The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-29
Agricultural Notes,

From 100 trees Sylvester Bartlett, Of
Of Etna, Me-, got $50 barrels of Baldwins.
There is more money in growing wool
at even 20 cents per pound than in loan
ing money Mt ten per cent, interest.
John McRobert, of Vevay, Mich,
harvested siXty-six bushels of clover
seed from eighteen acres-a profitable
crop.
Experiments are in progress in Eng
land for testing the adaptability of that
country for the growth of American
varieties of apples,
The English requirement of wheat is
about l9O,OOO,OO0 bushels per year. Mr..
Card gives twenty-eight bushels per
acre as the average wheat yield OF Eng
land for thirty years.
Pear blight has in several instances
been arrested in affected trees by syrng-
ing them with weak solution Of potash,
and in some cases it has proved n
preventive when applied to the healthy
| trees.
A remarkable feature of last years
| tobacco growth is the production of
second crop in Kentucky from the suck
ers, where tobacco was cut during the
drouth. Like reports came from some
Of the seed-leaf districts. 1t is said that
the second crop in many instances prov
ed better than the first;
Professor j. W. Beal having tried sew
eral ways of killing quack grass, says he
succeeded best by blowing late in the
Fall and cultivating as soon as the
ground will admit in the Spring, until
no traces of the grass are seen, which
will usually leave time for n late crop
of potatoes or rutabagas in the same
season.
At a late meeting of local horticul-
tural society in Ohio, the following plan
for keeping apples was described: "a
pit about five feet deep is dug in u side
hill, drained, and filed nearly full of
apples then cover the pit with boards,
and put earth on the boards The APP
pies keep longer after being taken out
than when buried in the usual Manner
A member said soft apples, such rs
Rambos, etc., kept better buried than in
any other manner.
II is estimated that 1875 clover BIOS
SONS contain one grammo of sugar AS
each blossoms consists of sixty calyccs,
ut least 10000 by 60, or 100000 caly-
ces must be rilled to afford kilogramme
of sugar, il requires 100000 calyces of
clover to yield kilogramme Of the
former, Hence we may imagine the
countless number of flowers that bees
must visit to be able to stock their hives
with honey,
AT n meeting of the American Bee
Keepers at Lexington, Ky, Professor
Cook explained his method of measur-
ing the length of the tongue of the
honey bee. II is done by placing feed
on the surface of pane of glass, then
covering with surface of wire cloth,
one end being elevated about one-half
an inch. BY this means he can ret the
tongue eXtruded its full length when he
suddenly cscapitates the bee Thus he
can measure it, with the aid of his
microscope, TO the eXactnoss of one
thousandth of an inch.
A correspondent Of the New England
Farmer says he has learned by expert.
ence that though he can use cuttings
from the ounce of years growth, by
using other and larger cuttings, he gets
very much stronger and more vigorous
trees in less time. He uses sticks about
fifteen or sixteen inches long, set about
foot in the ground, and looks for tho
development of all needed buds where
none are to be seen on the old wood.
Sometimes bud below the surface
sends up the shoot that makes the tree.
II too many start, rub oil all not wanted
to grow
European newspapers are talking of
the possibility of American wheat being
eventually driven out of the markets of
Europe by grain from Tunis. Land can
be bought in Tunis, II is said, for half IL
costs IN the Western States Of the Amer
lean Union, and IL is so fertile that it
viii yield two crops in the year Tho
quality Of the grain, moreover, is equal
TO that of the much-prized Hungarian
wheat. England and France ARE de-
tormined, II possible, to secure moro
than one source of foreign supply OF
wheat. However, they do not realize
tho enormous possibilities Of American