The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-08-28
FARMERS COLUMN.
FARM NOTES.

furnish surplus Of 25O,0OO tons Of whea
this year
An approximate estimate Of the cottoi
crop Of Texas this year places it at 800 ,OO
bales
California expects TO export from tn
crop of the present year 100000 tons o
wheat Oregon calculates on a surplus o
100000 tons of last year, or a surplus 70
expectation of 275 900 tons.
Amy farmer who allows the Canadt
thistle to go TO seed on bis land is liable I,
ine Of $50.
Mr.. John Smith, of Ridley township
Delaware county, recently lost fifty chick
ems with cholera.
The presence of the red spider in ho
house Is said to be sure indication Chat the
air is kept too dry.
Farming 10 said TO be a slow business
but sure. The man who cannot work and
wait will not succeed,
1t is said that the rose breasted goose
feeds upon the Colorado beetle, and carries
them to its young.
The reports of crops in Southern Mani
toba are very favorable. The potato bug
appeared there this season.
-Mr. Samuel j. sharpless, Philadelphia,
has sold to F. Won Kapff, Gavanstown, Nd,
Jarsey bull calf Niobe Prince.
Providence never hides a smiling coun.
tenance from those who manure highly ,eul-
tivato often and seed literally.
Whenever you see farm upon which
year after year no improvement is made,you
may be sure that the farmer neither reads,
observes nor thinks.
Tobacco leaf goes in hogsheads to Ger
many and Turkey, fancy brands to London,
Paris and Hong Kong and sheep wash, made
From the stems, 10 Australia.
Two owners Of one flock of sheep in
Humboldt county, Nevada, sold a few days
ago 10000 pounds of wool, this years clip,
an average cf six pounds per fleece,
"A meeting of farmers took place at Linn
erick Centre, Montgomery county last week,
to take steps towards starting creamery A
committee was appointed to select site.
In young horses sweeny or wasting of
the muscles of the shoulder is often a conse-
quence Of unsteady pulling with an lift
ting collar.
Those who desire their bees to thrive
ana produce large quantities of rich honey,
should sow each year small patch in buck
wheat. 1t will amply reward the trouble
and expense.
Mr.. John Russell, Of Compassville, Lam
easter county, recently discovered on his
farm an ear Of corn of considerable size sur
rounded by 26 ears OF smaller size. They
were all united at the butt end.
The number of hogs slaughtered at
Cleveland since March /, is l76 ,S54, nearly
three times the number which have been
slaughtered i'm Cincinnati in the same time.
The number in the latter city is 6O5OO.
"A gentleman writing from Berlin, New
Jersey, says that one of his neighbors gath
cred this season from 34-lOO of an acre
of Kirkwood strawberries (without extra
culture) 3,4l4 quarts of fruit, that sold for
$6ll.5l gross.
Mr.. VIM. IT,. Green, of McDonough CO.,
1llidois,has been remarkably successful with
variety of wheat called Siberian. The en-
tire crop has been purchased by the Nation.
al Department Of Agriculture at Washing
ton.
Mr.. Richard Goodman, of Lonox Mass.
has sold TO Collin Cameron, the agent at
Brickefsville, Pa, young Jersey bull from
his COW Catalpa, and cow calves from COWS
Coral, Syringa, Aster, Lena and Lady
Creamy.
"A blackberry farm near Dallas, Texas,
has yielded 6,OOO quart boxes ON two acres,
{ and the crop, selling at 20 cents per boz, ,has
brought to the owner 81 200. The berries
are large, nearly round ia shape, coal black
and of delicious flavor.
The increase Of two bushels of wheat
per acre on 40 ,OOO, 900 acres, the area now in
wheat, would be gain to the country OF
$sO,OOO,O 900, and if by improved seed we
could increase the production one bushel per
acre this would amount to $40 100000.
After an afternoons discussion at a
meeting of the Michigan Sheep Breeders and
Wool Growers Association, on the washing
Of sheep, the result was almost an unani-
nous verdict that the practice is not only
useless md barbarous but improbable.
Tho greatest gain from sheep husband
ry is in saving as much as possible of labor
and loss in the management Of the flock and
much disappointment and discouugement
will follow early lambng OF ewes if comfort
able quarters aud good care are wanting.
"A small worm, resembling snail in
shape aud eolor,is said to be the latest enemy
tothe potato in this State. The eggs, which
are yellowish in eolorare deposited on leave:
of the plants aud hatchod out in a few hour.
and twentY-four hours thereafter the plant
is destroyed.
"A correspondent writes that old mares
have been known to breed if allowed to rur
with young stallion for awhile. They
must be watched aud taken away ct Ia,
proper time. This has been successful, al
ehNhbu hhNJ NOlo oSiNNC lNBululll pl lu'
stud and then failed.
The English hop crop is in bad way
being threatened with mIldew and lice
Even the most favored districts are not ex
empt from these impending back-sets
Throughout the entire hop district the pros
poets are exeeedingly blue, aud planters ar
very much discouraged.
Clear bran alone should never be fed l.
fowls on account of its swelling and cakinl
in masses in the crop, and proving fatal +
chicken life not infrequently. It will sod
den and increase in bulCSery rapidly befor
digesiing, causing rupture of the crop if an.
great quantity has been eaten.
The late rains in Michigan have cause
less damage to the crops than was at fir,
expected. The total crop of wheat is be
heved to be much larger than in 1879 ,whic
was the largest ever harvested The tots
crop Of wheat is estimated at $4,000, 90
bushels. Report says that all spring eroT