The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-12-22
THE ADVOCATE.
FARM AND FARMER.

Carolina planters report short
crop of rice.
The scarlet sage is useful in orna-
mental gardening.
The bush honey-suckle is one of the
most useful of shrubs.
Systematic pruning is essential to
the production of perfect currants.
WHY travel over one hundred acres
to get what can just as well be secured
on fifty?
Many growers say that a ycarling
grapevine is the best, as rule, for
setting.
DO not dig the celery when 1t S
frosted, but wait until. it has thawed
out and is dry.
A correspondent tells that ounce
cuttings, especially OF the older wood,
grow readily.
A clean, sandy loan of medium
fertility is the right sort in which TO
grow onion sets.
Fine ground bone used as fertilizer
i. worth twice 20 much as is the
coarse ground bone.
The export value of corn for Octo-
ber, 1891, was 63 cents per bushel; in
October, 1890, it was $50 cents.
The old flue system of heating |
green houses has given place, in many
Localities, to steam and hot water
ripes.
One Of the attractions at several OF |
the Autumn fairs Yves an exhibit of
dogs at work running washing ma
Cnines and churns.
T. b. Terry. of Ohio, says potatoes,
wheat, clover-this is the rotation
which has brought me out of debt and
insured me success"
According to an estimate credited to
Sir j. Il. Lawes the yield per acre OF
wheat of the United Kingdom for
1891 was 80 bushels.
According to a recent estimate
a. 900 tome Of I,rnor, cor,, oro ,,.o,J Il, |
this country annually, and at the pres
ent date there are oaly 2700a tons
Lere.
The Post-Express affirms that the
celery of Monroe county, n. Y, is the
finest in the world. The business of
growing it in that county has largely
iLcreased within the past six years.
Stock has been issued and $2,40O
ken for another creamery in Thet-
t.rd, VT, making, with the Byme
c ,amery, three within six miles,
' iich proves that farmers are.in favor
@ them. Many cows improve farms
:, this section shows.
Flowing furrow between the rows ,
O. straw berry plants is protection to
tAem by giving better drainage. and q
/. cping the soil around the roots dry ,
sHa warm. Strawberry beds some t;
times suffer much from ice among
len. /.
TO tell the difference between oleo- t
and butter, take a piece of a
the product to be judged and cut it S
in two. If it is butter there will be o
eXudations in the track Of the i
--Lite, but ifolco there will be only s
5-looth, greasy surface. II
a good fertilizer for the window :
garden is a tablespoonful of guano, =
dissolved in quart of lukewarm :
water and applied around the roots =
jIce week. The amount given will
De- enough to fertilize half a dozen :,
/ ants i'll pots of five or six inch size.
The annual report of the Commits n
,;Dner of Internal Revenue states that =
he total production of oleomargarine
ilring the past year vas 44,397.3O9
.eunds, the largest in the history of il
3 .NImgr0ar inp Onnrotionc IT., =, a
yreasc in production over last year was 0
l4OGS,377 pounds. d
Free exercise for hogs develops mus :,
ID and frame and adds to the value Of .,
-o pork. This, together with plenty !,
vegetables, fruits, skim milk and -
an, makes the best meat, for it con- .,
Ices to greater formation of lean. =