Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-14
AGRICULTURAL.

last autumn. A neighboring fig orch
ard contains $500 trees.
L. J. Rose, of San Gabriel, California,
paid to one person this year $4,000 for the
grapes grown on 100 acres of land.
Rye straw, put up in Bales, is passing
over the New Brunswick railway to
Boston. 1t is used for beds and packing
purposes.
1t is said that Edward Woodward, of
Robertson county, N. Y, has a cow that
has been giving milk continuously for
seventeen years, and has never been dry
a single day during that time.
Luther Nile, of Rangely, Me-, has rails
ed upon his farm the last year 300 tons of
hay, 300 bushels of wheat, 600 tons of
oats and peas sown together. He also
cut from field of six and half acres
twenty-four tons and twelve hundred
weight of hay, and keeps six hundred
sheep and sixty head of horned cattle.
A boy of twelve years in Medina Coun-
ty, Ohio, raised twenty turkeys last
yeaII IIe l4s.e tl..an ,,o4rr onA Intends to
try again. He helps to plow and to
make sugar. Last year his father gave
him some land to plant for his own, and
he raised twenty-five bushels of corn.
A Mr.. Towle, of Elgin, ILL.,, has an
acre and quarter frog farm. He start
ed the business three years ago, and is
marketing his first crop. Next season,
he proposes to furnish st. Louis, Chica-
go and Cincinnati with this novel article.
The kind grown is a large variety known
as the "Goslin Frog"
According to the last census returns,
Westchester County, n. Y, dairies aver
aged 144 pounds of butter to the cow,
while Chautauqua County averaged 141
pounds, but Westchester dairymen had
to buy $40, 500 worth of fertilizers to do
it, while Chautauqua farmers expended
only $3.50 to import manure to their
soil.
An English journal says if careful
inquiry is made, il will be found that the
farmers who are most successfully wealth.
ering the present storm of adversely are
those who have kept their farms up to q
high state of fertility, and those whe are
sinking are chiefly those who have been
farming in slip-shod style.
Mr.. McCombie, whom we noticed a
few weeks ago as having entertained
Queen Victoria at his farm at Tillyfour,
Aberdeenshire, by an exhibition of his
herd of 400 handsome Black Polled cat
tie, died lately at the age of seventy-fve.
He was the first tenant farmer elected to
a seat in Parliament from Scotland. He
was well known all over the civilized
world as breeder of the celebrated
Polled cattle.
In all probability, Elgin, Ill, is the
best butter and cheese market in the
United States. In the month of March,
255, ,072 pounds of creamery butter were
sold at the Board of Trade, and 717,661
pounds of cheese, for which $l74, 562
was received. Since January |, the sales
have been 1926 831 pounds of cheese and
615, 789 pounds of butter, for which $343,-
604.9 was received by the dairymen.
5 Returns up to April show an increase
l in area sown in wheat, last Fall, as thir-
= teen per cent. more than the Fall previ-
5 Gus. In the area sown in rye there is a
) decline of six per cent. as compared with
Y the previous year. The aggregate is
gine-cight per cent, precisely the same
, as at this time last year. The wheat crop
t thus far looks as favorable as in the
y spring of 1870. The condition of live
: stock is favorable, better, indeed than for
several years. No disease is reported
= other than cholera in swine, and that is
y no worse than last year.
Mr.. J. G. Barclay, of Brent Pelham,
q Herts, England, has been doing some ex-
:. tensiye draining The work was begun
o last November. About 100 acres of the
n land are grass, here the drains were two
: rods apart; on the arabic land upwards
V of 300 acres more, they are one rood
+ apart, and all are three feet deep. The
: drain pipes are two inches in diameter,
= and the larger main and outlet pipes are
Il four. five, and six inches in diameter.
v Fifteen tons of tiles were used altogether.
# There have been 200 men employed the
y greatest part of the time.
h Seventy different species of vegetables,
e with over 400 varieties, are grown in the
gardens of the United States.
Fat sheep make fat wool. The differ
ence in weight, secured, between the
II fleece of fat Cotswold and a poor one, is
! about 20 per cent in favor of the fat
h sheep, by reason of greater length of sta
D. pie.
u Before raspberries begin to leaf out, the
~. ~. old dead stalks which fruited last yeal
- u should be cleared away by breaking then
s. off with the hand; do not allow the ust
20 of the hoe for this purpose as it might
10 % bruise the young live stalks.
IS. Professor A. J. Cook, of Michigan
v Agricultural College, says he has fount
Ut london purple" very effective as poi
ne son for the potato-bug. One pound il
IS sufficient for 100 gallons of water. Fo
er such insects as kanker-worms, leaf
ah rollers, in fact, all leaf-eating insects, i
d. is yerv efficacious. 1t is more diffusiv
7t, than Paris green, and so needs less stir
ed ring to keep it well mixed with water.
ITS There are some good reasons for :" th
i'd indisposition to manual labor" anon
nd some classes OF American youth at tn
go present time. One reason why the farm
irl ers' sons and daughters get away tror
ST. the farms to the towns, is the intolerabl
at stupid and slow thing the average farme
So makes of rural life. If a large class {
hid our American farmers would summo
irl brains to the front, adopt improve
gh methods ofagriculture, put few labol
To- saving implements in their hands, max
the house neat and wholesome place
live in, reconstruct the district schoo
ted support the church, and gradually
gu what any township of farmers easily ca
ing do for their district, they would Tin
md their children ready to respond. II ce
ue, tain classes of our mechanics would gu
ow drinking liuuor, and herding in unions
the to perpetuate their own ignorance an
os- discontent. and each in his own be
iris way. strike for higher family life al
Ork more weight of manhood, their chlldrt
lcir would not come to the conclusion that
the mechanic must necessarily become ;
ed. Ishmaelite. and would follow the faith
off, into life of manual labor. And If
of rood MANY merchants and manufactu