The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-05-15
ARMERS' COLUMN.
FAHM NOTES.


lie Due a salary Of $4,000 only, instead OF
$4,000, as recommended.
Reports from different parts Of the State
are to the effect that the farmers will soon
commence planting corn.
The guinea fowl is native of Africa.
There are FIVE species known to naturaists,
and only one is domesticated.
A larger acreage Of potatoes than usual
has been planted in Lehigh county this year.
The planting has about ended.
George II. Coe, of Norristown, was pre-
scented with four-logged chicken few
3 days ago. 1t lived three days after being
hatched.
. One drop Of sulphuric acid in the heart of
ofa pantain or other weeds will destroy them
completely. Care must be exercised in its
use.
The gladiolus originally came from South |
Africa, but has been so highly and cariully |
'cultivated as to be thoroughly changed in
its nature.
Many insects harbor beneath the loose
bark Of trees, and by scraping this of and
washing the trunk and limbs with solution
of soft sonp much good may be done.
Rye sown this month will make an ex-
.celfent summer pasture for milch cows and
give larger return Of rich milk aud butter
than the wild and coarse grasses and weeds
of the woods.
s Lettuce is a quick crop and occupies the
ground but short time, therefore farmers
frequently make early paintings on land
r afterward wholly given over to melons, cab
bages and the like.
Among the Dutch bulbs the hyacinih is
favorite; it is very easily grown and nearly
our first spring flower, and is very fragrant
and pretty. 1t can be aowered in the house
either in pots or in glasses.
b Henry Albion, living near Hampstead,
York county,who is So years old has horse
g al years old. The old animal has been in
his possession 50 years, and is as active as
year old colt.
The wheat crop through the State is gem
! orally reported to be good ,aud it is said that
the farmers consider it a standing rule that
when wheat looks good on the first Of May
the crop will turn out we'll
1t is said that an English grape grower
stopped the proluse bleeding Of thrifty
young vine by forming sort Of hard cement
over the cut ends by repeated dusting at
ehort intervals with Portland cement.
This is a good month to make final
oNerhauling of the coops, directing all neces-
sary repairing, and, If needed, make addi-
tional ones, 50 that when the hens come of
with their broods, you are prepared for
them.
A recent discussion in the Lancaster
County Agricultural Society on the amount
of ground that should he put in tobacco
ELECTED the statement that from . to per
cent. of the farm was about the proper
amount.
1t ought to be more generally known that
wheat flour is probably the best possible ar
tice to throw over fire caused by the spill
ing and gniting of kerosene. 1t ought to be
known, because flour is always within con-
venient reach.
A New York farmer kills the cabbage
worm by sprinkling the plants with COM
gnon black pepper from an ordinary tin
box-a pound to $50 plants-sometimes pre-
viously sprinkling with soapsuds from the
weeks washing.
White Cochins should be kept only by
persons in granite districts, where there is
much white or light-colored sand,an not in
clayey or muddy localities, for the beauty of
their plumage depends on its clean and un-
sullied condition.
If the quarrelsome man wants his dog
and cat to be the same he gives them raw
meat. The same holds good with poultry
Raw meat is not so easily dgested, and is
much meat; but don't fail to give q small
quantity from time to time.
Every needed means for the approaching
harvest should be made ready. Mowers
rakes, scythes, barns, stack bottoms, etc,
should all be examined and put in order.
Whatever help may be required should alsu
be engaged beforehand
Always cnt your flowers with a sharp
knife or scissors, and carly in the morning
or at evening. Keep them well sprinkled;
if possible add fresh water; if in a vase every
day, and better warm than cold, and put in
little salt. Set the bouquet at night on the
door Of cool room or cellar.
The man has not lived in vain who
plants good tree in the right place; and
the sentiment which prompted the tree
planting organizations at the West, and
caused day to be set arart for n united
voluntary public effort in this behalf, is akin
to that which set on foot our charitable ant
missionary societies.
1t is said that the best way to manag
,sickly plants is to turn them out OF the pots
shake or wash Off all the soil from the roots
and if any are decayed cut them OFF; ais
prune the stem and branches severely, anC
pot again in fresh soil. Set them away in
shady place, after giving water sufficient t
settle the soil, adding a little from time t.
time as returning health and growth opreai
The North CUo'ma Torch L,cH state
that the Original scurp5mong vine, ffon
which the present stock IS said 10 have bee
taken, is located on Roanoke Island, in q
near the Albemarle Sound, n. c., and is re
ported 10 have been discovered by Sir Waite
Raleigh in the sixteenth century. The WIN
covers over one acre of ground, aud is asses
ed to produce over 1900 gallons of must i
one season.
The Cost of TiIIage.
Other things heinz eoual that land Nvhis