The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-08-27
FARMERS COLUMN.
FARM NOTES.

are more carefully followed IMAM IN TINS
country, apple pomace, turnips, cabbages,
leaves seasoned with celery, grape leaves,
leaves Of beet roots and pulp OF beets from
sugar factories haye been preserved in pits,
some of them from time immemorial, for
feeding cows and goats.
In Algiers deep, seam cultivation is
considered by the French agricuturists as
the equivalent of half an irrigation. The
tr ,und is sort of sponge, and absorbs the
heavy. dews to such an extent that it with
stands the parching sun, and each night re-
news the moisture, while the shallow
ploughed soil is effectually dried early in the
season.
Under the title Of Associated Agricul-
turists Of Great Britain,"a Il company with a
capital Of 81 100000, in shares of S25, has
been formed for joint stock farming in Great
Britain. Each estate will be under man
ager of local experience, and the prospectus
points TO the fact that the shareholders of a
farm in Holland of 1000 acres have for ten
years divided annually 10 per cent
AN English authority states that water
cresses, cooked in the same way as cabbages
or any other green vegetable, form a most
acceptable dish. They come to the table
very tender and of dark green color, and
are nicer than spinach. Those who live
near running stream may have a never
ending supply of watercresses, il being
only necessary to scatter the seed along the
banks
In England sea sand is found to be very
valuable as fertilizer. In Cornwall, where
it has been used, sheep have not suffered
from the huke and other diseases as they
have done elsewhere. The best crop of po-
tatocs is grown in sand soils. For wheat
land sea sand is very valuable manure,
the grain ripening twelve days earlier than
with any other manure. Many other crops
have also been benefited by It's application.
An old experienced farmer says that
hickory cut in July or August will not be-
come worm eaten. Oak, chestnut, walnut
or other timber cut from the middle of July
to the last of August will last twice as long
as when cut in winter. White oak cut at
this season, if kept off the ground, will sea
son through if two feet in diameter, and re
main perfectly sound for many years I;
whereas if cut in winter or spring it will be-
come sap. rotten in few years.
--rhe A n1arinon nro n barr,, rou,
with success at Ashburuham Park, Sussex,
England.
"A hornets nest, being the finest woody
substance known, is the best polisher Il
glass lenses.
Bricks ofan inferior quality may be rem
dered excellent for some purposes by satur-
ating them with tar.
The shipments of strawberries from
Southern Illinois in the past season is esti-
mated at about 3,S45, 900 quarts.
The best way to deal with sorrel is to
plough il under, and then make more
valuable crop grow in its place.
!, 1T is said that in Great Britain more per
sons were killed last year by horses than Ly
all the railways Of the United Kingdom.
Mineral oils are not desirable lubricants
since they attack any India rubber with
which they may happen to come in con-
tact.
Animals when confined and supplied
with fattening food always increase largely
in weight during the first few weeks, alter
which the rate of increase diminishes to a
considerable extent.
ID. Briggs, of Davisville, Tulo county,
California, has a plantation of AGO acres of
graperies from four to eight years old, on
which he has raised forty six carloads of
raislns, most of which were sent to the
East.
"A German has discovered that if wood
be exposed to the action of heated current
of pure oxygen it becomes proof against the
action Of moisture and changes of temper
ature, and is especially adapted to the man
ufacture of musical instruments.
1t is said that one of the best remedies
for the cabbage worm is to sprinkle air
Stacked lime on the plant in the morning
on the dew till the plants are white with
it, One who has tried it for several years
says that at most two application are sulii-
cient.
The Delaware Valley and Farmers and
Mechanics Agricultural Society intends to
hold its fifth annual Fair on the l4th, 9Th
and 10th of September There will be no
entry fees except for the trials of speed, The
prospects is for one of the grandest Fairs
ever held in the country.
--For. general purposes on the farm castor
oil, with little kerosene added, is the best
lubrieator and preserver. For saws, mowers,
buggies, and the like,th mixture furnishe;
more body with less gum than most other
/ oil, The amount of kerosene, if any, to lie
added, must be governed by the purpose iti
/ which it is designed.