The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-02-07
FARMERS COLUMN.
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is covered with soft gray wool, or fur.
1t is said that the hop crop will be short
from half million to a million head this
season.
Mr.. Jacob Pitt, Of West Goshen town
ship, Chester county, recently caught two
legged skunk.
--Merino sheep feed in hocks, while NUT
ton sheep separate almost as much as herds
Of cattle when feeding.
The United States has nearly four times
the acreage in crops that are given in the
agricultural returns of Great Britain.
1t is said that the experiments of Mr..
Lawes, of Rothamstead, England, involve
an annual expenditure of over $4,000.
of all the products of the soil none are
so prolific in seeds as weeds; 10000 seeds
have been counted upon one mullen stalk.
Persons using nitrate or soda as fer
tilzer ought to bear in mind that, of all fer
tilizers, il is the easiest washed out from the
soil.
TO make q chicken coop-get store goods
boxes (about sx9O) put strips the short way,
about three inches apart Be sure to put in
floors.
"A correspondent writes: "Last season
kept the striped bugs from my cucumbers by
saturating ashes with kerosene and applying
handful in a hill"
Clarion, Venango, Armstrong and But
Ter counties have formed a combined Agri-
cultural Society for the purpose of holding
alternate annual fairs.
In trimming off branches they should
be cut close to the trunk, so that no dead
stumps shall disfgure the tree; also that
the bark may readily grow over
German ivy grows freely form the slip,
though a well-started plant may be bought
of Tourist for a mere triae thus saving
much valuable time in the raising.
The Duchess Farmer says: If farmers
would plan recreation for their wives and
families they would remove one cause Of
gloom and sickness from their homes.
California cultivates Brazilian arti-
chokes, which yield 400 bushels to the acre.
They are fine for stock, but are difficult to
get out of the ground when once estab-
lished. i
"A writer in the Garden says that if
potting soil is placed for day or two in the
hen yard every particle of it is dug Overland
all grubs and eggs of insects are picked out.
For 1879 Nebraska gives the largest av-
erage yield of corn per acre, amounting to
As bushels, and Colorado the largest average
of wheat, amounting to 2S.1 bushels per
acre.
Any oil the cereals may be cut at the
roots when the kernel is in the milk, and
the seed will ripen just the same, showing
that at that time all the elements for per-
fecting the grain are in the plant
ID. NJ. Clough, of Canterbury, N. H., has
just slaughtered seventeen hogs, weighing,
dressed, 5000 pounds. The hogs were tat
ened with corn, every kernel of which was
aised on his farm.
"A correspondent at Keene, N. H., re
commends boiled potatoes as a remedy for
diarrhea in cattle. He says that three
pecks day, fed warm, cured in two days
an OK Of his that was badly affected in that
way.
Our domestic heeces are still cheaper
than foreign wool can be imported, since the
staple has advanced in Australia, South
America and in England. High prices of
wool must prevail here for some time to
come.
-Buckwheat straw which heretofore has
been considered of little value, has of late
been utilized by some of the western farmers
by chOpping it fine and adding meal to it,
A small quantity fed to stock occasionally
would be relished, no doubt.
The sugar product of the world is not
increasing as last as the demand. The
amount consumed per capita is each year
increasing. In this country the amount
consumed per capita is larger than in any
other, and is estimated at nearly forty
pounds.
All scars made by pruning off large
branches of trees should be painted or tarred
or otherwise protected from the rain. Many
fruit trees become hollow or iall into prema-
ture decay from the rain penetrating through
old sawcuts made in pruning.
Mr.. Charles L. Sharpless, Philadelphia,
has sold to T. A. Cooper, Coopersburg, Pa,
the fawn-colored Jersey heiier, by Chelten
Duke, out of imp. Black Bess-prce 5000.
Chelten Duke was the bull, and Black Bess
one of the cows OF the Centennial Prize
Herd.
Mention is made of an Illinois apiary
Of ifty.colonies kept by man who, haYing
had the good sense to cultivate home mar
ket by offering honey at moderate rates, has
found the demand SO rapidly developed by
this judicious means that at present it runs
beyond the supply.
In the valley of st. Martin, in the Aus
tfian Tyfol, they have mari which is reg
ularly put upon the land, and by its
use the cloyer crop continues undminished
from generation TO generation its growth is
very luxuriaut the clover stems frequently
reaching five To six feet in height.
Might soil would probably be considered
more valuable fertilizer If it were not Sc
disagreeable to handle, but if coal ashes and
loan are occasionally thrown into the vault
il may be handled without much trouble
while these materials will absorb all the
gases, 50 that there will be no unpleasant
Odors arising from it at any time.
Prank Clayton, the great fox hunter, o
Marshallton, Chester county,has some sixty
dogs in his kennel, which to feed and care
for tales nearlv all his time Tho tro,,hla
however, he thinks amply repays him, fol
he has "a pack of hounds that can max,
more music and can furnish a better hun
than any other in the country"
1t is generally supposed that the root
Of fgrasses do not penetrate very deep, bu
these roots have been traced as fardown in
TO the coil as four feet. Persons p!oughinl
for seeding think that Just loosen
ing the surface, is sufficient, but if deeJ