Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-10-08
&armers' Gulumn.
Give fools their gold 4 nav es their power
Let fortunes bubbles rise and fail;
Who sovs a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree. is more than all.

The prickly-comfrey craze is now a
thing of the past. The plant is one
that the farmers do not want.
In Austria Hungary this seasons
yield of wheat, rye and barley for
grinding falls far below the average.
The apple orchard should be fed
literally. 1t is thus, and by yjudicious
pruning, that the orchard is made to
pay.
The wheat crop of India is now re-
ported at 100000 bushels below the
average, and at "A, 900, 900 bushels less
than last years fine crop.
Grass seed sown on we'll pulverized
soil just before a smart shower will
need no other covering to cause it to
germinate than that resulting from
the rain.
In old times the sowing each fall OF
a piece of rye was so common as to be
almost universal. Is there any good
reason why the fall sowing of rye
should be abandoned?
Some Ohio farmers declare that they
can make more money by plowing un-
der clover and raising wheat than by
cutting, curing and feeding the clover
either to dairy or beef stock.
The exports of wheat from America
during the first six months Of 1886
show a falling off of about 100000
bushels from the amount exported
during the first six months of 1885.
In Canada an order in council has
been passed, prohibiting the importa-
tion of swine from Minnesota and Da-
kota, except through Port Emerson.
where they will be placed under twen-
ty-one days quarantine.
1t is claimed that rye makes the
best of feed for milch COWS, calves and
swine. There is, it may be added, as
further point in favor of rye, no
crop which is less exhaustive to the
soil, or so good with which to SOW
grass seed.
No kind of stubble, except of clio.
yer, of which the root forms the prin-
cipal part, is worth anything as man
ure. OF grain crops, especially, nei-
ther the stubble above ground nor the
root below is worth regarding as fer
tilizer. If the straw of grain stubble
can be burned, it is no waste to make
this disposal of it.
An excellent practical farmer re-
marked a year or two ago that he con-
sidered good clover seeding worth
from $40 to $15 an acre, This is more
than the profit of any grain crop, and
it can be had when grain is sown by
the outlay of $l.25 to $1.5O for clover
seed. Here is a profit of 1000 per
cent. in six monshs, without interfer-
ing with other crops.
The exports Of wheat from Russia
during the past season have been the
smallest for many years. The estima-
ted exports of wheat for the year end
ing August 1, 1886, amount to only
100000 bushels, against 100000
bushels the previous year. The pres
ent crop will be under the average
hence exports during the coming year
promise to be quite moderate.
The perfection of good tree planting
is to do it when the ground will pow
der and not paste. AS soon as there
has been dirt enough put in to some
what cover the roots, pull the tree up
and down little, to encourage the
earth to jolt into every hole and Granny,
then fill in and pound down the earth
as tightly as possible. Pull out all
the weak shoots and shorten the
stronger ones.
For exterminating scale insects
which infest their fruit trees Califor-
MIA orchardists have the best success
with wash compound Of soap, sui
phur and water, the proportions being
one pound of soap to two gallons OF
water, with as much sulphur as can
be dissolved in this mixture while
boiling; one pound of American lye,
or potash, may be added to eight or
ten gallons of this; applied to the tree
as hot as convenient.
Every practical farmer who has
grown potatoes has probably learned
that they keep much better in cool,
well-drained underground cellars,than
in warm, well-lighted apartments.
Potatoes should be dug in fair weather,
and lay exposed to the air until all
moisture has been dried from them
before picking them up and cartirg to
the bins. the bottom of which should
be raised slightly from the bottom OF
the cellar. SO as to permit circula.
ton of the air beneath, particularly il
the cellar bottom is damp. Shallow
bins, not exceeding three feat in depth,
are safer than deeper ones, as there is
less liability of the potatoes healing
when stored in such.