Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-11-05
farmfrs' Gulumu.
Give fools their gold X knaves their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who soXvs a field or trains a flower.
Or plants a tree. is more than all.
Agricultural N Notes.


from potatoes.
The american Doiryman does not
think that coloring is an adulteration
of butter.
Great Britain will need to import
from 140,00O,O00 to 15O,O0o,00O bush
els of wheat this year.
Some of the Indians in Dakota are
said to be proving themselves rather
successful wheat growers.
France will need from 2S,O00,000 to
30,OO0,000 bushels more of wheat this
year than it has grown.
The sugar beet crop Of Europe is
estimated at 2,475, 900 tons, an increase
of about $4,000 tons over 1885.
The year 1886 has not been u good
year for making honey. The quantity
in many honey districts is not one
half as great as usual.
Out of one hundred samples of milk,
from as many milkmen, recently col
lected in Boston, 10 per cent. were
found to be adulterated.
Experiments with nearly all kinds
Of feeding materials shows that it is
cheaper to use variety than to con-
fine the animals to single kind.
The London Daily News says that
the year 1886 will stand out conspic-
uously in the horticultural annals OF
England as one Of the heaviest fruit
years ever known.
Rotten potatoes should be burned or
buried. Their manurial value is small
stock will not eat them, aud their
presence about the premises is an IN
vitation to disease.
Provided all other elements Of good
culture are cared for, it is almost i'm
possible to give, fruit trees too much
manure. Much of the trouble with
fruit trees comes from their being
half starved.
It is claimed that if an animal with
a.potato, apple or other obstruction in
the throat is made to jump over a low
bar it will remove the substance in
stantly. The remedy is a simple one
and can be easily applied.
The American cotton crop has
grown from 2,23O.OO0 bales in 1886 to
7,4S0,00O in 1886, while the total sup
ply them from other countries, which
amounted to 2,17S,O0O bales in 1866,
is no more than 2,214,000 bales in the
present year.
The egg she'll is porous, and any
filth on it very soon affects the meat.
Eggs should be cleaned as ION as
gathered if at all soiled, and those to
be put up for winter should be eggs
which have been gathered as soop as
laid. Eggs wet by rains are difficult
to keep fresh.
An English paper, the London Mark
Lane Express, publishes table giving
the prices of English wheat in London
since 1641sa period of 245 years
The highest figure was in 1912, $3O.36
per quarter, and the lowest in IA, },
$3.50 per quarter. The present price
is S7.S2 per quarter.
No time should be lost in removing
honey that the bees will not neei dur
ing winter. As soon as the proluc
tion of honey ceas.s bees begin to 60
at the surplus, removing first that
farthest from the center of the hive
If they have no available room they
will not gather honey, as there is no
place to store it.
A light frost after potatoes have
fully ripened does them little or no
harm. If potato sticks above the
surface it will be ma lie worthless; but
such a specimen has already been
spoiled by sunburning for any other
purpose than planting. Some kinds
of potatoes set more deeply in the
ground than others.
Dutch bulbs require richer food in
growing than people usually believe.
1t is true they grow in water where
there is no food, but in this case they
have to feed chiefly on the food stored
up the year before, and are completely
exhausted by the time the Towering is
done. When grown in pots the earth
can not be too highly enriched.
No better investment can be made
by those who love hardy flowers than
to give them top dressing of rotten
manure in the fall of the year. Many
persons use fresh manure for protect.
ing roses, and other half-hardy things
In this fresh condition it Contains
much salt, and many things are killed
instead of being protected by it.
While the weather continues fine
advantage should be taken of it in
storing few barrels of fine road dust
for use in the hem house during win
ter. 1t will keep the fowls free from
vermin, and be transformed in spring
into an equal bulk of rich manure
Road. dust itself on much Travelled
roads contains considerable fertilizine
material from the droppings of teams
One Of the Pillsbnrys. the grea
flour manufacturers Of Minneapolis
is seeking to encourage the use o.
wheat bran for fattening cattle. There
is considerable nourishment in bran
but little of it is fat forming. There
should be millions Of young cattle ir
Minnesota which can utilize all the
bran that Minneapolis can furnish
Mr.. Pillsbury will also find it excel
lent feed with hay for horses at work
The Department of Agriculture al
Washington isinvestigating the potato
rot; and in this work such of oul
readers as are engaged in farming are
called upon for their cooperation and
to give what information they can
that is pertinent. Col. Colman, the
Commissioner of Agriculture. at Wash.
ington, writes: 'In investigating the
potato rot, it has been found desirable