Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-12-03
pUISrs ron THs EARaER.

Thing. which Tn. wiss tAgt,oai,urist VIII
Head aud Ponder.
From tho Germantown Telegraph.
The distinguished French agricultural
chemist, NJ. Bossingsult, gives the relative
value OF oil cakes ss feed for stock ~ follows
one pound OF oil cake meal Is equal tothree
pounds Of corn meal or nine pounds Of wheat
bran, or ten pounds of timothy or clover hay.
striped sweet potatoes are u novel color
arrangement In agriculture farmer
planted y crop OF early sweets and then n
crop OF a later variety and different color on
an adjoining piece Of land. When tho late
crop was dug tho potatoes were found to be
striped part red aud part yellow.
As an addition To manure or compost heaps
sosp-uds are most excellent, containing, ~
they do, not only the ak allies OF potash, but
also much erlete and nitrogenous matter, so
very fertliZing In their properties Indeed,
we might safely say that as fertilizers the
average soapsuds from the laundry are
worth moro than the soap from which they
are produced.
II has been found that one bushel OF ashes
IN afforded by ~ cords of wood, and chem-
cal analysis has demonstrated that In 100
pounds OF ashes therear contained Ii pounds
of potash, worth - cents ~ pounds OF lime
and msgnesta, worth cents, and 5js pounds
OF phosphoric acid, worth % cents. To buy
these In the shape of commercial fertillzers
would cost al IL, making the ashes worth 90
cents q bushel.
II you want to raise a big crop OF oats tn
following year, break up corn Stubble, not
more than from three To four inches deep, an y
time before Christmas, and let lie so until
about the last OF the following March or tho
first week in April, when SOW broadcast
thereon u bushel and half OF oats 10 the acre
accompanied with some 2OO pounds OF super
phosphate To the acre, and double shovel the
whole in as shallow ~ possible. This o
know by experience
Plea tor tho English sparrow.
James MAcPhersun In ths Country Gentleman.
Many of your correspondents abuse these
little 'Critters," ! dare say for cause. they
are easily kept under, and they make delicious
puddings. A boy who can handle gun can
shoot them by scores, by laying thin,
straight line OF grain along the ground, and
shooting sparrow shot when they are feed.
ing. But lot me tell YOU something. Along
In the tifties ('57 or '5s) the English farmers
took on the sparrow craze some man got
out a poisoned " heat, and they were pOlsont d
by hundreds OF thousands In the next few
years there was such visitation OF Insect
pests as the country had never known bo-
fore there was hardly a matured gooseberry
in the land, for one thing, for the goose
berry caterpillar had deauded every bush of
its leaves, and legislation for tho protection
ot the sparrow WAS loudly talked about, II 1t
WAS not actually had. There was nothing
sentimental about It AS for the talk about
the sparrowsIwhippng all the other birds,
robins included, | think II il all moon shine.
! will tell you what they do-they get up
earlier in the morning and probably gobble
up the other birds food that's how they
whip them
Cold Weather and Pigs.
From tho Country Gentleman.
Cold weather II not profitable time Tor
pigs 10 be born, unless the owner has dI y
place for them, and where It il warm enough
not to freeze.