The Penn's Grove record., 1883-06-09
Agricultural.

Strawberry farms in the vicinity OF
Little Rock, Ark, pay an average prof,
of Sl54 per acre.
In Hudson, Columbia county, N. y.
is the largest apple orchard in the world
-30,0 900 trees on 300 acres.
A pear orchard, in Thomas county,
Georgia, was sold five years ago fol
$3.50. 1t was next sold for S1,S0O, the
$3.50 having been recovered from
cuttings in the meantime. A month
afterward, $500 was offered for it,
and now it could not be bought for
$4,000.
Pigs need a run at grass. An orchard
is a fine place for swine it affords
good grazing for the pigs, while the
trees are benefited by the destruction OF
insect pests. Young pigs may be fed at
an early age with profit. Much de-
ponds upon the early start that the ami
NAL gets.
F. d. Curtis says that twenty years
ago he treated a stunted Fameuse apple.
tree with a wheelbarrow full of leached
ashes, and the tree shows the benefit of
it to this day. Mr.. Curtis also says
that two many varieties of fruit are
a nuisance and an endless amount of
work.
Remember when setting out plants OF
any description to spread the roots out
in their natural position, not cover them
when cramped or doubled up. Be care
full not to cover the crowns of strawberry
plants with earth set them just level
with the surface, and press the earth
firmly about them.
A Colorado ranchman has sold 1S4
head of cattle for SS145, averaging four
cents to five cents per pound gross
weight. He AYERS that the only expense
they had been to him was the cost of
branding and gathering, averaging one
dollar per head per year of the animals
lives. They were high grade shorthorns
and brought more than the ordinary
prices for wild steers.
For very early peas the rows should
range east and west, but for the main
crops north and south. The average
depth of the drills should be about two
inches for small sorts and a trifle more
tur the larger kinds. The drills should
be made wide and flat at the bottom, SO
that the seeds may be better separat-
ed in sowing. The large sorts are the
better for being sown three inches apart.
During hot, dry weather late peas derive
great benefit from mulching and water
ing.
A writer in the Ohio Farmer says
there is one fact in reference to dwarf
pears which many are ignorant of, and
that is that all varieties of pears do not
succeed when budded upon the ounce.
One variety does better upon the ounce
root than it does upon the pear. This
is the Duchess. From so TO 80 per cent.
of all dwarf pears sent out by nursery
man nowadays are of this variety. So
universally is this sold that many sup
pose that there is but one variety of the
dwarf, and know the Duchess as the
dwarf pear.
A grade of wheat known as goose
wheat in Oregon, is so called because
all the wheat of that kind grown in the
State came from the craw of a wild
goose. 1t has a very coarse shell and
makes a peculiar grade of -four. No
wheat like it is known in this country.
The people of Oregon have wondered
from whence it came. The wonder
is explained. From samples of foreign
wheat at the agricultural depart
ment, the exact duplicate Of the goose
wheat of Oregon has been found. This
wheat comes from a small province in
Spain, the only place where it has been
grown.
f. ID. Curtis says in the Country
Gentleman of carrots and their culture
a great many farmers do not raise
carrots because they think they cannot
be grown without great labor. They
suppose that they must be planted in
narrow rows, and be hoed and weeded
by hand, and they do not have the time
or the disposition to undertake such a
disagreeable task. They reason that
carrots won't pay there is too much
work" All this is a mistake carrots
will pay, and will pay better than almost
any other crop, They will pay in more
ways than n They will pay as food,
as appetisers and as medicine and bet
ter than all, as preventives. Let us
take up the last point first. Three
Jersey COWS, which calved in cold
weather, and two sows, which have
farrowed, were put into such a healthy
condition by being fed carrots, that
they have done as well as if it was
summer Conditions of fever and
constipations have been avoided, and
full secretion of milk, with a vigorous
condition in the young, have been Sc
cured.