The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-05
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
Matters Of Interest for the Intolligencer'
Farmer Readers.


At the shearing OF the Southern Mich
igan breeders the ram Buckeye, three
years old, weight 119, aheared thirty
pounds, Just 1906 days growth.
There is drawback in the use OF
bells on sheep by reason Of greater ex.
citability. A restless flock will run of
more fat than the loss OF ten sheep
would amount to.
Twill milking tubes hurt COWS upon
which they are constantly used2' is q
question answered in the affirmative by
the intelligent farmers at the institute
at PohghksePsle, n. !.
A poultry farm within four milesot
Boston's City Hall, abutting upon one
OF its principal avenues and within Q
few minutes walk Of Chestnut Hill
Reservoir, is something OF a novelty.
No tree should be planted nearer o
house than its length when full grown.
Trees not only moisten the air about
them, but the earth also. Sunshine
should have IN access to the house at
all times.
The report OF the Ontario Bureau OF
Industries gives the number Of sheep
in that province at about l,34O,O0O,
being 1850 less than Tor 1899, while the
yield OF wool is 4,575, 900 pounds, against
4,5S9,000 pounds.
Don't forget to start the cultiyator or
wheel hoe as soon as you can see the
rows Of plants in the garden; take the
weeds Just as they break ground, or
even before; "nipped in the bud" they
die easily.
As rule hens learn to eat eggs from
having them broken in the nest. In
arranging the nests have them conyen-
lent for the hens, SO that in getting in
and out there will be little ii any risk OF
the eggs being broken.
The wooden industry of France re
uuires 100000 OF Australian feeces,
$4,000, 900 OF La Plata, and 100000 OF
Russian, in all about 81, 100000 aeeces.
Ninety per cent Of this wool is merino,
and ten per cent ordinary and common.
An 8 per cent kerosene emulsion was
used as q sheep dip at one experiment
station in which to dip the sheep, and it
was fully proven that good emulsion
can be safely used for this purpose, even
when sheep have considerable wool
upon their backs. ri 56@S
"A horseman says in the Nev Eitglftd
Homestead that he gets out Of the trouble
Of drenching horse by pouring the
dose into pail of water, reservtng a lit
tie to put into the horses mouth. The
horse then drinks the water to get the
tha taste ont Of his mouth,
In Matching ducks eggs under hens
the Incubation differs from hens eg,
only in the fact that ducks eggs pip at
twenty-five to twenty.six days instead OF
nineteen as with chicks, and as TO- that
they generally pip from thirty-six to
forty-eight hours before emerging from
the shell.
The introduction Of labor-saytng ma
chinery has not been an unmixed bless
ing. II has concentrated farm ,wotBl
making the busy season buster and the
dull seasonduller. Ithas not cheapened
the expense of farming so much as might
be supposed, for while it has decreased
the amount Of hard labor, 1t has in
creased the idle time Of both the farmer
and his help. llo1,t
The statistician of the Department OF
Agriculture has compiled the following
statement: Corn during the past year
aggregated t4S9, 900, 900 bushels; wheat,
$50, 263, 900 bushels; oats, 52S,e22, 900
bushels. The December condition Of
the growing wheat crop was returned at
9S.4, and OF rye 80. This is better than
the December returns for two years past,