The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-05-13
FARM NOTES.

: son stimulates the skin and thus assist
the changing Of their coats.
. In Egypt the sugar fields have beer
greatly injured by frost. Another in
ducemcnt to our farmers to plant sugaI
bcets, sorghum and corn, to be made
into sugar.
Il. Nadeau, of California, has planted
200 acres in sugar bccts, and the pros.
poets are good for an immense yield
It is thought he will make a clear gain Of
$25 900 by the operation.
The largest orchard in the world is
probably that of Robert McKinstrey, OF
Hudson, New York. 1t contains more
than $4,000 apple trees, LEO pears, 1000
cherry, 500 chestnut trees. The apple
crop Of 1873 on the farm was so 600 bar
rcls.
Mrs. Albc Chase, of Weathcrfield,
Vermont, has made from a grade Jcr-
scy COW, in sixty days time, 1873 pounds
Of butter. The feed consisted of one
quart Of corn meal and one quart of
cop meal per day, with all the good
English hay she will eat.
"Philadclphia chickens" SO called in
the Boston market, though mostly rails
cd in New Jersey, sell at from three to
four cents per pound higher than ordi-
nary chickens, owing to the fact that
they are more juicy and tender than the
northern and western fowls.
At meeting of the Western New
York Farmers Club inquiry was made
as to feeding beans to stock. The re-
plies show that they were regarded as
especially adapted to sheep, being rich
in nitrogen, which enters largely into
the composition Of wool.
The tiller of the soil is brought near
er TO nature and to God than the dwell
ers in cities. Nature is the farmers ST.
lent partner and exercises controlling
influence in the business: il he goes
wrong she checks him; if right, she
crowns his efforts with liberal success.
The Connecticut Farmer says that
Mr.. Z. Bailey, of Little Compton, II. L.,
has kept from 900 to 200 hens during
the past five years, and realized from each
an annual profit of $1.l5. Large flocks
are not uncommon in that vicinity, the
poultry interest being largely devcl-
oped.
Few realize the necessity Of manur-
ing orchards. When once planted, the
trees are to remain in the same soil
thirty or forty years, at least. They in
a 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.
Southern exchanges claim that the eli
mate of California, Northern Georgia
and Alabama is suited to the cultivation
Of the cinchona tree, from which quiz
nine is made and it is proposed to intro
duce the cultivation of those trees and
thereby save the expense 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
trunks 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 trees. Potash or lye answers
every purpose which whltewash would,
with none of its objections.
No Chinese farmer ever sows seed
OF any kind of grain before it has been
soaked in liquid manure diluted with
water, and has begun to terminate and
experience has taught him that this OPP
Grafton not only tends to promote the
growth and development of the plant,
but also to protect the ICED from the in
sccts hidden in the ground.
Ii is an open question among dairy
men who wish to produce "gilt-edged"
winter butter as TO the effect of ensil-
age fed to cows upon the taste and odOr
of the milk. There is no question that
the food, when eaten by cattle, will con-
tribute TO their good and healthy condi-
ton, and TO the increase of the quanti-
ty of butter; but the exact extent to
which its peculiar condition may affect
the flavor of the butter is hardly deter
mined yet.
Agricultural reports from California.
which are the earliest indication Of the
probable prOductiveness in cereals of
the season of 1880, are of an encourage
ing character. Although the winter
there was excessively cold it did not Sc
riouslv rctard the development Of early
crops, and should the spring be moder-
ately free from over-abundant moisture
they will undoubtedly more than fill the
measure of the farmers expectations.
William Spragg, farmer Of Street
Bushey, near Glastonbury, England,
was fined twenty pounds and two gum
cas- cost, amounting to $l06.so, for send
ing to the Central meat market, London
the carcasses of ten sheep which had
suffered from fluke disease. The city |
medical officer said the disease was
transmissible to man. The prisoner
said he had no money and the fine would |
ruin him, but the magistrate was in
flexible, and said that all such cases
would be severely dealt with.
PEAR BLIGHT.