The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-02-22
FARM NOTES.

Spontaneous incubation has taken
place in an Adams Centre, n. Y, barn
yard, where the heat of litter accident,
ally Matched ont eleven healthy chick
ems.
Agriculture has made very encour
aging progress in Guatemala since 1871, |
an Immense tract of productive land |
having ueenapprnprlated under home
stead act to settlers. aud the increase OF
product thereby will be- great.
1T has been decided abroad that In
removing large trees 1t is not necessary
to take large bali of earth With the
tree. ia como the soil away tram the
irO,s, injuring them rs little AS p0-sibie,
Is now practced with great success
In France, tor several years past,
the tomato plant has been subject 10 Il
disease which ruins IN week the most
promising planting. one writer insists
that it is owing TO the luug continued
wet weather, but the editor ot the Rev
enur llurticoie does not accept this as
the sule cause The plants which were
the most pro,e t hy was seem to b.
the fist to die, while those iu opcu
spaces are less affected This tomato
disease, 81 far a, we are aware, has not
made its appearance in the United
States
-Luiher Crawford of New Brhintree,
las 1856 acre iHrm, milko 30 odd COW,
aud buys the milk OF seventy more
From all this hr makes superior quail
i.y Oi butter for customers in NOrcheS-
ter at II Temunrratlve price sir. Craw-
Ina, a ,ip,y . t,l
which cost 81 600 to purchase aud tit
up tor use. The milk i, SKINNED whe,
sweet and fed to about 1870 hogs and
pigs. Mr.. Crawford slaughtrrs, cuts
aud markets his pork by the mrss, cures
the ham and tubs the lard tor private
families in and about WOrchesttr.
Farmers and others who wish heal
thy stock, must see that they get it
when they go to buy-and the only
way to keep il s0 is to let the hens have
their own way in choice OF food, nests
time of producing eggs, , etc. | d,
not believe that there il farmer in thu
laud who prOlta6ly raises eggs or pOul
try for family consumption from any
one pure breed of poultry ! ED. |
The progeny of a judiciOuS cross al,
healthier, more fertile, less liable [,
sudden attacks of disease, aud it allow
ed the farm for run, cannot but b,
profitable.
The British tenant farmers are II
great distress, chiefly from the fac
tn t American and other wheat grow
ing countries can produce breadstuIi
80 much cheaper than EngldHd can
that, in the absence of a protective tar
III, the agTiculturists can find no lucra
tive market for their products. Tn
result must ultimately be a revision
and lowering OF rents, but the remrd,
cannot be applied until existing lease
expire, and in the meantime man,
bankruptcies are threatened. The lant
owners in many cases, are reducin
rents 10 correspond with the times, bu
many others are so grasping that the
will not at all relax their demands.
Honey sent from America to Eng
land in the comb for the first tim,
reached Liverpool safely on the 5th ins
and the experimrn is pronounced sue
cessful. There were eighty Ons IN on
ship, stored by the bees themselves i
half a milli,n neat little llasS side
boxes. This honey was the partii
product OF twelve thousand swarms {
bers, In which large mercantile FRI
is interested, and which are distribute
throughout the honey. producing SEE
tiOns of the United States in apiaries {
one hundred warns eacn. The Enl
lish papers are wondering what sort
food America cannot supply 10 he
transatlantic cousins.
The real needs of poultry are fe
and simple. They are: warm, dr.,
VeImin proof T0osling and laying qua
ters, clean water, gravel, lime aud
variety Of grain to choose from.
any hens are found lousy or sickly uI
der such conditions, cut of their /,
nails just behind their ears, and Il
hO'k will prove better for IT, WI
should VIC exreUt to have good pnultI
and eggs upon our tables, il we dos
the poor creatures all the time upO
nOnsensical noslTunls. Poultry do be
when made To work. that IS, 10 scratr
for their living. Feed them one fu
iced OF mixed grain every morning
sunrise, aud let them have ample rang
the rest OF the day. Change the trea
ment from nVnsence to common sen,
ior mutual benefit Rural New
Yorker,