The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-07-31
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
Tea is to be cultivated in Georgia.
old bacon grease, it is said, will kill
lice or hogs.
The Berks County fair commences Sep
tember 29.
York county has 10000 acres in tobacco
this season.
Harvest hands are scarce in the Wyo-
ming Valley.
The pleuro pneumonia seems to have
left the dairies of Chester Valley for the
present.
From lO4 bushels of wheat planted in
Cambria county last fall over 1000 bushels
were harvested last week.
Michael Setzeris barn, in Heidelberg
Berks county, was rooted and filled with
hay and grain In two days.
The farmers are almost done harvesting
the oat crop in Lebanon county, which is
the best crop obtained in that county for
several years.
Leonard Knapp, near Stouchsburg, in
Lebanon county, has threshed over ! 200
bushels of wheat on his farm, and expects
TO get 200 bushels more.
"A disease has broken out among the
cattle in the vicinity of Hanover junction,
York county, which battles the skill of the
farmers and the veterinary doctors.
"A writer in the Scientific american says
thtt he beats the rats by making whitewash
yellow with copperas and covering the raft
ers and stones with it, In every crevice
where rat may tread the crystals of cop
reras are put, and the same is scattered in
the corner of the floor.
Mr.. Adam E. Ranck, of Fishing Creek
Mills, on the Columbia and Port Deposit
Railroad, is the owner of three sows, each of
which has, within past few weeks, given
birth to a litter of pigs, and every pig of the
three litters is stone blind, several of them
having not the semblance of an eye in the
eye-socket.
We were greatly amused some days since
by seeing one of our venerable citizens who
had been bowed down with Rheumatism,
just as young as he used to be, and now he is
recommending Roberts EmbrOcation to every
old lady in town. Great liniment that. 34
DIR. Levengood, of Chester County, has
quite curiosity in the shape of four-leg,
ged duck. 1t has two legs grown together
and one which is united with the body at
the same place as the double leg, turned up
over its back. The leg on the other side Of
its body is all right. 1t is now over two
weeks old, and is as lively as any one of the
brood.
Mothers don't fail to have SINEs' DYsEN.
Terry COMPOUND on hand, for the relief of
your little baby when attacked with any
Bowel Complaint, 1t contains no Morphine
nor Opium, yet Its soothing effect will give
the little sufferer SO much relief that he will
mother an opportunity to rest, as well Us every
provoked bachelor ofthe house. "a.
Wilson kaufman, of Maiden Creek
township, Berks county, stacked between
1000 and l,lOO sheaves of wheat on the
roof of his barn. Mr.. Kaufinan's building
being filled, and not having any available
space near the barn for a grain stack, he
concluded to place it on the roof. The stack
is on one side of the barn root, and is COW
cred by another roof extending from the hay
and straw shed and connecting with the
barn roof
Since the Engllshmen as we'll as Messrs
Lorillard, james Gordon Bennett, ETC.. have
found so much virtue in RoBERT's HoRsE
PowDERs, and have used il in such auanti-
ties; all persons who are alive TO their inter
ests give IL 10 their horses, whether runners
tTotters, or farm horses, It has a wonderful OF.
feet. a
Cattle in New Castle hundred, Della
ware, is being affected by an insect designa-
ted as the "Texas tick" which is beginning
TO play sad havoc among them. The insect
not only burrows in the hide of the animals,
but penetrates their flesh, affecting them to
such an extent that death soon ensues. Giles
Lambson recently lost three fine cattle by
this pest, and one OF his neighbors lost FIVE
while Others are suffering in the same re-
spect.
Travellers should always have a small bot.
Tie ot SHINES, DYsEETERY COMPOUND tor i'm
mediate relief from any Bowel Complaints
guaranteed to tone up the Stomach at once to
q healthy condition. 81.
"A writer in the Michigan Farmer says:
Rape, although little used in America as
food for stock is unsurpassed by any other
feed for the production of wool and mutton
of high quality. 1t is admirably adapted
for the recruiting of aged or sick sheep, and
for the weaving of lambs; flush on it for four
weeks previous to letting the bucks TO them
and will guarantee you, with proper care
at lambing time, an increase Of from 100 to
lsO per cent
"A dispatch from Washington, Pa. says.
A celebrated Holstein calf belonging to Nc
Corkle, Henderson a Buchanan, of Hickory,
died Of hydrophobia a day or two since The
ealfweighed about us pounds when a month
old. A few days ago dog on the premises
had hydrophobia, and it is supposed the dog
had licked the bucket out of which the calf
ste. A child Of Mr.. Corkle was play ing
with the dog during its madness, but it is
thought she was not bitten, as she has show
ed no signs Of this terrible disease.
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