The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-05-15
FARM NOTEN.-

tun SVuutty 10 Fsu 1ls
From one grain of wheat planted three
years ago q Florida man now has three
acres Of gruin.
Soaking timber in lime water has been
recommended for preserving 1t from dry
rot and the effects Of the weather.
For sealing bottles, etc, mix 8 parts Of
rosin, l part Of caustic soda and 5 parts Of
water. This is then to be mixed with half
It's weight Of plaster Of Paris. The com.
pound sets In three-quarters Of an hour,
adheres strongly, is not permeable like
plaster alone, and Is affected but slightly
by warm water.
Many complicated recipes for whitewash
have been published, but perhaps they
have no real advantage over the following:
Take a lump of lime and Stake it with boil
ing water; cover 1t during the process;
strain 1t, and add q little salt dissolved in
warm water, half q pound Of Spanish
whiting, two ounces OF glue. This Is good
for ceilings, walls, wood, brick or stone.
On the 18th ultimo, the Jersey COW
Planchette l7573) Calved TO Major Camp
bell Browns bull Jubilee (2l25D a fawn
bull cali. The day planChette calved she
was only. thirteen months aud twenty
four days old. The heller was bred 6y
Major Brown, and sold by him a short
time back to Hon. X. A. Mapmau, OF
Portsmouth, Ohio. She has not yet been
shipped to her new owner.-Rlrat Sun.
From the Commercial Bulletin we learn
that during the last five years the
Virginia peanut crop has ranged from
225,0 to 10000 busheIa. The lowest
crop Of Tennessee was 10000 bushels;
the highest, sos, 900 bushels. In North
Carolina the lowest crop was 90, 900 bush.
els; the highest, 25,000 bushels. The
greatest yield ofthe whole country was in
1867, when il amounted IL LAOS, 600
bushels. The estimated crop Of the com.
lug season Is 100000 bushels, which
shows it to be OF much greater Importance
than most people imagine.
The Lire Stock Journal says that the
cheapest, quickest and in a large majority
Of cases, decidedly the best way by which
n farmer Of comparatively limited means
can improve his stock, is BY the persistent
use oil the best males he can obtain. In
most cases he will find It best TO secure
full blooded animals OF the breed which
most nearly corresponds TO his ideas, use
these On tho best female he has or can
readily obtain, and continue the use Of
equally good and well-bled sires on the
female progeny for the successive crosses.
An exchange says: "Them man who first
invented the moving machine was Enouh
Amber, OF the town Of Root, Montgomery
county. New York. Amber madp the
running gear substantially tho same rs
now, but failed on the scythe. His first
machine was made in 1884, and was put
on trial at Currytown, Montgomery coun-
", by William p. %uievendarof, who still
resides there. He moved something over
an acre Of grass, but, the scylhe being
straight and smooth. and no guards being
used, the work was but impeIfecIly done.
This machine was condemned as useless"
A very simple test for sewage contami-
nation or the presence OF putrescible or
ganiC matter is TO I'LL a clean pint bottle
three.fourths full with the water to be
! tested; dissolve in the water half a tea
spoonful OF the purest sugar-loai or gran
ulated sugar will answer-Cork the bottle,
and place in a warm place for two days.
II in fromtwenty.fourt to forty.eight hours
the water becomes cloudy or milky it Is
unfit for domestic use. II it remains per-
feotly clear 1t is probably safe. a Dutch
hotel keeper in the Tranzvaal clarifies the
turbid water in the district by throwing
half a dozen dried peach kernels, slightly
cracked, into a large butt OF water. This
renders the muddiest water clear.
I George W. Whitney, in giving his expe.
! rience to the Vermont dairymen, ut their
r tenth annual session, said TO the average
: farmer; "Do not rush of to purchase an
, extra COW or thoroughbred animal; but
rather rush to the cow stable and see what
!, is being done there. Learn first the art o
feeding by practical experiment, and BY
: 80 doing YOU will learn the animals YOU
now have. You may be surprised to learn
what great mixers you have, You may
be surprised to learn how some Of y0ul
q cows will take on flesh while giving a lit
lie poor milk. Test every cows milk you
may be surprised to learn how much but
u ter some COWS will make for a small guam
tity OF milk. Should you find that YOU
D had no good mixers, buy u thoroughbred
buli, il the pedigree Is right. If you MAKE
butter exclusively j, have u pedigree for but
! ter; II cheese, q pedigree for Gheesei |
, If the pedigreeis tor blood only, don't buy
Some few years since q field oil p0tatoe!
!, was narrowed when the soil was reason
ably moist, and with the exception OF dc
stroying o teY bills the operation wa
very successful, killing the weeds and as
lststing in smoothing the surface. On an
other occasion, however, another fell
: was similarly treated but with this differ
ence. that in the second case the sprin
Z was very dry from tho time Of planting
and consequently the soil was very dry; tn
=. young plants we're lust beginning to sho,
g themselves, and on accou6t ofthe disturb
se ance ofthe young plants, together viii
the extreme heat OF the soil, alatge nun
. Der ottbe potatoes were entirely killed
dried nm, or burned to death. Thus II az
pears that in that case the use Of the hal
row was 0 case OF treatment too heroic fo
the potatoes. There is another mode tbs
may be adopted for clearing weeds frol
i, the hills OF the potatoes and Of looScnin
the earth, which Is by means ola flnI
~ tooth garden rake, which can be use
IT. very rapidly snd efEsctually.- - oNmectte
Farmer.
Inian oldpRtent Office report Of 1850.
Hacriculture,S lind how 10 cure a ham
ten minutes. "Put 2quarts OF butter 50
into an iron kettle, and place It over
slow fire, and stir Il occasionally, so III
Il does not bake In the kettle; and viii
the salt Is dissolylng the ham should
placed on 0 strong bench near the fire, Of
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