The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-09
AGRICULrURAn NOTES.
Matters of Interest to tho Intolligcncer'
Earmer Readers.

The cost of keepinga COW has been
shown to be about 10 cents per day, or
$50 per year. Any variation from this
is probably offset by the difference in
value OF products. II acow will not pay
this per year she is worse than no COW.
II the droppings from the cows in Q
small pasture become very noticeable 1t
will pay to have the heaps scattered
over the ground. II left, major part
OF the fertility sinks directly into the
soil and gets down below the roots OF
the grass.
All stimulants should be applied with
care. Begonias are particularly sensi.
tive to them, and they should be used
but seldom on geraniums, but to roses,
fuchsias, carnations, ,heliotropes and
others they may DO given with more
safety.
Fertilizer at the stem OF plant is
not as valuable as ii mingled in the soil
around it, foot away or more, accord
ing to the size OF the growing plant
above ground. For trees 1t should ex-
tend even further than the largest
branches.
a farmer should first find out
whether or not his COW is capable OF
producing profit before beginning to
feed her on scientific principles. There
are thousands OF COWS hatlcould not
produce a cents worth Of profit on the
best feed on earth.
There arc some cows with such in
ferior udders and milk veins that they
cannot pay profit even when their
milk is sold at q good price per quart.
Then, what can be expected Of the same
COWS when only the butter made from
their milk is salable?
What could earn in some other way
outside OF farming is wholly out OF the
question. Ninety-fve per cent OF the
farmers must earn their money on their
farms or not ut all, and must draw upon
all really available sources of income.--
W. l. Chamberlain.
The use OF complete fertilizers in
wolves waste in all cases where the
soil already contains an abundance OF
one or two Of the chief elements Of plant
food, and requires only thesupplemen-
tary addition of the missing one or two
elements.-T. Greiner.
Most people think they must wait
many years for returns from the plant
ings OF peach or cherry pits. We have
heard, on good authority, that Texas
man ate peaches from tree two years
and two months after he planted the pit
from which the tree grew.-,StricEmGt,
Cut down the old fruit trees that may
be standing in the pastures that have
passed beyond their period OF usefulness;
Unless they are taken care OF they will
become nests for the various fruit pests,
and will in turn be the means OF popu-
!ating your orchard with undesirable
colonies. {lJMs6 DiJlJe
want to say this out of my own ex-
perience. / have often fed a dollars
worth OF feed into one COW and got a
dollars worth of butter out OF her. l
have fed the same amount OF feed into
another COW and got two dollars out OF
her, and L AM going to stand by the two
dollar cow.-H. adams.
In Florida, where crickets often seri-
ously damage choice plants just set out,
the plan has been adopted OF cutting of
the top and bottom OF three-pound
fruit cans and placing tho resulting
cylinder over the very small rose
bushes, cuttings and other small choice
plants liable to attack.
Ridged cultivation exposes more of
the surface to the SUMS rays and atmos-
phere, and more OF the moisture comes
to the surface and evaporates. On the
contrary, rehabilitation exposes less
surface to the atmosphere and suns
rays, and less OF this subsoil moisture
comes to the surface to be evaporated
and lost.
To prevent the contamination of a
flock or pasture with the poison of foot
rot, newly purchasea sheep should un-
dergo quarantine restrictions 4of, soy,
two weeks, and should it appear in a
flock through some unforeseen circum-
stance, no sheep should be admitted
from the affected district till the malady
has been thoroughly cured.
At the Minneapolis Nurserymen's
meeting Mr.. Hale, Of Connecticut, mem
toned seeding peach tree in his State
that is 100 years old and still bearing.
He believes peaches may be protitably
raised even in Connecticut, If planted
ulBuI CulblNuISu Wcll uIlu BING1l llO
nitrogen, but plenty o.. potash. This
gives good peaches ofligh color.
Not three farmers in hundred raise
this delicious vegetable, asparagus,
which comes into use more than month
before peas, and is less trouble to grow
than anything of equal value which the
garden produces. We begin using as
paragus soon after the middle OF April,
in early seasons. A single row Of as
paragus ten rods long will furnish u
large family all they can use, and one
planting is Tor life.
There isone way, SAYS J.,y. Gotta, by
which varieties too tender when grown
from root-grafting or budding, may be
produced, that will endure climatic nd
verslties some 200 or 800 miles further
north than they can be grown by any
other mode, and this one method is stop
grafting;p standard high, upon per-
feCtly hardy, free growing, congenial
stocks previously grown by root graft
ing, or, in other words, by double work
ing.
CoLD, cough, coffin is what philoso-
pliers term "a logical sequence" One
is very liable to follow the other; but