The Osceola times., 1883-11-17
FARM AND FIRESIDE.

FARM AND FIRgSIDE.
For long evenings good books and
journals.
Fire at Olympia, Washing Ty., destroy
ed all land records.
Tobacco water or carbolic soap suds
will destroy the plant lice
Canada has a Cheese king" Mr..
McPhereson, who controls sixty four
factories.
Kansas has 33, 1854 more acres of sore-
hum this year than last, mostly planted
for fodder.
Manure pear trees in the fall. Fresh
manure applied in the spring is liable to
blight.
Mr.. d. X. Cossidy will start sheen
ranch in Hall county, Ncb., with 5000 Of
the best grades.
VI requires 100 pounds of skinned
milk, says an Ohio 1airyman, to produce
three pounds Of pork.
The forest acreage ofthe United States
is estimated at less than fourth of the
total surface.
Allow no weeds to 90 to seed in fence
corners and around farm buildings.
Now and burn them.
Muslin has been found superior to pa
per bags in protecting grape clusters
against rot, mildew and insects.
Virulent foot and mouth disease has
appeared at Bristol among Canadian cat.
Gle received from Liverpool.
II has been found that cream is more
easily churned when cows have been fed
on ensilage than corn meal.
The best grapcvines we ever saw were
supplied with the blood of chickens and
hogs slaughtered for family use.
Spaded in among the roots of trees
wood ashes will kill the insect egg that
harbor there. 1t is also an excellent fer.
tilizer.
Tip plants from raspberries should be
set out in the fall, as they start early, and
lifting in the spring commonly Injuries
the buds.
The statement is made in The World
that plantain dies out If kept from going
to seed two years in succession.
Three hundred bushels of wheat from
ten acres is profitable; three hundred
bushels from thirty acres is improbable.
In Louisiana the cultivation of rice has
increased fully 1000 per cent since the
war, and now employees 10000 people.
Mr.. f. b. Welch, Paw Paw, Mich, at
tributed what he is to sheep. "They
produce two crops a year; the wool and
the increase.
A shallow tub KEEP: well filed with
water will afford plenty of bathing room
for ducklings until they are two or three
months old.
The wheat crop of Minnesota this year
is estimated at i0000,000 bushels. II is
good quality and has been securely
harvested.
The cattle men are experiencing losses
owing to the long continued drouth, in
Texas. Hundreds of cattle have died
for lack of water.
The area of the State of Illinois, accor-
ding to the corrected survey, is $3.50
square miles of which all but $50 square
miles are land surfacel
The next meeting of the American
Pomological Society will be held at some
point in Michigan. Time and place not
yet decided upon.
II is said that one bushcl of bects adj
ded to nine bushels of apples makes ci-
der richer and of superior flavor TO that
made from apples alone.
The bull Rudolph, belonging 10 the
Wyoming Hereford Association, Chey-
enne, took the sweepstakes for any age
at the Illinois State Fair.
Farmers should buy cattle only from
veil known and respectable dealers, who
value the reputation too mach 10 sell
low grades for thorough breds.
You can tell a poor farmer by the
bones and shells in the roadway. Plant
cd at the roots of trees and plants they
would furnish manure of desirable
kind.
Sheep that go into winter quarters il
declining state will demand extra feed
and care during winter, and produce ;
light clip of wood in the spring.
The first bulletin of the Ohio Agrcul
mre. Experiment Station has beer issu
ed, detailing the result of the expert
ments with wheat the past year.
An organized band of barn burners i
believed 10 be operating in Southern In
diana. The farmers are much excited
barns are burned almost every night.
DO not pack several varieties of ap
pies in the same rarrel for market
Use the odds and ends at home an'
make salab'e packages if possible 70
shipping.
AT a meeting OF the Ohio Wool Grow
ers Association, he'd during the Fair i
columbus, movement was strongl
favored to try and induce Congress to rt
store the wood tariff Ct 1857.
Mr.. James Beal, Antwerp, Mich, al
tribute his agricultural success to the hs
bit ofguarding against little leaks. Fo
one thing bis stock consumes or make
In manure all his stalks and straw.
The President has issued proclaims
hon that the Worlds Industrial and Co
mn Centennial Exposition be opened o
the first Monday in December, 1884, {
New Orleans, continuing until the 3l'
ofMay, 1885.