Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-01-09
AGRICULTURAL.


i Hereford beef commands higher prices
+. in London markets than shorthorn beef.
There is no animal that will better re-
, pay the cost Of good extra keep than a
dairy COW In full milk.
! The wheat crop of the northwest, as it
is being threshed, is turning out better
than was reported, both in quality and
quantity.
In consequence of the rehabilitation Of
the Russian army, thousands Of cavalry
horses have been sold for mere nominal
price.
Road locomotive engines are becoming
quite common in England for heavy team
ing, blowing, etc. The excellent roads Of
the country favor their usefulness
According to the report of the Commls-
sioner of Agriculture about 10000 tons Of
guano are used annually in North Caro-
lima at about in average cost Of $50 per
ton.
The urine of all animals, especially
those who are highly fed, is more valuable
as manure than the solid excrements, and
should be carefully saved by suitable an
sorbents
North Carolina has for some years been
shipping cottonseed OIL to Italy, in clar.
fled state, where it is used in place OF
the more expensive olive oil. 1t has Of
late begun shipping peanut oil.
Work not a rod of land more than You
can work well. 1t is easier and fiom more
profitable to reap sixty bushels for one
acre than fifty from two. Manure and
proper cultivation will enable you to do
it,
1t ismOre honorable and dhslifed to be
living independently on a farm, making
butter and cheese, and raising abundant
crops and fine stock, than to sit in high
places and aid in making bad laws.
Irish graziers remove the horns of cattle
by sharp gouge when they are calves.
Polled bullocks are said to he very quiet
and rest comfortably therefore fattening
faster and treading down less straw.
There is only one other worse thing to
plant on Il farm than Canada thistles--
Wack grass and that class Of noxiouS
weeds. 1t is a mortgage. Once Success
fully planted, it will soon lbsorb the
farm.
Ammonia escapes rapidly in vapor from
hot dung heaps, Its presence may be
shown by waving a bit of cloth wet with
muriatiC acid IN the vapor, when if am
mOnia is present dense white clouds will
be formed
In Lincolnshire, England, 100000 asres
of lever-and-ague breeding swamp land
have been transformed into fields of
wheat barley and oats and excellent mead
ows through judicious schemes Of reclama-
| ton.
Alfred Johnston, of Salisbury, n. c.,
has lately dug the largest crop of sweet
potatoes ever raised in that section in one
season, gathering nearly 900 bushels. Of
this number, 100 selected potatoes weigh
ed over 800 pounds.
Gypsum is a valuable fertilizer and de
odorizer too little known and too sparing.
y used. For use in the stable and poul-
try yard it is invaluable. II is complete
absorbent of ammonia-a most valuable
element in all fertilizers.
Don't place too many eggs under the
sitting hens at this season of the year
Nine or eleven, according to the size of
the hen will give better turn out than
more. Place three inches of dirt in your
box or barrel nest with some soft fine hay,
and Biddy will attend to details.
The average period of CESSATION for \
mare is 1856 days; COW, 2SO davs; eve, l54
days; goat, lj3 days; SOW, III days; slut,
GO days; rabbit, thirty days. Incubation
Goose So days; turkey, q days; peatowl,
% days; duck, % days; chicken, u days;
pigeon, II days; canary, IL days.
The moist climate of England favors
the growth of potatoes; 800 bushels to the
acre is spOhCa of as not an uncommon
yield. Here it would be almost unheard
of, the average in New England not much
exceeding 100 bushels, and 300 bushels is
a very heavy cropfor our country.
Mr.. p. w. bill, of Auburn, Me-, reports
800 bushels Of corn as husked from six
acres. His root crop is nearly 1000 bush
els, mostly beetS, which he considers good
feed for either hogs or cows. He also
raised eighty tons of hay, and all these
crops from farm of only eighty acres.
According to DR.. Lawes, the value of
manure made by feeding a ton of corr
meal is $6.6j showing that the profit il
feeding meal is chiefly to be found in the
flesh produced. Clover hay also stands
high as source of rich manure, the ma
nure from feeding ton being valued at
more than half the value of the hay
itself.
1t is suggested that the telephone would
be very useful for farmers. A line running
along country roads and terminating at
the nearest village would save many trips
to town, as it could be employed to call a
doctor, to order goods, to engage hands for
extra work or to send messages to be tele.
graphed to q distance. Iffarmers furnish.
ed the posts line could be put up for
$40 per mile.
The island of Jersey, the original home
of the cattle breed of that name, has to-
tal area Of $4,000 acres, yet last year its
export Of early potatoes amounted to $780,
700, or at the rate OF about $40 per acre for
The whole island, including roads, rocks,
by-ways and waste places. This year the
breadth planted to potatoes was unusually
great, but the potato disease appeared in
May and the entire crop has turned out
failure.
The common farmer stands in great
need OF being made to understand how
vast is the future opening before him, and
now largely the real greatness Of the re.
public depends upon the class to which it
lelongs. He can really do more 70 render
he nation truly independent and self-reli-
mt than any other class or interest in the
The question to be laid be-
ore every farmer Isl Will he rise to the
Raising cotton and cockleburs IN the
anne field may be agriculture, but not of
high order. Planting corn on freshly
urned sod, without fertilizers, may be pro-
table. Sowing grain on wet or lumpy soil
nay entitle the cultivator to medal-but
! should be leather one for stupidity.
Whatever work there is to be done on the
,rm is worth doing well, and thorough
reparation and cultivation of the soil are
ssential to success.
A farmer of experience says that the
,et of horse require more care than the
ody. They need ten times as much, for
/ one respect they are almost the entire
orse. All the grooming that can be
one won't avail anything il the horse is
reed to stand where his feet will be
THY. In this case The feet will become
isordered, and then the legs will get bad
out of fix; and with bad feet and bad
gs there is not much else Of the horse ft
n anything.
From sunnower seeds is expressed a
clear and flavorless oil, the de-
and for which in Russia is very great.
is exported from st. Petersburg at
Dout fifty dollars per gross ton, and is
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