The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-07
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Agricultural items. !

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Agricultural Itsms. -.
Illiioie has zt2 butter and elissse "a.
tories, most Of. them in the northern
An acre of celery supplied the Boston
market fifty years ago; now there are so
acres raised annually within ten miles Of
the city; and this season inspirations
were made from New York; Michigan
and Prince Edward Island.
MIR. William Gardham tells the Canaan
News that he finds his domestic animals
afford an excellent, market for surplus
apples-including "torty young turk keys
and plenty of chickens." the latter taking
SO many as bushel q day. He prepares
the fruit for their use by "merely mash.
ing with the foot"
The recent outbreak Of diphtheria in
Canterbury, Eng, compelled belated at
tention to the polluted wells of the in
fected districts. The water Of nearly
sixty of them was found to be "contam-
mated with sewage and swarming with
living or2anisms." With the wise. hind
sight which locks the stable door after
The steed is stolen, these pest holes
have now been ordered closed.
MIR: W j. Scott, Bridgewarer, n. ";
about fifteen years ago transplanted
huckleberry bushes ''of both the high
and the low kinds" from acold wet
swamp to "dry grave,ly soil-good corn
land" They grow tall, better than in
their native spot; t'the berries are a
great deal larger and produced by the
bushel a good part of the season." His
suggestions to others who may like to
try this Unique fruit culture We except
plants, about foot high, in the spring.
Mulch them for d year or two, and
plough IN some coarse horse manure &C.
casionally. They are slow to start, but
after they are started they grow rapidly,
both in bush and berry. The bushes
may be cultivated with horse. They
should be set at least seven feet apart
each way, as they spread considerably
when full grown. It is well to set three
or four bushels to each hill.
President II. E. Mckay, of the Mis-.
sissippi Horticultural Society, after try
ing in his grounds, during ten years,
about forty of the newest varieties of
greatest promise, celebrate the Wilson
in his recent Annual Address as t'fur-
nishing nearly or quite three-fourths of
all the strawberries consumed in the
United States: ''The great facility
with which it adapts itself to ATTITUDES,
soils and seasons in wonderful. What
ever other varieties do well, as rule it
does better. Where can we find anoth-
or that has stood 80 long, and won so
many battles, and o-day, after test Of
nearly thirty years with the whole list of
new and old, stands grandly and far in
the lead of all? No parallel like it can
be found in q single variety in any other
department of fruit growing"
Mr.. Geeoge T. Powell, Client. N. Y, at
arecent meeting of the Columbia County
Farmers Club, of which he is president,
remarked on the increased cost of tim
ber-an expensive building material at
best-and the necessity Of economizing
its use; and he suggested that there are
several obvious advantages in utilizing
for country houses and other structures
the cheap and abundant material which
in most cases is within easy reach
'tssnd, gravel and stones" He has
shown his faith by putting up concrete
closing space sixty-dve by seventy.feet.
The old notion that any soil is good
enough to raise beans, is a mistaken
one. In planning tor next seasons crop
it will pay you to select one of your best
pieces of ground for beans, and see that
it is put in prime condition. While they
will exist in a poor soil they will only
do their best in rich one. Given a
good rich soil and good cultivation.
beans will usually prove one of the most
profitable crops on the farm.
Corn will shrink from the time it is
husked from the field or shock, in we'll
protected cribs, from 20 to 80 per cent.
by spring. That is 100 bushels will
shrink to 70 to 80. according to how dry
it was when gathered. Sound corn will
shrink 20 per cent, SO that 40 cents per
bushel as it comes from the field is as
good as 30 cents in the spring.