Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-20
Sgrifmlinral department.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

heep manure as near the surface as
practicable in farming.
Breeding in-and-in is the only way to
perfect live stock.
For beef, Shorthorns and Galloways
take the lead.
The senses of hearing and smelling
are proverbially acute in fish.
1t is said that Is eggs contain as
much nutriment as 20 lbs. of fruit.
A mich cow will make twice as
much butter as tallow per day when
we'll fed
John Harper, owner of Ten Brock,
famous race-horse, refused 100000 for
him.
A farmer in Michigan lately sold a
black walnut tree. of the curly variety,
for 1915.
Farmers who personally look after the
comfort of their stock seldom suffer pc
cuniary loss therefrom.
The prizes in farming are not SO great
as in some other employments, but the
blanks are fewer.
The rule for selecting cattle should be
the large breeds for good soils. and
small cattle for light soils.
A Western dairyman says he has
made 68 l-8 lbs. of butter in 60 days
from Jersey COW without extra feed.
A farmer with neat, industrious,
tidy wife. is sure to prosper, unless he
be welded to tobacco and whiskey.
Changers, by undertaking to manage
factories and stores, often bring upon
themselves disharmony and loss.
Liberal feeding and good care, after
proper selection, have much to do in
making cattle husbandry profitable.
The most careful business men of city
or town began life on the farm, and
early learned the worth of dollar.
The fecundity of fish is wonderful
The German naturalist, Gesner, count
ed 265, 1000 eggs in single female perch.
Jerseys on an average hold out in
milk longer than native COWS, there be-
ing difficulty in many cases to dry them
off.
One pint of haxseed three times
week in the feed of a horse is said to
cure the Initiative or sort of bronchial
cough.
Improved agriculture means increased
crops and more remunerative returns for
labor. capital and skill invested in farm.
ing.
The New Hampshire Agricultural Col.
lege, with facilities for 100 students and
upwards, has only half dozen, as re-
ported.
A Western farmer says: 81 believe in
large horses, as they eat less and dc
more work in proportion to their sizt
than small ones"
Colts and fllies should be broken Il
lead, they will never forget their early
training. and they are more easily broker
to the harness.
If you loan money to farmer and ex
pect principal and interest paid whel
due, it will be when you see the borrow
er's fences and buildings in good repair
A Georgia paper says that bushel o
cow-peas sown in May on an acre. ant
turned under, in ninety days will b
equal to % horse-loads of stable manure
r Wisconsin Patrons of Industry are es
r tablishing libraries, good movement
the books be wisely selected and tho
oughly read and their lessons put int
n practice.
: Of pig manure 100 parts contai
D 77.13 per cent. water, and 22.07 pc
e cent. solid matter; sheep dung contain
e 56.47 per cent. of water, and 43.l3 pc
y cent. solid matter.
e Daniman, a New York horseman, ha
l shipped picked American horses to Ems
t land at good profit, as they are espe,
it tally liked because so we'll broken an
e can be driven by women.
New England might grow muc
1t larger proportion of farm productions fl
It home consumption than is now done. e
e, pecially wheat, corn. beef. pork. muttc
g and poultry. Will she do so?
lie Of the breeds of swine, the Berkshir
IL Essex and Yorkshire take the lead, Il
~ former selling for the highest price
T. The Berkshires cross we'll on the Che
Is ter county sows. The pigs are fine al
10 are usually white.
" An observer, seemingly we'll inform,
~ concerning the tide of emigration nc
" moving Westward, estimates that N
braska will gain $4,000, Kansas u.s. o
at and Texas 100000 in population duri
in the present year.
he The total yield of wheat in the Unit
lat States in 1877, as estimated by the I
IN partment of Agriculture, was $4,000,
IN 900 bushels, while that of 1870 to Is
ed averaged 261, 100000; the average