Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
FARM AND GARDEN.

Of boneless beef.
The wheat yield of India only aver
ages nine bushels to the acre.
A thousand tons of wheat was re-
Gently shipped from San Francisco to
New Orleans, thence to Liverpool.
The farmer who lets everything 60
to waste about him will generally be
one who complains that farming
don't pay"
European experiments with sugar
in breeding animals indicate that it
promotes barrenness, while salt has
the reversed effect.
A small ear of corn can carry more
grain than II large one. 1t is the
length of the grain from tip to dent
that makes the quantity.
The foreign cattle trade is risky
and uncertain, prices varying greatly
within short periods, but it grows in
spite of its uncertainties.
There are 5000, 900 land owners in
France, the average size of the farms
being ten acres. The best land is
worth S4OO per acre, The best vine
yards are worth 5000 per acre.
Hampshircdown ewes are said to be
remarkable for bringing twins. Some
times as high as twenty per cent
more are raised than there are ewes
that is l20 lambs to 100 ewes.
1t is calculated that the southern
states, owing to the fine crops there,
will reduce their purchases of food
stuff this year from $l75,000,OOO or
5000, 10000 to less than 1925, 100000.
1t is poor economy to neglect max.
ing the most manure out of what
grows on the farm. Vegetable ma
nures never fail to fertilize the soil
and add to the enlargement of crops.
Grain and hay are sometimes worth
more to feed to cattle for tattening
purposes than to sell at the market
rates. The judicious farmer will be
on the lookout to see when this can be
done.
Every month is a harvest season for
some section of the world, though the
harvest does not always consist of hay
or grain. There is fruit harvest as
well as wheat harvest, and haryests
also of other products.
The black knot in plum trees, like
the yellows in the peach, demands in
stant attention. The knife is the only
remedy; prompt and thorough re-
moval of all affected wood is the only
means of saving the tree.
Professor Budd, of the Iowa Agricul-
tural College, says the peach is sue
cessfully grown in Northern China,
and he expects to find that the variety
grown there will withstand the hardest
winters of Illinois and Iowa.
Wool growers in the Pawnec valley,
Kansas, says western paper, and
continguous regions are talking about
establishing central wool house,
where their wool may he gathered and
stored for shipment in bulk.
The state of New York has 24l, ,050
farms of over twenty acres each, while
all New England has but POI, 232 farms
of twenty acres and over. Only two
other states have a larger number
Ohio has 247, lS9 and Illinois has
2jj, ,741.
According to Professor Thompson,
of the Nebraska Agricultural College,
grass fed hogs are less liable to dis
ease than those fed on grain exclusive
ly. Cleanliness is an aid, always, to
ward off disease, whether it relates to
animals or mer.
Stephen Powers argues in the COun-
try Gentleman that small iloeks of
sheep pay relatively better than large
ones because they are privileged
characters by which he means that
they receive vastly more care and at
tention than larger flocks.
The low price of wheat this season
is inducing the wheat growers of Da-
kota and Minnesota to look about for
n more remunerative crop to replace
it. Flax will probably be more largely
cultivated, as the success of that crop
has so far been quite marked
A Texas exchange states, with a
good deal of satisfaction, that buyers
hunting cheap sheep are not finding
the success anticipated. Sheep owners
are not giving away sheep and a
half-grown fleece just now. A change
is good in this respect.
The Lancaster pa hteHigencer says
that the largest, best kept and best
stocked carp ponds in the country are
near that city, under the management
of the Lancaster Piscatorial company.
Some of the carp in these ponds are
twenty-seven inches long and weigh
from six to seven pounds.
An Indiana dairyman covers the COW
with horse blanket or sheet while
milking, thus preventing the annoy
ance of flies and adding greatly to the
comfort of the COW, which is otherwise
continually engaged in battle with the
insect world. II a horse blanket is
used it should be clean one.
When horse refuses to eat, he
should not be made to do any more
service that day, for it may be known
that he is tired out or sick. 1t is bar.
bgrous to compel horse to perform
labor when in such q condition that he
refuses grain, yet it is often done, and
by men too, who think they are merci-
ful.
Unruly stock is almost always hun
CRY stock, and hungry, half-starved
animals are justified in jumping fences
to find meal. 1t is not creditable to