The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-04-24
FARMERS' COLUMN.
Agricultural Items.

Agricultural Items.
Maine has forty-nine cheese factories,
with an average of 10Y COWS to each, 60
being the lowest and 500 the highest
number. The total product of these
factories during the last year was 5S6, 1874
pounds OF cheese, the average price re.
ceived being twelve and half cents per
pound.
A telegram from Findlay, O., says:
IAN old man who owned three farms
was induced by his wife and children to
deed the property to them, after which
they colby kicked the old man out of
doors, and yesterday lie was taken to
the County Intirmary."
Potatoes may planted for fiat cult
walton the same as for hillingu up. Three
inches in clayey soil-four in sandy, are
deep enough.
If you want strawberries. y u must
not disturb the plants or the roots this
Spring: Wait until the fruit is gather
cd. Mulch them as much as you like.
The agricultural editor of the New
England Farmer, in giving up his dairy
farm, which he has run for ten years,
says he has proved that an acre of good
land wi ] easily grow the fodder for a
cow, and that a % acre farm, of ordinary
quality Of soil, can carry a team and
dairy animals old and young equal to an
animal to the acre. year after year, pro-
yided plenty Of labor Is judciOusly ap-
piled to the soil. On this farm has been
made annually 3,OM pounds of butter,
put up in quarter pound prints, and SELL
ing at from 80 to 20 cents, Wholesale;
present price, 65 cents.
A mixture Of hen manure, wood ashes
and plaster is excellent or corn. Spread
the poultry manure on floor and beat
it fine with the back of a shovel, break.
ing all humps. Then spre d the plaster
evenly over it, and :hen spread the ashes
over the plaster. Take rake and mix
evenly and thoroughly. The manure
should be dry and should not be mixed
until needed for use.
A farmer who has used barn cellar
for thirty-seven years, says in the New
England Farmer, that he would not
undertake to farm without one, and
adds: II consider the manure to be
nearly twice as strong as that thrown out
in heaps against the side Ut the barn ia
the ol way" Any other mans verdict
will be much the same who takes proper
care of such cellar by using absorben,e
to Elk" the gases.
The beet il one of the best of the ear
~ vegetables, and should be founl in
the gardens of farmers every where. The
cultivation of bects is simple matter.
They require, in order to give the best
results, only land, thorough tillage and
absolute freedom from weeds. Sow as
early in the spring as the ground can be
got in good working order. Make the
rows fifteen inches apart, and drop the
seed all inch apart in the row. Ii sown
very early, anu especially il the soil is
heavy and cold, it's very desirable to
SOW the seed thickly, say half All inch
apart. Thin the plants before they
be Zin to crowd each other, letting the
plants stand from three to five inches
apart in the row.
Planting time is at hand again; there.
fore decide upon the trees and shrubs
you wish to get, and make preparations
for them. If there is good nursery
near you, get yourshrubbery there. Be-
cause it is small nursery is no reason
why its stock may not be as good as
what you could htain from large nur-
sery. Or, failing that, &c nd to some
other nurseryman whom Y on know to
be reliable. All nursery agents are not
rascals BY any means, but, where practi-
cable, it is often the safest plan to deal
directly with the nurserymen.
A correspondent of the New York
Times writes as follows concerning
gapts in chickens: IL have lost many
chickens by the gapes-sometimes a
whole brood. Last year e hen came of
with nice brood Of chickens, and at
two or three weeks old one began tc
cape and died. l thought l would try
something new. Having some oil and
tar in vial, took feather, and after
putting it into the tar ran it down the
chickens throat. The next morning
the chicken was we'll. In a couple OF
days another Was taken, and l served
that the same; the next day that was
well. In short time third one began
to cape, and it also was cured. l won't
say it will cure all; l will say it cured
mine."