The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-01-05
FARM NOTES.

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A NUMBER of farmers in Arkansas are
engaged in the cultivation Of figs.
SUNFLowER seeds fed in small quanti-
ties impart q beautiful gloss to the plum
age of poultry.
APPLES keep better in damp, moist
cellars than In dry ones. In the latter
they bscome dry and shriveled. In the
tormer plump and juicy.
In 1881 the acreage of cereals in Man
itoba was: Wheat, 3,458,4 Ats bushels ;
oats, 1851, 100 bushels barley, 500, 900
bushels. Average per acre Wheat,
Is bushels oats, 56 bushels; barley, 40
bushels.
WILD birds are uniform in color. Do
mestication causes a breaking up of color
and a variety of shape. When an indi-
vidual commences breeding to q standard
by selection, he secures uniformity
again.
A VETERINARY writer condemns high
managers for horses, claiming that they
irritate the throat and create a tendency
to heaves. He says the manger should
be on a level with the feet, as that is in
accordance with nature.
THE weight of hens eggs ranges from
10 to "a ounces per dozen. A weight c.
224 ounces may be taken as a fair aver
age for good sized eggs, although q
weight of nearly fou ounces is not un-
known for single specimens of eggs.
IT Is the opinion of many that a fowl
fattened quickly will make a far more
Juicy and toothsome meal than a chick.
One thing is certain, q three-year-old
fowl will make much better broth for an
invalid than a six-months' chicken.
Or 60, 000, 900 acres devoted to the
growing Of hops in this country, Oswego
County, N. Y, had 1870 acres, Oneida
5000 and Madison 6,557, making in all
20. 1877. The annual value of the crop in
these three counties is upwards of $780,
900.
IT 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 q home
should have a few hives of bees. Moth
ing of SO little cost will yield so large a
profit. Nothing is nicer and more
healthy than a dish of honey on the Ia
BILE at meal time. 1t is a luxury and a
substantial which may and should be
found In every farmhouse.
The largest cotton-producer in the
world is Mr.. E. Richardson, of Missis-
sippi. He has 50, 900 acres of land, and
raised last season IL, 600 bales of cotton.
He presses the oil from his cotton
seed, obtaining thirty-fve gallons from a
ton worth $12. 25, while the cake sells at
from S. to 81 per ton.
STABLE is preferable to any
other fertilizer. No farmer can afford to
waste his manure. All of it should be
saved and utilized. In many cases
farming would be more profitable if less
land was cultivated, with higher fertili-
cation. One acre highly MANFRED should
pay better than three but half manured
and half-cultiyated.
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. If sunlight is deprived of the red
rays, the plants soon cease to thrive.
PROFESSOR VoELcKER says "Bones
are the first which a farmer usu5
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." I
WHEN young poultry has been allowed
to contract the habit of roosting in the
trees nc time should be lost in breaking
them of it. Confinement to the poultry
house and yard for a day or two will gen.
orally effect a cure. Sand and finely.
sifted coal ashes, with a pound of sui.
phur to each bushel of the mixture, is
the best for dust boxes. This should be
put In large boxes and kept out of the
rain. Whitewash the houses, putting in
a gill of crude carboic acid and a pint o.
common kerosene oil to each pailful Of
Stacked lime. rtia
DANISH butter, perfectly worked bu.
never receiving a particle of salt, proves
that salt SO far as butter is concerned il
not a preservative agent. No amount o
salt will preserve butter where proper
working has been neglected, neither. il
washing of butter at all requisite t.
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 it contains cheesy matter il
which ~putrefaction soon commences, aid
ing the production of rancidity in the ia
of the butter.
PEANUT growing is one of the mos
profitable industries of Virginia. The
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 il
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
dunn, the latter of which is sold to tn,
retail buyer. The best are sent abroad
or used by makers of the finest grade
OF candy. The peanut candy sold a
forty cents a pound is made from tn
low grade, the wholesale of which j
two cents per quart.
ALoNe the marshy borders of tn,
Scheldt, in Belgium, osiers are exten
sgvely cultivated the rods are for baske
work, but the bark, the Feelings, til
lately were made into cords, much il
request among fishermen. Of late thes
peelings are exported to England, wher
they are subjected to a process for ex
tracing their s~alicine, of which the
contain four to five per cent. This sail
cine is presumed to replace hops i
brewing. The Arabs cure the tertai
fever by inhaling the fumes of burnin
leaves and branches of osiers, and a dc
coction of that plant is properly consid
cred efffcacious against rheumatism
The refuse of the osiers-that is to ga
the peelings-can be made thus to yiel
four times a greater profit than the rods
estimating ~salicine at its current price G
SIS to Sc per pound.