The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-09-18
'ARMERSsCOLUMN.


FARM NOTsSi
---Well-fed animals never get lousy.
Great heat expands brickwork.
=RAwhides make the best pulleys.
--Oharring wood adds to it's durability.
Acids will eat into marble, but not
nniie.
-rA locomotive drinks forty fve sailohs
r. nile.
The rice crop Of 1880 in Florida will be
b tunes as great as in 1870.
E--Honie Of the sheep raisers Of Australia
"a over 100000 head 6f sheep.
-,Tomake a good solder for copper use
parts Of copper and nine parts of zinc.
Ohio grape growers are getting some
hat discouraged owing 10 the pretaleiice
the rot. ..,.-....--
Tho gross income derived from tobatco
the firmers OF the United States is about
a,ooO,00O.
Constant cutting off just below the sur.
be Of The ground will in time eradicate
ison ivy.
The Agricultural School for Girls at
pusn, Frnce, has 800 pupilr, varying in
p from n IS years.
The latest estimate Of the acreage de
Ted to wheat in India is ls,0OO,OO0, against
. outside estimate Of S6,OOO,OOO in the
pited States.
New bricks before laying will absorb one
ecnth Of their weight in water and should
ways be wetted down before being laid in
Drtar.
TO preserve potatoes they should be
led as soon as possible, and placed i'm.
stately in position from which the sun
ht is excluded.
I'm some portions of Middle Tennessee
y 'gs are reported to be very scarce and in
f. sat demand, owing to the immense corn
p in prospect.
-one-balf ounce of salt to the pound Of
tier is the rule Of salting adopted by the
kers Of the celebrated butter which sells
fancy price in Boston.
The lowest estimate of Minncsota's 5
eat crop this year is 40 900 900 bushels;
lie the highest point to which sanguine
tistical speculation has scared is, to be
let, So, ,SSg $50 bushels,
Every dairyman should bear in mind
poor butter or cheese is always the
10. faal he olra 1f ALL
bsst products are always inquired for,
n on the poorest markets.
No water that has stood in open vessels
ing the night should be used for drink
or cooking. By exposure to the air it has
its "aeration," and has absorbed many
he dust germs floating in the air.
-All the qualities Of an animal, good or
rest upon some perculiar conformation
= organism which the educated eye can
fe, .and which it is the province of the
hd to understand and of intelligent skill
evelop.
n Is estimated that about $500 barrels
i rish moss were shipped from Scituate last
p, about one-third going by water and
thirds by rail. A barrel contains about
pounds. The value of the whole ship
1t was $4,000.
MIR. s. j. Woolley, Franklin county
10, says his farm could not be depended
or crop Of corn in wet season, though
te sure to give thirty or forty bushels per
in a dry summer, but after drainage It
iuced sixty to eighty bushels without
lie failure.
Last year Jerry spaulding, of Ionia,
Ehigan, bought large number of sheep,
ing $3.50 to SFa head, the flock averag ,
less than $$ a head. lie fed them
pugh the winter, and April sold 600 fat
kp, averaging l4O pounds each, at six
IS per pound, or $S.4O per head, aggre-
ng $5,O4O.
The following easy method of drilling
y is given in technical journal: Stick u
e Of clay or petty on the part where you
to make the hole. Make a hole in the
y thO ei]o gNu Ndutg tHe uDlc TedCulnB
be glass ofcourse. Into the hole pour a
e molten lead, when unless IL is very
k glass, the piece will Immediately drop
l.. To preserve leather hose, betting, ETC., In
- condition, freely apply crude castor oil
med If possible. 1t increases the plia-
ty OF the leather and the cling of belts
ocs not become rancid; rats avoid it. In
it should be pumped IN from the inte,
under considerable pressure, thus thor,
hay filling the pores. The value of castor
IS "leather preservative" for boots and
. is well known.
"A gentleman being asked what was the
~ II point in cheesemaking, answered
aowing wien to dip" By that he mean
~; "Knowing when to.salt." There il
ther point equally essential, and dthht il
et the whey out ofth curds and also GU
he cheese. The first can be- dohe by fin,
ing and few other close points, til,
nd by proper hopping aud pressing. botl
Fhich are much neglected.
III farmers sons and daughters coul,
realize the fact that henceforlh agr.cul
must become more and more of an in
eetual pursuit. that better education il
of the natural sciences is To be an essen
qualification as to fitness for it, in orde
-zdcr IL mere NtrdtiSe, then they will
e 70 regard IT, as a life Of constant drudg
and learn to look upon it in the tru
1.-THE worlds best occupation, dirscte,
cienee.
Charms strike the sight, but merit win
soul.
Milton Carter OF Columbia, Tenn, wen