The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-28

Peaches are few in New England.


Pears are scarce in Massachusetts,
Low perches are preferable for fowls.
Weeds are gross absorbers of plant food.
Poultry husbandry should be encouraged.
Steam -threshing is almost everywhere
superseding horsepower.
The reading and thinking farmer is the
one who wins the prizes
The hay crop of Vermont proves to be
more than an average yield.
Poultry, well managed on farm, is an
undoubted source of income.
Good thorough tillage is death to weeds
and their propagatng powers.
The grain area in the South is greater this
season than any year since 1850.
Longfelow, noted mcrino ram valued at
| ST., 000 lately died in Batavia, N. Y.
| Rarus and Great Eastern have been en-
gagged to trot at the Minnesota State Fair.
| But for the farmer and gardener all other
vocations and professions would languiSh
| and perish
Texas grew iOrty-six thousand bales more
Of cotton last year than any other State in
the Union.
The Eastern agricultural press call the
New England Agricultural Society ring Of
self-elected leaders.
Onions from the little hundred-acr patch
of Chester, on the Erie Road, are now sell
| ing at IL to 81 25 per barrel.
Mr. Gold, of Connecticut, prefers horses
or mules to steers for farm work, both for
economy of keep and readiness for extra
work
! A correspondent recommends ants for
currant-worms hens for potato bugs, and
turkeys for grasshoppers. How about
| panthers for bad men?
c. c. Schenck takes up the cudgel for
Bermuda grass, saying: "Anything that
stock will feed on and can hold its ground
against sedge and briers, will be welcomed
as an ally, not treated as an enemy"
J. J. Mechi the veteran English farmer,
recommends and practices four-year rota-
ton of crops and deep plowing in dry
weather for the better aeration of the land.
Charles P. Landers, Of Mohawk Valley,
| says that fifty acres is not enough fora farm
unless it is all man can work, and work
well, for it is only good farming that pays.
The London Live Stock Journal says that
| the competition of American and COntinen-
tai countries in the supply of pork product
has become exceedingly discoufaging to
| British farmers
| Niagara Falls is to have the largest -four
ing mill in the world. Its daily capacity is
to be twelve hundred barrels. What a mag
niicent earthquake an explosion of this
mill would make!
The Secretary of State of Nebraska places
| the acreage of that Stale under cultivation
at two million three hundred and fifty light
thousand five hundred and tifly-tive, to a
population a little over a quarter of q
million.
A three e-hundred- pound hog that was
swept down two mll-dams and mile of
rushing creekwater during the recent tor
nado, and came out without the loss of his
tail, is advertised by the committee of a
fair as one of the attractions to draw a
crowd.
G. Decrombeque is said to have the best
managed farm in all France. Last June he
entertained the members Of the Agricultu-
raj Congress which met at Paris The farm
comprises six hundred and eighty-seven
acres, and produces among other things six
thousand six hundred tons of sugar beets
Beet-sugar is one of the gentleman's special
| ties,
A legal bushel of oats in Maine, New
Hampshire and New Jersey must weigh 80
pounds; in Canada, "a pounds; in Oregon,
36 pounds in Missouri, 80 pounds; in Iowa,
| Massachusetts,, New York and most of the
other States, 80 pounds The weight should
be uniform throughout the United States
and Canada.
The art of gardening was first practiced
in the East, and the ancient Greeks appear
to have received the fruit, along with the
knowledge of grating to improve and vary
it, from Media. They again transmitted
their skill to the Romans, who carried the
cultivation of the apple so far as to pos
sess no less than twenty-nine varieties when
Pliny wrote.
Goats are beginning to be much talked
and written of as one of the domestic ami
mails both necessary and economical on a
farm. Goat breeders now dispute the state
ment that the animals will thrive on chips
of wood and broken fence-rails but admit
that they will live nicely on old agricultu-
raj newspapers and hoop-skirts.
VIM. Horne in the account of his travels
in Great Britain, says: 81 am charmed with
the attractive and picturesque appearance
of English farms. Especially beautiful are
the common hedge fences of the country.
They have a lovely, softening appearance.
One particularly attracted my attention, and
this was the uneven shape and size of the
closes, or fields"
Don't allow weeds about your door yard,
barnyard, roadside, in the hedges of your
fields in the garden where you have taken
off crop to ripen seed; nor should you
put ripened weeds, full of seed, into your
pigstye. Neglect not these hints and sug-
gestions, lest you should erelong be inquir-
ing how to eradicate weeds prevention
is better than cure' is an old adage.