Evening journal., 1901-09-30
Joseph q. Darlington & CO.
lIz6 and llzS Chestnut Street. Philadelphia.
OF THIS COUNTY
INTERESTED IN CORN HARVESTER

Jofn T. Hayes, a leading farmer OF
New Castle hundred, and master o
Pomona Grange, feels elated over the
success of the Pan-Pomona Fair held
his year. The members OF the grange
anticipate holding the fair for a week
ext year.
Field Deputy Burton, OF the Internal
Revenue Office. has returned to this
ity from a circuit Of lower Delaware
lowing to the scarcity or apples in
Kent and Sussex counties, he says,
the distillers of apple jack brandy can
Operate only One-third a force.
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The farmers in the vicinity OF New
Castle are deeply interested in tho
trials OF corn harvesters which are
being made near Delaware City. Farm
hands in this section are scarce, and
he harvester in some OF the trials cut
twelve acres a day. Farmers in this
section contemplate sowing considera-
able scarlet clover this fall, in order
to turn the crop under fOr corn next
spring. United States Marshal John
Cannon Short who Is one OF Della
wares leading farmers, says that the
scarlet clover holds the nitrogen, and
thereby the corn is helped.
Slop will not take the place OF pure
water for hogs. During the warm sea-
son swine should be literally supplied
with fresh water and the food should
consist OF weeds. grass and vegetables
rather than grain. A mess of bran and
skim milk may be given at night, but
corn is too heating.
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Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has Gre
ated the Office of state inspector Of
nurseries. and appointed Professor 70.
A. PoDenoe, of Manhattan, to fill it for
two years. No salary attaches to she
Office. but the next Legislature will be
asked TO appropriate one. Professor
Popenoe is horticulturist and ento-
mologist at the Kansas station.
AS regards pecialty-farming, par
lticularly with the intensive special
ties Of New England, IL is necessary TO
understand that only certain men can
succeed in 1t. Any man can make a
living on the farm. AT least that is
the general belief-with a great deal
Of evidence to support it. But the in
efficient farmer, whom you gnd every
where, always makes his living, such
as il is, by growing a little of every
thing. Il takes a man OF some ability
to grow cranberries. or ginseng, or
spring broilers. An immense number
Of details have TO be mastered, and
failure in any one Of them means
bankruptcy. Extraordinary farmer never
goes bankrupt. but the specialty-far-
mer might) Competition in the
specialties is less, but it is Of a diff
ferent sort. and the risks are always
greater.
There is nothing better for cabbage
worms than the resin-nme mixture
described in recent horticultural works
II must, however, be applied by care
ful men. and the crop should not be
reated with poison after the heads are
two-thirds grown.
Secretary Wilson, of the De
partment of Agriculture, says:
We cannot grow coffee in the
United States, because every. part o.
our original country is subject tC
frosts. But We can teach, and are be-
lginning to teach, the growing of ooffe,
in Hawaii and Porto Rico. Preseni
Indications are that we will thus rais'
all OF our own coffee under our CwI
flag. instead OF buying S65,OOo,OOI
worth every year from Brazil"
! In speaking of the cultivation OF IN,
orange IL which everybody is NOR
or less interested. the Secretary eS
pressed himself thus:
"yVe are cross-breeaing thc Fi0rdi
loraace with a Japanese varsity Of n
lsama tvpe. in order to give hardines