The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-06-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
Notes from Agricultural Exchanges
Speculations and Theories on tho
Subject OF Agriculture, with
Somo Practical Information.

ram exhibited at the recent sheep show
in Australia.
There are in Great Britain $4,000
females who are farming. These wo-
men enjoy all the rights and privileges
of men with one exception; they can
not vote on all municipal questions.
Potash is an excellent fertilizer for the
grape vine. Fork in around the roofs
a few pecks Of wood ashes. Cow dung
contains large portion Of potash aud
but 4 comparatively small amount of nj
trogen, consequently it is better fer
tilizer than horse manure for the grape
vine.
The average annual consumption of
rye in Germany is 7,5oo, 900 tons. IL
is the staple food for the working peo-
pie. The annual rye crop is 6, 400, 900
tons, but the last crop fell short of this
by s,Ioo, GOO. A larger quantity OF rye
is this year obtained from abroad, and
the price is enhanced considerably.
Paris green is perhaps the best and
surest remedy for the cucumber bug
apply it just the same rs to potatoes for
the potato bug. The current bug be-
gins To show himself about May 20. II
watched and killed with a dusting or
two of hcllcborc before he has time
TO get large, and To- raise a second gen
Grafton, he is not very formidable foe,
They have what they call winter oats
in Oregon, that are sown at any time
during the ycar-Say from the last OF
September up to the middle Of March,
provided the ground is in favorable con
dition. These oats are used chiefly for
milling they yield larger grain, heavier
and more uniform in size than summer
or spring oats, and at the rate OF from
forty to eighty bushels per acre.
The necessity of heading back tree
when it is transplantcd will be seen when
We consider that the foliage carries off
the water which the roots supply, and
il the roots are bruised or at all damag-
cd or lcssened in number by transplant
ing then they cannot furnish all the
moisture that would be demanded of
them il the top with all its foliage were
also allowed to remain.
1t is claimed by some feeders that 100
pounds Of corn meal and 100 pounds of
bran mixed will give greater gain in
flesh than 200 pounds of meal fed alone.
Meal and bran mixed is more perfect
feed than meal alone. Bran contains 4
larger percentage of phosphoric acid,
pota III and nitrogen than Indian meal,
while the latter contains more oil, sugar
and starch than the former.
The failure Of seeds TO gIow is BY no
means always attributable to the dealer,
but often results from the manner in
which they are sown. Earth, air, mois-
ture and heat must all properly exercise
their respective functions before the
seed can terminate. When the soil is
too dry or insufiiciently broken, after il
receives the termination often does not
take place, and similar result follows
when seed are too deeply buried and
thus deprived Of warmth and air. The
high temperature and light rains OF the
past two or three weekc have been high
ly favorable for the growth of seed in
fields and garden.
\ correspondent of the Rural Nes1
l~k'y advises stock-growcrs not to be
in haste to destroy any animal that may
break 4 leg, for by means of plaster of
Paris and some bagging strips the limb
nay be set and supported until the
fractured bone unites again. His plan
has been, both with calves and sheep,
to wind the strips of bagging about the
broken limb. plaster over with calcined
plaster mixed to thin paste, wind other
strips over that and apply more plaster,
the leg being fastened TO splints of wood
until the plaster sets. The animal would
limp around for few days on three legs,
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One OF the most prolific causes of con-
tractcd heels in horses is allowing their
shoes to remain on too long. 1t is sell
dom We hear of horses having contract
ed heels when worked regularly every
day. Few persons are aware OF the i'm
portancc of removing 4 horses shoes,
which should be done At least every
month or six weeks. II is too often the
custom to allow the shoes, after having
once been placed, to remain till worn
out before removing them.
PaSteur states that, at 4 farm near
Senlis, cattle which had died OF carbun-
cular fever twelve years ago were buried
at certain spot within walled garden.
Some selcimens OF the soil were after
that lapse OF time lixiviated and conccn-
trated, and some guinea pigs inoculated
with the matter thus obtained died soon
aftcrward, developing all Of the well
marked symptoms of carbuncle. Seven
sheep were allowed to pass few hours
a day At the place where the diseased
animals were inferred, and the result OF
this experiment was that two Of the sheep
died with fever i'm about six weeks
The vitality Of the germs of this disease
is remarkable.
BDrA neighbor with a coffee cup in
her hand called in on Uncle Nose re-
Gently, remarking: "Uncle Nose,
wants to borry a cup oh parched coffee
from YOU for bcakfas' till to:morror.
"Go right TO the box on de shef and
hep yerself." The neighbor did as re-
quested, but discovered the box to be as
empty as the hand Of legislator
"Uncle Nose, dar's no parched coffee
in dis heah box" "Does ye know why
dur ain, no coffee in dat ar box f''-
"No, doesn't know muffin about It,"
"Dar amt no coffee in dat ar box"
said the old man solemnly, "bekase dat
are am de returned coffee box. Ef yer
had brung back all de coffee yer borrow.
ed last year hit would be plum FULL"
s@r The following toast was given at