Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-02-26
AuRlculTUREAl NOTES.

MA depends upon lrrlSatlon.
The St. Louis Fair Association has
an Indebtedness of $4,000.
All over Europe the fever for i'm
migration to America is at a boiling
heat.
In 1878 there were in this country
61,525,000 acres in corn and 32,10S,-
$50 in wheat.
New York has nearly twice as many
mich COWS al all the New England
States combined.
Cattle hoofs a! the present time are
worth $50 per ton. These hoofs are
now made into horn buttons.
1t is said that the proceeds from
the sale of tickets at the Information.
al Fair at New York paid all e1pen-
ses.
At q recent potato show in Eng
land, where nearly 1,400 plates were
shown, a large..number were Of Amer
can varieties.
failure Of clo7er seeding means
ayear lost in the profits of the farm.
The time is close at hand for sowing
clover. Prepare for it.
A farmer should look ahead. think
in advance of his work, and have his
plans well laid. The winter is q good
time for this mental labor.
Thomas Jefferson said: "Let the
farmer forevermore be honored in his
calling, for they who labor in the
earth are the chosen people Of God"
The value Of fruit crops in the Uni,
ted States is estimated BY the Gov
eminent Statistician at $40, 600, 900
annually-about half the value of the
wheat crop.
The Changers in. Michigan express
strong sentiments IN favor of indu-
cling Congress to recognize the rights
OF the farmers, especially as regards
transportation and patents.
Agriculture, we are told, is to be
made an obligatory study in all ele-
mentary schools of France. This is a
resent action of the French Senate,
and was adopted by a majority of 254
votes.
The best herds Of dairy COWS in this
country yied from 600 to 800 pounds
of cheese per COW. Few of these are
thoroughbreds, bat are selected from
the best grades OF the various breeds.
Large consignments of butter have
lately been shipped in ten-pound
packages, inclosed in tin cans, to
Scotland. They were received in
good order, and sold readily at 37!c
per pound.
1t is the doctrine on the model
farm to always try to save the dollar
Ito look for the chances to save rath-
or than spend. Yet often it happens
that the saving comes from spending.
The poultry should 10 fed meat
three or four times a week with their
other food, when, the ground being
frozen, there are neither worms nor
insects for them to pick up about the
premises.
Shipments Of American to England
have resulted in remunerative returns.
1t is qlite likely that the low rates of
steamer freight now offered may sim
ulate the export trade in baled hay.
TIE Kansas Historical Society, at
their recent meeting, passed o resolu-
ton urging the passage of a law to
provide for instruction in "horticul-
tural and cognate branches in the
common schools of the State.
About $4,000 acres of Minnesota
prairie land were planted with forest
trees in 1879, mostly in the south
western counties, while two rows of
trees were planted along the high
ways for 2S0,945 rods, or about S7S
miles.
Butter properly worked. presents a
grain which overworking destroys,
giving it a greasy or salvy appearance.
The latter has a dull look, instead of
q bright, sparkling appearance, when
the knife is drawn through it.
Ono of the first, agricultural nipple
plement patened in this country, near
ly $50 years ago, was ''for an engine
for the more speedy cutting of grass
The patentee was Joseph jerks, sr., q
scythe ma, u%tlcturer.
In Grelb Britain q machine has
been invented by which wet grass is
rapidly turned into hay. Tho ma
chine has worked very successfully
during the past season, andit isssthat
this method Of making hay is to be
introduced OIL m my largo estates in
England.
The ingalls, COW, q native with long
ho ms and a large belly, when the run
to pasture and had two quarts of meal
per day, gave the first week nineteen
lolnds, the second week twenty and
IN, third week t~wenty-one pounds OF
bu ter.
Thee are localities where it may
pay to grow small crops cheaply.
where one may skin the land for 4
few years and leave it, just in the
same places cattle have been killed
for tn ,ir hides, leaving their carcasse.
to scay. But farmers cannot afforC
to adopt thi, style Of farming. Tn,
with them should be to grow larg,