Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-09-07

do much work yourself.
Economy should, more than any
thing else. be mixed with brains.
Results Of Experiments in Wheat
Growing.
Last year Prof S. \. Blount, Of
the Colorado Agricultural College,
made a large number Of experiments
in wheat growing, and the conclusions
at which he arrives arc Of timely i'm
portancc TO all farmers. Below We
cpitomizc some Of the most valuable
ones:
Results are decidedly in favor Of
thin seeding, especially when sown in
good wheat soil and the seed is good.
Sulphatc Of copper is pretty sure
preventive Of smut.
II pays 10 pick seed wheat in small
quantities, because it improves it,
keeps it pure. and makes il less liable
10 rust and smut.
Cultiva,ing wheat twice pays about
double the cost Of all the expense ia
large crops as well as small fields.
II has come to be well understood
among farmers that farming is a real
science. In this As in any other de-
partmcnt Of industry, the thinking
man is the successful man. The
farmer who keeps himself enslavcd
by hard incessant toll, without time
spent in thoughtful planning, will
find himself failure. 4 few hours
Of careful study will often save many
hours Of hard physical labor. Mind
first, muscle next, is the order.
WE have seen old farms Sc trans
formed by the rebuilding of crooked
fences, little underdrainage here
and there, the buildings repaired,
painted or whitewashed, trees prop
criy planted about The house, that it
would seem that hundreds of dollars
had been expended, whereas the
amount for labor and material would
barely exceed the cost of two or three
acres OF land.
No one thinks OF running two ma
chimes to do the work Of one, nor To
occupy valuable space with two OBJ
jccts when a single one will answer.
As with material so with cows for
. dairy purposes. and why farmers in
-ist by practice on keeping two cows
To give the milk of one is a matter
that demcuds thought.-Rerord.
/ II every farmer on soil underlaid
with clay would sell onc-fourth of his
land aud put tie proceeds into judi
rious, thorough tilcdrainagc OF the
rest. he would make more clear mon.
cy and easier, from the half Of his
original farm when so tiled than he
now does from the whole untitled
/ ,ol Chicago Times.
( EVEN ON heavy land, if the crop 10
he eown is tall wheat, the dung should
hc well fcrmcntcd before It is plowcd
In, II not, when the long dung rots
. the iulrow will be hollow. and the
roots of the Young wheat having no
4 auu hold viii hc easily drawn out 10y
the frost.
THREE totswold ewes belonging TO
Sam Byars, living on the Dutch
Ridge pike, gave birth TO ten lambs.
Two of them gave birth to three each
and one TO four. Who can beat this
in the sheep! business y-Aug,peta
| (kg) Bulletin.
IT is not good policy to let work
horses get thin. IT tcosts more 10 put
on flesh than to keep it on. Flesh
that becomes hardened by exercise
will be kept up with less food. under
the same work, than it took TO put
I it on.
STRAWBERRIES are much more pro-
life when four or five different va
rieties are planted together, although
each variety may be n perfect one,
than il but one perfect variety were
planted alone.
Hoes that run in the orchard pick
ing up the windfalls, and, OCCASION
ally, good apples, never have the hog
cholera, which is another proof of the
value of fruit diet.
FoR ordinary farming purposes in
a comparatively level country,
horse weighing 1900 pounds is per-
haps the most desirable animal.
By test of The closest average
work, il requires four bushels and
forty-seven and half pounds OF
wheat TO make 3 barrel OF -four.