The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-05-08
FARMERS COLUMN.
FARM NOTES.

hemlock lumber,nor will rats, mice or other
vermn gnaw through It,
"A CORE pondent writes to The RECORD
from Bucks county that the grain crops are
in excellent condition, and the farmers are
happy over their prospects.
Fee LIN Egypt the sugar fields have been
greatly injured by frost. Another induce
inent to Our farmers to plant sugar bcets,
sorghum and corn, to be made into sugar.
r.. Nodeauof Caliiornahos planted ZOO
acres in sugar bees, and the prospects are
good for an immense yield. 1t is thought
he will make clear gain of $4,000 by the
operation.
Thomas Ernest Gennert, Of California,
will have his sugar factory in full operation
by the st of July. The work is progress.
ing satisfactorily, and Los Angeles will soon
be using sugar and syrup made at home.
Mrs. Abe Chase, of Weathersfeld, Vt,
has made from grade Jersey COW, in sixty
days time, 1855 pounds of butter. The feed
consisted OF one quart Of corn meal and one
quart OF cob meal per day, with all The good
English hay she would cat.
--'Philadcphia Chickens" so called in
the Boston market though mostly raised in
New Jersey, sell at from 3 to 4 cents per
pound higher than ordinary chickens, ow-
ing to the fact that they are more juicy and
t,nder than Northern Or Western fowls.
AT a meeting oftbe Western New York
Farmers Club, inquiry was made as to feed
ing beans to stock. The replies showed
that they were regarded as especially adapt
ed to sheep, being rich in nitrogen, which
~ enters largely into the composition of wool.
s g michael S. Wittlc, of Ropbo township,
Lancaster county has sown patch Of about
1000 square Tee. in tobacco seed; 2G2 feet of
4. it is up and covered with nice young plants.
The first seed was sown on the Goth of March
and the last on the 18th of this month.
The tiller of soil is brought nearer to
nature and to God than the dwelcrs in cit
les. Nature is the farmers silent partner,
and exercises a controlling Influence in the
d business, if he goes wrong she checks him;
fright, she crowns his efforts with liberal
success.
The Connecticut Farmer says that Mr..
E. Bailey, of Little Compton, r. l., has kept
from 900 to 200 hens during the past
five years, and realized from each an annual
b profit of Sl.l5. Large hocbs are not uncom.
mon in that vicinity, the poultry interest
being largely developed.
- Few realize the necessity Of manuMng
orchards. When once planted, the trees are
toremoih on the same soil thirty or forty
years, at least. They in few years exhaust
the food in the soil that they are most fond
of, and then they will cease to be productive
and thrifty unless properly fed.
The largest orchard in the world is pro-
(, baby that Of Robert McKinstry, of Hudson,
- N. Y. 1t contains more than $4,000 apple
;. trees, LOO pear, 1000 cherry, 500 peach,
200 plum, 200 crab apple trees, 5000 vines,
6OoO currant bushes and 500 chestnut trees,
The apple crop of 1878 on the farm was so ;
..o1O barrels.
The people of Pttsburg cannot give up
the idea that the State Fair should be held
there. An association has been formed in
that city to purchase grounds and erect
buildings theron, with a view to having the
r State Fair held there. The capital stocl;
will be limited to $lOO, 900, with shares at
81 900 each.
Southern exchanges claim that the eli
mate of California, Northern Georgia and
Alabama is suited to the cultivation Of the
einchona tree, from which quinine is made
and it is proposed to introduce the cultiva-
ton of these trees and thereby save the ex-
pense incurred in sending to South America
for Peruvian bark.
Potash dissolved in water, or I've from
wood ashes, is the best wash for the trunk.
and large limbs Of fruit trees. Whitewash
should not be used, as it closes the pores Of
the bark,which should be kept open in order
to insure healthy tree. Potash or lye an
swers every purpose which whtewash would
with none of It's objections.
The Honeybrook Graphic, published in
Chester county, tells this remarkable story:
young man tells us he was with Jacob
Ammon, in East Brandywne township. the
other day when he was planting potatoes.
and before Jacob could get one whole row
planted the sprouts were through the ground
at the end where he commenced.
any kind of grain before it has been soaked
in liquid manure diluted with water, and
has begun TO germinate; and experience has
taught him that this operation not only
tends to promote the growth aud develop
ment Of the plant but also to protect the
seed from the insects hidden in the ground
1t is an open question among dairymou
who wish to produce "gilt edged" winter
butter as to the effect Of cnsilage fed to cows
upon the taste and odor Of the milk. There
is no question that the food, when eaten ly
cattle, will contribute to their good aud
healthy condi ion, and to the increase Of tn,
quantity OF butter; but the exact extent t,
which its peculiar condition may affect III,
flavor of the butter is not hardly determine
yet.
Agricultural reports from California
which are the earliest indication Of In,
probable productveness in cereals Of IN,
season of lSsO, are Of au encouraging char
aeter. Although the winter there was cx
eessively cold 1t did not seriously rctard A.,
development of early crops, and should TN
spring be moderately free hom over abund
""V Hi's'uIc lcy VIII undoubtedly NOR
than fill the measure of the farmers expcc
tations.
William spragg, farmer Of Stree
Bushey, near Glastonbury, England, wa
fined twenty pounds and two guineas cos
amounting to $lO6.sO, for sending to IN
Central meat market, London, the carcass,
of ten sheep which had suffered from fuk
disease. The city medical officer said IN
disease was trausmissible 10 man. The prit
oner said he had no money and the iiu
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