Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-20
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FARM NOTES.

Tie Devone make the best oxen for farm
work, being quick, strong and intelligent.
The Wilson strawberry still holds its own
as one Of the best for shipment to long dis.
tances. New varieties have not displaced
it as yet.
A good wheelhoe is as much superior to
the common hoe for eulti1sting q garden
as Is the moving machine to the sickle in
the hay field.
A writer in Bradstreets asserts that after
thirty-6ve years appearance in Iowa he has
never known q mortgage torecloSed on
dairy or stock farm.
1t requires, on an average, twelve quarts
OF milk to produce one quart OF cream,
while the average for butter is about If
teen ounces from each quart of cream.
1t is said that our improved grapes do not
thrive in the Southern States bordering on
the Gull, but this is compensated for by the
prolific bearings of the scuppernong.
At q recent meeting Of Maryland farm
ers the general opinion was in favor Of
Northern grown seed potatoes as better
adapted to that latitude than homegrown
ones.
A farmer in Salem county, n. j., last
season raised eighty-three tons of tomatoes
on six acres of land. The crop was sold to
the canning establishment for 81 per ton.
Current aid gooseberry bushes should be
pruned every year. If they are pruned in
tree form they will bear larger and finer
fruit, and the latter viii not be so apt to mil
dew.
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 the poultry interest of Eng
land can be obtained from the fact that at
the recent Birmingham (England) fat stock
show there were 1916 entries of different
varieties ofpoultry.
The Southern fruit and vegetable ship
pers are much exercised over the very late
season confronting them, as it predicts a
very short and Improbable interval for
reaching the Northern markets
II is claimed by some fruit-growers that
alternate rows OF pine and fruit trees pre-.
vent the moth and other destructive insects
to fruit. The strong odor from the pine is
obnoxious to insects Of certain kinds.
To syringe plants infested with the black
aphis with water at temperature of 1892
will kill the aphis and at the same time help
the plants into growing finely. The ap.
piCation may need to be several times re,
peated.
Early lsmbs are the most profitable. A
cross Of the Cotswold and Southdown lately
produced lamb that dressed twenty,four
pounds at two months old, which sold for
twenty-five cents pound, or a total sum Of
$5.2S.
Bran is highly recommended ~ several
intelligent farmers as a manure for pots-
toes. Waldo f. Brown considers it cheap
for this purpose at SIS 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 a rule,
opposed to the application Of large quaint.
ties Of fresh stable manure, especially to the
pear orchard, but if such 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 it is covered with cement Of some
kind. Gum shelac dissolved in alcohol,
aud applied with brush, will be found ex.
cellent.
An Ohio correspondent says that in his
experience plants watered with warm water
will make far more vigorous growth than
those given cold water, other conditions
being the same Water few degrees warm
er than the temperature seems to be the
best