The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-04-10
FhRN,ER6' COLUMN.


In the united states.
AT a late meeting Of tho Ohio Wool |
Growers Association resolutions were passed |
recommending early shearing of the sheep
without washing.
California has a seeding apple resem- |
bling the Bcllehowor in outside rpp nrance, |
but with flesh orbenutiru rose punk striped |
with yellow. 1t is Of lair size and pleasant
ly tart.
"A correspondent of an Eastern paper
writes: "Last season kept the striped bugs !
from my cucumbers by saturating ashes
with kerosene and applying handful on a
hill"
The "Grain Cleaner" suggests to millers
using any kind of separating machines hav-
ing recprocating sieves or shakers, to see
that the machine is "braced up" well
before making complaint on score orineilici-
ency. A Y, luable hint
~ man stopping his paper wrote to the
edtor 81 think men offend to spend their
mummy for paper, my dad ddent, and
everybody sed he was the intelligentest man
in the country, and he had the smartest
family of boys that ever dug tators." OF
course he didn't need paper.
Adam Kull, of Schuylkill county, pos
essses a curious freak of nature in the shape
ofa calf without eyes or tail. The sockets
for the eyes are both naturally formed, but
the pupils are missing. a little turt of hair
at the other end indicates the place where
the caudal ap9endage should be but is not.
The New England Homestead recon-
mends the savingo all the ashes made about
the premises of farmers. Even coal ashes
are useful as an absorbent and loosener OF
the soil. Wood ashes contain large amount
fpotash, an important element of fertility
and are particularly valuable for onions and
as a dressing for strawberries
One hour lost in the morning by lying
in bed will put back all the business of the
day. An hour gained by rising early is
woIth one month in the year. One hole in
the fence will by and by cost ten times as
much as it would to fix it at once. One di-
seased sheep will spoil flock. One un-
pany bad tricks.
The Pennsylvania State Dairyman's
ssociaton will cooperate with the Penn
ylvania State Agricultural Society in pre-
pairing for the State Fair, to be held next
September in the Main Centennial Build
ing. The State Society has adopted the
Dairy Associations premium hist, which Of
fers prlzes for foreign dairy products as well
as domestic.
Why do not orchards bear equally well
each season? The buds are now formed for
next year. If the tree is engaged all the
season in periecting its liuit,how can /. pre-
pare embryo for the next season? No
amount of manure can add to the blossoms
for the next season, but may improve the
quality of the fruit. After heavy crop it
is no wonder that the next one should be
small.
The prize short-horn steer at the recent
Christmas lat-stock show in England was
two years and five months old and weighed
1,7Ol pounds. \ prize steer in another elias,
was three years and six months old, aud
weighed 2,49l pounds. The best IIertlori
was the COW Leonora, four years, three
months and two weeks old, that weighed
1900 pounds.
1t has been said that quail imported
from England will not breed in this coun
try, but the Allentown Democrat gives this:
"Up in the vicinity of Weissport last sum
mer a large number were distributed, aud
for some OF their progeny was seen by Mr.
A. j. Brodhead-the young birds being at
the time just able TO Auttcr along aud to
hide in the underbrush."
Pruning trees is IA work that is generally
done best in February and March. In both
of these months, il there are warm DAYS, de
vote them to that task. Every farmer should
have good pruning knife anu a fine saw
Thin out the sprouts and cut oil the dead
and broken limbs or such as make the tree
unshapely.
The Doylestown LteR,gcnccr says:
"The farmers are feeling better. Such is
the universal verdict. We have asked the
question Of many farmers recently, and
they all agree that the outlook is brighter
than it was year or 50 ago. They all seem
to feel more cheerful and more hopeful.
And the sign is good one, Tor IN an agri-
cultural community like ours it is the true
index of the times. Ii the farmers are
prosperous everybody else may be prosper
ous."
"A Canadian paper recommends the fol-
lowing; zone pint of crude carbolic acid,
costing 25 cents, is sufficient for twenty gal
Ions Of soft soap, with as much hot water To
thin it; then stir in thepint of carbuic acid
and let stand over night, or longer, to com
bine. Now add twelve gallons of rain water
and stir WE'LL then apply TO the base OF the
tree with a short broom or old paint brush
taking pains to wet the usideor all crevlces.
This will prevent both peach and apple Dor
ers. 1t should be applied in the latter end
of June in this climate, when the moth end
beetles usually appear"
An Ohio eXperimeutcr with hotJed
, with cloth sashes says: Three years expert
ence with muslin sashcs where the thcr-
mometer ranges from twenty degrees below
zero to seventy degrees above satisfies the Of
their superiority. make square frame of
one and one-iourth inch stuff with single
bar Of the same size down the middle, cover
it with common, heavy, unbleached muslin
paint it over two coats with boiled linsced
oil and find it far better than glass. Have
had no freezing or scaldmg, but better col
ored plants, more stocky, and better able to
Withstand early trauspanting. ANer the
hotbed is filled with manure, lay in the soil
80 as to come within three inches Of the mus
lin, sloping exactly as it does. As the sea-
son advances the bed will settle about as fast
as the growth of the plants requires it. This
plan prevents the plants from becoming
long legged, which is the main cause of the
slow aitergrowth, and in the cabbage family
ofso many plants falling to make solid head. .