Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-03-11
AGRICULTURAL lTEMs.

o mems 81 this time OF the year; from
seven to ten are enough.
Massachusetts, WAS the first State in
the Union TO order special survey
Of it's forest resources.
) The clip Of wool for 1879 is the lar
gsst ever shown in this country,
amounting to 233,66O,O0O pounds.
The Prairie Farmer predicts a%.'scar-
city Of hay before the new crop is cut.
That is the outlook from a Chicago
standpoint
Keep q good supply Of old mortar,
o. crushed oyster shells, where your
iswb can help themselves, and see
sAat We grsvel-box is kept full.
The chinch-bug, 80 destructive to
he wheat crop, and the bed-bugboth
belong to the same order, yet ono has
wings, and the other is wingless.
Grating may be commenced if the
weather is mild, especially cherry
trees, which succeed best when graf
ted early.
There Is nothing hat fowls will de.
YOUR more greedily than raw bone
when It is broken into bits. Mills
that will break up bones can be had
for q few dollars.
Reducing all the milk and cheese
sold, together with butter, to q but
ter standard, the average product of
all the COWS in the country is less than
TOY pounds per COW.
Buckwheat is recommended as the
best remedy for wire worm. Two or
three crops sowed in succession will
completely starve them out, as they
will not eat it to any extent.
Spring wheat should be sown early.
A cold spell may freeze the ground or
cover it with snow, but the seed is
safe if the work is done, and one may
rest contented while othera are grum-
bling.
The Agricultural college of Japan
has been in existence three years, and
a large number of students have been
educated in it. The Government rec
ognizes it's usefulness, and aids it in
various ways.
sPre-eminent among the arts, and
tar surprising them all, agriculture
ought to occupy special attention,
since BY it's rise everything else is
raised, and by its improvement the
whole OF life becomes progressive.
Baron Liebig says: "The only
methcd by which you can possibly
advance and develop agriculture is
by experiments; that is the only plan,
for there is no branch of industry SO
completely built up by experiment as
agriculture"
In France butter IS sent unsalted
to market, since in this condition its
flavor and aroma can be best tested.
Salt hides many faults in butter. The
wholesale dealers salt and barred it
up Immediately for expectation to
England and Brazil.
Ii there is not sufficient rain to
keep compost heaps moist. water
should be supplied, even if ithas to be
hauled and poured on them. De-
composition is arrested when the heap
becomes dry. A few barrels Of wa
ter from the well will soon START up
heat and decomposition in a dry pile
ef compost.
At the recent meeting of the Yer
mont Dairymen's Association, O. S.
Bliss gave an interesting account cfthe
dairy OF Mr.. Burchard, of Illinois,
who on one occasion MIXED his cows
cooled his milk, raised the cream,
made the butter, took it TO Chicago,
put il on exhibition, and received the
prize-all in one day.
The raising Of thirty bushels of
wheat to the acre will remove from
the land ffty-one pounds of nitrogen,
twenty-four pounds Of p~hosphoric
acid and thirty-nine pounds Of potash.
This could be replaced by sixty
pounds OF sulphate of ammonia, III
pounds Of superphosphate oflime and
70 pounds Of chloride Of potassium.
Audubon says a woodcoek will eat
its weight OF insects in single night.
DR.. Bradley says a pair of sparrows
will destroy $3.50 caterpillers in a
week. Woodpeckers are constantly
employed in Kidding the orchards of
insects and their eggs, which they
skillfully discover under the pieces of
dead bark. Robins through the
spring and summer are continually
hunting for worms and grubs.
One fruitful source of collie in hor-
SEES is cracked corn. If corn is to be
fed use whole corn; it is much more
likely to be properly masticated than
cracked corn, and its imperfect mas
t~lcation causes the collie. 1t is also
unwise to feed grain to n hungry
horse, for then a | large portion is very
apt to DE swallowed without being
properly masticated. This can be
seen in their weddings. Always let
the edge of a horses hunger be taken
off with a feed of hay before feeding
grain. Half an hour extra spent in
feeding, when on the road, will
bring You home half an hour earlier
at night.
H. Horton, Of Chemung, N. Y,