The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-01-22
FARMERS COLUMN.
FARM NOTES.
- Greed from the best.

-phh 10 StOHSeI ludb lTOuy OOtn llecc'
being of equal weight.
brakes are quarrelsome; The fewer o
them on hand the better.
"A little green food daily and a chance tC
exercise are needed by fowls now.
-Last year farmers in Massachusetts.
raised corn for from % to So cents per bushel
One Gr,p at Grundy Center, Iowa, ship
ped thirty-fve car loads Of 1axseed the pas
season.
The simplest method 10 remove the hull
from corn is to make weak lye from clean
wood ashes and soak the corn in it.
Glass can be readily and neatly drilled
with a small drill operated by bow and
kept moist with spirits of turpentine.
"A farm cart, which, with good usage
would last almost lifetime, will last only a
few years when exposed 10 che weather
"A gentleman who stands high in the
scientific world, Professor Fontaine, predicts
that the year 1881 will be most unusually
wet
-Poorcows are dear at any price really
good ones, If young, are never sold too high.
A e'w should give at least $50 worth ofmilk
year.
1t is we'll for farmers to bear in mind
that the average for all breeds of COWS is
about six pounds of hay, or ls equivalent
for one quart of milk
The excursions of bees to collect honey
are variously estimated at from one to three
miles each, and they are supposed to make
each ten trips per day.
More than 900 acres of land have
been. reclaimed from the water in Holland
since the beginning gofthe-sixteenth century
and the work still goes on at she rate Of about
eight acres per day.
4 The Agricultural Department is inform
ed that the codling moth is making such
rovages among the orchards of California as
threaten the destruction Of all the apple
trees on the Pacific coast
AT the recent poultry exhibition at the
Crystal Palace, in England, there were SOC
exhibitors, showing 1865 pens. OF these
1900 were of cocks and hens, l22 ducks, {
geese, turkeys and 1880 pigeons.
At recent agricultural gathering in
New England, one claimed that he made u
pr cent. on his capital invested in farming
ana another said he did not make over
per cent There are farmers and 10 farmers
"A Western correspondent says herd o
thousand Texas cows and forty Shori-horr
bulls, whieh.can be bought for Sl5 900, would
increase TO 5000 in number and $4,000 iY
value in five years on the grazing grounds
of Wyoming.
"A cow with three rings on a horn is G
years old with four sheis years old. NJ
new rings are formed after the tenth year
The deeper rings, however, and the worr
appearance OF the horns are pretty sure in
dicatious of old age.
"A singular curiosity on exhibition at tn
post Office at Franklin, N. Y,,is fifty pounc
pumpkin, grown between the four posts o
common chair, completely filling tn,
space So that it cannot be removed without
breaking the chair.
1t is not an uncommon occurrence L
find a sod turned under in May thorough,
decomposed before one turned under in No
vember previous. The one turned under il
May is well warmed, decomposition of tn
grass commencing Immediately.
During the year ending June 80 las
there We're imported into this country raw
hides valued at $3O,OOO,OOO, and eathe
valued at nearly sl2,oOO,OOO. During til
same time we exported hides and leathe
valued, at S7,OOO,OOO. Here is a diaerenc
of$S5,OOO, 900 paid to foreign countries.
The cultivation of pampas grass, now S
much used for decorative purposes, has be
come quite profitable industry in Souther
California. Three quarters ofan acre plante,
in pampas grass yielded, at p cents pc
head, $500. Another growersold all he coul
raise at y cents per head Last year 900
heads or plumes Of this grass were sold fror
that region.
Speaking of our gigantic crop of whea
The american Miller remarks that few peop'
even in our own country realize how mex
haustible our resources are for wheat grow
ing. The total area of lands available fo
wheat culture in the United States is not les
than 47O,O00,OOO acres. Our entire whea
aipp'of the past year. phenomenal though
was, would not supply seed enough to so'
50 vast an area of wheat land.
MIR. Adam Scott, a prominent Main
sheep-breeder, last winter fed $50 wether
and to discern how rapidly they were gain
ing in flesh secured two which lie weighe
every month. On the 10Th Of January the
weighed respectively 20 and 1856 pound
and continued to gain steadily up to the l2t
Of April, when they weighed 1870 and n
They were led II pounds OF corn daily,wit
all the hay they could eat, the total cost f,
feed being estimated a. II cents per mont
--an increase Of about 20 cents per mont
for each sheep over the value OF food eatel
An agricultural writer thus explain
where our forests are going To make sh,
pegs enough for American use consumes al
nually 100000 cords of timber, and to NAL
our lueiier matches 800 900 cubic feet of Il
best pine are required every year. Las
and boot. trees take 100000 cords of birc
beech and maple, and tho handles Of too
100000 more. The baking Of our brick col
sumes 100000 cords of wood, or VIII
would cover with forest about $4,000 acr
of land. Telegraph poles already up repl
sent 100000 trees, and their annual reps
consumes 100000 more. The ties Of o
railroads consume annually forty yes
growth Of 10000 acres, and to fence all 0
railroads would cost $4,000 900, with
yearly expenditure Of 10000 600 for repai
These are some Of the ways in viii
American forests are going. There are OF
:. ers, Our packing boxes, for instance, c
in 1874, Sl2, 100000, while the timber II:
each year in making wagons and agriculu
al implements is valued at more than $40