Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-01-20
HOUSE AND FARM.
Farm Notes and Breyities.

"The worst and most unmanageable type
of jockey in the world, remarks turf au-
thority, ais apt to be found at agricultural
fairs"
The failure is announced of the Farmers
Fertileizer Company of Philadelphia, with
liabilities of $157 900. The losers include
many agriculturists of Pennsylvania, "
some of whom owned stock and others had
made loans
Every general reader has heard of Mr..
John j. Mechi, the great experimental and
progressive English farmer, who did i'm
mense service to the agriculture of the
country. At one time he was immensely
rich, as the results of trade in the
British metropolis. He purchased large
quantities of wet clay land, in Essex, en-
ployed largely, and wrought extensive i'm
provements. But the bad seasons of the
last few years overcame him with disaster,
and he was obliged to suspend few weeks
ago. We now learn that he died on Christ
mas day, 1880, in his 10th year.
Professor S. NJ. Tracy, of the Agricultur-
al College, Columbus, Mo, who, during
several years past, has tested over 100 varie-
ties of wheat desires to learn what kinds
are raised in other parts of the country, and
asks farmers engaged in this culture to kind
ly inform him, by postal card, of the names
and yields of the various sorts with which
they or their neighbors have had experience.
| These reports will be published in cOnneo-
ton with the Professors conclusions, and
| copy sent to each person who renders assist
ance in gathering the information desired.
| A Maryland farmer, who purchased one
gill of Australian wheat, at the Centennial
Exposition, 1876, for So, has annually SOW
ed all he raised, and this year had IS bush
els. With a fair return for 1881, he may raise
1000 to l 200 bushels, or 1856, 600 worth,
according to the price he paid for the first
| gill. Many refrain from planting orchards
for fear they may not live long enough to
enjoy the fruits; but man was commissioned
to subdue and replenish the earth, and his
duties for to -day pertain to those of the race
and not merely as to individuals.
The application of the coat of glue and
whiting no doubt fills up the cracks and
rough places in the old boards, and it re-
auires just SO much paint to make the job
look well at less cost than if nothing but
paint was used. Of course the glue and
whiting will not preserve the wood or last as
long as paint, but the owners of the build
ings may care more about present looks than
the enduring properties of the paint applied.
The Beet Sugar Factory at Franklin
Mass, is working up about 100 tons of roots
and turning out 10 tons of dry sugar per
day. Of the disposition of the refuse The
Neac Englan Farmer says: 1.-The pulp is
delivered at the mill to the farmers who
furnished beets at the rate of one ton fol
every five tons of keets; if put on board cars,
so cents per ton is charged for loading. To
others So per ton is charged, free on cars
The pulp retains it's ribbon like form, and
weighs about the same by the cord as before
the sugar is extracted; but those who have
fed it are finding it cheap food for milct
COWS, compared to English hay"
Ice-houses have become almost as neces.
sary to the farm as the old-fashioned barn
At least every well-regulated family in The
country should have an ice-house. We
have so many lakes and rivers that it is thu
province of most every farmer to secure
this luxury for summer use. Ice-house!
can be erected at a trivial cost, and no farm
er can neglect the opportunity afforded O.
securing crop of ice. No expensive build
ing is necessary to store it in. A few day.
of work with a small quantity of lumbe.
will sufice-then with sawdust to pack it in
the ice will be safe.