The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-04-20
RARM NOTES.

WITHIN the past nVe years the acreAgt
OF cereals In the United States has increas
ed from "a. 000, 900 10 5000, 900.
The rain annually pours into the soil
quantity Of nitrate Of ammonia fully
equivalent to three pounds per acre.
Guinea fowls will keep all bugs and in.
sects Of every description of garden vines.
They will not scratch like other fowls OF
harm the most delicate plants.
The average butter yield OF the AIRY.
shire cows is one pound from twenty to
twenty-five pounds OF milk; from the
Jersey COWS Ills one pound Of butter from
eighteen pounds Of milk.
A slow mixer makes COW impatient,
which causes her to hold up her milk.
The strippings are the richest part, and il
. COW Is milking quietly as well as quickly
there will be more as well as richer milk.
The Land Office at Washington never
was so busy asst Is now; As much land
has been sold in the last four months as
was ever disposed Of previously in year.
The purchasers are nearly all actual set
tiers,
He who administers medicine to his
horse when in good health does injury
instead OF good. Too much medicine Is
given 10 our domestic animals under the
false impression Of benefting their con.
dition.
Over 10000 car loads OF live and dressed
poultry are carried into New York city
yearly, and rs, 600 900 dozen OF eggs 20 to
the same market. According to the best
estimates, the United States produces
6, 000. 000, 600 eggs annually.
The product OF scrub COW by thor
oughbred bull will be half.blood. This,
coupled with thoroughbred bull, would
produce three.quarter blood, The next
cross would be seyen.eighths, and the next
fiiteen.sixteenths.
The average yield OF wheat in Great
Britain was 81 bushels in 1858, SO bushels
in 1870, % bushels in 1875, q bushels in
1877, 80 iu 1878, and only IS bushels in
1879. England must import IA, 900, 900
bushels this year, 2S,000 900 more than
the average OF the past two years.
Plant tansy at the roots of your plum
trees, or hang branches Of the plant on
on the limbs Of the tree. and you will not
be annoyed with curculio. An old and
successful fruitgrower furnishes the above,
and says 1t Is the most successful curculio
preventive he has ever tried.
Keeping sheep Is pleasant and profit.
able,ii attended to properly. Wool is a
sure thing every year and brings cash.
II has its ups and downs, but let any man
make up his mind that none but his wife
or his administrator shall sell his wool for
less than fifty cents per pound and he will
come out all right
The Rural Messenger, published at Pc
tersburg, Va, has received the following
about farmer in Dinwiddie county, that
State: "He seeded last fall lot Of four
acres, on which he put four bushels and
three quarts OF seeds, and he threshed out
OF the straw made on these four acres
l34 bushels Of wheat"
The best time TO castrate male pigs is at
from four to six weeks OF age; or at least
before weaving time. They seldom suffer
any preceptible check in their growth
when the operation is performed ut this
time, and they will be more easily manag-
ed t1an II permitted TO run entire. The
danger from castration increases with the
age Of the pig after he is six weeks old.
Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips, and
especially maugle-wurzle, will all iatten
pigs, These roots oughtnot to be given
ina raw state, but always cooked and
mixed with beans, peas, Indian corn, oats
or barley, all OF which must be ground
into meal. When pigs are fed on such
cooked food as we have stated, the pork
acquires peculiarly rich flavor, and Is
much esteemed, especially for family use.
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