Smyrna times., 1879-05-21
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Wednesday Afternoon, May 81.
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Farm Notes.


Contrary to an almost universally-re-
ceived opinion, if not belief, it is found
that corn smut is not poisonous to cattle.
The first duty of road-mender in spring
seems to be to fill up ruts and washouts,
let of standing water and pick up stones.
Fully two per cent. of the live weight of |
a cow, or its equivalent daily, in food is |
necessary to support her in good condition.
A Wisconsin farmer tells the New York |
Tribune that the Compton corn so much adj |
vertised is nothing else but the old big cob |
Dutton.
The amount of beet sugar produced in
France in the year ending September last
is put at S0,000000 pounds. There are sol
manufactures in France all of which are
reported to be financially successful.
A Connecticut farmer, after a series Of
experiments, has concluded that English
turnips are worth twenty-five cents bushel
as feed for milch cows. lie says the proper
time to feed them is just before milking.
Beef is more nourishing than mutton,
but the latter is more easy of digestion and
also less irritating to the intestines. All
immature meats, like veal and lamb, are
more indigestiblc than the flesh Of older
animals.
The best car load of sheep that has left
Chicago for the East, during the last year,
was that Of seventy.one, averaging l73
pounds per head, which brought $3.50 each.
These were purchased last month by Mr..
Hollis, the largest operator in America in
mutton sheep.
To be ready to give assistance to those in
| need, even before it is asked, is one Of the
| best attributes Of our being. No one Of us
can say, 81 do not need help''-to-morrow
he may be the first to want it. The help
| fulness of humanity is one Of the best gifts
developed by the Grange.
A breeder Of poultry says: " Every spring
procure n quantity of cedar boughs and
scatter them plentifully in and around the
hem house. This is all that is necessary, as
the odor of cedar keeps away lice. This
remedy is cheap simple and effective, and
is well worth trying"
There is a very simple method by which
dampness, which produces mould, may bt
prevented in occupied apartments, or il
houses at the seaside which are closed il
winter. Place in an open plate a quantity
Of lime, which will absorb the moisture
In libraries the same simple remedy is yer.
eficacious.
In all SYMPTOMS of manuring one fac
must be borne in mind-that manur
should be placed in az close proximity a
possible to the plants it is to nourish, sine
in all cases Of decomposition the disengager
substance enters into new combinations a
the very instant it is thrown off, mucl
more rapidly than it does at any subsequen
period.
81 have discovered that little pepper
either black or cayenne, mixed in soft fee,
and given three times day, will arrest tn
trouble known as pip, in its early stages
The symptoms are a quick, short chirru
at intervals. feed the pepper as soon as
hear this spasmodic sound. The pip form
on the end of the tongue a horny-li5
scale"
AS the chief producer Of wealth, tn
farmer in Japan has always held hig
rank, only government officers, priests
teachers and soldiers being regarded AS hi
superiors. The agricultural population, a,
cOrdnE to the last census, numbered abou
| 100000, or nearly onchalf the entir
population, and the men are usually abl
to read, write and cipher.
Milk is an almost perfect human foot
In the whole list of food there is none so we
calculated to nourish the young frame
and it is mentioned as n curious fact tha
according to statistics gathered in Lane
shire, England, children Of the average az
Of thirteen years. fed on milk, have bee
known to gain thirteen pounds in a yea
while those fed on tea, coiiee and gener
| rniyaA dat ha ~ ,tainD1 thaY fot
pounds in the same time.
correspondent Of an exchange HI
tried soaking seed corn in 4 solution
chloride of lime, and says of il by soa
ing corn for seven hours in very stror
decoction of chloride of lime, corn can
forced ahead to maturity two or thrt
weeks sooner than it will mature othe
wise. The lime warns up the germ of Il
seed, and sends it up quietly, giving it tv
or three weeks the start of corn planted
the ordinary way, thereby insuring again
frost at the close of the season."
Gotten seeds, as they are collected fro
the cotton gins, are nearly as large as smf
peas, but are so covered by the ends of Il
cotton fibre that they appear much large
The oil manufacturers, who use the see
have a process for removing this cote
fibre, together with most Of the husk,
hard, outer covering of the seed. II
inner portion is then subjected to a hea
pressure, by which the oil is mostly
moved. The cakes OF cheeses remaini
are then ground and sold as c.
J. ton seed meal. Much of the salad oil SO
in our markets, under the name of oil
oil, is made from the seeds of the colt
plant.
Cows AND SHEEP PCoMPARED.-George GC
des, of Onondago county, N. Y, writes
NO the New York Tribune: " Mr.. M. E. Smi
" of Hartford county, Maryland, sends
- statement of receipts from a flock of nj
II common ewes and one South Down ran,
follows: Sixty.one pounds of wool sold
$l3.42, and Q lambs, average weight a lit
de- more than 80 pounds, at four and a-h
nnnnths old. 500 S9. and 2 other lambs