Smyrna times., 1880-06-16

Long HE ana success 10 llc laIIlSI'
The first new wheat sold at Dallas, Texas,
on the 18th of May, brought $l.jO per
bushcl.
Corn is selling at fifty to tifty,two cents
per bushel in the blue grass counties OF
Kentucky.
A Texas paper says that State will raise
enough of peaches this year to supply
dozen States.
Fayette is the first in rank, and Wood
ford the second, Of hemp-producing coun-
ties in kentucky.
The gross income derived from tobacco
by tho farmers OF the United States Is |
about 322 100000.
Horace Miller, Of Bourbon county, Ken |
tucly, has sold his crop of wheat (l20
acres) at eighty seven cents per bushcl.
Reports from some sections Of the Ken.
tucky blue grass region Indicate serious
damage to the wheat crop by the llrssian
fly.
The amount Of flour received and manu-,
lacturcd by the dealers and millcrs of st.
Louis, in 1870, was 4,lj1,1j1 barrels, Cf'
which over 100000 barrels were cXpor
ted.
4 sudden rise in the Beargrass Creek,
Jefferson county, Kentucky, u few days
ago, carried down bushels OF Colorado bug,
gathered by the rushing waters in the fields
above.
An enterprising firm at Mt. Vernon,
Texas, has started q seed rancho on the
prairies in the vicinity The purpose is to
determine heIelative adaptation and value
: Of the various grasses to that section
Prof. 4. J. Cook, of the Michigan agli.
cultural college, says that one pound of
London purple, dissolved in one hundred
gallons OF water, is an effective poison for
potato bugs, cankcr worms, leaf rollers and
all lcafeating insects
Mrs. Marion Hopkins, Of San Francisco
has bought for three hundred dollars q
japanese baby plant, a species OF lily grow
ing four feet high, with blossom i'll which
is the perfect facsimile of the cunningest
little baby in the world, nude, with iti
little arms and legs outstretched, and ii
eyes distinctly marked.
Air Stacked lime will destroy curran
y worms. Examine the bushes often, ant
where the lower leaves are perforated ther
the worms are to be found. IF the bush i
dry, first sprinkle with water and thci
with lime Two or three applications will
be sufficient for the season. The lime vii
inure neither the bush nor the fruit.
Now is the time, says the Germantown
Telegraph, to look after the spades, scythes
hoes, chisels, saws, etc, and wisely adds
!, A good grindstone and a set Of files ar
;" among the best of farm investments, espC
cially at this season. 1t is always nice t
be forehandcd to get things well ahead
but the best of all forehandedness is thg
which prepares in advance full set {
good and we'll repaired tools to work will
- REARING CALvEs.-In many herds of pei
q igree Shorthorn stock rGisers allow the
y calves to suckle their dams for from four
six months of the year. Others milk tE
COWS and feed the calves part of the ne
milk, but the most common system is
give new milk for three or four weeks, an
aftorward skinned milk with boiled Ii
seed, corn or oatmeal for three or fo
months thereafter, the calves being e
couraged in the meantime to learn to e
linseed cake, turnips and hay. calf
large breed, over a month old, reQuir
about two gallons of new milk per day
keep it in fine thriving condition. Equal
good results may be obtained with the sar
quantity of skim milk and one pound ca
of linseod meal and oat or corn meal boil
into a Cruel. After calves arc from four
six months old the milk may be disco
tinued, care being taken to make up for
,stf withdrawal by careful feeding with gre
- forage and meal made into gruol. Ere
two to four pounds of meal are thus
qured for each calf daily, with all
n skim milk that can bo spared to it.-Ano
II can Ddiryman.