The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-02-21
FARMERS COLUMN,



The Doyiestown Agricultural society
has declared a dividend of 4 per cent, on the
cepitnl stock for the past year.
Captain senuel Holman, of West Pike
land township, Chester county, sold, few
days ago, calf weeks old that weighed
2i4 pounds,
"A stockkeeper reports curing many bad
warts on cattle and horses, during several
years, by application to each of zone good
daub of tar"
A butcher Of Lebanon recently slaugh-
tered hog, the live weight of which was
1,O4O pounds. 1t was p years old, wss ~
feet long, feet inches around the body,
and 3 feet inches high.
"A COW belonging to Mr. Clinton Fogel,
living near Macungie, Lehigh county, gave
birth to twin calves last week, one weighing
sixty and the other ffty-nine pounds,
They are aliye and hearty.
The Indiana Farmer says that rs an evil
dence Of the greatly increased interest in
sheep breeding in that State, over 100 young
rams of improved breeds were sold at the
last State fair held in indianapolis.
Mr.. Pruitt, who lives six miles south Of
Greensburg, Indiana county, this State, has
calf that has two heads, four eyes, four
ears, four nostrils, two mouths and two
tongues. 1t takes all the funds in one side
or head and all solids on the other side or
head.
The Washington county farmers, as a
general thing, seed down the ground from
which a crop of corn has been gathered,
which, where it can be done, is heavily ma
nured in the spring for the corn crop, and
then in the fall, with au application of some
fertilizer, the field is seeded down and gem
orally produces good crop of wheat the
year following.
The Connecticut experiments station is
about commencing series of experiments
for testing thoroughly the different methods
ot setting milk to obtain the best results as
TO cream, and, ifpossible to arrive at def
mite conclusion, so that the butter makers
may have sufficient data to enable them to
work with some degree of certainty in the
production of butter.
Speaking of pruning, an exchange says;
Trim moderately every year, but not heavily
oftener than once in three years, Pruning
may now be done at any time when the
days are warm cut of no limbs that agc
over an inch in diameter. If you do not
understand pruning yourself, have it done
by a competent person but do not send an
ignoront hired man into your orchard to cut
and hew at will.
Waldo says in the Ohio Farmer that he
remembers one year making a very large
profit from an acre Of land managed in this
way: He first grew crop of Tom Thumb
peas, which matured in time for ctcumbers
for pickles, and then he grew 500 bushels of
turnips sowed broadcast among the cucum-
bers. He found that these crops will ma
ture without crowdng each other, if proper
ly managed.
Farmers who spread on thin coat OF
twelve or fifteen loads of manure to the acre,
and expect to raise a good crop, would be
astonished to see the quantities of the best
kinds of manure which market gardeners
often apply to an acre of land near the cities
What would they say to an application of
5000 worth of horse manure to a single acre?
Two or three hundred dollars worth of ma
nure per acre is a common thing among
market gardeners, and they find their ac-
count in so doing, too.
"A Maine farmer gives the following
opinion as to the best position to plant an
orchard "Were to plant an orchard and
had two locations-one in a valley, sur
rounded by hills, except on the south side,
and the other on a high elevation, exposed
TO high winds-I would choose the latter in
preference to the former. The same holds
good in regard to peach orchards. A great
object is to keep back the blooming as long
as possible, and this can be best done in
northern exposures without shelter"
1t has been SAID by a farmer that he
prefers calves for raising dropped in Sep
tember. Such calves escape the intense
heat Of the summer, and during the winter
season they can be "pushed" with grain,
and in the spring are ready for the young
grass as soon as it appears. 1t will be noticed
that professional breeders in some cases SC
regulate the age of calves that they appear
at the September fairs as calves, when in
reality they are within few days Of being
yearlings, and also as yearlings when they
are close to two years old.
Hens fed on clear sound grain, and KEEP
on clear grass run give much finer favorel
eggs than hens that have access to stable anC
manure heaps and eat all kinds OF filthy
food. Hens feeding on fish and on onion
flavor their eggs accordingly, the same a
cows eating onions or cabbage, or drinking
offensive water, impart a bad taste to tn
milk and butter. The richer the food, tn
higher the color of the eggs. Wheat an,
corn give the best color, while feeding o
buckwheat makes them colorless, maxim
them unfit for some confectionery purposes
These frosty mornings and chillin
winds are laden with rheumatic pains,whic
are apparently layished without stint o
aged people. In absence of better remed
It will be found that equal quantities Of ke
osene oil ana turpentine applied warm
the afflicted part will do much towards r
lieving pain. All rheumatic people shou
wear fannels, not only in winter, but a
summer too, if they are then afflicted.
DIR. ]. II. Provost has found that rain r
moves much more matter from an uncropp,
than from a cropped soil. He placed thr
inches of soil in two glazed earthenware pa
seventeen inches in diameter. -Four gramm
Of fwhite cloveseed were sown in one Of h
pans, and the other was left without al
stimulus to vegetation. Both pans were e
posed from July 2l to October 4 and th,
the drainage water was collected and an
lyzed with results which warranted Il
above conclusion.
"A house may seem strange place (
a eoveV Of Dartridges IN snand tho mint.