Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-10-30

country about $4,000 registered Jer
seys.
Flax is a South Dakota crop. The
high price at which it was marketed
last year caused a large increase il
the acreage this year.
Now is the most favorable time il
the year for collecting all sorts of veg
etable refuse and muck for winter use
in yards and stables.
The secretary of the American Carr
Culture association states that 25,00t
persons in this country are now engag
ed in the culture of carp.
Common earth is a good deodorizer
and only those who live in crowded
cities have any use for chloriles car
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corn field, except in cases of the vel
low flint and sweet corn, as the suck.
ers In these varieties produce ears.
The second annual meeting of the
National Convention of Stockmen will
be held at the Grand Pacific Hotel in
Chicago, on November 13 and IA.
During the past seven months Chi
cago packers have slaughtered and
salted 100000 hogs, against /, ,535, 900
for the corresponding period year
ago.
The first point to be learned in sue
cessiui stock raising is, never to allow
an animal to lose a pound of flesh
This is equivalent to throwing two
pounds away.
For removing the seed from broom
corn, take a board and make comb
OF it by saving into one end of it to
make the teeth, which should be sharp
ened at the ends.
The domestic supply of wool of the
United States for the year 1884 is esti.
mated at about 33o;0OO,0OO pounds.
This is an increase of about 10000, 900
pounds over 1888.
The yield of onions, this season.
throughout Massachusetts ranges from
800 to 7CO bushels per acre. In some
localities in New York the Weld was
1000 bushels per acre.
Whole oats, wheat, bran and corn
meal forms an excellent ration for
young stock. The health and com
plete and symmetrical growth of
the body are the best secured by feed
ing variety of grain.
Corn gives strength to the horse.
Therefore, where his work continues
the same, give little more corn as
the weather becomes cold. But if the
work falls of, as in winter, the feed of
corn may be decreased.
Sixty-eight per cent of tho u ,OOO.-
900 bushels Of buckwheat grown in
the United States is grown in New
York and Pennsylvania. Buckwheat
does not do well on prairie soil, pre-
ferring light and thin land.
Late corn that may not ripen be-
fore frost should be cut up and fed in
bulk. All kinds of stock are fond of
it, and will fatten rapidly on it. For
early pork and the feeding of milch
COWS it is particularly valuable.
Professor Arnold states that it costs
more to make milk from old cows than
1t does from young ones, having the
same milk capacity. As a rule, the
best effects do, not last beyond the
eighth year of the cows age.
Peach and plum stones, if kept in A
cellar during the winter, must-be ex-
posed to freezing before spring. The
best way is to spread them on a bed,
and cover them with few inches of
earth or tanbark and allow them to
remain out all winter.
The Mississippi Valley produces
lS5, 900 tons of cotton seed, one fourth
Of which is marketed in Memphis,
much of it being shipped in a crude
state from that point to Italy, whence
t is returned to this country in the
shape of ''pure olive OIL"
A Wisconsin farmer claims to have
'ound sure cure for potato bugs. His
plan is to plant one or two flax seeds
n each hill of potatoes. He saws that
he bugs will shun it every time, and
or ten years he has thus been success
III in growing potatoes while others
lave failed.
The approximate number of sheen
n the world is set down at 415, 200, 900.
ms does not include large number
II sheep in the Asiatic ana some of the
Worth African countries as well as
lpon certain of the more important d,
Stands of which no enumeration has g.,
'een attempted.
Every fall there is a great deal of
efuse gathered around the fields
ihich should be piled up and burned.
luch OF it will consist Of weeds whose c
nal cutting has not entirely prevent- q
d seeding. II left till spring, these i
eeds will fall to the ground, and 1
urning the refuse then will miss one of a
s important objects. G
Teach young horse three things:
o know that you are his kind master, q
be guided by the motion of your Il
and, and to obey the word "whoa,n S
nd his further education can be con- t
ucted at your leisure. But tho most "
nportant of all lessons is to obey the A
ord whoa" In case of an accident v
danger it is the one important safe. Ii
uard; and in all driving and getting
and out, it is special comfort and
A correspondent says that the man d
ho expects to raise frst-class colts h
ON ordinary meadow grass will be
llsled. Old pasture will furnish good p
ntrition, so will an upland prairie
'nge, for the grasses are various. II o.
le mare is to be worked, it should s
lly be light, slow labor. 1t is bet
r to work the mare before foalino G,
IAN after, and a liberal daily feed Of
ITS during the sucking season will
II in enhanced value to the colt. th