Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-12
FARM NOTES.
Some Timely Hints Tor Husband

Some Timely Hints ior Eusbandn,en.
Germantown Telegraph.
New rope for haltcrs it is said, can be
made permanently soft and p!iable by
boiling two hours in water and then dry
ing it in the sun or in a warm room.
An English farmer recently found grass
growing on the back Of one Of Lis sheep.
1t is supposed that the animal having lad
down upon hay, the seeds got mixed with
the wool, and the sheep having been rx-
posed to rain for Z long time, the seeds
terminated.
Major ID. ID. +. Moore, VIC are pleased
to see, has become the agricultural editor
of the Tribune and Farmer, of Philadel-
phia. He is Il veteran in this line. having
made his mark as the original editor and
publisher of the Rural New Yorker and
subsequently as the rural editor of the
christian at Work.
Ono of the most remarkable horses of
his age in the state was recently sold by
Ii. w. Setter. of Londonderry, Lebanon
county. Although the animal is 90 years
old, he is steady traveller and can trot a
mile in four minutes. He sold for $124.5O
at public sale, and promises to be of SCR
vice fOr years to come.
Two twin steers, claimed to be the
ECSJ III lAO COuubIy, NcIc ldUC11 IA
hibited at Allentown, Pa. Although only
pounds. They will be taken to London
and be exhibited at the international
cattlc.show shortly to be held in that city
They are valued at SlO,00O-about $1.37
per pound.
1t is asserted that the soaking of the
wood of which wagons are built, in crude
petroleum, and occasionally afterwards
giving the wagons 4 coating of it with a
brush, will add greatly to their strength
and endurance. The oil penetratcs the
wood and makes it less liable to crack,
shrink or swell. The wood work of stage
coaches thus treated have rarely needed
any repairs. For farm wagons it would
be very serviceable.
All cheap spices are more or less adul
teratcd, and this applies to many other
articles OF daily consumption. Out of 119
samples Of food tested by the New York
board of health recently, so were found to
be aduIterated; and of - samples of
drugs, 80 were similarly impure. The
cheaper kinds OF "bIack pepper" consists
of about three -fOurths of ground cOcoanu t
shells. Red pepper and mustard are also
largely adulterated, care being taken that
the foreign materials thus introduced are
Of harmless nature.
Experiment in Growing Corn.
Germantown Telegraph
An experiment in corn planting, by the
Iowa college, last year, in three separate
paintings, all put in on the same day-May
Coach plat being 16O square yards, re-
suited as follows The plat in which the
hills were feet 10 inches by 12 inches
apart, with one stalk in hill, produced
at the rate of G9.O5 bushels per acre the
plat planted $40 by 20 inches
apart in the hills, aud two stalks to hill
produced at the rate of 81 bushels to the
acre and the third plat, planted 8. 10
each way with four stalks to hill, pro-
duced only at tho rate of so bushels to
the aero. This is an important fact to
know. The experiment was conducted
with the utmost care for the express pur-
pose of deciding question which has al
ways given rise to great deal Of discus
sion, alike as to the proper distances be-
tween the hills ard the rows, as we'll as the
number Of stalks in a hill. Twelve inches
distance between the hills would be almos
equal to four grains in hill at feet 10
inches apart, ard practically amounts to
drilling, which of course would demand
additional labor in removing the weeds
and cultivating the soil between tho hills
with the hand hoe, as the crop could be
narrowed only one way. Whether the
extra bushel would pay the additional
cost of labor, we do not pretend to an
swer, though tho established belief is that
it will not, and that is the reason why so
few farmers adopt the drilling system.