The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-27
NUMBER IL.
Agricultural.

pose that because tIunips are often
grown without a direct supply of nitro
gen in manures, they are less depend
ent upOna supply of this substance than
corn crops. If any farmer feels a doubt
upon this point, let him try to grow
roots a few years in succession ON
the Lille land, lusing mineral manures
alone, and removing the produce. A
! rapid decline in the crop will soon con-
| vince him how dependent the turnips
are on a liberal supply of nitrogen in
the soil.-J. b. Lave.
"A member Of the Oneida Commu-
nifty, writing on the Importance of
mulching fruit trees and plants Of ev-
cry kind, says that he mulched a row
of the Franconia raspberry and also n
Of the Philadelphia side by side. The
effect was very marked. While the
F%ranconias, which were not mulched,
were literally scerched and the leaves
crumbled in the sun, the row which re-
ceived the mulching carried through
nearly double the crop of fruit. The
material used for mulehing was old,
half-decayed buckwheat straw, etc.
In an address before the Maryland
horticultural Society, on March 80,
1888, William Sand ers, Superintendent
| of the Grounds and Gardens of the Agri-
ultural Department at Warrington, D. G.
said 1.-THE blight on the apple and
pear trees is, in the aggregate, source
Of much loss. 1 will not discuss the
| point as to whether this malady Is
caused by a low form of vegetable life,
fungi, or by a low form of insect life
bacteria, but allude to it to mention the
fact that nc part of a tree coated with
lime-wash has ever been affected"
The new breed of fowls, Wyan-
dottes, formerly know as American
Seabrights, is rapidly growing in favor.
They have heavy, compact bodies, beau
tiful plumage, very small combs, and
make good layers. The strongest points
in their favor are that they have legs of
a deeper yellow than the Plymouth
| Rock, and the combs being small pre-
vents frosting in winter. They equal
the Dorking in compactness of body,
grow rapidly, and are very hardy.
The demand for this breed has been
| very heavy this season, which is due to
their being only recently introduced.
-Poultrymen are sometimes troubled
with partial blindness in their young
chickens, occasioned possibly by too lit
tie variety in their food. The eyelids,
in the morning, are stuck together so
firmly that the chicken cannot open
them without assistance. When both
eyes are in this condition the chicken
cannot feed with facility, as it has to be
guided by hearing and smell, therefore,
loses flesh for want of food, droops and
dies. These dropping chickens can of
ten be saved by having their heads dip
ped in clean water and the eyes washed
open, They then see readily, devour
their rations greedily, and begin to gain
flesh.
in regard TO yellow-skinned Jerseys
the American Ddiryman says ''We re-
member once taking part in a test Of
about thirty Jerseys belonging to Mr..
Churchman, of Indianapolis, Ind. We
selected all the pale skinned cows and
tested their cream yield, and then did
the same with the cowspossessing yellow
skins, and while these COWS uniformity
gave milk in color equal to correspond
ing with the color n lack of color in
their skins, yet the cream yield was so
nearly equal that there was no practical
advantage on either side. In other
words, so far as butter yield is o n
cerned, the color ofthe skin is probably Of
no value whatever as a criterion"
The Tribune and Farmer says
Thorough tillage not only adds to the
yield of corn but it is of decided benefit
in preparing the ground for consequent
crops. Hence it is essential that a Gull
tivator or horseshoe be kept moving
much of the time for weeks en-
suing, particularly in regions where the
crop is grown extensively. Good Gull
| ture-frequent stirring of the soils
the great factor in corn growing. On
light soils a little ashes, plaster or other
fertilizer, applied to each hill, or along
| the drilled row, if in drills, will stimu-
late the corn crop materially; but keep
ing the cultivator moving lively, and
thus stirring the soil, is the great factor,
and all important
-''Separated from the soil la never
yet has succeeded in thriving. AT best,
without it, he is a potted plant, and
some of the pots are m~iserably small. l
have visited many factories in New Eng
land, and l find that wherever the
operatives have a good-sized garden,
with access to pasture for a cow, the
| people are healthy, commended and saw
ing. Whenever this is the case the pop
ulation is likely to live without actual
starvation or extreme restitution in the
event of the mills being closed for even
a very long period. Whenever they arc
separated from the soil, as in some of
our large and crowded cities, there is
squalor, decentralization and despair. -
james Parton.
TO ascertain if any textile fabric Is
of vegetable or animal material take a