Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-12-02
Farm and Workshop Notes.

property OF y. ID. Adams, that now |
weigh 1896 pounds each.
Unless seeds are wanted for new
beds, cut and burn asparagus tops and
apply heavy dressing of manure,
which should lie until spring.
Polled Angus cattle continue to be
in demand, with advancing prices. Ami
mails with humps for horns are coming
to be very much admired.
During the early growth of beets the
leaves are ten times the weight of the
roots; when the beet is matured the
roots and leaves weigh about alike. -.
Save soap-suds from the laundry,
and when not required for immediate
application to plants or trees, pour it
on the compost pile, 1t is good fer
tilizer.
Pea straw is more valuable as fodder
than the straw of any of the cereals.
If well saved it makes capital fodder
for all descriptions of domestic ANIMALS.
Dandelion is sown in Swiss meadows
and credited according to correspond
ence of the London Gardeners Chron-
icle, with great milk giving properties.
WV. Hackney, of Brownville, Neb.
measured a stalk of corn several times
and found that it had grown four
inches in one day and five in another.
A pail of milk standing ten minutes
where it is exposed to the scent of a
strong-smelling stable, or any other Of
f,sei,.o oAor will irhiha a faint that
will never leave it.
Black corn has been raised in Liy-
ingston county, N. Y. 1t is described
as being as black as an African, as
sweet as augar, and retains all these
attributes when cooked.
In England inferior barley is gener-
ally ground into meal for feeding cat
tie and pigs, and nothing surpasses its
value when boiled as a mash for horses
after hard days work.
On the Ohio river bottom lands,
near New Albany, Ind, immense mum
bers Of insects resembling feas have
appeared upon the late cabbage and
potatoes, eating leaves and stalks.
The Southern World says that fresh
beef from the north is shipped in re-
frigerators into the interior OF Georgia,
which country, it says, is as good a
grazing section as there is in the world.
Indiana makes an enormous yield of
crops this year. The crop of wheat is
46,926,000 bushels; corn, 115, 799,0 900
bushels, and potatoes, 100000 bush
els; and the total value of crops is put
at $153, 847, 900.
A Lewiston, Me-, man hasan orange
tree seven years old which has ten ripe
oranges upon it. 1t has borne for two
or three years. He has fig tree bear
ing ripe and green figs in all stages Of
growth,
Mr., Milo Crocker, East Canaan,
Conn, harvested two crops of Early
Rose potatoes of average yield from the
same ground this year, planting April
Is and July 10, and digging the last
the middle of October.
Milwaukee is to have a grand dairy
fair from December 4 to 8, given by
the National Butter, Cheese and Egg
Association, the Northwestern Dairy
aud the Wisconsin Dairy Association
A good time is expected.
Weed out your stock and get riC
of the poor mich and butter cows. The
profit in dairy comes wholly from the
good COWS, while the poor ones mo-
4 only do not pay for their keep, bu
4 they reduce the profits made by the
others.
Grapes can be pruned any time be
tween the falling of the leaves and The
starting of the sap. 1t is not pleasant
winter work, and if left until pleasant
spring weather comes there is danger
of bleeding. November is a good time
In 1880 Ohio produced one-sixth o
all the wool in the United States, Cali
fornia, Michigan, New York, Pennsyl
vania and Missouri following in the or
der named. and the six States named
produced more than all the others tatet
in the Union. In 1888 Texas vii
stand first on the list.