The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-18

The average size of an Irish fsIIn is 2
| acres
Never let a COW go into winter quarters Il
poor, thin condition.
| A man in Easton, Me, has this year har'
vested 1000 busheIs Of potatos from IS aero
| OF ground.
| "A hog fifteen months old, raised by Mr.
TIL. Lews, of Uniontown, FayetIe county
weighs 755 pounds.
| A strong decoctiOn OF peach tree leaves 1:
| reported to be a specific for chicken cholera
dose, one-naf teae pOOBiul-
| The farmers of the Northwest have made
firm SO OO9tOJ 20 500 OOO,yO by the raise in the
| price OF grain this season.
| AT a recent potato show in England,
where nearly 400 plates were shown, large
number were oi American Varieties.
| The Prairie Frmer states that Bolstein
| cattle are continuing 10 attract more and
| more "a ten, ion III the West and south.
J Machines for shearing sheep and milking
| cows have not proved successful. These pro-
| c.-sses are best performed in the o!d-iashion-
ed way.
-Buckwheat is one o. the m pst staple ar
ticles OF poultry food. 1t is very fattening,
an eQg-producer, md very much relishtd by
poultry.
A writer truly says that there Is no need
to go beyond the farm yards and stables 10
estimate fine condit on of the farm or 10 judge
OF the success OF the owner.
The French farmers do not take kindly
to scientific agriculture, H. the ssyants I'M
darstsnd the term. They cultivate well. and
Evod In every pD-sib e Item o: cost.
One hawk IA Is destroyed for Mr.. Charles
uilIen, OF Chester county, Pa, over thirty
chickens In one month. IL il of the kind
called the long Jailed pheasant hawk.
1t Is stated that on James l. Rays farm,
IN Lewis snd-Clsrk county, Montana, this
season, one acre yielded lU2 bushels u heat,
the largest ieiC OF wheat ever recorded.
A farmer cannot work his farm sa'e'y
without knowing all about his sol. livery
fieId should be studied a. To the results OF Ger
tain methods with ierttlzeEs upon II.
-Novembsr returns show that the wheat
yield this year Will be 200 O.oOO bushels
greater than il was last while the increase
IN the corn crop Teaches 30, ioO,oOO grestsr.
Here is a rare specimen OF the profits of
horticulture worth striving for. Tue ORR ina
tor OF a ne white outdoor grape, suited TO
cur climate, II said To nave sold the copy
AAShA vi Aht ioA s-Vt'ot-
Rot among the sheep is late disaster
announced to have ovsrtaken English fiocks.
IL is laid TO ;he deluge of rain there for the
past ye-T, Keeping the ground 50 Wet as TO be
unwholesome Tor sheep pastursge.
The Rural Netc Yorker says that Sutton's
Msgnum 6onum potato has proven SO pro-
ductive and so misunderstanding in England
ana Ireland that II Is proposed TO import a
suiii Il Mt quantity another season to give IL |
a lrIal here.
Professor Sheldon, in his new work on |
dairy farming. assumes that 80 60. 90 gal |
Ions OF mix are annually made into cheese |
Ia England, ana 55y.WJtOJ gallons of butter. |
The quantity Of the former product made Is |
10 90 tons, anu The latter 8, sd TONS
Oats should be bruised for an Old horse, |
but not for a young one, because the former, |
through age and detective teeth, cannot |
chew them properly; the young horse can |
do So and they sre iHuS properly IN Xod Slth |
sallVa and Turned laJO wholesome mum |
mvnt.
A good test OF The hardness of any vsri- |
ETY. OF forest Tree, Is foand tue rIpse.InE vi |
It's seeds (fruiD. liza variety does no. perfect |
itS seeds I'M given locality, II is regarded as |
very good evidence that II i not sufficiently /
harry 10 be generally cultivated in such Sec /
Jlouh.
This is a good season TO haul the wood to |
the house for the whole year. IL can then he
cut tor the stove and fireplace in stormy
weather, when nothing else can be done. II
viii make the women folks pleasant To have
plenty Of good, dry hre-SoOd cut and put |
away for The year.
The Lancaster county, Pa, tanners, ret
port that the wheat crop looks we'll, with the
exceptions where the fiy and drought have
been. The young clover sowed last spring is
SAID To be very poor, snd SOME OF IL H. 80 bad
mat IL will have to DC TUNED under To make
room for corn.
-Fasten a short piece OF a log chan-say
dve or SIX links-by means Of light strap
10 his leg just above the knee un.Ihe stable
Df coursel, and see how quick that paving
horse VIII leave OF the haoIt. In most Cases
4 few days Will be suffi ,ient to effect h cure. |
50 says the Tribune correspondent.
Good carriage horses, for which there is
always a demand, are produced by crossing
stsunch thorougEb-eds upon large, hand
some, rOomy mares. There is morey in this
sIhs- of horse To nil the requirements OF |
usefulness the horse must be Of good temper, |
Well broken TO work, sound and nOaest.
kind treatment and every care are Cue
% an animal from whose service man de-
ives such important benefits; but too often
Toes man forget that he has a duty to per
orrn. not only towards hts feIlow-man, bu-
owar1 those domestic animals which
Providence nas intru4Jed TO him Ior his well
are.
A COW that belongs TO Curtis MCQulllin,
Il Wharton township, Fayette county, Pa,
ONE time ago experienced difficulty in csiv- :
ng. Amos Sybert made an incision In the
ows side, extracted the calf sewed IN the
wound, and although This was done la MAY |
sht both COW and calf axe living and doing
veil.
Good things to have handy where there
ire horses: White lead, for bruises or breaks
n skin, saddle gals, etc. Bathing whisky,
With about two ounces OF turpentine, two
'unces OF hartshorn and a little camphor for
prains, stiffness, etc Leaf lard, for cuts
Joal Gil applied TO n slight sprain Is also Z
GOD.
The Rural Se'r Yorker recently published
n engraving which burlesqu,s the enor- /,
nous weight hogs have been IN sde to reach {
his engraving shows a porcine specimen as '
ound AS a dollar, labelled ,9gUla pouuds and |
evolving to the draft of two norses ike a q
Theei. This called the modern way OF tax S
ng lat hogs TO m srhet
The farmer cultivates his farm In sum-
ner, snd II yields a bountifuI crop of grain
n winter heshould improve his leisure time
q cultivsting his mind, so that IL may yield ,
bountiful crop OF thoughts. Neither the
arm nor mlnd Will De productive without
Rank weeds will grow up and >
mother ali that is valuable. IL
A Bucks county farmer Endorses the fol- i
owing recipe for the foot disease in cattle: :
AXE one pint of fish ilQard oil will answer: q
ID two ounces of oil of vitriol let 1t stand
ntil the vitriol and oil are one LIQUID then =
id a half PINT of terpenIine. Be careful TO :
our In a little of this at time or IL may ex- 4
lode the bottle; had better set in a bucket q
1 cold w@ter when this is added. n