The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-12-22
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Among the Vegetables, Eruft, live
Stock and Poultry.
Some dairymen save the last fourth OF
the milk from the COW in o separate vessel,
and pour it in q cream jar.
Do not send any turkeys to market until
they have been first penned up and fatten-
ed. It adds to both weight and price.
Sulphur and old tobacco leaves burned
in the poultry-house, the house being
closed perfectly tight. viii clean out the red
lice.
A German cattle food, which had large
sale, was found to contain vegetable ivory
turnings ss parts and common salt ~ parts
in 100; value, nothing.
White fowls when dressed for the market
do not show pin-feather marks as do the
black breeds. This is point in their favor
which is worth consideration.
In order to guerd against pleuro-pneumon-
la the Canadian Government recently erder-
ed 357 imported cattle, valued at $30S)00 to
be slaughtered and cremated.
A Michigan cultivator thinks that by
careful culture, close pruning and fertiliz-
ing with bone and potash we may secure in
great measure exemption from the yellows
In peaches.
Large quantities of the English walnut,
Or Madeira nut, are annually imported into
this country. The tree, when grown to the
Northern States, is tender, but becomes
harder with age.
Reports from Freeport, ILL.,, state that the
potatoes are being destroyed by black
bug that is about quarter of an inch long,
which Is much more destructive than the
Colorado beetle.
Norfolk, Va, is the greatest strawberry
shipping place in tho world. Among the
many strawberry farms in its neighborhood
is one of 440 acres, the largest strawberry
farm in the world.
Well drained and deeply titled land stores
warmth to such an extent as to prolong the
season Of growth and obviate risks Of frost
that otherwise might reduce profits Of Guilt
walton materially.
A eucalyptus tree, fifty feet from o well
in Alameda, CAL, sent two roots through q
brick wall of the well fifteen feet below the
surface. and completely covered the bottom
with mass of flbres.
The ingredients of commercial fertilizers
upon which both their agricultural and
commercial values depend ore nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash. Sulphuric
acid and lime are also always present In
superphospate in the shape of plaster
A company has been organized, the object
of which is to engage in the production of
hides. the Buffalo and Aberdeen cattle
will be crossed, and the black color, together
with the high prices now obtained for robes
is thought will make the enterprise paying
one.
A successful apiculturist will take one
strong swarm, and by fall have four or FIVE
colonies from it, and all with honey to
spare. By the old system Of natural swarm
ing, only one good swarm would be hoped
for. If second or third came forth, they
were weaklings, and not worth saving
No kind of stubble, except of clover, Of
which the root forms principal part, is
worth anything as manure. Or grain crops,
especially, neither the stnbble above ground
nor the root below is worth regarding as q
fertilizer. II the straw Of grain stubbis can
be burned, it is no waste to mako thia dis
posal Of It.
In selecting dairy COW the most impor-
tant point is O good constitution, indicated
by large lungs, stomach and digestive ca
pacity. She should come from good
milking family, the eye should be bright,
muzzle broad, nostrils thin and large, chest
and lips broad, legs fat, udder broad, milk
veins large and head small.
Maurandaya is vine that meets all the
requirements of habit, beautiful foliage and
persistent blooms, the flowers OF which
very strongly resemble the foxg.ove. II
blooms constantly and is very SNOWY. I,
grows rapidly from seed, and will do fairly
well in the house during winter.
The acreage Of farms in the United States
is equal to the entire territory Of the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland
France, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, and
Austro-H Hungary. The cornfelds, II lying
together, would form country as large a,
England, Scotland and Belgium united
and the grain-fel would surpass Spain il
territorial extent.
In the spring of 1883 the land depart
,nent Of the Central Pacific Railroad decided
to make faithful experiment Of whea'
growing on the sagebrush land Of Nevada
without irrigation. At first the experiment
was partial failure, but this year it has
proven, it is said a most gratifying success,
the land yielding fifteen bushels to the acre
and the quality Of the wheat being good.
As an instance of the depreciation in the
value of land in Ireland, ii is stated that n
valuable farm with eleven years lease, the
property ofLord Annesley, at Tankardstowa
Athy, has been sold to Mr.. Kelly for E750.
The holding which contains 208 Irish acres,
Is let at rental Of f297, the valuation rent
being f24O. II is stated that the buildings
ON the farm cost the original tenant f3, 600.