Evening journal., 1901-11-02
AGRICULTURAL HINTS AND HFLPS
What the Farmers Are Doing and How They
Are Doing Ii
Are Doing |

Butter-malIing and pouluy-raising
are THE leaders Of the majority of the
farmers who do business in the mar
kets Of Wilmington during winter
months While truck-raising may be
their speciality during the summer
they invariably go back to making
butter and raising poultry with the
advent Of autumn
NJ S. Cr0ssan, Of Centrevll,e, takes
the lead i'm butter-making in that sec
ton During the entire year he makes
en- an average OF sixty pounds of but
ter a week. This he soils in the local
market and the quality Of the product
has won for him a large number OF
Irregular customers. Mr. Crossan also
raises chickens for market. and has
about 500 on his farm at present
L. X. Chandler. OF Bandywin.e hum
dred. has big run on butter. and he
also has a number OF regular custom
ers. who buy the product the year
around. On an average, Mr. Chandler
makes fifty pounds a week. He also
raises chickens for market and finds
the industry a profitable one.
Thomas Il. Crossan, Of Landenherg
Is another farmer who has achieved no
| little success In the above industries
He brings about fifty pounds of butter
to the market every saturday and
find a ready sale. OF late. he has en-
lgaged in the raising OF poultry on a
large scale, and at present has between
400 and 500 Of the Plymouth Rock and
Ieghorn varieties
The above-named farmers use the
cream separator. and find it's use es-
sential to successful butter-making
The colony plan Of house for laying
hens. is considerably written about at
lpresent Such houses are placed I'm a
good-sized yard, having a division
fence from the rear end of the house,
either way to dividing line fence. In
this way the fowls can run in the front
lot by passing in and out through the
door under the window BY closing
this door and opening one of the same
size in the rear, they can have the run
of the other yard. In this way they are
removed from one yard, which permits
the grass to grow in It while they are
in the other
The size of the yards must he gov
erned by the land that can be devoted
10 their use If fifty fowls can have
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use in this way. they should give the
very best results, provided they are
well cared for and properly provided
with all that is needed for the work
expected Of them.
The grain that has been sent out by
seedsmen as spe.t. the Bureau of Plant
Industry says is emmer (Triticurn di-
coccuml. but will be no less valuable
because it is not what IL was thought
. 70 be. Professor Carleton says ther,
! is no spelt grown in tine United States
Emmer is the more hardy plant, and il
, a great degree resists drought and lea
rust Fall sown varieties are alss
quite winter hardy. All of the hes
seed comes from Russia.
One use of the emmer Is for improv
ing ordinary wheats. BY using IL In
crossing with common varieties. the
valuable qualities that may be secured
are resistance 10 fungus attacks
drought resistance. increased fertility
OF the head, non-shattering, stiffness
of straw and increase of gluten contenl
OF the grain. Crosses are readily
made. and the result is a great increase
in general yigor and hardness, the
characteristics of the emmer showing
in he offspring of the first gener.
} alton
The seventoenyear locusts will ap
pear next year in the eastern tier oI
counties in Illinois. in Sauk county
/, Wisconsin, all Of Indiana, the western
half of Ohio. and i'm southern Michi
gan; extending to the central portions
r OF Kentucky into eastern tennessee
western North Carolina and northern
! Georgia; western portions of Virginia
) eastern counties of West Virginia