Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-30
HINTS TO FARMERS.

a length of time, is bad practice. The
soluble matters are washed into the
ground.
There is said to be an apple tree on the
premises of William Plymire, in Wash
ington county, Penn, which bears nine
varieties, some of which are now ripe,
while others will not be ripe until late
in the fall.
If you wish to educate Americans to
be cheese eaters, tempt them to do it with
a first-class digestible article, and not
turn their appetites against it with cheese
from which the butter has been pur-
Joined.
The average price of farms in this
country, according to the report of the
agricultural department for 1879, in
creased in that year per cent, the in
crease in the average value of timber land
being altogether larger than for cleared
LANDS.
The acreage under cotton at the South
is 10 per cent larger than last year, or
I3, 1886, 947 acres in 1880, against IL, SIS, 1862
in 1879, and the yield per acre is expected
to average 200 pounds, instead of 1872
pounds as last year, and l79 pounds the
year before. Freedom and small hold
ings year by year prove their commercial
value to the South
Robert McKinstry, of Hudson, N. Y,
is believed to own the largest fruit ORCH
ard in the United States. 1t contains
$4,000 apple trees, 1,7O6 pear, 1000 cher
ry, 500 peach, 200 plum, 200 crab apple,
$4,000 grape vines, 5000 currant bushes
and 500 chestnut trees. As many as
10000 barrels of apples alone have been
produced in a season.
On many farms the hay crop is very
light, but now that the hot and dry
waves have been broken, and moist one
has taken their place, we may look for a
good crop of rowen, particularly on new
seeded lands that were laid down with
plenty of manure; but older seed lands,
which are nearly run out, could now,
after this rain, be easily plowed up, and
a good crop of Hungarian OF fodder corn
obtained.
The Iowa legislature passed law pro.
viding that a lawful wire fence shall be
one whose posts are not to be more thar
two rods apart, with two stays between
or one rod without stays; top wire moi
to be more than 81 inches or less than 4S
inches from the ground; wires to be Sc
curely fastened to the posts, to be three
wires barbed, or four wires, two of which
shall be barbed with not less than 81
barbs, with four points each, to the rod
, Alexander Baxter, on a farm of bu
$50 acres, at Newtown, Queens county
i. l., raises $4,000 worth of produc,
annually, principally tomatoes for can
ming and potatoes for the market. Las
season he raised 5000 bushels of toma
toes, 1000 bushels Of potatoes, O,0O
cabbages, 10000 ears Of sweet corn, 300
f bushels of yellow corn, 1000 bushels O
/ carrots, 1000 bushels of turnips, an,
many lighter vegetables. Mr.. Baxte
lays $4,000 dollars year for fertilizers
? Joseph and Charles Stebbin, Jaco
= Rupert and Charles Ehret leased 40
| acres of cleared land and 300 acres c
l scrub oak at Lloyd's Neck, L. I. 1t ha
t been cleared, nearly 100000 have bee
expended in buildings, machinery an
; implements, and barns erected 1900 fee
long, for the accommodation of horse
and cattle. Two hundred and fifty mile
COWS occupy the stalls, and 1000 quart
of milk are sent to New York daily. TIL
y milk cellar has stream of spring waite
: running through it constantly, so thf
u the milk is kept at an even temperatur,
Hitherto the abundance of natur;
p timber in this country has made it cas-
q to dispense with timber culture, and ft
% the most part land owners have take
little interest in such slow growing crop
This state of things, however, is rapid
passing away. The demand for speci
Z woods for manufacturing purposes
e steadily and rapidly increasing, while IL
IS natural demand is diminishing, and mu
ultimately become quite inadequat
l. Meantime there are millions of acres
II land suitable for timber culture, and fl
t, nothing else except poor pasturage, tn
l. our land owners are allowing to lie was
a and idle for lack of little forethough
lie and too frequently our would-be thrift
D. farmers risk their surplus means in will
" cat speculations, promising but new
s yielding large and speedy returns, whit
rs the same money spent in planting limb
IL would soon convert their worthle
10 swamps and stony places into valuab
Id properties.
u Men and boys employed on a far
ie should have an occasional day for re
lie and recreation Persons engaged in OF
10 Ell occupations have it and profit by
e In old times in the South many maste
u allowed their slaves to have Saturda
pS for themselves if they had worked fait
t. fully the other days Of the week. A
I, exception was made to this rule duril
~ hurrying seasons, as those in which t
u bacco plants were set out and the groul
prepared for a cotton crop. Not on
IL were they allowed their time on Satu
lo day, but they were allowed teams to tai
l. fuel to town to sell on their own accour
10 u, Intelligent hired men should certain