The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-05-25
FARM NOTES.


each.
THE first shipment of wheat from Chi
was made in 1889, and consisted OF
se~venty-eight bushels, which was carried
via lake to Buffalo, N. 7.
TIE Maryland farmers have 80 little
faith in their agricultural college that
they are calling upon the Legislature to
an appropriation to the institution.
THE London Agricultural Gazette j
states as within its experience that a bull
calf, taken. from a pedigree Shorthorn
COW, has weighed above 100 pounds
when removed from the dam.
ONE who has been successful under
the system of ensilage plants his corn IN
hedges about thirty-two inches apart,
and about six inches wide, planting forty
or fifty kernels to the running foot, and
secures thereby q wonderful growth.
THE Canada thistle perpetuates itself
chiefly by mean of root stalks, which
are full of dormant buds, and hence any
piece an inch long will send up a stalk:
A single plant in an ordinarily cultivated
means of the roots.
In A STATE of rest animals should be
allowed as much water as they viii take,
but where they are likely to be called
upon to perform severe exertion, smaller
quantities are advisable, and In which
case the allowance should be repeated at
short intervals.
THE annual product of wheat IN the
world is about 1880, 600, 900 bushels.
OF this the United States already pro-
duces 450, O00, 600 bushels, one-third of
which we send over the sea. Ten years
from now we shall produce q much larger
portion of the whole, and shall send a
much larger fraction of its abroad.
TENDENoY to disease is hereditary in
pigs, therefore it is well to know the
pedigree and past history of your boars.
Ninety per cent. of the stock of a large
Yorkshire boar were more or less affected
with lung disease. On inquiry, it turned
out that the sire of the boar had died OF
Inflammation on the lungs.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa, Is said to
be the largest wool-growing county in
the Union, and produces annually $780,
900 to 1000, 600 pounds of wool, worth
in cash. 81, DOC, 900 for the wool alone,
besides the sale of fine sheep fer breed
ing purposes, and mutton sheep and
lambs for the meat market of the East.
The more exertion an animal under
goes the greater is the wear and tear of
the system. Exercise increases the re-
spiration or breathing, more oxygen is
is consequently taken into the system,
and the tissues of the body are burned
up in proportion. Unless this extra
waste is met by an additional supply Of
food emaciation and illness follow.
THE wild boar differs from the tame
hog in putting his hind feet into the
marks of the fore feet. The cloven feet
of the tame hog divide as he walks /; the
wild boar, when he is walking without
suspecting danger, keeps his claws close
together. The wild hog buries his snout
deep, roofing the earth up in q straight
line before him the tame hog turns it
up right and left, here and there. The
wild boar grows for four OF five years
and lives for twenty or thirty.
An ANALYSIS Of q sample of apple
pomace from q press of more than ordi-
.#try power, and hence unusually dry,
was made OF the Connections AgricuI-
tural Experiment Station, with a result
showing the pomace to carry food ele-
ments superior to corn fodder and to
rurnips, mangels, and all of our root
crops except the potato, and showing
but little i~nferiority to the last-named
tuber. The new system of ensilage
should render the preservation of apple
pomace a matter of ease and certainty.
In SPEAKING of his experience with
feeding ensilnge to Ldairystock,J-W
Ealcott, of Readville, Mass, states
"As to the quality of the cream I car
say that by feeding fifty pounds of en-.
silage maize, and one quart of cotton
seed meal, the increase over the amount
when feeding English hay and 81,
quarts of corn meal, averaged twenty,
Ave per cent. in milk, and ten per cent
IN butter from the milk, which is a tota
gain In butter of thirty-seven and o hal
per cent. The butter brings the highes
market price in Boston,"
Hoes are gifted with an exquisite sens
of smell as will as touch residing in tn,
snout, and this enables them to discove,
roots, acorns, earth-nuIs, or other delica
cies suitable to their palates, which ma,
be buried in the ground. In some part
of Italy swine are employed in huntin'
or trufies that grow some inches below
The surface of the soil, and which form
hose pickles and sauces so highly es-
;eemed by epicures. A pig Is driven
INTO a field, and there suffered to pursue
ais own course. Wherever he stops and
begins to root with his nose, trufies will
invariably be found.
FARMYARD manure well decomposed is
specially suitable for grass lands, be-
:ause it is slow and continuous in its
action, and is invariably found to main
tain or restore o good variety of grasses,
clovers and other bottom heritage. The
best success commonly follows the ap-
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The sole application of salt or nitrate of
soda has q natural tendency to encour'
age the growth of luxuriant grasses to
the destruction of clovers and the finer
kind of grasses. This is a general tend.
ency of ammopiacal salt, while super.
phosphate of lime, OF the contrary, en-.
courages the growth of cloyers and
leguminous plants generally.
A. L. MURDOCH, writing from London,
states that mutton retails much higher
in England than in this country. Thus
at a High street, Noting Hill, meat es.
Enlistment legs and loins of mutton
were selling at % cents per pound, sad.
dies at % cents, launches at %, shout
ders at 20, whole necks at Is, breasts al
IA and trimmed chops at % cents pei
pound. With beef at the same market
it was noticeable that there was less
range of prices between the best and
poorest cuts than prevail in American
city markets. Sirloin cuts are not &c
high in England as here, but shins
briskets and cheap pieces rule much
higher. In London sirloin roasts retail
at % cents per pound, rib roasts at %
cents, side pieces at 20 to 81 cents, aitcf
bones 16 cents, brisket IA, beef steaks
"a, rump steaks 80 and shins at 16 cents
per pound. Veal outlets were selling al
30 cents per pound.
w. 8. WARD, Fullers's Station, N. Y,
in the American Bee JnuvnaL, gives
the following statement of his profits
with bees for n year: "For severa
years I have run a farm and apiary to
gether. Last year I had my farm worked
on the shares, and gave my time ani
attention to the bees, with the following
result Commenced the season of 1888
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