Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-26

The army worm has been known In this
country since 1743.
Maine raises nearly 100000 bushels of
potatoes per annum.
One gallon of white paint should cover
forty four square yards of surface.
All animals without exception Illuminate
which have horns and cloven feet.
The hay crop Of New York is worth over
S60, 900, 600 per annum ~ hr~ e.#
The gelatine prevails in young animals
and hence their bones are quite flexible.
Connecticut tobacco lands gives an
average annual yield of 14y0 pounds to the
acre.
Ordinary engines burn about ten pounds
of coal per hour for each rated one-horse
power acquired.
No man afford to have his milch
cows driven by dog unless the dog
knows rs much as his owner should know.
The dairy cow is work of art, and so is
the beef animal; both are the productions
of man to suit his needs and convenience
The average yield of Indian corn per
acre throughout the United States is 1882
bushels, of an average value per bushel of
374 cents.
Nine-tenths of the fixed capital ofall the
civilized people in the world is EN- bark ed
in agriculture, which employees 100 600, 900
of men
There are 600, COO square inches to an
acre in a bushel Cf timothy seed there are
40, o. 600 seeds, or nearly seven seeds to
square inch.
In 1879 Vermont planted Sc, 900 &C es to
Indian corn, raising 2O37, 600 bushels, or
at the rate # SO bushels to the acre Total
,1,,A I b. -
per bu-hei.
The raising of sheep is of the greatest
ben, fit to the land, because wherever they
feed new and sweet grasses grow and
flourish, and the weeds are destroy ed.
Farmers should raise turnips and feed
them to sheep ..... "a. ..r...-.-.
Too close in breeding produces barren
ness, and the very opposite has the same
effect The other extreme is known a.
violent crossing. The most violent cross
is that between unlike species, as between
the horse and the Ass, the product of which
| is barren mule. Ef FsE#
Milk cools more rapidly in metal pans
J than in porcelain /; but iron pans rust.
| Zinc is acted upon by sugar of milk and
actic cid. Copper produces verdigrs.
Tin Gusts too much, and so tin plate is used
| rs the safest, and at the same time least
expensive.
1t is we'll settled that nitrogen, phos>
phorc acid, potash sulphuric acij, lime
atd magnesa are the only ingredients of
plant food which need to be supplied in
fertilizers, and all other il gradients of
plant food supplied by the soil in
quantities sufficient for the production OF
the heaviest crops.
1t is said that horse which can walk
| five miles an hour is worth more than
either Maud S. or st. Julien, and would
| probably walk to San Francisco before
| either Of those two horses could trot there
| The horse should be trained to walk. A
| good walker will travel more miles in 8
| day than u fast trotter.
a WATERFOWL, N. Y, farmer says that
cubic foot of his ensilage weighs from
| forly-six to forty seven pounds, and it
takes about six and half tons to feed one
| cow through the winter. He also states
| that he has fed ffty-fve pounds of ensil
! age, five pounds Of mid ,tlings and one
| half pound of cotton seed meal per day to
his cows. The butter made was fine, and
| sold high prices.
An extensive apple grower cultivates his
| orchat as SIX or eight years after planting
and fertilIzes with bone dust and wood
| ashes. atterward the soil is sown to
glass and annually enriched with u good
stable manure as a top dressing or mulch
The trees pruned late in the autumn
or early winter, and in the spring the
bodies of the trees are washed with &
strong lye
A correspondent of the Farmer and
Fruit Grower recommends the use O
l-common salt a cure for red rust" the
deadly scOurge of cur native black berrIe.
and black raspberriea. This so called
rust is one of the higher forms Of par,
asiic lungi. and not generally observsbl
| on the growing pants until it shows It's
] hin Frt, a.,
| form If large red scales Oh the der side
Of the leaves IL June and July