The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-07-03
FARM NOTES.

QulChHlns Is obstructive 10 WORMS,
slugS and the Larvae Of injurious insects.
1t is said to cost as much to raise
one acre of tobacco as it does to raise
eight acres of corn.
Manchester township, York county,
derived S100, coo revenue from the sale
Of its tobacco, last year.
AT recent shearing at Caldwell
PIairie, Racine county, Ind. the heayi.
est fleece shorn was twenty. y.seven lbs.
"A 2 year old Leicester back, owned
by Mr.. Vaughan, Darlington, Ind,
sheared fleece which weighed four
teen pounds.
Fowls are very fond of milk and
thrive well upon it. Sour milk will
bring better returns in eggs than in any
other way it can be fed.
Three tablespoonfuls of London
purple, well mixed in peck of plaster
of Paris, will make compound which
is sure death to the Colorado beetle. - -
Clean farming is the best under all
circumstances, and if adopted as rule
viii tend largely toward preventing the
increase of cllnch bugs and all other in.
jufiOus insects.
-Englishmen formerly supposed that Amer.
lean running horses were very inferior TO theirs
but during the last two years Parole, WAL
lenstein ana other fast ones that were sent
from thiScountry to England have won hun
dreds OF thousands of dollars for such Ameri-
cans as Messrs. LOrillard, James Gordon Ben
nett, &c. The Englishmen have investigated
the reasons for the great success of American
horses and find that they are kept in such fine
condition by the constant use Of M. b. Rob
erts' Horse Powders. 29-4
1t Is said that In Scotland, on
farm containing 2, 900 acres, there would
be 1000 lambs obtained a year at least.
The death rate in ordinary seasons is
from to 10 per cent. per annum.
The number of cattle killed per
year in, the United States is / ,S25, 600,
the n eats from which amount to 4, ,0SS, >
800, ,00c pounds, and their total value
when killed for food is SG0s, 200, 900.
.-Dr. Voelcker analyzed the milk
from Dutch cow aud also from an
4 Ayreshire. He found the milk fIOm
the former contained % per cent. of
butter, while the latter gave SO per
. cent.
are no diseases that will so quickly bring Incl.
dents OF persons past lite and make him
think of home and his mother, as Cholera,
Cholera Morbus DySentery, Cramps, Cole
and all their kindred diseases And TO be
Without SINEs' nYs sgNTERY COMPOUND when
overtaken with the above diseases is to be al
most without hope. 29-4
For maggots which work at the
roots Of squash vines, it is said that
tablespoonful of salipetre in paiful Of
water applied to the roots will destroy
these pests and greatly invigorate the
vines.
Never work with dull tools; they
require too great an outlay OF strength.
The best mower we ever saw was a
man who weighed only ninety-fye
pounds, but the secret Of his success
was keen edge.
Mothers, before giving your little babe
cough or Group medicines, remember that
Sines' Syrup Of Tar, HorehOund and Wild
Cherry Is the only cough preparation that
narcotic. Pa
Professor Riley, Chief of the En-
Genealogical Commission, expresses the
opinion that the army worm will not
remain long in the sections now afflIct
ed by It, but will move north ward, fol,
lowing the ripening crops.
The United States now have ter
times more acres 10 wheat than thC
United Kingdom they have twice the
number of horses of both England anC
aud Frapcs, One-third more cattle anC
four times more hogs than both,
There are now produced from In
dian'oorn, millions of pounds of starcl
and glucose annually, of which larg
quantity Is exported. These substance
carry away no mineral fertilizers; the
come entirely from the atmosphere.
The butter globules in milk fror
farrow cows and cows nearly dry ar
smaller than from cows Ia flush of mill
and in order 10 obtain all the butter
the cream from the former should b
chnrned together, and the same Of ne
milk cows.
AT the present time when there are
many worthless linlments in tho market
would be well 10 inquire which is the best
this will be found in NJ. b. Roberts celebfat,
Embrocaiion. II Is panacea tor all ailmen
Lpat require rubbing, either on man or beas
FOR sale by all druggists 2g-s