The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-01-15
year by southern planters by the rise in

year by southern planters by the rise in
crops.
Pear blight in several instances has
been arrested in affected trees by syring-
ing them with a weak solution of potash,
and it has proven preventive when APP
piled to the healthy trees.
1t is now predicted that within five
years the United States will be able to
produce all the sugar it needs, and that
in ten years we will be exporting more
sugar than we are importing.
Progressive agriculture demands greater
faith in the possibilities of husbandry
and determination that each year shall
show some advance, some improvement
over the labors and results of its prcde-
! cessor.
IT is said that never in the history of
this country was there 50 much winter
wheat sown as this fall, nor ever was it
looking better, if as well. Many farmers
are feeding il down with sheep, calves
and cows.
While there are many cows that will
not pay for their keeping, for the sim
pie reason that "they have not it in
them," there great many that do not
pay, but which would pay if they were
properly taken care Of.
Make Il shallow basin in the ground
not far from the kitchen, ana fill with
coal ashes as it is made, and on this throw
light slops, wash water etc. An inn
mcnsc amount of the very best of fertil-
izcrs can be made in this way.
Those farmers who read live agricul-
tural papers are constantly raising their
standard of farming, getting into the
best breed Of stock, and are gradually
having their farms thoroughly furnished
with the best animals Of all classes.
The corn crop Of the United States, this
year, according TO the last report Of the
national agricultural department, ex-
cccds that Of 1878 by l50,0O0,0O0. In
the states and territories west of the.
Mississippi river thsMcrease is over lOo,-
100000.
The farmer should have improved ma
chincry, learn the science Of agricultural
chemistry, the proper rotation Of crops,
the art of recupcrating depleted lands; in
fact, should keep up with the times
studying the science that underlies the
art Of farming.
Mr.. Young the great corn-grower of
kentucky, who grows 100 bushels to
the acre, puts field in corn two success
sive years, then seeds it down and let it
remain in corn. All through his farm
ing he has never deviated from this
course. The corn is planted in hills,
and never more than four stalks are al |
lowed to remain in each hill.
Soils vary in their powers of absorbing |
manurial substances Porous soils act
more powerfully in this respect than very
stiff, rctentive clays although Prof
Vocckcr has asccrtaned that there is
not very much difference between the
powers of sandy soil as COM
pared with a calcareous or clay one;
while the general results of experiments
prove that sandy soils are not equal to
Ioamy soils as absorbcnts of manures:
But soil has not an unlimited capacity
for absorbing manurial substances. If a
solution of ammonia-phosphate, says
Prof. Cameron, be passed for some time
through Il weighed quantity of soil, it
will after a certain time pass through
If, however, one pint of
solution of ammonia-phosphate be filter
ed through portion of the soil, the am
monia and phosphoric acid retained by
the latter will not even, except in very
small part, be removed by iiltering
through the soil pint of pure water.
This shows that the soil has u greater
power of removing ammonia from solu-
ton than water has of removing ammo
mia from the soil.