The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-27
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

The Concord grape is said to have orig
mated as one out OF total Of $1,000
seedlings.
The number OF cattle on the plains is
estimated to be over 10, 100000, OF value
Of $l,l9O.0OO,OOO,
Flax raising has become one OF the
leading industries in Minnesota, l26,S45
acres having been devoted to this purpose
last year.
Butter tubs should be thoroughly
cleansed and then soaked in brine before
packing down butter in them, which will
materially assist in preventing the. butter
from being tainted.
An unnamed disease has decimated the
apiaries in the West the past season. The
bees have shiny, black appearance, and,
though unhealthy, in other respects do
not differ from those that are well.
A few years ago grain growing was the
main reliance OF the Iowa farmers, but
they are gradually drifting into dairying,
experience having convinced them that L
Is much more profitable than grain grow
ing. H alr-
California has, according to official re-
turns, l20,932 acres planted in grapes. In
1884 the grapes sold for market were 81.
976, 227 pounds. In the same year IA ,9S7
boxes OF raisins were made, and Il, 1856, 6l2
gallons Of wine. ....
In testing goats for milking purposes a
London society found the best to be a kind
known as the Maltese. They gave from
three to four quarts Of milk per day, and
were able to subsiSt on the scantiest Of
heritage.
Friesian dairymen never allow COW
even to see her newborn calf, much less
to lick and caress It. The COW is confined
to stall and watched, and the moment
the calf is dropped 1t is wholly removed
from her sight. ...
Grows will eat grasshoppers," says
Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay; ~ observed that
they avoided all the places where l had
spread corn and were busy eating grass
hoppers. ! write this in their behalf.
Spare the crows" #...
1t is said that in packing apples for
shipment the fruit should be filled two
inches higher than the head Of the barrel,
80 that when pressed down 1t will not
shake by rough handling in the cars or in
being delivered.
Sod is an excellent protection to an or.
chard in winter, and should not be plowed
under in the fall unless through necessity.
When plowed in the fall q coating Of man.
ure, which has been well decomposed,
should be applied as q mulch.
Sheep husbandry 10 steadily declining
in France, the present number Of sheep
and lambs being lees by II 100000. Nut
ton is imported from Germany, Algeria
and Eastern Europe, and sells 20 percent
higher than beef.
Hogs differ as much as other animals
do in their ability TO take on fat. Thirty
young hogs Of the improved breeds will
gain much faster on the same amount Of
food than old and unthrifty animals that
belong to no recognized breed.
During last year bees in Ohio gathered
1881, 0s5 pounds oil honey, estimated to be
worth S276,975, while the fowls produced
81, co., 32l dozen eggs, valued at s., S90, s4S.
The value Of the eggs was nearly equal 10
that Of the wool produced in the State.
Farmers should go carefully over Their
pastures every little while and scatter the
weddings OF their stock, and not have the
fields dotted with great blotches Of rank
grass, go rank by the over-riChness OF the
manuring that no kind Of stock will eat It