Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-14
Farm Notes.

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buque this fall.
A second crop OF barley (volunteer) at
Sun Prairie, Wis, came into head before
the late cold snap.
| Over 1000 persons in Clark and Wayne
counties, Mississippi, earn their living
by turpentine industry.
A strong decoction of peach tree leaves
is reported to be specific for chicken chol-
era, dose, one-half teaspoonful.
Two-thirds of the cultivated land IN
America is cultivated by the personal
labor of the men who own the land
At recent potato show IN England,
where nearly 1 400 plates were shown, a
large number were of American varieties.
The favorable fall weather in Dakota
has enabled farmers to get in an immense
crop OF wheat in the northern portion of
| the state.
Great quantities Of tobacco are raised
in Russia, the seed from which it is
grown being obtained chiefly from this
country.
| Red clover was introduced into Eng
land from the Netherlands in 1915, by
Sir Richard Weston, then ambassador to
| the Low Countries.
Pennsylvania has eighty incorporated
county agricultural societies, thirty-one
OF which have representation in its State
Board of agriculture.
! Bohemia has two superior and seven
ordinary institutions for agricultural in
struction, all of which are In the enioy
ment of state support.
French farmers do not take kindly to
scientific agriculture, as the savants un-
derstand the term. They cultivate well,
and save in every possible item of cost.
A decrease of 10000 COWS is reported
in Ireland this year as compared With
| last. Railroad books show a great fall
ing of in the amount of butter shipped.
The value Of farms in the United States
is eleven billions and the annual product
is three billions. In four years, therefore,
the farm products equal the value of
farms.
| Hemp is recommended to be cultivat-
ed in vineyards, orchards, ETC., for the
Punishment or destruction of noxious in
sects. It is said that noxious insects are
not found in hemp-felds.
Agriculture is to be made an obliga-
tory study in the elementary schools OF
France. This is a recent action of the
French senate, and was adopted by
majority of 254 votes.
Here is a rare specimen of the profits
of horticulture worth striving for. The Or
iginator of new, white, outdoor grape,
suited to our climate, is said to have sold
the ''copyright' of the same for $4,000.
Peach tress blossomed in Kentucky,
the second time this year, and a market
woman near Newport Ky, sod a bushel
OF Strawberries in Cincinnati, and had a
large supply nearly ripe, destroyed by
the freeze
Rot among the sheep is late disaster
announced to have overtaken English
focks. is laid to the deluge OF rain
there tor the past year, keeping the
ground so wet as to be unwholesome for
sheep pasturage.
London Garden, in speaking of strong
manure for roses. says: A successful Eng
lish competitor for fifty guinea prize
'::fcd his plants tremendously" some of
the beds being mulched with nearly
foot of manure.
| One Of the phenomena Of the season Is
a second crop OF raspberries and straw
berries in Delaware and Maryland. One
grower has shipped at one time as many
as 1870 pints ofraspberries from his bushes,
the second crop this season.
Glover in Mclean county is yielding
about four bushels OF seed to the acre,
and most Of The farmers have already
sold at 81 per bushel. In Allegan county,
Mich, the crop was the largest ever
known. The price there has ranged from
$3.50 to $685. per bushel.
Cheap walks from the house to the
stable and other out-houses may be con-
structed by laying sapling trees, say 6
inches in diameter, parallel with each
other and one and two feet apart, accord
ing to the width desired. Bind them in
place by pinning ties across occasionally.
Fill in the middle with sand, gravel,
sawdust, or any similar material.
Wheat is selling in the Gallatin valley,
Montana, at fifty cents per bushel, and
there Will be large surplus which can't
be disposed Of even at that low figure,
and probably not at all. With the North
ern Pacific extended through that region,
as it will soon be, the products of Mon
tana promise to be almost lim1tlcss.
A farmer in Elvira, a., cut crop of
barley from piece Of land in the sum-
mer, being unable!for lack Of he 20 to cut
the crop until after it had become so ma
tured that much shelled in handling. A
second crop sprung up on the stubble
and was almost ready to harvest when
the freeze came.
Mr.. Mech has been credited with the
answer, when asked what he manured
his land with, saying, :sWith brains,
sir!" Opie, the celebrated painter, is the
originator of the idea. He was asked by
an ambitious pupil, with what he mixed
his colors, he replied, "With brains, sir"
The entries of the late dairy fair in
London were as follows: Live stock, 342;
dairy products, 400; dairy implements,
models, drawings, etc., SO; total, S61.
This is an increase over the entries at
similar fair held in October OF last year
of more than 200, showing the increased
interest in dairy farming and manipula-
tons among English dairymen and farm
ers.
The destruction of crops by squirrels
is not confined to California. The loss
Of corn in Overton county, Tennessee
from this cause last season was estimated
at sne-tenth of the crop. One farmer re-
ported that they we're swimming across
the Cumberland by thousands" The
equilibrium between these lower links in
the chain of animal life is seriously dis
turbed by mans arbitrary interference
with the natural course of production,
and he must pay the penalty or modify