The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-01-29
FARMERS COLUMN.


ing them with n weak solution Of uiirr.
Tho shorp end wool interest cf Michi-
gan was never in better condition than at
present
--Drciduous trres are those whose leaycs
fall OF every year, As opposed to the ever
green.
Winter is the time 10 thor u-hly re-
p,ir all tools, plouehs, reapiug machines,
eulvators and the like
I'm Glasgow, scotland, one iodine factory
u,s up GsOO tons Of sraweed every year to
produce this chemical.
The Thawville tlll) creamery, in Iro-
quois county, recently paid dividend Of
40 per cent on It's capital stock
"A Mr.. Cox, near Battle Creek. Mich, re-
Gently slaughtered a -yenr-old hoifer,w ich
when dressed weighed sl7 pounds
The French Academy has lately discoy-
etel that some plants are as sensitive to the
efects Of fchlorpform rs animals are.
1t is said that if sod land is plouched
just before the corn is planted the worms
will feed upon the sod and not injure the
corn.
Ten millions Of cattle are annually
slaughtered in this country TO supply the
hcme demand for meat which is valued at
SiOO,O0O,OOO.
In midwiuter when the weather is cold,
corn IS The best feed for promoting plump
ness and warmth in horses. Oats constitute
the best muscle producing food.
An Oregon farmer made considerable
syrup from watcrmelons last year. The
melons were run through a cider mill and
the juice strained and boiled down.
Two or three acres of corn will supply
Western family with a winters fuel. The
same corn sold and turned into wood or coal
would not supply fuel for month.
The repeated application to copper or
brass of alternate washes of diluted acctic
acid and exposure to the fumes Of ammonia
will give very antque-looking green
bronze.
1t should never he forgotten that rich
cattle food makes rich manure, and rich ma
nure heavy crors, while, on the other hand,
poor food means lean cattle, poor manure
and inferior crops.
The average yield of corn is less than
one half of the possible yield When we
think how little the second half of one hun
dred bushels of corn costs per acre, the profit
Of growing such a crop becomes apparent.
BY striking young verbena plants early
in autumn, and putting them first into small
pots and then into larger as soon as the
roots have reached the sides, and keeping
them IN vigorous growth, pinching back the
leading shoots and nipping off every flower
head, the verbenns may be made 10 bloom
in the window all winter.
Every rose will not come from the slip.
OF the three great divisions into which the
rose family is separated, viz, the damask,
the noisette and the tea, the last two may be
propagated with more or less readiness from
the slip, or by budding the first only by
dividing the roots and planting the seed,
which latter method is resorted to, however,
only when it is desired to Obtain new varie-
ties.
Few progressive ogriculturist in Amer
ica have not heard of J. j. Mechi, of Tiptree
Hall, near London, Eng. Formerly or.quite
generation of men this enterprising farmer
has cultivated large farm on regular high
scientific farming principles, and has always
found profit as we'll as great pleasure in SO
doing. The recent rcverses which have be-
fallen 50 many English farmers bore heavily
on HIM also, and his bankruptcy, which was
occasioned by bad crops and reverses in his
business as fine cutler, which he still kept
up in London, utterly overwhelmed him
and were the cause Of his recent death. His
sad end will be heard of with regret by n
hist Of sympathizing friends this side of the
Atlantic.
The usual early peach crop failure
howl comes M from little Delaware as fol-
lows milford papers declare that the
peach trees and berry bushes are killed
above the snow-lne. Last years growth of
wood in the peach trees is said TO be dead.
Papers in other parts of the Peninsula init
mete that the four fingers and thumb Of
destiny are pointing to Summer barren of
fruit. At the same time there is not lack
ing a school pomologists who contend that
the peach crop will be all the better for the
appearance of zero.
Judge Davenport, of Montana Territory,
purchased 1000 ewes, which cost him about
$4,000. He put these in charge of a young
man, who was to take them on to a range
take all the care of them, pay all of the ex-
penses of the band and to receive rs his
share one-half OF the wool produced and
one half Of the increase of the flock. At the
end Of four years a settlement was to be
made, and Judge Davenport was then to
receive back 1000 Of the best ewes which
the band contained. When the settlement
was made Judge Davenport had received
for his share of the proceeds of the wool
$4,000 and for his share of the increase
$4,000. The profits on the investment of
$4,000 for lour years were Sl4.5OO, or 1903
per cent. per annum.