The Penn's Grove record., 1883-08-25
Agriculture.

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and disappointments in sales. Ever
those farmers who have realized thu
highest prices and the quickest sales
adult the effect of tobacco raising is Il
reduce profits on general farming thai
its exhaustive tendency isa . lou mat.
ter to consider, and that i'm the longF1f
it is destructive to more important in.
terests.
A horticulturist writing to the Ohio
Farmer, says: Nothing is more dis.
tressing to a level headed horticulturist
than to see tomato plants a foot OF
eighteen inches high and bare of branch
es to the top, swaying and whipping in
the cold windafter transplanting. Where
such drawn-out plants must be used a
small inclined trench should be dug and
nearly the whole stem placed beneath
the soil. No evil will result, but much
good, from such planting, and a vigor-
Gus, stocky growth will follow"
The Germantown Telegraph says that
lin selecting old apple and pear trees
for the purpose of grating care should
be exercised to take only those that re-
tain their foliage late in the autumn.
They will insure the growing of the
graft sufficiently long to firmly establish
it and cause it to remain unaffected
during the winter. In every instance
that we have tried to raise fruit from
CRAFTS on old trees which shed their
leaves early we have failed. They gov
for a few years, bear a few specimens,
and then die"
The american Cultiuator says: 'sDid
you ever try planting peas in hills 7
Make a large hill, rich with we'll rotted
compost or fertilizer then take a nail
keg, OF something about that size, and
press it into the ground 80 as to make
a deep circle upon the hill ; sow your
peas in that circle, and plant a large
pea brush in the centre. You can grow
al many peas to the acre in this way as
in drills. They are convenient for the
piekeIs, and they have a neat and tasty
look in the garden, which is not a small
item, especially when you are trying a
pow method
Professor Beal, of the Michigan
Agricultural College, reports an expert
ment where he planted an early, eight
rowed, yellow dent, and through it a
single row of yellow flint. Before flow
erlng the tassels of the flint corr were
all cut of, making impregnation by the
dent on this row a necessity. There
was no trace on the ears of the flint of
any crossing with the dent the first
year. The next year, however, the
flint corn showed all gradations from
the dent to the flint. He reports some
varieties as being less affected with
crossing than others, and names the red
or brown varieties as having the great
est tixity of type.
France receives annually from Eng
land about $40, 900, 900 for butter and
cheese. This is suggestive TO the
American farmer. Many of our farm
ers know how to and do make good
butter, but there are many farmers who
do not know how TO OF at least do not
make good, clean butter, If any one
doubts this let him visit any city CON-
mission house, and he will find butter
of every conceivable color, form and
smell, and will lose his appetite for
butter for a week at least. A little
piece of bad butter will ruin the taste
of the best bread that the skillful
miller and baker can make. -Unned
States Miller,
The quantity OF food needed by stock
varies ever among animals of the same
age and breed, and it necessarily varies
to "a greater extent among animals II
different breeds. Upon this subject a
farmer in England says it is sufficiently
correct to reckon a sheep consuming
twenty-eight pounds of green food, an
ok or cow $50 pounds, a calf forty
pounds and a yearling eighty pounds
daily. At this rate an OK or COW con-
sumes as much as i've sheep. The
latter will require 10, 220 pounds, or
nearly five tons apiece, the former 54,-
$50 pounds, or nearly twenty-five tons
of green food, for its yearly mainte-
ance
1t is often desirable to know which is
the most profitable way to sell fowls
alive, dressed or both dressed and drawn.
TO find out weigh the fowl alive, then
after it is dressed and again after being
drawn. Record this weight in each
case, and then a little figuring, with
weight and market prices IS a basis,
will soon tell the inquirer what he
wants to know. Generally, we think
it will be found that selling alive pays
about as well as to dress, particularly
if the owners time is valuable and he
is not an expert at picking. Those who
buy and dress for market on q large
scale are generally experts themselves
at this work or have such artists"
in their employ.-Nokoaal Farmer.
We have often zen trees of the same
variety of apple OF cherry, which year
after year differed in shades of flavor or
times of r~ipening. Professor Beal says;
~ have two lots of Red Canada, one
grown ON Northern Spy stock and the
other on Early Harvest. Apples on
the latter rot first and are less brilliant
in COLOR" Many instances have occur.
red where the stock has shown some
influence, but In non has there been
an entire change in the variety. A
Northern Spy is always a Northern Spy
and nothing else. A Red Canada is
never changed to an Early Harvest.