
these his fame was made. w L-G Il
1t is said by q farmer who has
tried the experiment so often as to
be sure Of his ground. that butter
milk poured aver the back ola scuryy
pig will entirely and speedily remove
the scurf. The remedy is simple
Almost every farmer can boast of
one or more scarvy pigs. and if
buttermilk will cure it, it should not
be spared.
Corn loses one-fnh by drying.
and wheat e.fourteenth. From
this the estimate is made that it is
morepreftable for the farmer to sell
unshelled corn in the fall at IS cents
than at 81 bushel in the following
summer, and that wheat at 81 % in
December is equal TO 81 80 in the
succeeding June. In cases of pota
toes-taking those that rot aud are
otherwise lost-togsther with the
shrinkage, there is little doubt that
between October and June the loss
to the owner who holds them is not
less that SO per cent.
Many persons are poisoned by
contact with the wild ivy and sumac,
and in some cases the poisoning is
very severe. TO such it may be of
interest to know that DR.. Brown, of
the United States Navy, claims to
have discovered a certain remedy
for such poisoning. It IS bromide
in olive oil. cosmotine or
glycerine. He used twenty drops
of bromide to an ounce of OIL rub
bling ltlon the affected part three or
four times day, and washing it off
occasionally With CASTLE soap.