The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-11-03
FARM AND AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Nearly ZOO bushels Of onions per acre
were raised last year by George y. Ms
son of Beverly, Mass.
An average two or three year-old steer
will eat its own weight Of different ma
terial in two weeks.
There is no loss in feeding cattle well
upon variety of materials for the sake
of the manure alone.
Samples of white Russian oats, six
feet high, with heads eighteen inches
long, have been left at the Office OF the
Indiana Farmer.
American methods of conducting
many departments of agriculture are be-
ing introduced into nearly all parts Of
the civilized world.
The American wonder OF premium
Gempeas, sOwn in August, will, if they
escape mildew, make a fair Autumn
| crop.
In some instances "sprinkling lawns
| with carbolic acid and wateT'' has been
practiced against the army worm in Con-
necticut with good result.
| The crop of small fruit is excellent in
nearly all of the Eastern States. The
markets are well supplied and large
| quantities are being canEed.
1t is not generally known that few
| sprigs of cedar brush, mixed with hay,
4 o.
| keep them entirely free from hen lice.
Two or three year old cattle will add
| one-third OF pound more per day to
| their weight upon prepared hay and
! roots than upon the same materials un-
| prepared.
| The West now surpasses the East in
| the. excellence of its butter and cheese
! factories. The largest combined factory
! in the world, it is said, is located at Ire
! mont, Neb.
A correspondent of the Farmers Re
VietU has found a.strOng decoctiOn of tan
sy, applied through the fine rose OF a
watering pot, very effective against the
cabbage worm,
The United States is becoming. if it
! has not already become, the first wool
| producing country in the world. If it
Is second, it is second only to Australia,
! Of which wool is the largest product.
Very frequent news items about ghast
/ ly deaths from gOring by bulls preach
/ effective seImBns against horns, and
| against careless approaches to these gen
erallymismaDaged and treacheros beasts
More labor saving machines for doing
| work in fields and gardens have been in
| vented in the United States than in all
| other countries combined, and these are
fast finding their way into all parts of
! iDG WOEIO,
The general effect OF lime is to render
! available the plant food already in the
! soil, without itself supplying any signi-
1 hcant amount. Lining cannot, there
| fore, cannot be successfully repeated ex-
! cept at considerable intervals.
/ There is no wisdom in working a thir-
! ty acre field year after year to get five
! acres Of wheat or ten bushels of corn to
! the acre, when with the same expense
| for fertilizers you could raise fifteen
/ bushels of wheat and thirty bushels of
| corn to the acre.
Farmers and property owners should
bear in mind that they are required by
! law to cut Canada thistles on their land
| before they go to seed. They are iLable
| for the neglect, and the complainant is
! entitled to part of the fine.
The Gardeners Monthly says LET
| the laundry folks, on every wash dav.
| pour the boiling hot soap suds about the
| roots of the peach trees, This will de-
! strOY the insidious little fungus which
| produces the ''yeilOws," and other dis
| eases, and finish the Larvae of insects
which are so injurious to the trees"