The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-09-02
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Ohio is the sixth in the list of states
in the quantity Of lumber products.
Ninety three Thousand acres of land
have been planted in Kansas this year
with timber.
Some estimates Of the Minnesota
wheat crop put it as hlgh as SO, 600, 600
bushels, or sixty pounds for each man,
woman and child in the United States.
A reputable authority vouches for
cooked corn meal and potatoes served
at regular time, for three or four
weeks before slaughtering time, being
the best food for fattening fowls.
Bee moths can easily Be killed in
large numbers by setting a pan Of
grease, in which is floating ignitcd
wick, near the hives after dark. The
moths will fly into the light and fall
into the grease.
A Georgia correspondent states that
the cotton crop promises large yield,
and the corn crop is far beyond any
one in number Of years. Sweet po-
tatoes cover every available patch, and
the pea has sure and prolific home in
every corn field.
Nebraska win have I00,0O0,00
bushels of corn and 5000, 900 bushsls
of wheat this year. Indiana has
wheat yield Of 40, $4,000 bushels and
1889, 900 bushels Of oats. Both crops
are the largest ever known In the
state. In Michigan wheat Is ruined
by rain.
Many farmers, for an extra dollar or
two sell their best calves to the butcher
and raise such as are not so valuable,
and think they can gain by the prac-
tiee; but the few dollars they think
they made would, in many cases, be
worth at the milking age Of the stock, 4
if the best had been kept, moro than
thirty dollars, instead of dollar or
two,
To remove stumps from a field, all
that Is necessary is to have ono or
moro sheet-iron chimneys, some four
or FIVE feet high. Set fire to the stump
aud place the chimney over it, SO as to
give the requisite drsught at the bot
tom. IL will draw like stove. The
stump will soon be consumed. With
several such ehimnoys, of different
sizes, the removal Of stumps may be
accomplished at merely nominal labor
and expense.
A Texas farmer by turning bis sheep
in his wheat iR the autumn, and allow
ing them to gFaze during the winter
and spring when the soil was in con
ditiol, says, !" the last piece of wheat
grazed will make twenty-five bushels
TO the acre, and it would have made
more, but It was badly damaged by
the worms. Now, | don't think my
wheat was materially injured by graz
ing, and yet my whole lamb crop was
raised on wheat
II Is said that 100000 acres Of graz
ing land on the Yellowstone river,
near the border of Dakota, twenty
miles from the Northern Pacific road,
have been bought up by Rufus Hatch
aud Lawrence Jerome, Of New York,
in connection with several London
capitalists. 1t Is intended to place
$4,000 head Of young cattle On the
range, and city will be laid out
These magnets, it seems, did not go
West without an eye to the main
chance.
Prof. Forbes, State Entomologist Of
Illinois, who has lately been studying
inc chinch bug, has, it is said, discov-
cred an eradicator to this pest, that
las proved quite successful. Ii is
solution Of water kerosene, and milk
proportions not stated costing half
lent gallon, and to be applied with
my proper simple machine. We give
be paragraph for what it is worth,
aus think that, if true, Prof. Forbes
would have made the matter public
indeE his own name, and with the
proper proportions Of the compound,