The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-05-19
FACTS FOE FARNdrRs.

The Deyons make the best oxen 10
farm work, being quick, strong aud intel
tligent.
The Wilson strawberry still holds III
own as one OF the best for shipment e
longAdistanees. New varieties have moi
displaced 1t as yet.
| Agood wheei.hoc is rs much superior
to the common hoe for cultivating gar
den as Is the moving machine to the
sickle in the hay field.
A writer to BradSt Gets asserts that after
thirty-fye years experience In Iowa he
has never known mortgage foreclosed on
adairy or stock farm.
Itrequires,on an average, twelve quarts
OF milk 10 produce one quart Of cream,
while the average for butter Is about fl
teen ounces from each quart Of cream.
Il is said that our improved grapes do
not thrive inthe Southern States border
ing on the Gulf, bat this is compensated
for by the prolific bearing OF the Supper
nong.
Alta recent meeting OF Maryland far.
mers the general opinion was in favor Of
Northern.grown seed potatoes as better
huhPteu W tuht IhL4tuue tlaA aVLus'6tohA
ones.
Afarmer in Salem county, MI, last
season raised eighty-three tons Of toma-
toes on six acres OF land. The crop was
sold to the canning establishment for 81
| per ton.
Current and gooseberry bushes should
be pruned every year. II they arc pruned
In tree form they will bear larger and
finer fruit, and the latter will not be so
apt to mildew.
Plants require various kinds OF mineral
matter, and derive them entirely from the
soil, but different plants require different
proportions in order to have luxuriant
growth.
Some idea Of tho poultry interest Of
England canbe obtained from the. fact that
ut the recent Birmingham (England) fat
stock show there were 1876 entries Of
Of different varieties Of poultry.
The Southern fruit and vegetable ship
pers are much exercised over the very
late season confronting them, as it pre-.
diets very short and Improbable inter.
val for reaching the Northern markets.
tits claimed by some fruitgrowers that
alternate rows OF pine and fruit trees pre-.
vent the moth and other destructive in
sects to fruit. The strong odor from the
Ipineisobnoxious toinsects.of certain kinds.
To syringe plants infested with the black
aphfs with water at 9 Temperature Of 1902
will kill the aphis aud at the same time
help the iplants into growing finely.
The application may need 10 be several
times repeated.
Early lambs are the most profitable. a
cross OF Gottswold and Southdown lately
produced lamb that dressed twenty-iour
pounds at two months old, which sold for
twenty-five cents pound, or total sum
Of S. 90.
Bran is highly recommended by several
intelligent FARMERS as manure for pota-
toes. Waldo +. Brown considers itcheap
for the purpose at Sl5 per ton. Damaged
bran, which Is Just as good as the best,
can often be bought for s. per ton.
Those who have had an opportunity TO
test the different fertilizers are, as rule,
opposed to tue application OF large guam
titles Of fresh stable manure, especially to
the pear orchard, but II EhGh manure Is TO
be applied it should be applied in the
autumn.
In heading back.budded trees the bare
wood above the bud will sometimes dry,
SO as to prevent, the wound from healing
over unless 1t is covered with cement q
some kind. Gum shelac dissolved in alco-
hol, and applied with brush will he
found excellent.
An Ohio correspondent says that in'his
experience plants waterea with warm
water will make q far more vigorous
growth than those given cold water, other
conditions being the same. Watera few
degrees warmer than the temperature
seems to be the best.