The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-07-20
General Farm Notes.

The cultivation of cork is receiving
great attention in the Southern States,
especially in Georgia.
The habits and requirements of each
animal should be watched, and its feed
ing governed according to its needs.
Leon county (Fla.) tomatoes are
nearly as large as cocoanuts. some of
them measuring fourteen inches in cir
cumference.
Mississippi has something over $4,000,
900 acres of land-much of it is the rich
est known to man. Less than 5000, 900
acres are cultivated.
The United States Consul at Prescott
reports that S1,200,000 worth OF eggs
were imported the past year from Cana
da to the United States
The greatest wool-growing county in
the United States is said to be Washing
ton county, Pa. 1t produces annually
100000 to 100000 pounds of wool,
worth in cash $1,000,0O0 for the wool
alone.
Regularity in feeding is of much i'm
portance, for every experienced feeder
knows that animals soon learn when
the time of feeding comes, and, if it
passes, they fret and worry, which in
terferes with their growth and thrift
ness.
Professor Stewart says muck may be
composed thus: Forty bushels or one
wagon-load of dry muck, FIVE bushels
of unleached ashes, 100 pounds of bone
-four, 100 pounds of plaster can be
thrown into a heap three months be-
fore using, and fermentation will take
place.
In 1880 the West produced more than
half of the wheat of the country, the
center of wheat production being line
running north and south, and touching
the Mississippi at ST. Louis. The pres
ent year the center of production will
probably be north and south line en-
tirely west of the Mississippi.
Cut-worms can be cheated out of de-
stroying cabbage and other plants, by
surrounding each plant with an oak,
hickory, or some other strong leaf, set
deep enough to prevent blowing away.
Another remedy, said to be effectual is
to put sawdust about the roots, and sat-
urate with gas tar water. The sawdust
| will retain the scent of the tar, and
drive away cut-worms and other in
sects.
The beet-sugar interest does not
flourish in this country, and there
| seems to be very little prospect that it
ever will. Most, if not all, the old es-
] Establishments have failed, closed up, or
devoted their buildings to other pur-
poses, and we hear of no new ones go
inc into operation. According to the
report of our Consul at Cologne, how
ever, the business is prospering on the
continent of Europe.
Epilepsy in pigs is generally due to
irritation of the digestive organs, from
improper food, worms, etc. For pigs
under months old, give teaspoonful
of flowers of sulphur 1t may be given
two or three times daily during week,
in a little thin cruel, which the pigs dc
not object to consume voluntarily
Change of food and comfortable quar-
ters are essential; also, plenty of sour
milk. unripe fruit, ample range of liber-
| ty and pure water.
Grasses that have spreading roots
like red top and its kindred varieties,
are best early cut, as nature at once sets
about repairing the loss with new
shoots; but timothy needs to be fully
developed, from the fact that its bulb
Gus roots are also putting out new
bulbs for the next crop, and to sever
the stalk cuts off large dependency
for the support of this new growth
and, unless conditions are exceedingly
favorable, the bulb with its new offspring
dies.
1t is now an established fact that the
peach does well budded on the Miner
plum. w. +. Heikes, of Huntsville
Ala, is growing heavy stocks of tht
peach propagated in this way, and says
This stock makes handsome fibrou:
roots on our soil, and carries its size W
well to the peach, completing perfec
union. The wood of the peach on plum
is more solid, sturdy and hardy than OF
peach, as anyone will believe who ha
grown the apricot on the ditferen
| stocks"