Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-05-02
5arm anD 5oustboIO
Agricultural Items.
lew York has 2.lls.547 sheep

New York has 2, llS, 547 sheep.
Hens eggs are said to hatch on the
completion of the 2lst day.
Thirteen hundred and thirty-five
parts OF turnips are equal TO 100 parts
OF wheat.
One thousand parts red clover con
tain 200 parts of water, 1879 woody
fibre, So gum. p sugars, 20 albumen,
II starch, 10 earthly matter, and one oil
wax.
When cream is sent in a separate
state 10 London it is packed solid in
bottles prepared Tor the purpose, aud
kept cool by grass or cabbage leaves
fastened around the bottles.
Those who study to get large results
from mich cows are careful 10 keep the
animals as quiet and as contented at
possible, advoiding excessive travel
and labor, also all disturbing causes OF
fear, anxiety or solicitude.
In Prussia il is said The potato is cul-
tiyated with peculiar success. As the
aJS NaA IA 40 htSl1N Ups
leaving only three leaves at the top
roots are thus greatly increased, while
the produce is said 10 be astonishing.
One hundred pounds of turnips pro-
duce one pound Of flesh. An average
acre of turnips yield 500 pounds OF
gluten, albumen and casein, producing
muscle; 600 pounds of gum, sugar and
fat, with $3.50 pounds OF water, pro-
ducing fat.
Deficient food, or what amounts 10
nearly the same thing-food which
does not furnish the requisite quantities
OF the nutritiyc elements required by
an animal 10 meet the W ants Of its sy.-
tents prolific source Of loss TO the
owners of live stock.
The most essential requisites in fowl
house may be briefly stated. They are
warm, dry shelter; pure air, which is
dependent on a capabilitv in the house
OF being readily cleaned; - supply OF
the requisite perches; and a proper ar
rangement Of nests for the laying and
Matching hens.
The roots of clover have natural
tendency TO decompose after hav ing
produced the plant in perfection, and il
i. the effect of decomposition that rem
ders crop of clover SO good a prepar-
alton for the growth of wheat Decay
ever furnishes regenerative food, WIFI lie
the roots pierce and devide the soil.
loosenipg the ground.
The mules of Morocco, excel even
those of Spain. Some OF them are as
large as full sized hor.e. Flooding,
patient, sure-footed and docile, they
carry the traveller at the rate of four
miles an hour, throug a long day with
few halts aud little sustenance. They
are found 10 carry heavier weights than
the camel, and 10 travel faster The
price OF mule ranges from 500 to
500.
The chief use of clover in England
exists in being cut green for soiling all
sort of grazing animals, and for this
purpose II has no superior, 4l0 par, I.
being equal TO 100 parts of best hay.
The heritage is cut every morning in
quantities sufficient for a day or half q
days consumption, and given In q fresh
state to the animals, confined in yard.
that are supplied with latticed rack:
constructed Tor the purpose.
The English milk can has holes in the
lid of the can, through which air i.
admitted to the milk. The milk sup.
piled TO the city of Paris is generally
acknowledged TO keep longer than
that supplied 10 London CONSUMERS
and this has been attributed 20 the FAC
that the former is hermetically CLOSED
in the car during transportation. An
other authority states that the real Sc
cret of the matter with the French
dairymen was that they mixed bicar
Donate of soda with their milk, whicI
served to avert decomposition.
Pasiuring is means of inducing fer
tility. II is computed to add 20 pe
cent, to the fertility OF first-rate soil
This arises from two csuses. A larg
percentage OF What is grown upon tn
soil is returned TO it in the dropping
of the animals which Craze upon it. 1
the second place. when broken up b
the pillow, the sward is converted int
food for the tillsge crops. and is belle,
ed TO be equivalent, in the case OF
well set sod, to more than twelve load
of dung on the acre. In this way sbee
husbandry has been known to enric
lands rapidly, aud too operate .stiii fu
Their in this direction where meal. bear
or oil cake is fed to the grazing an
mails.
Tie fay plant has been cultivated
Britsin, and most civilized .cOunlrie,
.irOm tine immemorial, both for its fib,
IN making thread, and for the see
Welding a valuable oil. The stock t,
stem, in which the fiber exists, gene
ally grows on good soil two or two al
half feet high; and on its panicls
top, when the plant is full grown,i bI,
flowers appear, in which capsules, Co
tanning genlight brown seeds, are ri
ened. Two varieties OF fax are us.
on the continent Of Europe. the Sprir
and Winter kinds. sOwn in AprH u
October. The difference is small, a,
the latter is only known in snow
countries. as in Ass.ris, where 4
Springs are too late for the inst var
~. The Rega seed is much preferre
Concealed nooks about the poultr
yard or it, neighborhood have great /,
fractions to many hens; and but