The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-08-14

that Montana will produce this year SO, ,OOO,-
900 pounds Of wool, nearly as much as Cali
fornia.
i "A Maryland farmer has discovered that
potato bugs boiled will turn leather beau
tiful scarlet color, and a company will be
formed to make dyelng mixtures from po-
tato bugs.
Peaches require warm, light soil. If
the people would take pains to raise seeding
peaches they would gradually get race of
trees much harder than those brought from
a more Southern climate.
We have not only greater variety of
fruits than any other country, but our eli
mate gives them to us in succession, which
adds greatly to their value and TO the COM
fort and enjoyment of our people.
A farmer in Lycoming county recon-
mends as sure cure for snake bite a tea
made from the plant or herb known as
"Robin's plantation" which he says is to be
found upon almost any farm in the meadow
ground.
Feed horses according TO their age and
work REQUIRED of them. Full feeding and
little work disorders the digestive orgaus.
Select only such hay as is the best quality
that Of inferior quality is dear at any price,
as there is no proper nourishment in it.
lie Dues plans for his experimental tea
farm are well advanced. The applications
for tea plants from American farmers are IN
creasing, and farmer in Georgia has actu-
ally raised tea equally as good as the i'm
ported article worth fifty cents pound.
The Washington Reporter says that
Samuel R., aged l4yson OF Samuel Garber,of
South Strabane, Washington county, in one
day bound ninety. five dozen of oats, from
o'clock till sundown. He also gathered
nineteen dozen of it. 1t was all ordinary
binds.
The total wheat crop the United States
in 1879, according to estimates of the Agrl-
cultural Department, was 449 900 900 BUSH
els, and it ia believed, with favorable close
of the harvest, that the product of this year
will exceed it to the amount of about 80, ,OOO,-
600 bushels.
"A Devon. COW is reported that made
pound of butteffin summer from 22l pounds
of milk, and from l5 pounds in winter,wth
pasture only i'll summerand in winter eight
ears of corn and two quarts of bran fed dry
twice day. She gave % per cent. more
milk when milked three times day.
In all probability the potato is the most
valuable vegetable produced, taking it the
world over certainly there is no single one
for which so much labor and money is ex
pended, and none 80 universally consumed
The idea of dinner without potatoes is the
best illustration of the idea of the play OF
Hamlet" with Hamlet left out.
Last years wine product in France ag.
gregated 565, 10000 gallons, or 25O,Ol 1000
gallons less than the previous year, showing
the enormous falling off of nearly one half
The insect pests which have infested many
of the wine districts for years have not been
the only cause of the diminished yield, but
it is largely attributed 10 the unfavorable
weather of the past year.
1t is asserted that fifteen or sixteen
years ago Chicago merchants obtained their
supplies of cheese from the East, while at
the present time as much as 1000 900
pounds of the compound pass through that
city annually for Eastern markets. During
the same time prices have fallen about 25
per cent, but are still sufficiently high to
make the business very remunerative.
-Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips, and
especially mangel-wurzel, will all fatten
pigs. The roots ought not to be given in
raw state, bat always cooked and mixed
with beans, peas, Indian corn, oats or bar
ley, all of which must be ground into meal
When pigs are fed on such cooked food as
We have stated the pork acquires peculi-
arly rich flavor, and is much esteemed, es,
pecially for family use.
The greatest enemy to young fruit trees
is the curcuio worm, and the month of June
being the time when theT eggs are deposit
ed into the trees from which come the lar
we. There is no better season than now to
destroy them by digging about the roots
and following them into the trees through
the bark. Timely attention will save the
thrifty young fruit trees, an important item
Of interest to the farmer and nurseryman
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Society offers premium of 800 for the best
collection of apples by any state or local So
| ciety, or by any individual, not to contain
more than 100 sorts, and $50 for the second
best. For the best collection from an indi.
viduAl, of not over forty varieties, the pre-
mlums are $50 and $25, and the same prizes
offered for the best ten market apples south
Of 81 degj for the best ten between 81 and
Al deg, and for the best ten north of Al deg.
These and other liberal premiums will be
likely to bring together large collection of
fruit and make the coming exhibition one
Of intereet.
Despite the very high butter produce of
some cows reported from time 10 time, the
average butter produce of the United States
is much below what might be expected.
Professor Atwood, in referring to the exag-
gerstions abroad in reference 10 the produc-
tion of butter in the country, says in COM
munieation to the Country Gentleman; "The
average of Oregon county, New York, is
only ls6 pounds per COW. For the whole
country, deplorable as the fact is, the aver
age butter product cannot be over 1875
pounds a year for each COW, and is more
likely to be as low as 100 pounds, Seven
millions Of cows would then produce s4O,-
100000 pounds Of butter annually" Does
not Canada, as well as the States, need more
careful selection OF dairy stock2
The presant cattle grazing belt Of the
United States Cgild landsl IA about D aoO