The Osceola times., 1883-06-23

from fermenting or losing Its naVor bY |
adding 20 Il about one per cent. OF
Feronie acid.
There are no better ducks for the far
rner 20 raise than the Aylesbury, Pekin
and Rouen, as they mature early and
market well.
ny.sk e--s sell 4. twen;y-eight 10 thir-
ty cents per dozen, and goose escs at forty
TO forty-fye cents in New York whole
sale markets.
Some 10000 acres of land in Aroostook
county, Me. have been sold at Is cents
an acre to men who propose to settle il
with Swedish immigrants.
The Scotch, always a thrifty race, are
investing largely in American cattle
ranches. During ls32 ten large ranches
for herding cattle we're bought by Scotch
men.
Mr.. G. F. Nuting, Randolph, VT, hav-
ing fed ensilage since November 4, is
inclined. until he sees a better way, to
make this resource his main line of
farming"
Early hatched chickens are more Wig
orous than those produced later in the
season, when hot and dry weather adde's
half the eggs while incubation is in pro-
gress.
Spring pigs, fed upon cut green food
during the summer months, with grain
occasionally and a little milk, can be
made 10 weigh 200 pounds at seven
months old.
Mr. Daniel Conner, Manchester. y. H.,
started thirty bushels of Early Rose po-
tatoes under glass and set them out in
his market garden as soon as practicable.
A member of the Central New York
Farmers' Club says he has observed that
the flowers of lilium longiforum "inva-
riably under all circumstances, point ex-
actly northwest"
A couple of important axioms to be
remembered in the campaign against
weeds: Mature abhors a vacuum" Two
bodies cannot occupy the same space at
the same time"
A field that has been long cultivated
in hood crops is not as favorable to full
crop of potatses-Other conditions being
equal-as a new field with a good clover
or grass sod turned in.
Nature is a free and copious bsstower
Every tree and plant yields manifold
more than is absolutely required for its
continuation of existence, and the large
surplus goes to good cultivation.
Some one says he succeeded in curing
his hens of egg-eating proclivities by
filling a shell with lard and cayenne
pepper and placing it in the nest.
The census in France shows that there
are in that country 40OO0,oc0 hens, not
including ducks, geese, turkeys, cuineas,
and pheasants OF this number S.OO0.-
600 are marketed annually for the table.
Bradstreet's thinks it high time people
found out that sorghum syrup is sweeter
than glucose, and it predicts prosper
ous year for the new industry. Sorghum
was raised in twenty-eight States last
year.
A great saving in the labor Of cultiva-
ton can be made by drawing a heavy
| bush or smoothing harrow broadcast
| over a field Just before or at the time the
potato sprouts are beginning to push
through.
| Inc AlCnlLdU FARMER InentlOls saw
ing perishable vegetables in blizzard
weather by placing on the cellar bottom
three or four burner kerosene stove till
the thermometer indicated point above
! freezing.
We are getting back to the old days Of
high prices for Merino sheep. Mr.. Sam.
uel Jewett, Independence, Mo, recently
sold half interest in his Merino ram
Stubb, 444, TO II. \. Pugsley, Plattsburg
Mo, for $500.
Prof. 5. II. baltimore, of the Univer.
| sity of Rochester has secured very deli
cate apparatus for testing almost inappre-
ciable differences in quality Of sorghum
and maple saps. Some very interesting
results are expected.
At the Chicago stock yards all sales oi
hogs are made subject to a shrinkage OF
forty pounds for piggy sows, and eighty
pounds for each stag. Dead hogs sell al
two cents per pound for weights of POO
pounds and over, and one cent per pound
for average of less than 200 pounds.