The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-04-05
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Mr.. Darling, of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York, has sold a bull out
of his famous Jersey COW, Eurotus,
for $4,000
Thirty thousand head of sheep have
recently been shipped from California
10 Howard county, Texas, where they
win be ranched.
The canning factory at Muscatine,
Iowa, has declared a dividend of IL
per cent. on capital of $50, 600 for
1882. Fruits and vegetables were
canned.
An authority declares that ticks and
lice win never be found troublesome
where sheep are fat and in good con-
dition, the pests only attacking poorly
kept animals.
American buyers have taken so
many Clydesdale stations in Scotland
that il has caused an increase in price
of 100 per cent. within the last year
and half. There is also great de-
mand for poled cattle and Shropshire
sheep.
The manure from unhoused stock
exposed 10 cold and wet is less valu-
able than il is from animals carefully
stabbed with the same feed. Not only
is much of the excrement wasted by
rains, but il is in itself poorer, and
the extra food required 10 keep I'M
sheltered stock warm is absolutely
wasted.
Professor Shelton, of the Kansas
State Agricultural College, holds that
the cultivation Of such crops as broom
corn, hemp, flax, and perhaps castor
beans, which furnish but little, if any,
stock feed, will ultimately lead 10 seri-
Gus consequences in the loss of fer
iility sustained by the lands so cult.
waited.
As remedy for the cabbage worm
New York experiment proves the
following to he good: A mixture OF
half pound each of hard soap and
kerosiDc oil in three gallons of water
This was applied To the second and
most formidable brood, and an exam
nation the next day showed nearly all
destroyed.
E...r,, fu,,not. fuuht IA raise his ayr
grapes and plenty Of them. The vines
having been properly pruned in The
previous fall or winter, all the neccs-
sary pruning for the succeeding crop
H. 90 disbud all unnecessary shoots AZ
they start in the spring, leaving only
canes enough for the present years
fruit and The next years reliance.
II is said that very small onions
used for pickles are raised in England
aud imported by the owners Of our
picking establishments. The plan fol.
lowed by English market gardeners is
to SOW onion seed very thickly on q
bed of poor soil, where the plants dc
not grow ihriftily, but produce very
small onions, many of them being no
larger than n hazelnut.
A fruil-grower ia New York sold
the past season $4,000 worth of ounces
from AN orchard of 5000 trees which
have been in hearing three years.
Every year hereafter the sales will, or
should, largely increase. So far the
only manure used has been mixture
of salt and ashes. The orchard is kept
clearly cultivated. as the trees are now
10 large TO grow other crops among
them.
The Massachusetts PJoUmda says
that few persons are aware how large
proportion of scions set on large
trees are prevented from growing by
being misplaced by passing birds.
Scions set late in the season are not ms
liable TO be misplaced, because the
time is so short between the setting
and when the scion begins TO grow
but when a tree is grated a month
before the growing season commences,
unless some protection is provided,
the chances are that the larger por-
lions of the scions will be started by
passing birds before the growing sea-
son commences.
In setting out raspberries, Mr.. Phil
brick says we should be careful and
set the rows six feet apart, and the
plants two and half feet apart in the
row. They should be tied to stakes,
or trsllised, in order TO keep the fruit
from damage by reason Of the liability
10 be thrown on the ground i'm the
severe storms that prevail at the sea-
son Of ripening. The raspberry is a
stool plant, and should be thoroughly
cultivated; the ground should be high
ly MANFRED and the soil thoroughly
pulverized, rs early as possible in the
spring, and then mulched, in order TO
retain all of the moisture.