Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1881-05-04
Topics in Season.
FROM PHILADELPHIA FABu JOURNAL.

The bottom has been out of the wool
market all winter and the future is I'M
known
The Southern cotton crop of last year
is reckOned as being 8 per cent. greater
than ever before
Gold is still coming to this country in a
steady stream and increasing volume
" hat will we do with it?
The Boston AdratiSer thinks the four
per cent. bonds Of the Government will
command twenty per cent premium by
the end Of this year.
a very successful Ohio small fruit
grower manures strawberry and raspberry
plants in the hill and thinks it vase of
time to do it otherwise
This is undoubtedly the time to invest
IN real estate. 1t is on the move upward
III price and in year or two will ineyita-
bly, be higher and more firmly held.
In getting ready for spring vegetables
DO not fear to pile on the manure 1t is
the rank rich growth which gives the
agreeble tenderness to them, and without
an abundance Of manure this cannot be
done
While land is too wet to pillow, whether
III Iail or spring, TO turn it so that it will
bake is to injure it for several wears. en-
failing much unnecessary loss both of
yield OF crops and of labor to restore il
to natural condition of fertility.
Farm help seems to be universally
scarce and the price for good article has
gone up. In many places few or no hands
are to be had. We see that in New Emo.
land good man wants $lS a month and
the use of horse and buggy to 90 and
see his girl.
Young pigsare scarce, heiters are scarce
hogs and COWS are scarce In the North
west the crop Of pigs and calves has been
cnrtalled by the severity of the winter
The demand for young farm animals dur
ing the next two or three years will be
very great, no doubt, and all farm stock
will be held at a higher valuation Let
farmers act accordingly.
A Pennsylvania farmer took the small |
lest potatoes he could find, and planted
them with admirable results. He then
selected the smallest from the smallest 1
the next year, and planted them, and OBJ +
tanned about double the quantity planted
The third year he ran the experiment into
the ground, and left it there; the pota-
toes not being worth digging
a Mississippi planter wanted to turn
his land into stock farm. His neigh
bors, who stick to cotton, applied to a
court for an injunction to restrain him
from sowing grass seed, on the ground
that the grass would spread over adioin-
ing plantations and unfit tho ground for
cotton. The injunction was granted
Evidently cotton is still king in that
The creameries generally are giving
to the stockholders. MANY
new ones being started Just now there
IS kind of ''bOem" which bids fair TO
asst some time yet But before the
creamery interests get on q solid foun.
1atIon they must pass out of the hands of
associations into those of private indi
7iduals. Associated dairying will work
we'll awhile-but not long.
Since the new census has shown that
he men outnumber the women in this
country nearly million, a higher valua- /
ION Is placed upon the fair sex. Such ,
shortage must induce a corner in the
matrimonial market. Certainly there will
De no excuse hereafter for single blessed |
less on the part Of the women of the
and. But what of the million wretched
'eings doomed to be wifelesS
be sure and give the boys patch Of !
ground to cultivate this year in berries. l
vegetables, &c, allowing them the pro. !
eeds OF the same. Let the girls have a !
hare IN it too. Besides give The girls !,
lower bed and some nice flowers 10 nut q
n it. Young America ought to learn
market gardening, and flower culture. =
nd this is the way to begin This is the :
way to get out of old ruts, and to keen v
ne boys and girls on the farm. j
/ FIND Our WHAT Is NppDND 1t is a
tten the case that a phosphate is used b
1hen the soil needs potash and rice rc,sa. 81
Iur fields seldom require anything out II
lde of phosphoric acid, potash and p
itrogen to supply . deficiency of plant ii
bod one field and one crop may need
ne thing and another field and another d
rop something else. The thing to do is.
y trial, to ascertain which of these il b.
,anted, and then apply it, Don't 90 it Ii
lind and throw hardearned money away. fo
May Is not bad time to trim apple IN
ees-when they are in bloom. They or
lonld be pruned so as to allow air and CT
might to enter among the branches q
eely. NObetter illustration can be oiven
IAN to make the main branches out from
le tree like the rods in an inverted UNI =
ella. Allow no branches to cross each ID
her, nor allow main branches to grow an
9 closely parallel to each other. There TN
hardly any danger of leaving the bran
les too open.
Professor Goessmann gives the follow iol
& as cure for yellows in peach trees Pa
pply potash salts to the surface under ~
a. tree and roIya e. 81 tto ....1l =, ia