Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-10
Experiences OF Rev. H. J. Burdeste,
Amateur Agricultur1st.
from the Brooklyn Eaglel

Amateur Agricultur1sS.
From the Brooklyn Eaglel
Talk about dissensions in religion, about
warning creeds and battling churches, If you
want to get knee deep In a swamp of eonfio-
ting views aud opinions wade through file
of agricultural papers. Now there's nothing
agriculture. The ground IL real and the
crops are sometimes real; in the case of an
amateur gardener who moves out of town
because he can save q years rent on juno
peas, I grant you there IL q degree of alb
straction that makes the science of aerated
metaphysics solid as foot ball match. But
In the soft and thawing weeks of spring Q
loan farm in a clay country Ia about as real
as they make 'em. But now I read in my
favorite agricultural paper the other day
that man who chad pa toh clay over trap
my! Talk about riohnessl And cropsl
Such melonsl And peasl And such corn!
Don't talk. I went straight away to the
kitchen and gave orders that every handful
of coal ashes was to be placed In fruit jars
and kept in the refrigerator, and kept until
such time as could have it applied to the
garden. No matter what price the neigh
DOEb tuiBub OAeE lOE ~, nOb na OuCo VI ~ WINS
to be sold. Then I went back to the desk
and turned over to the next page of the pa
per, and q farmer and market gardener In
Hennessy county said that o mixture of
pounded glass, rock salt, alkali and brim-
stone, poured on red hot, was far preferable
as fertilizer to coal ashes. He said he had
killed every tree in healthy orchard, and
made the fairest kitchen garden in the Po-
mona valley bowling waste, BY light appli-
- ~.I,no a Trvh n11l
hastened out once more to notify the sene-
schal that If found one fake Of coal ashes
about the castle within fifteen minutes from
the ukase (oo-kaz) would hang few trai.
tors, more or less, from the fourth story
hook in the MARITIME Tower. Then I went
back and read that any man who kept hens
and wanted eggs must be prepared to spend
most Of his income on corn, but 1t would be
the best investment he ever made. Nothing
like corn, not cracked, but fed in whole
grains, for making hens lay; IL made them
lay seven times q week when nothing else
would, and In fact 1t was the only thing that
would make hens lay all the year round.
Straightway ordered a carload of corn to
be purchased for the eackling denizens of
Orocus Hall, but before the messenger had
set forth to corner the corn market I read
from another expert that "Rough on Rats"
was much better for hens than corn, mas
much as it killed them at once, thereby saw.
ing great expense Of Keeping, and was quite
as productive when viewed as an egg plant |
He closed narrative Of his experience with
corn by piously hoping that the man who |
first suggested the destruction of all the |
poultry in America by the use of corn as a |
food might never, in this world or the next, |
be permitted to eat pullet, or taste custard, |
omelette, egg nog, or anything else In which |
the hen or her product entered a. q oompo- |
nent part. He said you must feed little else |
than pounded bone. While was wondering |
whose bones would like to pound NV eve |
fell upon my testimonial of one of the lead |
ing poulterers in New York State, who said |
that he had lost about ninety-eight of the |
finest hens that ever acted the fool in their |
sanest moments, by the ignorance or malice
of the hired man, who mixed spoonful Of |
pounded bone in their feed one Sunday |
morning, while he, the owner, was at church.
what had been done, he chased the soulless
neck yoke, and If he'd caught him he'd a
kicked him TO death with a hay tedder. So
I let up Oh the corner and the market broke
all to pieces. am now feeding my hens on
they like, same as have been do
ing all summer. They wander around the
place and make their own selection, and if
there is anything that I particularly don't
want them to have, they use it for dessert.
However, there are just two things in ag and
poultri culture would like to know: What
Is good to put on land, and what is the best
kind of feed to scatter about your estate to
make your hens lay and poison your neigh
boris.