West-Jersey pioneer., 1883-11-08
Farm NOTE.
Tillage operations tend to increase
plant food in the soil.

Tillage operations tend to increase
plant food in the soil.
Mr.. st. John, of Newton, Iowa, trains
his grape vices on elm trees, and claims
that he secures fine fruit every year, and
free from rot.
If cornstalks are passed through a cut
ter and crushed during the operation of
cutting, the stock will eat the whole up
clean. Preparation saves waste, and
renders the stalk more palatable.
The Sofa bean, which has been so
highly recommended, does not ripen in
New Jersey. AT least it did not do so
in some parts this season. 1t may serve
well, however, as green manurial plant,
as it produces abundantly of foliage
The power exercised by beets and an
nual roots is exceedingly great. At the
New York Experiment Station a long
blood beet was planted in an inch drain
tile, set upon end and buried in the soil.
The tile was split lengthwise as the root
outgrew its accommodations.
Eggs are beginning to be very high,
because the mature fowls have been sent
to market to make room for early pull
let's, which do not begin to lay till some
what later. After the remaining old
fowls have finished moulting they begin
to lay as soon as they again become full
In plumage.
Near Beeton, Ontario, Can, is bee
farm consisting of four bee yards, stu
ated at the angles of @ square mile of
sountry. The owner had at the end OF
July secured $4,000 pounds of honey
from e2C colonies of bees. The propri-
etor estimates that the yield will be
10000 pounds, and the net profits about
$1,000. The number of beesis estimated
at 10000, 900.
Over erowding Of fowls is the cause of
nearly all diseases that occur among
them. There is too much strife and
competition among them when kept in
large numbers, and the same is true of
animals. The largest breeder of fowls
in the world, Hawkins, of Lancaster,
Mass, divides his large flocks into many
smaller ones. He keeps over 1900 hens
on the same farm, and finds them profit
able. In addition to this number of
hens, thousands of chicks are annually
Matched and sent to the large cities.
One acre of good meadow grass prop
erly cured into hay, will furnish food for
COW or steer during the five or six
months of Winter. 1t will be found that
three OF four acres are devoted to pas
turing one COW or steer during the
warm season. Every stock feeder knows
that it takes more food to keep an ami
NAL in cold than in warm weather. This
statement shows the great waste Incl
dent to pasturing and the value of the
soiling system, when one acre of land
may be easily made to feed as much as
will four acres of pasture.
The american Cultirator thinks that
from recent experience the pear seems
likely to take the place of the apple as
the fruit most easily grown. It has
been the past three years more GER
tain bearer than the apple, is less af-
fected by insects, and has no disease
excepting blight, which may be kept
in check by cutting away the affected
parts" The Caltiuator is correct in its
supposition that the pear will supersede
the apple, but that the blight can be
kept in check by cutting away the af-
fected parts is not indorsed by leading
fruit growers.
Herbs for medicinal purposes are not
extensively cultivated in this country,
but in England there is large farm de-
voted entirely to the growing of herbs
Among the plants grown are roses,
violets, lavender, peppermint and other
perfumery kinds. Licorice, chamomile,
white-fowered poppy, lovage and other
herbs used for colds and tonics receive
attention, while the deadly nightshade,
henbane and gypsum weed also flourish.
Here are grown the sweet and bitter,
fragrant and fetid, wholesome and
deadly, beautiful and repulsive, all upon
the same soil.
A comparison between English and
American agricultural statistics may
not be uninteresting: England has this
year under wheat 2,6OO,0O acres, Amer
lea has over 100000; 2,965, 900 acres
under oats against about 10000, 900 in
America; 100000 under barley, which
is about the acreage in this country.
America has s4,OO0.OO0 Under corn. Eng
land, of course, does not grow corn.
Great Britain has but about 6,0O00O
head OF cattle, against 100000 in
America; it has about 25,00O,O0O sheep
and lambs, against about 100000 in
America.-Spirit Of the Farm.