The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-18
Farm NOTES.

No attempt should be made to grow
any crop.In the orchard without heavy
.manuring. but if no crop is grown a
heavy mulching will keep the trees in a
thrifty condition until they come into
bearing. providing the land was in good
condition when the trees were set. When
the trees begin to produce fruit, every
few years the land should receive good
dressing of manure, which should be
spread on the surface before muiching.
In Florida the value per acre of
cleared land is 50, and of timbered land
S. In Louisiana cleared land is worth
$14, and timbered land IS. In Texas
cleared land is worth %, and timbered
a. In Arkansas cleared land is valued
at $11 and numbered land at So. In Ore
gon cleared land is worth $21, and tim
bered a. But in Nebraska cleared
land is worth 90, and timbered $25 per
acre.
The Dallas Planter and Farmer says
the potato crop of Texas was a short
one this time, and sorry indeed. They
are about all gone already, and wha: few
are left are readily selling for 30 per
bushel. Texas markets are even now
bringing a supply from other states.
There was no want of proper cultiva-
tion-it was simply bad year to raise
potatoes. This does not happen often,
and is, therefore, no reason for discour-
agement. Likely as not next year will
be an excellent one for them.
a Pennsylvania farmer who has tried
il, recommends that when the spring
sowing of clover seed does not " catch"
owing to drouth or other causes, that
sowing clover seed upon the stubble in
August, or early September, will gener.
al he
without narrowing in, although harrow
cost of the extra seed Is but a trifle CON-
pared with changing the proper rotation
of crops established upon every well
regulated farm
The greatest trial of farmer often is
to properly manage his hired hands. To
get the great amount Of work from his
helpers without making of them mere
machines, is the problem which is to be
solved by every agriculturist who owns
more land than he can manage with his
own unaided labor. One requisite is
the ability to lay out plans for The work
ahead, so that every man shall know
what he has todOnext evening before his
last job is finished. The master should
know what he wants, and he should see
that his wishes are carried out.
Florida will send fifty million oranges
70 market this year, and the Agricultur-
ist of that state says the froSts of the
past season have made il a bad year for
oranges in Florida, too. But that num-
Der is not a drop in the bucket of the
immense importation of the fruit.
Foreign countries send about COG, 600.
600 oranges to America every year.
This number, added TO FlOrida's yield,
makes the number read, $50, 600, 900,
which would give every man, woman
and child in the country fourteen Or
anges to suck, provided, of course, that
church fairs and homemade cakes do
not absorb their usual proportion of the
fruit
If there is anything certain in farming
il is that stable manure will repay its APP
plicatiOn to crops. The experience of
ages has settled this point, and ND man
who cultivates land antertains doubt
as to its effects. By the aid of agricul-
tural science we have learned just what
it is in this manure that is valuable. We
know it is the potash, phosphOric acid,
nitrogen, sulphuric acid, magnesia, lime,
etc, that is of benefit. These ash ele-
ments of stable dung are what we need,
and, with the exception of the mechani-
cal action on the soil, are all there is that
repays the farmer for the application.
The potato was discussed recently at
the Central New York Farmers Club.
The facts developed in the experience of
farmers present were that though soil
and season unquestiOnably have much to
do with the flavor of potatoes; the late
potatoes retain their flavor over winter
and into spring better than early sorts.
Prof. Roberts found that under the same
| conditions, small potatoes for seed gave
| the poorest result, the middle part of
large potatoes next, the seed end next,
and the stem end the best A whole
large potato with q single eye is the best
possible seed, More work is needed,
but better crop secured, by cultivating
in rows or drills, rather than in hills.