The Dickinson press., 1884-02-09
FIELD AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farming Notes,

FIELD AMI HOUSEHOLD.
Farming Notes.
Mrs. Hayes poultry yard at Fremont
is said to be the best in Ohio.
The abolition by the Patrons of Hus-
bandry of "Grange No. 49," of Boston,
with which the Commissioner of Agri.
culture was connected, is characterized
by The Maine Farmer az "a triumph Of
principles"
Mr.. Robert Burch, Fairport, N. Y,
buys manure largely, we learn from The
Midland Farmer; keeps three assistants;
cullivates on the extensive system, and
gets an v e:age annual return of $1,000
from his twenty-seven acres, mostly de-
voted to cabbage and onions.
A correspondent of The American
Stockman THINKS very we'll indeed of
the pretty jerseys but suspects that the
elite are rather OVERRIDING the boom to
the injury of the breed, and suggests
that the u lowing course may become de.
sirable. "If things go on in this direction,
gathering volume as they go, it will be a
question if it would not pay Jersey
breeders who understand their business,
to buy all the Jersey stock of the insur-
ance men, dry goods merchants, doctors,
lawyers and the kid glove gentry in gen.
eeral, and hire them to keep out of the
business"
The country is suffering from a ire
mendous overstock of o gsupply. Five
per cent. of the CANNES in the United
States could do all the business.
1t is estimated that there are now in
the United States Is, 200. 1000 mich COWS.
that there are made annually l,300,-
100000 pounds of butter and $50, 00O, 900
pounds of cheese.
Attention of drivers is invited by The
National Stockmen tn a horse fact worth
remembering, especially in spring:
Don't think your horse in best condi-
ton to endure a longtrip ora hard drive
because he has stood in stable Tor weeks
and done nothing. If there is ever a
time that he is soft it is after long idle
spell, but many u%nthinking men do not
realize this, and horses of standing and
staying qualities are often injured by be-
ing brought too suddenly from idleness.
DR.. G. n. Fernald, State College, Or.
onto, Me-, finds ga vast amount ofamuse-
ment and instruction." in observation of
insects. Here is an example, from Home
Farm: "Under another jar I put a fam
lily of grasshoppers. and the amount of
grass those gourmands ate WAS some
thing marvellous. II was interesting,
legged savages stand up ON four hind
legs and hold q blade of grass in his two
fore legs and chew away on 1t till it was
all deyoured."
fr. F. M. Hexamer mentions two in
stances Of this increasing danger which
RECENTLY came under his personal obser-
Walton. In one c,se, canned peaches,e eat
en- by a strong, healthy boy, produced
v pain, vomiting and diarrhea;
in the other, canned beans poisoned an
entire family, a nursing baby even being
affected through its mothers milk. The
symptoms we're exactly those of poison
ing rom some zinc or copper salts, and
serious results might have followed but
for the timely assistance of a physician"
Mr.. Adam Hood, Markham, Canada,
has according to the Toronto Globe,
practised for two years a successful plan
for saving turnip plants: "The
scout turnip is first sown in drills,
auO Iueu Cuo WnlLo tufnlp5 are
sown broadcast between. The latter
comes up first and is relished best by
the flies, and by the time the white
turnip is eaten the scout. has become
too tough to be relished bv it's insect
enemy, and so escapes with compare
lively little injury"
Mr.. Joseph Harris decribes his econ
omical culture of carrots, by which he
raised q satisfactory crop with no more
outlay of labor than is required for
potatoes; 1.-The plants came up thick
from seeds sowed in rows twenty-one
inches apart; the cultivator was run
ming within an inch of the plants, which
kept down the weeds, and the carrots
grew with astonishing rapidity. But
they must be thinned, or the crop
would be worthless, so the men Went
through the patch with hoes and cut
spaces. clear across, the width of the
hoe, leaving lunches of four or ten
young carrots. The cultivator was kept
going, and after harvest the weeds
which escaped were cut out by hand
The roots we're diverse in size, but the
whole crop was larger than where regu-
larly thinned."