Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-21
FARM NOTES.


of the State of Rhode Island.
The farm lands of France are mort
gagged To but per cent. of their value (;
in England to % per cent.
The Department OF Agriculture re-
ports that the direct loss to sheep own
ers by the ravages OF the dogs reaches
81 900, 900 annually in wool and mutton.
MISSOURI has factory engaged in
making corn-cOb pipes, and can't sup
ply the demand. One dollar a hundred
is paid for the cobs, and they are scarce
at that.
In all our planting and cropping we
should remember that the farm is our
capital, and that increasing its produc-
ing capacity means adding to our prin-
cipal, while reducing it is taking away
the "means by which we live"
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Massachusetts,
PlDUghIndn has had continued success,
year after year, in raising plums, where
hens were confined in the yard, where
the trees were planted. The hens ate
the cIrculio he supposes.
DURING the past nine months over
10000 bullocks from the United States
have been sold in England, and the
profits to American shippers have thus
lar averaged about 4 per cent, although
i'm individual cases 4 much higher figure
has been reached.
FRENCH feeders, it is said, find that
feeding the fowls with boiled or steamed
carrots. chopped into small pieces, rap
idlv fattens them and imparts an agree
able flavor to the flesh, greatly relished
by epicures, ard that fowls thus led sell
more rapidly than others.
WITH breeding stock, a healthy de-
velopment is of much more Importance
than rapid growth. The worse place in
the world To select animals for breeding
purposes is the show-yard, for here all
the appliances known to the best feeders
are usually resOrted to to produce rapid
DEVELOPMENT, which consists in most
cases OF adipose tissue; and these UNI
naturally forced show pigs are like hot
house plants, too tender from the very
forcing they have gone through to be
strong, healthy, hardy, breeding ami
mails. In selecting breeders, it will be
well to let the excessively fat, and the
abnormally pigs severely alone.
DIR. NICHOLS, editor OF the Journal Of
Chenidrg, in relation to excessively
thick planting of fodder corn, says: 1T
is, under ordinary conditions, advisable
and advantageous to plant corn for fod-
der in drills, with at least 20 inches
space between, so that air and sunlight
can have free access TO the growing
plants; but it is not good husbandry to
SOW thickly broadcast. Plants depend
for healthy growth and nutrition upon
access of air. Any plant deprived OF
these agencies in its growth is unsulta-
BILE for the food of animals. Abstract
" this is true; but practically, 1t has
been found best that any fodder crop
be sown thick, since, when grown thin,
the stocks became woody and unpalata-
be.
THE new fertilizer law OF Pennsylvania
went into effect on the first day of Au-
gust-Friday, the lst inst. 1t provides
that every package OF any commercial
fertilizer sold in the State shall contain
ON its outside statement of the amount
of nitrogen, phosphOric acid Soluble
and reverted) and potash which 1t con-
tains; fix the amount of license to be
paid for privilege OF sale $50 for 100
tons, so for more than 100 and less
than 500 tons, and so for more than 500
tons), the money obtained for these
licenses to be placed as fund from
which to defray the expenses OF analy-
zing commercial fertilizers, under the
direction of the Board of Agriculture.
The penalty for selling commercial fer
tilizers, which have not been analysed,
as provided by law, is from SO to 500,
accordinp 10 the nature of the offence.