Catoctin clarion., 1886-02-04
AGRICULTURAL.
News and Notes.

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A Connecticut man made three tons
OF apple-jelly from cider last Autumn
Henry Stewart thinks that the
growth of sour weeds, like sorrel, is no
more proof of acid in the soil than the
growth of sorghum proves the presence
of sugar in the soil.
In the two centuries after the dis
covery of America the axemen destroy
ed more trees than did the inhabitants
Of Southern Europe in the 1000 years
following the foundation of Rome.
Professor Morrow doubts whether
grinding often pays for hog feeding
Even for comparatively young pigs,
soaked corn has some advantages over
corn meal. For milk cows ground
feed is very desirable.
Of 1877 horses that have public
record of 220, fifty eight are descend
ed from Rysdyk's Hambletonian in
the direct male line, with nearly as
MANY, no doubt, who can trace their
blood back to him through dams or
granddams.
Nominee Is a colt at Fashion Stud
Farm who has Goldsmith Maid and
Lucy for granddams, with Jay Gould
and General Washington for grand,
sires. Among his great grandparents
are Lady Thorne, Lady Sanford, Gen
eral Knox, Abdallah and Rysdyk's
Hambletonian. He ought to be proud
of such an ancestry.
The wife of II Main farmer, with
one child, who docs her own house
work, milks the COWS and feeds the
hogs, writes that between October lst
and Christmas she knit twenty two
pairs Of mittens, nine pairs of mems
socks, five pairs of stockings, one pair
double leg gins and new feet two pairs,
besides spinning the yarn. She signs
herself Nancy Jane.
Little Comton, r. I, is the champion
New England town for poultry. Al
most every farmer raises highly-bred
chickens for the Newport Summer mar,
ket, some of them selling 2,0O0 per an.
mum. Young ducklings, just feather
ed, and selling for so to 60 cents apiece
are also speciality, while something
like $4,000 worth Of goslings are sent
to the Boston market.
When peaches in Delaware don't
pay to ship to the cities they are turn
ed over to the evaporators or made uE
into wine. If the latter, the produce
is sold to city customers as pale old
sherry" and is pronounced superior te
its adulterate and imported namesake
Strawberries are treated in the same
way, and produce beverage that is
said to take the place Of apple jack.
A fruit grower Of Barnsville, OHIO
realized one season-not the last
500 from an acre Of Sharpless straw
berries, and few growers Of that state
still plant this variety Generally
however, it has been discarded as a
market berry because the blossoms are
so easily killed by frost. Downing and
Manchester are grown only where rust
is not prevalent. Cumberland is dis
cardel as unproluctive.
Says Edward Atkinson The value
of the hens eggs consumed at one egg
every two days to each adult, at twelve
cents dozen, which is low price at
wholesale, is over $9OO,00O,000 year
or double the value of the product Of
silver-50 per cent more than the
value Of domestic wool-25 per cent
more than the value of pig iron at the
furnaces. The annual value of poultry
and eggs sold is more than the annual
value of silver, wool and pig iron com.
bined.
Every one has observed the rapidity
with which selfsown tomatoes grow
when not transplanted, and Mr.. Joseph
Harris holds that the practice Of trans
planting is detrimental to all plants
In the "American Garden' lie says OF
a certain test on this plant that the
cabbage left in rows headed just as well
as those which had been transplantcd
BY far the earliest, largest and best
celery he grew during the year, 1884
was the transplanted. He formerly
thought it necessary to make trenches
for celery. Now few growers in the
Northern States continue the practice
Will not transplanting soon be equally
thing OF the past.
My friend, do you suffer with ma