The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-03-02
VARIOUS NOTES.


Smith.
Between 100000 and 100000 barrels
of American cotton-seed oil were sent
to Europe last year, where it was made
into butter"
If you are in the habit of trading
your butter for groceries, why not try
to sell it direct to those who eat it,
National Stockman.
Garden seeds should be kept in
dry and not too cold place. Label each
variety so there will be no mistake
when the planting time comes.
Some of these days we shall see in
tensivc methods applied to the produc
lion of grain crops, with results that
are now hardly imagined.-Maine Far
mer.
If you value your machinery oil well
the parts liable to rust and put under
tight shingle roof. More machinery
is rllsted and rotted than worn out
Nebraska Farmer.
The pig is more sensitive to cold than
any other domestic animal. 1t has less
hair for protection, and in the improv-
ed breeds this natural covering has
been made less than it formerly was.
Animals do not relish food that is
the same thing every day, even though
they accept it. A varied diet increases
the appetite, promotes health and per-
mits of greater gain in all directions
Farm and Fireside.
In all the history and theory of breed
ing nothing seems so much required to
be told over and over again as the fact
that to breed for Il quality 1t is neces-
N hpnpn from animals thut huNp
that quality.-Colman' Rural World.
Agriculture can be made more nearly
an exact science by the application of
irrigation to the soil, than by any other
means whatever. 1t prevents drought
and makes crops certain, and thus fixes
the earning power and value of the
land.
Speaking of veterinary science, 1t Is
4 good thing to know how to cure an
animal that is sick, but far better to
keep well one well. Good food and
absolute cleanliness are the means by
which that may generally be accom-
plished.
Wherever trees are abundant leaves
are often nuisance. The very best
purpose they can be put to is to en-
rich the soil 1t does not take long to
bury them if nothing else Is done with
them, and in year or less they form
excellent plant food.
Talk about the love of money! Why,
there are n vast number of men who
love their own old notion of doing a
thing more than they do money. Even
greater profit will not tempt them to
imbibe newer and better ideas of hand
ling their cows.-Hoard's Dairyman.
With fresh manure at all times avail
able, farmers could have all the mush-
rooms they want all the year through
by making beds In barn cellars and
similar places. Many are now raising
them successfully who at one time
never dreamed of it.-Practical Far
mer.
Remember that sweet, home-cured
salt pork, bacon, ham, sausage, head
cheese, etc, are appreciated as much
by wealthy townspeople as by yourself
and family, and will bring an extra
price if you find the right buyers viii
it pay to sell the whole lot of pork at
whole-hog rates?-American Agricul-
tIrist.
If feathered stock is rightly man
aged diseases of fowls will be compar-
atively rare. Breeding 'in-and-in,' or
breeding CLOSE" even, is productive
If more delicacies of constitution than
most poultry keepers are aware of. 1t
is bad business to be fussing with sick
fowls. Better breed right.-American
Poultry Yard.
In nuts, the most prominent display
Mt the Worlds Fair was a collection
of English walnuts by Los Nietos and
- rp, A
Of Riviera, Cal. These nuts were
shown in a brilliant glass tower some
twenty-five feet high George W. Ford,
If Santa Anna, Cal, showed fifteen
varieties of walnuts.
We observe in several agricultural
Journals favorable mention of what is
called the improved dwarf Rocky
Mountain cherry, which is said to be
4 spreading bush not more than four
feet high, with fruit ripening Il month
later than the Morello varieties, and of
Fair, but uneven, quality. The bushes
are said TO fruit while very young and
to bear every year.
Some men have an idea that land is
resting and being renovated when it is
used for pasture. This is true just to
the degree that more plant food Is put
On than is taken off. Pastured with
sheep land will usually recuperate
somewhat. With beef and dairy cat
lie, however, the reverse is true, and
she plant food is apt to walk off to
market-Practical Farmer.
The Watsenville Beet Sugar factory
IN California is the largest of the three
factories in that State. 1t has capa-
.ity Of 500 tons of beets per day and
t,000O00 pounds of sugar per week
Nearly 300 men are employed in work
ing the beets into sugar The price of
beets is 50 per ton, and twenty tons
per acre Is an average yield. One far
mer grew DO acres and cleared $11 600
after paying all expenses. 1t takes
about four months TO work up the crop
IN this time $3J0,000 is paid for beets
$4,000 for wood and $4,000 for wages
Draining Wheat Fields.
If no other method has been devised