The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1891-08-04
THE FARM AND FARMER.

English crops are reported very
good.
Candy, as late berry, probably has
no superior.
Locusts have appeared in great mum
bers in portions of North Dakota.
The indications seem to be for
smaller hay crop than that of last
year.
1t is told that the Australian wool
clip of 1891 will exceed that of ali pre-
vious years.
Official estimates of the Russian
wheat crop indicate a shortage of
100000 bushels.
1t is told that mignonette can be
kept as a pot plant for years, provided
no seeds are allowed to develop.
The fifth annual Corn Palace of
Iowa is announced to open at Sioux
City, Oct. IL and close the II.
1t is reported that fax makes very
thrifty growth in Colorado, where
flaxseed is much used as a valuable
acquisition to the feed ration.
Proper feeding during summer is of
particular Importance in fattening
sheep, and if this is done rightly the
greatest good will be obtained from
the food.
The cargo Of a steamer that recently
arrived at London from Auckland,
New Zealand, comprised 10000 sheep
and 1000 beeves, all dressed and fro
zen. 1t was the largest cargo of the
kind ever received there.
Early maturity is the most essential
point to be sought in raising poultry,
AS it is from the early and quick grow
ing pullets that eggs in winter are
produced, and if the pullets are slow
in growth they pass over to spring be-
fore they begin to lay.
A new feature in instructions for
rural workers in the Bee-Keepers'
College, for the purpose of giving a
thorough training in the art of keep
ing bees and harvesting and market
ing honey. 1t was opened at Guelph,
Ont, Canada, on May 30.
The Department of Agriculture is
about to issue fifty-page bulletin
(No. 81, entitled: "What is Forestry ?"
In view Of its general character a
large edition will be published.
Copies can be had on application to
the Secretary of Agriculture, Wash
ington, d. G.
The grasshoppers are encroaching
so rapidly upon the Western cultiva-
ted area as to cause much alarm
more, it is said, for next year than
this as the swarms to be
hatched next summer will probably
be greater and nearer to the wheat
and corn fields.
Judge Miller, in his report on the
newer strawberries for 1891, at the
Nurserymen's late convention, said of
Michel's Early: "This, l think, has
come to stay. 1t ripens eight days be-
fore the Crescent, lasts month and
in quality is among the best. 1t will, !
l think, do away with the Crescent"
A popular way of polling running /
beans is by setting pole in the centre
of hill and planting the beans
around it. Popular Gardening sug-
gests, as an improvement upon this
plan, to set the pole in the centre of
four hills and stretch string from |
the top to hooked peg in the centre
of each hill.
A lady correspondent of the Ameri.
can Cultivator says that "a hen to be
profitable must lay 200 eggs in year,
and if she does not come up to this
mark she should be disposed of, and
others put in her place. Every one of
the flock should be brought up to this
standard of egg laying, and then a
flock of fifty hens would be worth
Stocks of Indian corn, of oats, of
barley and of rye on July l, 1891,
were all much smaller than for three
Dr. four years before at like date.
I'm tho case of Tn1iays CORN tho total