The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1880-04-08
Farm, Home .&c,.

time, will hold the onion maggot 10
cheok.
T. l.. Miller. OF Beecher, H.. re-
Gently sold three Hereford bulls for
$4,000 to 20 l., Colorado.
Cattle hoofs at the present time
are worth $50 per ton. Those hoofs
are now made into horn bsttons.
James Wood OF Westchester O..
New York, raised 1000 bushels OF
turnIps the past season on four acres
Of land, or at the rate OF 800 bush.
els per acre.
A eorrospon leu. Of q Western
paper recommends an ointm en-, COM
posed Of eqnal parts Of lard and gun
powder as remedy for &C stches 10
horses, to be used daily until cured.
Mr.. Joseph " ,nn, Of Lisbon, Ms.,
has fne pair of yearliug steers, iu
which he feels farmers pride.
They are Of tho Hereford blood, aud
girt 5 feet 8 and . inches, and
weigh 1880 pounds.
10 is good plan to Gu. scions for
spring grating the Grst opou spell,
aud bury away 10 earth. The rea
son why 30 many fail with spriug
grating is thoy cut the scions too
Lte.
A lady correspondent Of the De-
troit "PoSt' watered Der tomato
plants with a weak solution Of cop
perss Zone pound to eight gallons of
water), with the result that the fruit
was two weeks earlier than on plants
not 50 treatei.
Grating wax may be made by
melting toge' hor four pounds o
common rosin, two pounds Of bees>
wax and one pound of talIow. If TO
be used in the orchard in cool
weather, add quarter Of a pound
more Of tallow, or little raw linsc d
oil.
A successful potato grower aivo
Gates planting potatoes cut TO single
eyes only, and reports yield Of 4SS
bushels Of Early RISE 10 an acre,
aud largo bush"l yield from twen-
ty two eyes Of another variety plan.
ted in hills three feet apart, one eye
TO the hill.
A correspondent Of tho Country
Gentleman" asserts that his corn has
been earlier aud the yield larger since
be abandoned the practice Of planting
pumpkins with the corn He thinks
the increase in tho corn crop has
more than compen-atel fjr tho loss
Of the pumpkins.
Mr.. Oliver Dalrymple, the great
Minnesota farmer, intends to cultivate
80 900 acres of wheat this year. He
will have twenty steam -tbreshers in
operation with l35 reaping machines
Last year ho employed 600 laborers
aud this yonr viii increase the
numb'r to 700. Had he not better
wait until the chickens are hatch'd.
OF the us boys in York county
Me, who contcnded last year for the
prize offered by S,lluin b Allen,
Of Boston, for the most corn on az
eighth Of an acre, 1873 raised an av
erage Of 100 bushels to tho acre
One raised ut the rate OF 100 bushels
anl several at All average OF li0 to
the acre.
An acre of swamp land in Massa
chusetts which was purchased fo'
SIT and ditched, cultivated, man
ured and crops harvested Tor -four
years at a total expense of $l00,
produced during the same time po-
tatoes and hay to the value of $l32
while the acre OF land itself WAS made
to be worth 500.
Ju udge Crossett says he has had
some experience in reclaiming pas
lures where brakes have taken pos.
session. He had beard pigs sug-
gested ss q means OF aceomplishiu,
thi' ed accordingly he fenced il
an acre, turned IN six hogs. He dug
some hole, about the piece, puttiul
10 some corn, aud Hoou the bog,
were roofing we'll, and they WORKED
the piece all over, killing all th'
brakes. When tho pasture was har
rowed and some grass seed sowu on
it came into excelsnt grass. Tn,
remaining acres were trea,sd in th
same way. and with equally good
results,
Chicken Cholerd.-When fowls d.