The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-01-05
FARM NOTES.

FAkM NOTESs
A NUMBER of farmers in Arkansas are
engaged in the cultivation Of figs.
SUSFLowER seeds fed in small quanti-
ties impart n beautiful gloss to the plum
age of poultry. ~ I'D a.
APPLEs keep better in damp, moist
cellars than in dry ones. In the latter
they bscome dry and shriveled. In the
former plump and juicy.
In 1881 the acreage of cereals IL Man
itoba was: Wheat, LASS, AS bushels;
oats, 3,521, 720 bushels; barley, 500, 900
bushels. Average per acre: : Wheat,
2s bushels oats, Sc bushels; barley, 40
bushels.
WILD birds are uniform in color. Do
mestication causes breaking up of color
and a variety of shape. When an indi-
yidual commences breeding to a standard
by selection, he secures uniformity
again.
A VETERINARY writer condemns high
hangers for horses, claiming that they
irritate the throat and create q tendency
to heaves. He says the manger should
he on level with the feet, as that is In
accordance with nature.
The weight Of hens eggs ranges from
Is to "a ounces per dozen. A weight c.
22l ounces may be taken as a fair aver
age for good sized eggs, although a
weight Of nearly four ounces is not un-
known for single specimens of eggs.
IT IS the opinion of many that fowl
fattened quickly will make n far more
Juicy and toothsome meal than chick.
One thing is certain, three-year-old
fowl will make much better broth for an
invalid than q six-months' chicken.
Or $4,000, 900 acres devoted to the
growing of hops in this country, Oswego
County, ". Y, had 1870 acres, Oneida
5000 and Madison 6,557, making in all
20.127. The annual value of the crop in
these three counties is upwards Of $780,
900.
Ir Is said that Mr.. Leopard de Roths-
child and other English owners of race
horses purpose purchasing American
bred yearlings TO race in England. The
repeated victories of the Americans have
caused English owners to greatly respect
the American breed of horses for racing
purposeS.
EVERY rural family that has a home
should have n few hives Of bees Moth
ing Of so little cost will yield so large a
profit Nothing is nicer and more
healthy than dish Of honey on the ta-
BILE ut meal time. It is luxury and q
substantial which may and should be
found in every farmhouse.
The largest cotton-producer in the
world is Mr.. Z. Richardson, of Missis-
sippi. He has 50, 900 acres Of land, and
raised last season IL, 900 bales of cotton.
He presses the oil from his cotton
seed, obtaining thirty-f five gallons from a
ton worth S1225, while the cake sells at
from So to 81 per ton.
STABLE manure is preferable to any
other fertilizer. No farmer can afford to
waste his manure. All OF it should be
saved aud utilized. In many cases
farming would be more profitable if less
land was cultivated, with higher fertili-
zation. One acre highly manured should
pay better than three but half-manured
and half-cultivated.
WHY will grass not grow under our
trees? NJ. Paul Bert has shown that
green light hinders the development OF
plants. Plants inclosed in a green glass
frame wither and die as though they
were in darkness. NJ. Regnard finds
that plants specially require the red
rays. Ifsunlight is deprived of the red
rays, the plants soon cease to thrive.
PROFESSOR VoELcKER says: "Bones
are the first manure which q farmer usu-
ally buys, and which farming commu-
mites demand. Wherever agriculture
is improved throughout the world the
first lack of the farmer is phosphates.
The easiest source of supply is bones,
and not until that lack has been sup.
piled in the soil does he begin to search
for ammoniacal manures."
WHEN young poultry has been allowed
to contract the habit of roosting in the
trees no time should be lost in breaking
them OF 1t. Confinement to the poultry
house and yard for q day or two will gen
orally effect cure. Sand and finely
sifted coal ashes, with pound of sui
phur TO each bushel of the mixture. il
the best for dust boxes. This should b,
put in large boxes and kept out of tn,
rain. Whitewash the houses, putting il
a gill Of crude carbolic acid and a pint O
common kerosene oil to each paiiful O
Stacked lime.
never receiving a particle Of salt, prove:
that salt so far as butter is concerned i
not preservative agent. No amount O
salt will preserve butter where prope
working has been neglected, neither i
washing OF butter at all requisite b
the preserving Of butter. Washing save
working, but the best butter is mad
without washing. The great object il
working butter is to extract the butter
milk, and we labor to extract the butter
milk because 1t contains cheesy matter il
which putrefaction soon commences, aid
ing the production Of rancidity in the fa
Of the butter. e.
PEANUT growing is one Of the mos
profitable industries of Virginia. Th
return never falls below fifty dollars Al
acre even in seasons of drouth like tn
past one. and sometimes rise as high a
$500 per acre. A light sandy soil i
best. The nut must have plenty of rail-
IN August in order TO reach perfection
There are three grades in market, tn
strictly prime, the prime and the me
dium, the latter of which is sold to tn
retail buyer. The best are sent abroa
or used by makers Of the finest grade
of candy. The peanut candy sold a
forty cents pound is made from tn
low grade, the wholesale of which i
two cents per quart.
AIoNo the marshy borders of th
Scheidt in Belgium, osiers are exten
siveiy cultivated the rods are for baske
work, but the bark, the peelings, til
iateyy were made into cords, much i
request among fishermen. or late thes
peelings are exported to England, wher
they are subjected TO process for ea
tracting their salicine, OF which the
contain four TO five per cent. This sal
emo IL presumed to replace hops i
brewing. The Arabs cure the tertai
lever by inhaling the fumes of burnin
leaves and branches of osiers, and a dc