River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-07
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Agricultural Items.


Illinois has 4l2 butter and cheese fac
tories, most of them in the northern
/ CO unties.
An acre of celery supplied the Boston
market fifty years ago; now there are 30
acres raised annually within ten miles of
the city, and this season inportations
were made from New York, Michigan
and Prince Edward Island.
Mr.. William Gardham tells the Canaan
News that he finds his domestic animals
afford an excellent market for surplus
apples-including forty young turkeys
and plenty ofchickens. the latter taking
so many as bushel 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 contain
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 ]. Scot, Bridgewater, n. Y,
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 a
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 husbandman: Set out young
\ plants, about foot high, in the spring.
| Mulch them for year or two, and
plough IN some coarse horse manure oc-
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 a horse. They
should be set at least seven feet apart
each way, as they spread considerably
when full grown. 1t 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 "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 il
| does better. Where can we find anoth-
er that has stood so long, AMI won Sc
many battles, and to- day, after test oil
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 I. Powell, Client. N. Y, at
recent 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 economizine
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
| ''ssnd, gravel and stones" He has
| shown his faith by putting up concrete
| barn with walls twenty-four feet high, in
closing space sixty-five by seventy feet
The old notion that any soil is good
enough to raise beans, is mistaken
one. In planning tor next seasons CROP
it win pay you to select one of your best
pieces of ground for beans, and see thai
1t is put in prime condition. While they
will exist in 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 mos
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 30 per cent
| by spring. That is 100 bushels viii
shrink to 20 to 80. according to how dry
it was when gathered. Sound corn viii
shrink 20 per cent, so that 40 cents pei
bushel as it comes from the field is a:
good as so cents in the spring.