The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-09-11
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

TwENTY-sIX young turkeys were late
" reported dead at Columbia, Conn,
by eating bugs from potato-tops busted
with Paris green.
GRAPES, almost as fresh as when
taken from the vine" the previous fall,
were shown the past spring in San
Francisco, preserved, the Pacific Rural
Press says, in powdered bark of the
sugar pine.
In 1876 a Georgia farmer planted a
single grain of wheat and harvested
LII grains; in 1877 the yield from
these was u pounds this year the crop
is ''5S dozen bundles, not yet threshed, y
but which he thinks viii give % bushels
the product of one grain in the third
generation.
ENGLAND is largely dependent on
America, also, for fertilizing material.
The London Journal Of horticulture is
authority for the statement that % the
great bulk of mineral superphosphate -
used in that country is made from the
famous phosphate deposits at Charles
| ton, S. G..
A VISITOR to the hop districts of New
York writes to the Utica Herald that the
growers "would sooner allow their
| chickens to be killed than skunk, :"
since this useful creature, usually in
such bad odor with most people, proves
a very great help in the struggle against
the grub which does so much injury to
| the vine.
A RECENT experimental shipment of
80 American horses Qrom Richmond,
Ind to Havre was very gratifying
success, the animals making the voyage
without accident, arriving in splendid
condition, and bringing 1920 to S270
each, for the French cavalry. This may
prove to be the starting-point of profit
able export.
DILUTED carbolic acid is said to be a
complete exterminator of the potato
beetle and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used in preference to
/ Paris green But it is destructive to
plant life unless it is sufficiently diluted
with water-One pint of carbolic acid to
one hundred parts of water This i'm
portant fact should be borne in mind
The cabbage-grub may be prevented by
setting the plants in mixture of lime
and SCOT. WoOd-ashes have also been
similarly used.
In some experiments in fattening
! sheep Henneberg and others found that
in the case of adult animals there is no
production of additional flesh during the
fattening period, but that fat only is
produced. A part of the animals were
killed at three different stages of the
process, and the proportion of flesh and
| fat was determined; of the former the
relative quantities were as 100: SO: 102,
and of the latter 100: 2S7: 339. They
think that there is limit beyond which
this loading down with fat is benefit
neither to feeder nor consumer, and that
| this limit is reached at the middle period,
and that the fattening process should
not extend over three months, and
should be pushed ahead rapidly within
that time.
In favor of frequent milking, French
agricultural journal reports that Gin an
experiment with three milkings day
for IL days a COW gave 40 quarts of
milk. With two milkings the same COW
gave only LAG quarts in the same num-
Der of days. Moreover, analysis show
ed that the milk in the first case was
richer in butter glObules than that in the
second case in the proportion of Al TO
3d. Observations with similar results
have often been made in this country.
The fact is well established that the
shorter the time the milk remains in the
udder the greater the quantity and the
richer in butter, the wasting away of
fats being less and the aggregate secre-
ton more copious. The owner of the
Whitestown herd of Holsteins finds it a
paying practice to milk three times a
day.
THE reason poultry killed at home,
though young, is not as tender as that
bought at the market is, the former is
generally not killed until wanted, and,
when eaten is still rigid with death,
while that bought at the pOulterers has
been killed at least hours-more often
days. Poultry ought to be killed several
days before being eaten, dressed at
once, and with few bits of charcoal in
it, hung in a cool place If poultry are
kept from food and drink at least u
hours before being killed, the crop and
intestines will be emptied, and any SUI
perfluity of secretiOns exhausted. The
flesh will be juicy and the fat firm. If
left three days without food or drink,
though in good condition previously, the
flesh will be dry and tasteless and the
fat soft. Never buy an undrawn fowl.
The gas from the crop and intestines
will faint the flesh, even though retain
ed but a short time.-FancierS' Journal.
PROF. THOMAS TAYLOR, microscopic
of the Agricultural Department, writes
from Washington, D. c., to the Bricks
burg On. j. Times and Journal, asking
for samples of grapes infested with the
"black rot" which, according to that
newspaper, has struck the crop in the
lower end of Gloucester County, n. j.,
to such an extent as to render it total
failure" The Professor speaks of hav-
ing received from Florida specimens
similarly affected. The "new fungus -
is described as globular in form, so mi
mute as to be imperceptible to the naked
eye, fosters itself in clusters to stems of
punches and leaves, setting up fermenta-
ton and depriving fruit and foliage of
nourishment. Prof. Chas Peck Bot
anist to the State of New York, who has |
given much study to mycology, agrees
that no European work on the vine has
ever noticed it, and he proposes to call |
it PhOmo stromatic.
Mules in Mines.