The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-08-30
FOR THE FARMER.


Thorough culture will help growing
crops to withstand drouths,
A combination Of Minnesota farmers
has built eleven grain elevators.
More new vineyards are being plant
cd in Western New York than ever
before.
The annual yield Of one Of Cali
fornia's big grape vines is over thrco
tons of grapes.
England produces less than half tho
vegetable produce consumed within her
borders.
An English authority says an aero
Of roots judiciously used has greater
feeding value than the onsilagc that
can be made from the same ground.
In France every school has its garden,
and teachers are required to pass an
examination in regard to their knowl-
edge Of such subjects before they can
qualify,
Oats fed frequently to hungry chick
ems are apt to kill them. The fowls
eat too large quantities at once, tho
btlAN 0NNll III bllO 'lNII, hlu viz pun ~
OF the oats penetrating the crop induce
inflammation, ending in death.
In Japan there are silk-worms that
subsst on the leaves of the oak As
they can not withstand any great
change Of temperature, they are un-
fitted for our climate, Attempts arc
being made to accimato them in Italy.
An experimenting farmer says tho
most critical period with corn is when
tho seed is maturing or filing and it
is then that the roots should have APP
propriatc matter within reach, for tho
nourshment of the crop. A little
fertilizer when the corn is in tassel
gives it new life, and the increase in
the yield pays well for the extra care.
In spite of the protests of many of
her best thinkers and writers-says
OU country H0mG-Groat Britain
shows tendency TO become land Of
grazicrs instead Of cultivators Tho
returns show that in 1888, as compared
with 1882, there was falling off in
area devoted to grain and root crops of
PA, 7O5 acres. The total decrease in
wheat acreage was 800, 600 acres, but
there was an increase in barley and
oats Permanent pastures increased
by 2i3, 200 acres. 1t is an accepted
fact, however, that dairyng, poultry
keeping and gardening are on the
increase, especially in Central and
Southern England, but we have not the
figures.
Professor Dabnoy, the State Chemist
of North Carolina, says, regarding
what crops take out of the soil, that
100 bushels OF wheat contain 46
pounds of phosphoric acid, 80 pounds
of potash and l25 pounds of nitrogen;
100 bushels of corn contain 80 pounds
of phosphoric acid, 80 pounds of potash
and 90 pounds of nitrogen; 1000
pounds of tobacco contain 7 pounds of
phoSphoric acid and "a pounds of pot
ash. The 100000 600 bushels of wheat
produced in this country in 1890 con-
tain |, 1000, 900 phOsphoriC acid 72O, 600
tons of potash, :, 800, 900 tons of nitro
gen, these quantities being ten times
rs great rs those contained in all the
manures used on all the crops in the
United States that year.
No time on the farm is better spent,
says the Massachusetts H0HghHldil, than
that of thoroughly destroying all weeds
before they ripen any seeds; to do this
two or three years lessons the labor of
cultivation at least one-half, and ut tho
same time very much increases the
product of the garden or field. Some
farmers say that, as the manure is full
of weed seeds, it but little use to try
to get rid of weeds in the garden; but
they forget that it is very much their
own fault that weed seeds get into the
manure. If every farmer would mako
it part of his business to see to it that
no weeds 90 to seed under the fences,
and around the cultivated fields and
compost heap, it would be but few
wears before he would find his manure
quite free from weed seeds. 'Khe labor
of moving around the plowed land and
fences, before the weeds are old enough
TO seed is not half the labor that would
be required to destroy the weeds that
would come from the seeds, if per-
mitted to stand to ripen their seed.
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