The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-12
FARMERS'C0LUMN
Farm NORRIS.

FARM M OrEs.
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There Is n new strawberry seeking fame
aud buyers call il "Ihe Shirts" Its name
will hardly hasten lis sale.
The new Souhegan. raspberry is juicier
than the Gregg, and therefore loses more
drying. 1t is shining black, without any
bison, and makes Ane appearance.
A Canadian has patented process by
which to ship fresh fruit tonotoes, caniu-
i,upes and melons to England, aud one con-
sisnment at least has gone successfully to
Liverpool. Peaches arc TO follow after
time. Perhaps this may open the door to a
great trade in perIshable articles.
Peaches are raised iu Dakota, although
the temperature there ast winter sunk 3S
de Srees below zaro. They are planted
against a high bank, bent against it in wii,-
Ter fastened down, aud then covered with
hay or st.w. We suppose Alaska is also
good country for peaches with sufficient
protection.
Mr.. A. n. Alien, writing from Toms
River, N. j.. in the Country Gentleman s. ~
that cherries Of all kinds grown in light
soils in that climate ara sweeter than tie
same sorts produced on a heavy loan or
clay soil in cooler climate" Let berry
buyers remember that when they sneer at
"Jersey sand"
To aid in securing uniform crops Of sp-
piles each year fruit writer suegrsis Il at
most Of the pruning he done in the off years"
--.hot is, in the fall or winter preceding
what is looked fer as the bearing year. For
Instance, prune heavily now at any time
IN reduce the bearing wood for next year,
and less next year for the year that is to FOL-
low. But when much pruning is done in
advance of the growing SEASON the wounds
must be waxed or painted over TO protect
the wood from decay.
There 10 brisk demnud for cattle, both
fat an dairy, about Quakertown, Bucks
county.
Canada has become an important COM
petitor with the United States in supplying
England with cheese.
LUG NIcumtlJ hsSoCldtibh w
Upper Uwchlan, Chester county, paid ~
cents quart for milk in September.
Prof. Willord thinks American cheese
makers are studying the English market
for cheese to the neglect Of the American,
" ,ich is vastly more important.
Who will say that balky horses, like
bs ky children, are not oftener madc SO by
bid treatment than by inherent viciousness,
which is another name for original sin
Somebody is stated to have lately haul
ed $500 pounds Of manure over hilly
road from Doylestown to Plumstead with
four horses This is not mentioned as
worthy achievement, but instead one to be
condemned. It is cruelty to animals.
The condition of the corn stalks in the
Mississippi Valley is much rs they are in
tse spring after winters exposure, and
much stock abortion, 1t is believed, must
result from it. But blue grass there is re
ported to he growing Of late under the IN
huence Of recent rains.
A Tennessee shopkeeper reports in the
Country Gentleman that on September J.,
1880, he bought l6 ewes for $40, and from
them has since sold lambs and wool to the
value of slss,24, and has eight Of his best
old ewes left. His first years experience
must be very satisfactory.
Many of the farmers Of the upper part OF
B lcks county are obliged to haul all the
h., paioh hOrin0
stream or spring, and in some cases are
obliged TO drive cattle from one TO two
miles for water. Much work Of this sort
will soon equal tho cost Of a windmill and
its fixtures. rf tfR fsh.gs
The manufacture OF oleoinargarine on an
extensive scale injures the soap and candle
business by making tallow prices high, at
least so the soap men claim. Thev say that
the bogus butter people buy up pretty much
all kinds of fat-incudIng hog fat, dog fat,
and 'possum fat, and they would buy
'printers' fat" if they could melt it.
There is cattle disease iE Salem county,
New Jersey. which the State Agent is un-
able to indentfy, though he says ii is NOT
pleuro- pneumonia. Michael Hogan, near
Action Station, has lost eight head, aud the
Y. s., who made the post mortem pronoun
ees the disease sort OF a typhus fever, and
thinks it must spread. The State author
ities ought TO look into this matter immed-
lately.
The value II corn-fodlsr depends, as Il
H., -, .,rs ,,.,tI
and the manner and suc,'ess in curing
Simply tn state that corn fodder is yer,
valuable rs stock fond is not enough: il you
think you have proved ii by trial it Is wortl
grown and cured than to know that certain
persons think well II it,
Mr.. Clarkson LinIinrotl of Huntington
Salem county, n. J, recently lost ihre'
eows whirh were in apparent good healtl
up to the day of death. A po.'-mor n
showed that the ears were tall of maggots
supposed TO be the larvae e the bolt fly
which usually infest the legs Of horses il
August aud September, But why the ma z
gots were supposed To have originated from
that source is not stated
The Wassalc MIX CnmpsnY,a a milk pur
chasing company near Armenia, N Y, hn'
contract with the neighborng farmers L
take their milk for six months from Ocro
Der ! at three and a-half cents quart. Bu
recently, Cor some honorable cause, we pre-
BuRe, they have volunteered to break thei
three and a-half. Such extraordinary con
duct Inerits--well, notice at Auy rate.
lonks almost as II the age of miracles wa
about 70 return,
"Whatl 10 hVaven's best gift 10 man :
.skad q v.,,,na lad,y ,ha ,tl.r III