The Penn's Grove record., 1882-02-18
Agricultural.
Statistical and Suggestive.

nette seeds.
Frequently after squashes begin 70
blossom they dry up and die. Fol this
disaster no one has yet been able to
give a satisfactory cause.
One OF the first things q farmers
wife should learn, If she has not already
learned it as a farmers daughter. Is to
drive and harness q horse.
Strawberries are much more prolific
when four or five different varieties
are planted together, although each
variety may be q perfect one, than If
but one perfect variety were planted
alone.
The opinion has generally prevailed
that q little bran mixed with meal
would produce more pork than clear
meal, but in some experiments lately
tried 1t was found that clear meal
made more pork than q mixture of
bran and meal.
Professor Brewer, Of the Sheffield
scientific school, New Haven, says
"On account OF the value OF straw
and of the stalks of our corn for feed
ing, 1t is found that an acre of corn,
wheat or other grain pays as large a
| profit here as at the West, and that the
labor of each man IL as well or better
paid"
To preventstore show windows from
sweating when the gas Is lit in the
evening, apply to the glass evenly q
slight film Of pure ~glycerine and you
will not be troubled by the "swesting"'
complained OF. Glycerine used in this
way will also prevent the formation
| OF frost on the glass In cold weather.
The value OF cheese AS a food is not
properly understood to day In Amer
| lea. Beefsteak free from bone Is very
similar in composition to cheese both
are muscle-produeing matter; beef,
however, contains mare than double
the water which cheese contains, aud
besides the latter requires nc cooking.
friedrich should be laid In a thin
mortar made OF fire-clay, rather than
in a lime-and-sanG mortar, such rs Is
| used In ordinary red brickwork. In
laying up those portions Of a boiler
furnace requiring friedrich, provision
should be made in the original wall
for replacing the friedrich, and with
out disturbing the outer brick work.
The Flemish farmer s~crupulously
collects every atom of sewage from the
towns: be guards his like a
treasure, puts a roof over it to prevent
rain and sunshine FROM spelling 1t;
he also gathers mud from rivers and
canals, and the excretions Of animals
along the highways, for conversion
into phoephates.
The value of all manufactured fertil-
igers depends upon their solubility
and these msnures should all be appro-
priated by the growing crops. To ex-
pect any such fertilizing matter to
! remain In the ground another year Is
to presume that the fertilizers are not
properly manufactured. Bone dust,
| however, will remain in the soil sew
| eral years.
When corn on the ear lie fed to horses
| they masticate 1t much more slowly
than If the corn was shelled. AS a
| consequence that on the ear Is better
digested. A horse requires more time
| to eat corn on the "a than IL fed
| either meal or shelled corn. If the
horse cannot have time to masticate q
full feed OF unshelled corn, then it Is
best to feed something else.
Professor johnson says the differ
/ once between q scientist and a mere
practical man is this The latter be-
lisves thing till 1t is proven valueless,
while the former believes nothing
that Aas not been demonstrated TO be
Of real value. He also says there Is no
best corr manure; all mAnures will
differ In value to the crop planted
according to the soil upon which the
oorn is planted.
To burn a pound OF coal requires
about twelve pounds Of air, or say n
hundred cubic feet. Most boiler set
tings permit from two hundred to
three hundred feet to pass through
the lire. 1t is needless to point out
the great source of loss arising from
this one cause alone. This may be
prevented In o measure bs having q
suitable damper In the chimney, and
regulating the fiow Of escaping gasses
by 1t instead of the ash.pit doors.
The farmers of Michigan have uni
ted in a fight against further royalty
for the right TO use a certain process
for drive-wells claimed by one N. W.
Greene as his exclusive property.
Counsel has been employed to repre-.
sent the farmers, who are determined
to contest the claim to the hast -xtrem-
ity. The outcome Of the pending liti'
CATION will be eagerly watched by
farmers throughout the country.
The uucommonly large number Of
insects injurious to vegetation, which
did so much TO destroy the last sea
sons crops, was not in consequence o
; an open winter, but followed a very
severe seaSon. The larve OF thes'
insects we're protected by the snow
The present open winter will caus'
the destruction OF millions Of thes'
pests. They remain near the surfas'
this winter, where they can be fed OF
by the birdie.
!. Sheep grazing in Kansas has becom
an important business, and In ever.
locality where 1t has been thorough,
|, tested 1t has been eminently success
: full. In 1879 there were Sll, s62 shee
! in Kansas, valued at : l,oe9, SIT, Will
! In July, 1881. there were 1877 o52 sheer
valued at 81, 100, 4s2. The greatest pol