Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-11
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

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AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.
W. C. Seymore, of Windsor Locks,
Conn, raised last year 2 365 pounds Of
tobacco on one acre of land, of which
amount LISP pounds were wrappers of an
extra fine quality.
Scott county, Mo-, will raise 2, 100 acres
of melous this year Mississippi county,
at least l,500 acres. Average yield is
COO melons to an acre, or not far from
! 5000 carloads, and worth at cents each,
about $50, 600.
Charles A. Davis, a graduate of the
Michigan Agricultural College, has been
elected to the chair of chemistry and ma
thematics in the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege. The first named college is an honor
to that State, and benefit not alone to
Michigan but to agriculture throughout
neighboripg States.
The average annual consumption of rye
in Germany is 100000 tons. 1t is the
staple food of the working people. The
annual rye crop is $780, 000 tons, but the
last crop feel short of this by ?, 100 600.
A larger quantity of rye is this year OBJ
tanned from abroad, and the price is en-
HANGED considerably.
They have what they call winter oats in
Oregon, that are sown at any time during
the year-say from the last of September
ground is in favorable condition. These
oats are used chiefly for milling; they
yield larger grain, heavier and more uni
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and at the rate of from forty to eighty
bushels per acre.
Drying potatoes is an industry in Roches-
ter, n. Y. A man there is largely engaged
in the business of supplying the north
western army, and his practice is to first
slice the potatoes, then put them in a
steam box three or four minutes to keep
the starch in, and then subject them to
drying. If not placed in the steam box
the starch would come out. When used,
they are soaked, and are then like fresh
potatoes.
Old tan-bark makes cool and delight.
full walk under the shade of trees. 1t must
be laid ON q dry bottom, or it becomes very
unpleasant in wet weather. Stag from
furnaces, ground up with ashes, is the very
best material for garden-walks, and the
color is far more agreeable in hot weather
than gravel. Notwithstanding its dark
color, it is not so hot, and it does not pack
quite so hard as the regular road material.
Sand, on the other hand, though it does
not pack at all, is very hot, on account of
the very hard nature of its particles.
A singular disease, hitherto unknown, or
at least undescribed, and to which the
veterinarians have not yet given name,
| is reported to have broken out among the
cattle in Watertown, n. Y. The stock at
tackled are blooded animals, and are in the
very best condition. Several have died.
They are taken first with intense cough
ing, followed by loss of appetite and
shrinkage of milk. When let out where
| they can have perfect freedom they appear
almost crazy, and viii bite themselves,
tearing cut chunks of flesh, and appear in
the greatest agony. The attention of the
State authorities has been called to the
matter.
In ninety cases ont Of hundred, says
correspondent of one of our exchanges, the
successful farmer is a reading farmer. If
one neglects TO keep posted in agricultural
matters he is bound to fail in most OF the
pursuits incident to the farm. This is
progressive age. The manner OF conduct
ing a farm in this generation is as different
as can be from that of our fathers. 1t is
only by reading agricultural papers and
books that We can keep up with the times
in which we live, and the farmer who does
not improve these opportunities had best
clay down his shovel and hoe" When
agricultural papers and books are banished
from the threshold of the farmer, the prob
ability is the farm is running behind hand.
The annual report of the Department of
Statistics for the State Of Indiana gives
103 000 acres devoted to the fax crop,
yielding l, l35, 900 bushels OF seed, or at
the average rate of six bushels per acre.
The estimated number of tens of fiber is
1885, 900. An article on the culture of this
crop, by l. G. D. Nelson, gives the details
of management for the best success, much
of tne information being obtained from Z.
w. Green. as the result OF thorough prac.
tical knowledge. He says the best soil is
underdrained clay mari, but any soil
will answer that is rich and free from
weeds. Sow early; and if for seed, at the
rate OF half bushel per acre; for fiber
sow two bushels. Mr.. Green says his
lowest product has been eight bushels, his
highest ljl bushels; the price from 81 %
to g 25. For securing the seed the crop
is cut with a grain reaper the straw is
used only for manure. 1t is regarded as
about as exhaustive as oats, but has proved
more profitable, Mr.. G.. having received
S26 per acre from a nine-acre field, which
was more than from any crop OF oats. lie
remarks that the want of properly pre-
pared seed bed is the GAUGE OF the small
product generally.
We thought we were very smart when
we introduced light wagon wheels with
narrow tire, but it was very improbable
invention. 1t came in with the era Of tight
boots for men and tight lacing for women,
but unfortunately it has not gone out with
those species of injurious folly. Is it not
strange that we, with heavy, half. made
roads, which are impossible good portion
of the year, persist in using narrow tired
wheels, whicn would sink to Hades or
China, were it not for the hub and axle,
while in Europe the broad tire is uni.
versal, although the roads are almost
perfect, so much so that when seen in
the landscape from car window, they
appear like white chalk marks on a
green black board: The wide tire is
lighter to draw, averaging the state of the
roads for a year. It is better for the roads,
not cutting into them like the narrow one
Indeed. fair load on set of wide tire is
IN itself an effective and unpatented road
grader Prairie Farmer.
Thirty Days Trial Allowed.
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