Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-02-05
Agricultural.
FARM NOTES.

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ter than yearlings.
In purchasing bulbs buy mixed va
rieties Of the hardy sorts. |
Never breed from q vicious sire; tenn
per is hereditary in animals as well as
in man.
The presence Of the red spider in a
hot-hOuse IL an indication that the air
is too dry.
Pure milk condensed to one-third
will remain sweet from five to ten days
in warm weather.
Do not allow the cold winds OF win
ter TO blow through the holesand crew
ices upon the farm stock.
1t is said that 5000, 900 bushels Of
the present years wheat crop will be
exported in the form of -four.
The Massachusetts Ptouyhman asks
il oxen have not been abandoned for
horses too much in doing farm work.
Add a little wood ashes to the flow
iy it will nourish and improve the
growth.
The old adage which says lime aI-
piled 10 the land will enrich the father
but %impoverish the son contains much
truth.
To purify a sink or drain: Dissolve
one-half pound copperas in two gallons
OF water. Pour in half this liquid one
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Water is a much better deodorizer
than is generally supposed. 1t has
great absorbing capacity. Fresh wa
ter running through a milk room keeps
it free from odorss
A correspondent OF the Ohio Farmer
writes tothat journal that he has raised
three heads of cabbage on one stalk by
pinching off the first one which APP
peared.
The National Lice Stock Journal
thinks hat the wildness and bad tenn
per in = mare ma be renIedied by
breeding them, and cites several in
stances where this has succeeded.
The peanut crop ofNirginia, Tennes-
see and North Carolina this year is
over two million bushels, worth about
$1,000, 900 Peanut shells are largely
used to adulterate ground coffee.
A Maine farmer, who has been very
successful in cultivating the BURBERRY,
says his best success. has been on dry
uplands, and he has always transplant
q ed his bushes from where he found
them.
Filling u horse rack with hay, AS
some persons do, and permitting aeon
slant supply, is one Of the most proba-
bile means of producing disease, and
the most positive torender animals UNI
fit for fast work.
The culture OF rhubarb or pie plant
is Of comparatively recent date. 1t is
said that in 1910 Wyatt, a market gar
dener near London, sent his two sons
to market with five punches of rhu-
barb, and they could only sell three.
A surgeon in the German army calls
the attention Of all who have to dc
with horses to the danger of using the
Observation-Disclosures to wipe away any
foam from the mouth oInose of horse
which may have been thrown upon
their clothes. Chambers have been com
municated in that way.
The great cause of the failure q
The beetle is known as the "Couzka,'
or Auisoplia Au>t riaca, and first APP
peared in the Melitopel district fiv,
years ago, but how it came no on,
knows, rs it has never been seen in any
part Of Russia before. These insect,
appear to live for several years, and al
though they take two years to develop
from the egg to full growth, yet the.
increase sc fast that in the second yea
of their appearance as many as tel
bushels OF them have been collecte,
of one acre Of land.
Around Shanghai lie $1,000 squar
miles which are called the Garden Q
China, and which have been titled fo
countless generations. This area is a
large As New York and P~ennsylvani
combined it is all meadow land, raj.
eel "A few feet above the river-l axes, ri,
ers, canal-a complete network of W;
ter communication: the land is undo
the highest CIVILIZATIONS; three crops
year are gathered; population SO dene
that wherever YOU look You ste me
in blue pants and blouse, 50 numeror
that you fancy some muster or faa
coming on, and all hands turned O,
fora holiday. No II can deny tn,
the Chinese are an industrious peopl
The Spirit Of Sentiment.