The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-02-06
AGRICULTURAL.

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Recent calculations represent that tht
Italian workman receives seventeen ane
twenty per cent. OF the pront on MS Work;
the frencnman Iory-seven per cent.
the Engiisnman MUSK per cent, ana tht
American seVen'yt~o per cent.
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Any dairyman troubled with COWS hav
ing so!e tea's saou'o use pientE OF ilnseec
On. uelole anu a'oer lniking ne VIZ. ane
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Throughout France gardening Is practi
caily taught IN the primary and eiementa'
~ schools Ihere are at present 2S,Vv o.
o..aehaI ~ = 81 :. maaon t uas a = os !
a..aeneu " ~ az! 70 unGer .ne eaae VI
u a .,' eapaoIe VI &c nv pai.Iik An""ies'
VI Tue prineiPieS VI horticulture :,
Farmers who have young orchards should
lose no time In giving them their ATTENTION
by stamping the snow around them quit
solid. Tins has been found an effectual
preventive against the work OF mice'
which are very destructive by the gnawin2
OF the bark when the snow lies deep FOL
any length OF ume.
Never begin until you are ready is as
good advice IN farming as In any business
Last spring Henry. under orders, got his
miiiet IN early IN Apnl and II STANDS m
or the httie tnat did come up looked :,
inghtened that IN May the nve acres mao
10 be repiowed and reseeded, which then
only resulted In naii a crop.
Look out for the low wet places IN your
grain fields when the thaw begins and see
whether few spadefu!s of earth would
not let the water out. Such triae atten.
ton we have known to pay a bnshel OF
wheat for a shovelful of earth-certainly
percentage of profit enough to satisfy the
most mserly, to say nothing of the LATEST.
The latter are the greatest Insurers.
tn measure oorn in the car. multivly
the length bv the breadth and tbis nrod.
net bv the denth Of corn in fine pen- Mnl.
tiplv This again by Az. and point off one
decimal Mace. This result Will be the an.
swer in bushels. For instance. we have
a non If corn az feet lone 7L feet wide
and eII feet high. Wnltinfyiny these
three dimensions together. we have 1880
cubic feet. Now, multiplying this by AZ
we have 1870. Pointing off the one dec
imal. we have as the contents of the pen,
,377 bushels.
The .younal of Chsm;s,yy saws there is
no nation m Enrope 40 advanced in its
metbods of teaching apriculture as italy.
n nossesses two bigh schools of agriculture
a school of forestry. a school of horticult.
ure. one of vinicnlture. two veterinary
schools and twentv.one secondary schools.
VARYING in nrom;nence and ORGANIZATION a
but which NAV be compared broadly with
similar French colleges. These institu-
tions are largely subsidized. either bv IN.
Stat or nroy;dence where they are sit.
mated
Tho fo,,ou;ro ia a oood rece;nt for
worms in horses. Powdered nonlar bark
two ounces. nowdered suInbur four
ounces. m;yed we'll, Divide this mass in.
totweIye parts. and mix one with the food
every NIGHT This will not only remove
worms INT aI.o tome mn the digestive Or
cana so that the parasites cannot End a
iootboid Coyu,,U Gentleman Three
narts wood ashes and two Of salt. a table
spoonful fed daily with thefeed is a sim
pie and effectual remedy.-Record.
Gerr;t, s Miller. of Madison county.
New York writes the Couuf,.v gentleman
that his Holstein cow. Crown Princess. in
III davs in 1871. gave 9.OSl pounds of
milk. IN 365 DAYS after salyinp' IN 1872
she gave II 766 pounds. and in 355 DAYS
after cslyinp in 1873. she gave 1888
no,,nds Al ono cont mr. pound her milk
for the last wear would have brought
Sl22 73. A half blood Holstein COW own
ed by ]. M. Young. of New jersey in
III DAYS. from September. 1873. to Feb
ruary y. 1874. gave 9.O661 pounds of
milk.
Celery Soup.-Scrape and cut into small
pieces two punches Of celery, using the
best parts only; add two quarts of good
soup stock, with an onion cut into slices.
and stew gently until the celery is tender:
put through a colander, season with pep
per and salt and return 10 the fire; boil
mp. add coffee cupful OF boiling milk.
thickened with little corn starch or flour,
and turn at once into the tureen. A trifie
Of sugar is thought by many an improve
ment. while few bits OF fred bread put
into the tureen before pouring In the soup,
are a nice addition.
Three years ago Ben sowed cloverseed
on grass plot, after which he ran the
roller over It; the next year there was
fine crop. In 1876, he again seeded with
clover and rolled AZ before, and had the
same success. Since then all the grass
lands are sown with clover and timothy
as early in the spring as they
can he gotten on with
the team TO roll them and has kept
good sod. This spiing he proposes SOW
ing orchard erase with the other seeds.
it will give not only a larger
yield for the first crop, but make the sec
ond crop more valuable.
OF all painful things. can there be anv
90 e1cruciatingly painful as bone felon:
We know Of none that flesh is heir 10, and
as this nslady is quite frequent. and the