The Russellville Democrat., 1880-12-23
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Large Yields of Corn-CuitIyating the Per- simmon-Eariy Lambs for the Mar
 ket-Farm Notes,
LARGE YIELDS OF CORN

ket-Farm Notes,
 LARGE YIELDS OF CORN.
 A series of prizes having been offered by Mir. Bond for crops of corn raised on one-eivhth of an acre in Hartford county, Md, there were five contestants. The first prize went to crop which yielded at the rate of lS6 bushels (312 sbarrels'D per acre, the second to a crop of 1882 bushels, the third 10 1915, and the other two made crops of l75 and 174l5 bushels per acre. On the first prize crop barn-yard and commercial manures and ashes were used at the esll- mated value of Sl60 per acre. The next in order made no estimate of the value of manure The next used manure at the rate of S34 per acre, and the fifth at the rate of $40 Not over two stalks
 were allowed to grow in the hills, which
 were in rows three feet apart. The aver age on the five plats was at the rate of lSO bushels per acre. Froym five to twelve days work was put to each plat, or forty to ninety-six days per acre.
 cuIrIvATISG THE PERsIMMoN.
 The most promising of all the larger of the wild fruits is the common persim- mon. In its native state it gives much greater promise of superiority than the apple. pear. peach or orange. It is, at least, very palatable, while the others are not. The circumstance that this fruit ripens very late in the season, and is im- proved by the frost, is in it's favor. There Is no lack of early fruits of all kinds. But there is q scarcity of late fruits. The persimmon ranks among the nest nu- tritious fruits grown in any portion of this world. It is easily preserved by dry ing or canning. Different trees produce fruit greatly varying in shape, size and flavor. In Missouri variety has been discovered that is destitute of seeds. The astrinigent quality which characterizes this fruit is much stronger in some speci- mems than in others. The tree has a fine appearance, is hardy and rarely fails to produce large crop of fruit. It only re- quires the same cultivation that the ap- pie, pear and peach have received to rem der it of equal value with them. The few persimmons that find their way to
 market always command good prices. EARLY LAMBS FOR THE MARKET. There is no kind of meat for which epicures will pay as much as for lamb, provided it is furnished sufficiently early in the season. A lamb of sufficient size 10 roast in March w!ll bring more than the same animal will if allowed to obtain its full growth. Raising lambs to supply the demands of the market in early spring is q very profitable branch of the sheep business. It is comparatively easy to furnish the degree of heat necessary to raise lambs during the winter, but more difficult to obtain the requisite amount of milk or some suitable substi- ute for it. Most ewes give a compara- lively small amount of milk during cold
 weather unless special pains are taken to
 supply them with suitable food. Lambs, however. may be taught to drink milk as readily as calves, and they may, without weaning them, be induced to drink the
 warm, sweet milk that is drawn from COWS. At first they will not drink more
 than gill at time, but they will soon take pint and then quart al meal. After they have learned to drink cows
 milk readily some flaxseed meal may be added to it to good advantage. In the course of few weeks crushed oats and
 corn meal may be added to the milk. Many farmers declare that it does not Ipav to feed new milk to calves. They declare that there is economy in killing calves when they are but few days old or in giving them away to persons who will raise them, and in converting the
 milk they will consume into butter. Ad-
 hitting the truth of their statement, 1t
 does not appear that there IS no profit in feeding new milk to lambs. Veal is or dinarilv a drug in the market during the spring, and the farmer who obtains five cents per pound for it thinks that he is doing very well. Lamb, however, if ready for the market sufficiently early in the season, will sell in most large cities | for about the same price as butter. FARM NOTES.
 1 IT pays to feed cows giving milk liber- ally Butter is high, and now is the time
 to feed proftably.
 PARTICIPATED fruit is as superior. to sun l dried fruit as fresh raspberries are to | those dried on the bushes.
 IT is estimated that the stalk crop of 1 the country annually amounts to 90,0O0,- | 900 tons worth over $260000,000. RAPID drying of paint is insured by the addition of a small proportion of | litharge, sugar of lead or Japan varnish, | according to material or color.
 RECENT experiinens in England show ! that thin sowing of wheat in drills is
 more productive than thick sowing. By I special culture on small plats single | grain to the hill has given yield of 100 | to l62 bushets to the acre, according to 1 the Experiment Record.
 A DERMANT bulb of the calla should be | planted so that the point shall be just | above the surface; the exact depth of this l plant in a pot or tub is not matter of
 much importance, as it readily adapts it.
 self to circumstances if it has constant
 supply of water.
 IS selecting cows for milking the free, easy step, the pleasant and comfortable | expression of countenance and round,
 capacious form of body are far more i'm
 portant than the line of descent or fami- | ly history Pedigree goes for little un-
 milker.
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