Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-15
FARM NOTES.

but 100000 proprietary agriculturlsts;
one-half the number OF France, with ten
times the area.
Mr.. CARD, the agricultural statistl-
clan, estimates the capital OF English
landlords at 81 900, 100000, and of Eng
lish tenants at S2,0O0,0 100000.
THE manure of cows and pigs resist
decomposition for longer time than
that of sheep and horses-bOth the latter
being dryer than the former, and decom-
posing more readily in the soil.
A FARMER, having lost one of his sheep,
said to neighbor: "Iou know that
big wether | had out in that big lot.
Well, | found him dead this morning,
and now what | want to know is
whether the weather killed the wether
or not.
INDIAN corn was first grown by Eu-
ropeans in this country at the James
River settlement in Virginia, in zoos;
and history informs us that the IN
crease was immense, more than thou
sand fold. In 1909 more than forty
acres were grown by the Virginia plant
ers.
SIX million people find their living in
France from agriculture, upon an area
less than the State of Texas, OF which
about one-tenth was specially fertilized
by narure, another tenth is absolutely
sterile, the eight-tenths being land re-
claimed and cultivated up to the present
produCtiveness.
CHARCOAL, pulverized and mixed
with water, is now highly recommend
ed as an agent for relieving cattle suffer
inc from any arrangement OF the
stomach, such as bloat or hoven, etc.
This should be remembered. There is
no doubt OF its efficacy, if abundance
OF concurrent testimony can be relied
upon.
4 CORRESPONDENT of the Indiana Farm
Sr poured one evening last fall lime wa
ter on the heads of nice lot OF cabbage
and the next morning all the worms
that infested them were lying dead
all over the patch. A writer in South
srll Home accomplished the same result
by applying, in the morning when the
dew was on, mixture of one-third air
Stacked lime and twO-thirds unleached
ashes.
IN selecting an animal for breeding or
fattening, obtain one having large
chest-the part containing the lungs,
heart and the larger blood vessels, all
of which have an important function to
perform in the process of nutrition. 1t
is well known among cattle men that
animals with small chests do not fatten
readily, and they are remarkably suscep-
tible to the influence of exciting causes
of disease.
Ground intended for a crop of winter
wheat should be plowed as soon as posi-
Bile, be it oat, wheat stubble or meadow.
The pillow should not run over four
inches deep, and the soil should be left
in rough state until terminating weed
seed makes it necessary to harrow 1t.
The oitener the ground is narrowed
and the closer the soil is packed, the
more certain there is to be good crop.
We would urge this upon those who
intend to grow u crop OF this cereal next
year.
A PLAN, saws the Scientific Farmer, for
improving the aroma of butter, in use
in many parts of Switzerland noted for
good milk and fine butter, is as follows:
The milk, as soon as it is drawn, and
while vet warm, is filtered through
sprig OF washed fir tips, the stem OF
which is inserted loosely and upright in
the hole of the funnel. The milk de-
posts hairs, skins, clots, or gelatlnOus
sliminess on the leaves. 1t has impaired
to it most agreeable odor and does not
readily turn sour. A fresh sprig should
.be used each time.
A gentleman who has had some eX-
perience in onion raising, writes to the
Maine Farmer that he leveled off a spot
twenty feet square, where COW had
been yarded, and spread on il a bushel
or more OF wood ashes, and mixed them
in with hoe and rake. He planted in
rows, ten inches apart, and in hills one
half that distance, pressing it hard with
a board on which he stood. When the
onions came up, he gave them a supply
of water that had been made tepid from
standing in the sun, and that was well
saturated with new manure. The result
was twenty bushels Of fine onions, and
no bugs or worms. Onions should be
planted early.
THE benefits OF green manuring, with
buckwheat and rye, for wheat, are well
shown by a correspondent OF the Ohio
Farmsr. The field had been in corn for
fourteen years and was completely eX-
hausted. 1t was plowed, sown 10 buck
wheat, which was plowed under when
in flower. then SOwn TO winter rye, which
was plowed under the following spring,
and the land planted 10 corn. The yield
OF corn was very good. Three years after
a portion OF the land was sown to buck
wheat the last of July, turned under
September 90, and SOW n to winter wheat,
the crop the next season being thirty
three bushels per acre. On land adjoin-
ing. tina. had not received a dressing OF
buckwheat, the yield OF wheat was only
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