The Princeton union., 1880-03-03
FARM NOTES

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"A Canada farmers wife was lately
sbutted to death by a ram.
Give the potato ashes, lime, per-phos-
phate, bone flour, or plaster.
Chopped onions, with little ginger
mixed in, IS said to be sure cure for
chicken cholera.
a man is killed occasionally by the
bursting of the centrifugal machine used
in sorghum manufacture.
American honey in the comb has be-
come popular article Of diet in Eng
land and very large shipments are
made.
The prize list of the Smithfeld Club,
whose live stock show opened in Lon
don, Dec. s, represents sum Of nearly
$4,000.
A country dealer in Oakfeld, Fond du
Lac Co., Wis, shipped 5000 pounds of
poultry to market in three days before
Thanksgiving.
Great Britain has revoked the order of
Nov. 4, requiring immediate slaughter or
quarantine of sheep landed from the
United States.
One Carroll has been assessed $12 dam
ages, in Fond du Lac, Wis, Justice
court, for killing eleven geese belonging
to neighbor. -
According to tho estimates of the Pres
ident of the State Vinnecultural society,
there are now 10000 acres IN California
covered with vines F..
An attendant every Saturday at the
corn exchange in Canterbury is in his
ninety-6fth year, and is supposed to be
the Oldest tenant farmer of England.
The chicken cholera has broken out
with great virulence in Black Earth,
Dane county, Wis, and number of
farmers are losing their entire stock.
Messrs. VIM. A. and Herbert Wads-
worth. Gcnessee, n. Y, offer 1926 premi-
ums for tree-planting along highways
and home Improvements in Livingston
county.
Cider may be preserved and kept sweet
by putting it in wine bottles, adding a
teaspoonful of white sugar to each bottle
and corking tightly. The corks should
be tied down.
In Fond du Lac county, Wis, an.enum-
Grafton of the live stock gives the follow
ing result: Horses, 12,672; cattle, 39,-
17G; COWS, 1868; sheep and lambs, 81,
573; swine 5,490.
Pear blight has, in several instances,
been arrested in affected trees by sprink-
ling them with a weaklsolution of potash,
and it has proved a preventive when ap-
piled to the healthy trees.
In the matter OF pork packing Chica.
60 leads the world. Last season 100000
hogs were slaughtered there, and the ex-
pectation is that the present year will
see this number increased to 6,0O0,000
Mr.. Henry E. Alvord, of Massachusetts
gets silver medal from the British Dairy
Farmers association, for his good service
in the matter Of the collection of Ameri
can utensils exhibited at their recen
show.
It is said that never in the history OF
this country, was there so much winte,
wheat sown as this fall, nor never was il
looking better, If as we'll. Many farmers
are feeding it down with sheep, calves
and COWS. ....-
Horses increased IN Great Britain from
301, 900 in 1870 to 5000 at the presen
time, and yet they are much higher il
prsksnow than then, and were it not fo
disastrous season there, the advance woul(
be still greater. ~
The Franklin (Mass.) Farmers Clu1
) have had potato competition this year
J all the contestants planted seeds Of earl,
, rose, and each chose his own mode O
cultivation. A. Checver got the larges
| yield, 488 bushels per acre.
7 OF large British estates, that Of tn
Duke of Buccleuch is 459, ,260 acres; Lad
Willoughby d'Eresby, 1872, 800; Earl Fitz
1 william, 1S,96S. Those of forty -feu
e other gentlemen and noblemen vary fror
s 10000 up to 81, ,425 acres.
: The Portsmouth Weekly reports littl
satisfaction among growers of sugar beet
i in that part eff New Hampshire this yea
! the not unnatural result of first yer
ture, which it thinks experience and i'm
) proved methods of culture may change.
g Oats should be bruised for an old hors,
but not for young one, because the fo1
3 mel, through age and defective teeth, Cal
9 not chew them properly; the young hors
- can do so, and they are thus properl
- - mixed with saliva and turned into Who'll,
!, some nutrlmenf.
i the Mobile, Ala, Register reckons ths
# $20,000,OOO will be made this year b
J. Southern planters by the rise in crol
,r over what they expected to get for then
d and it urges that part of this be put int
o the establishment of manufactures in tt
: South, especially for those spinning yal
fe from seed cotton. ..
s. Kind treatment and every care are d,
N to an animal from whose services ma
J. derives such important benefits; but tc
often does man forget that he has a dut
to perform, not only to his fellow me-
ar but towards those domestic animals tn
q Providence has intrusted to him for h
IS own welfare. "
Twelve quarts of milk day is qui
a common for Kerry cows smallest I
British breeds but several cases are {
record where they have given when 1us1
during period of several weeks, as mue
as twenty-five quarts, OF quality, II
Tn,o1 ~ ,for1.