The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-06-24

A WIS NOuoIA uh't VI tuC IAdShilulC VI
the trade. The statement has re-
ference only to the peach crop of the
Delaware Peninsula. The Whining
ton, Del, Every Evening has obtain
ed the information from the various
transportation lines doing business
there, which shows in detail the
amount of the peach shipment of the
past season. The number of baskets
carried to market by these lines was
3,603,705. The quantity consumed
for canning, driving and evaporating
and for home use is estimated at from
1000. 900 or l 5000 baskets, MAX
ing total crop of about 5,000,090
baskets!
When it is considered that this is
only the estimate of one kind of fruit,
and the production of small section
of the country. we may Judge of the
vast amounts realized from the sale of
the entire fruit crop of the whole
country.
NEW VARIETIES OF WHEAT.
Part OF the excellent prospect for
the coming crop is due to the introduc.
ton of new varieties which have the
merit of hardness. Wheat was less
injured by the winter than usual; but
in looking at some fields of Egyptian
red ami mediterranean hybrid several
days ago | was surprised at the even
ness of the stand. Despite the good
prospect there is much patchy wheat
where either the fertilizer did not
distribute evenly or where the snow
was blown off more in some places
than In others. Of the new varieties
| have named the plants appear uni
formly vigorous. This may in part
be owing to the fact that two or three
years ago these varieties sold for so
high prices that especial care was
taken in sowing thinly and cultivat-
ing, so as to cause the plants to tlller
more. With wheat selling, as these
did, at SO a bushel by the quantity
and as high as Is pound in small
lots, it became an object to produce
as many plants as possible. Wheat
thus treated for a number OF years
inherits tendency to vigorous
growth, which remains in force for
two or three crops grown with Ordiu-
ary treatment. 1t may cost too
much to grow entire crops in this
manner, but enough should be pro-
duced every year in this way to fur
nish needed seed. have often
wondered what would be the effect ON
our corn crop if we planted the nub-
bins grown by sowing as We SOW or
drill wheat, oats and barley. Corn
is in fact the only grain in which
farmers select the seed in the ear,
and it is also the only one where sue
cessive crops have long been grown
without deterioration. Some of the
old varieties in careful hands are
really more productive, with good
soil and favorable seasons, than they
were when they first came under
cultivation. But of wheat there is
not kind grown that was common
here forty years ago. Even the
Clawson is less hardy than formly,
and as the millers object to its -four.
it must give place to new and better
varieties. Country Gentleman.
MINOR MENTION.
Feed the little chicks often--fve
times a day will not be too often-with
hard boiled eggs, bread crumbs, boiled
potatoes, little scraps of meat. Sup
ply them with fresh water twice a
day, Ali this if you want fine healthy
birds.
In growing food for poultry it
should be borne In mind that corn,
wheat, and oats can always be pur-
chased, and it is best, therefore, to
grow sorghum. broom corn, pop corn,
millet, and sunfowers for seed. which
afford variety.
j. Case of Allison, Decatur
county, Kas., has been experimenting
with rye as continuous pasture.
He says with constant grazing the
plant can be kept back from ripening
into grain, and that 1t makes the best
kind of grazing
This Is g ,od way to purify sink.
To one pound of common cOpperas,
that can be bought for a few cents
pound, put one gallon of boiling water
and when dissolved pour the liquid
into the sink or draiu, or wherever
required. 1t must he remembered
that copperas is poisonous.
A good bOrax solution for washing
and making hard water soft, the fol-
lowing One and a quarter pounds
of super-carbonate soda. Quarter
pound of borax. Dissolve in one
gallon of boiling water; when cold
add three ounces of ammonia. For