Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-08
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| Agricultural Items.
Illinois has 4l2 butter and cheese fac
tories. most Of them In the northern
counties. NJ q Il ny B .s
An acre Of celery supplied the Boston
market fifty years ago; now there are %
acres raised annually within ten miles at
the city, and this season itnportatlons
were made from New York, Michigan
and Prince Edward Island.
Mr.. William Gard ham tells the Canaan
News that he finds bis domestic animals
afford an excellent market for surplus
apples--including "forty young turkeys
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" .<.: 49,,
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 "contan-
mated with sewage and swarming with
living organisms. =, With the wise hind
sight which locks the stable door after
the steed is stolen, these pest'holes
have now been ordered closed. =,
Mr.. W J.. Scott, Bridgewater, N. "
about fifteen years ago transplanted
huckleberry bushes "of both the high
and the low kinds" from cold wet
swamp to ''dry graveily soil--good corn
land" They grow tall, better than, in
their native spot; ''the berries are
great deal larger and produced by the
bushel % good part Of the season" His
suggestions to others who may like to-
try this unique fruit culture we except
from the husbanuman: Set out young
plants, about a foot high, in the spring.
Mulch them for a 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 Fl. 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 "{ur~
nishing nearly or quite three-fourths of
all the strawberries consumed in the
Unite,i 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 en- we find anoth-
er that has stood SO llEg, and won 50
many battles, and to- 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 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
it's 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
s'sand, gravel and stones" He has
shown his faith by putting up concrete
barn with walls twenty. four feet high, in
closing space sixty-fve by seventy feet.
The old notion that any soil is good
enough to raise beans, is g. 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 thew
will exist in poor soil they will only
do their best in a rich one. Given
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 10 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 50 cents in the spring.