The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1881-08-03
FARM NOTsS.

LARGE amounts Of barley are annually
raised in California, and transported
5000 miles 10 be matted Ia Chicago
Barley is commonly considered native
Of the North, but such are the capacities
OF soil and climate in the Golden State
that the cereal hourishes well i'll semi
tropic latitude. Barley is ono OF tho
most remuneratiye crops that can be
raised on good land, if well attended to.
To GET the moss of young trees, IL
the moss has come from dampuess and
feeble growth, the best way to keep it
off is to drain the land and enrich or cul-
tivate it. Scraping and washing with
suds is n good temporary cure, hut the
best remedy is to be applied through the
roots. Moss sometimes comes from too
much shade in which case the dense
growth should he cautiously thinned by
pruning.
IT Is stated that the proprietors Of the
new beet sugar factory at Schenectady,
n. y, expect TO clear the cost of their
establishment. $4,000, III four years,
from their regular profits. The farmers
have contracted to sell ther. beets at
the growers will probably not withstand
more than one season. 1t would be
better policy of the factory owners 10
give more for the beets and be longer IN
getting their money back.
A WRITER in the Country Gentem1n,
in showing the uniform profits o. farm
ing to be fully 10 per cent on the invest
ment Of land and stock, for the last fifty
years, concludes: Farming is CON
fessel 10 be q slow way Of making for
tune, but the figures which we have
been looking at prove that the capital in
farming is a good investment When
we want to set our business IN contrast
with the money making occupations, we
make another issue and plead for the
safety and permanence Of the business;
and we try to show how family eau DO
rich without money and how they can
have the best thing which money can
get-a home.
u. j. WEIR writes to tho Prnjric
Farmer that he had kept scions Of tho
pear in sawdu4t from early winter
through the whole Of the following year,
and 10 the next June, fresh and in good
condition. and when inserted as CRAFTS
they grew, and trees are now bearing
from them. The reason II their being
kept so long was that thoy were over
looked Mr.. W, quotes the remark Of
Van Mons that gratis received by him
after being three years III the mails had
heen inserted and grew. II might pos.
sibly he Of value 10 know how long they
could he kept fresh, buried many feet
under ground.
ISprAsA has n capital road law, which
her older and nearest sister States would
do well to copy Local Supervisors have
been abolished, aud Township Suporn-
tendents, chosen for two years. ,ubsti-
tuted, who take the entire direction Of
road and bridge malnng and improve.
ments. A capltatlon tax Of 81 is levied
on every ablc.bodIcd man between the
ages Of twenty-Onc and fifty years in
elusive, which the citizen may work
out, " and Supcrintendcnts receive - per
diem Many Of the features are decided
improvements ON the old law, aud good
roads those indispensable promoters Of
agricultural and social thrift are likely
TO result from it.
The Merino sheep II Australia turn on
heavy heeces. The QUcrpSiUdCr (Bris,
bane) states that n full mouthed ram 3
fleece, from the well known Wangancla
flock, weighed -. pounds at eight
months and three weeks growth, l2J
hogget rams gave iccces averaging II
pounds. A bale Of wool containing 10
lambs hacces, pressed at kinross, turned
the scale at iiS pounds The Mcrino-
were introduced into New South Wales
some eighty years ago by Mr.. McArthur,
one 81 the first gentlemen settlers, whose
family have long held deserved ptomi-
nence in the country. His beautiful
seat, Camden, is within an hours ride
of Sydney. The Australian Merinos arc
derived from the Rnmbouillet flock.
MANURE FOR ORCHARDS. The value of
yard or stable manure is becoming more
and more appreciated every year by in
teiligent orchardists, not only in pro.
noting the growth of bearing apple
trees, but emincntly so far increasing
the productiyeness and quality of tho
crop, and for preventing the usuel bar
renness of alternate years. But the ln-
quiry il becoming more and more fire.
ouent, "IIow shall we obtain sufficient
quantities ?" 1t would seem that the
impro vements now making by intelligent
and enterprising farmers, are likely to
give satisfactory answer, mt least to
some extent, by showing how greatly
increased number Of animals may be
kept for manure making on limited
area of land. Good crops Of roots of the
right sort contribute largely 10 this re-
suit, although the drawback still exists
of heavy labor in handling. We saw on
the 2OO-acre farm of j. s. Woodward, of
Niagara County, nine acres Of heavy
beets for his large herd Of animals, and
the fact that he sold q year OF two ago
from his thirty apple orchard, no
less than $1,000 worth of fruit, gives q
good answer 10 the above question. Large
and heavy crops Of corn folder well
utilized by chopping, rs by William
Crozier's process, and by chopping and |
steaming, as by the Messrs. Dunning,
thus turning ont their thousands of loads !
Of manure from large and we'll fed herds !,
OF animals give another answer. When
these appliances can not he obtained,
turning under green crops and good cul-
tiyation Of the soil. as by Mr.. McKinstry,
OF Hudson, have produced excellent re-
snlts, although not complete substi.
tute for even moderate top-dressing of
manure. Country GenHcmnn.
Pork AND CHEMISTRY. r. i. Curtis,
in the New York's Tribune, makes a
good defense Of root feeding. Tho
analytic food tables show that manc'
have not enough nntritive value in
themselves for wholesome food In this
they mislead, as Mr. Curtis shows by
experiment ave wintered eight old