©be ®rntw ftmatrat. BKLLEFONTK, L'A. iiaBICTTLTtTHA-L,. NEWS, FACTS AND HUOGKBTIONB. TBI TIIT TBI KATfoNAI w sir All II Til ISTlUl aisri AID rsoiriiiTT or THI FAIMI*. Every farmer in hie "annual rr/terxenet discovers something of value. Write it ami scut it to the "Agricultural Extitor of the DEMOCRAT, Hellefonte, J'enn'u," that other fanners may have the benefit of /. est communications be timely, ami be sure that they are brief ami well jtointed. Moreton Farm Seed a. As an agricultural writer, perhaps, no man in America is more widely or favorably known than Joseph Harris, the owner and manager of "Moreton Farm." "Walks and Talks on the Farm" have made hira seem a per sonal friend of years standing to thousands of the American Agricul turist's renders, while "Harris on the Pig" is the staudard authority for intelligent swine-breeders. Later, his "Talks on Manures" have attracted the attention and elicited the favora ble criticism of the entire agricul tural press of the country, and are doing more to lead farmers into right thinking, and right doing in the mat ter of manures than any other work within our knowledge. But Mr. Har ris is not merely a theoretical writer. On the contrary, he is jierhaps more practical than any other writer known to the profession. Owning and work ing a larger farm, to every detail of which ho gives daily personal atten tion, breeding upon it the finest of improved stock, and raising for home use and for sale the best of crops in great variety and perfection, Mr. Harris is nothing if not practical. And now he comes to the front as a seed grower and seed seller. For many years he has grown his own seeds, making selections with great care and excellent judgment, and has from time to time sold such overplus as he could spare to those of his friends who knew and appreciated the excellence of his productions. This part of his farming operations has grown to such proportions that he this year issues a small catalogue, which, like everything else he does or writes, is as original as it is prac tical. A personal acquaintance and correspondence with Mr. Harris, as well as experience with seeds of his growing, extending over a number of years, warrant us in saying to our readers that they can plnce implicit reliance upon any statement he makes either in his business correspondence or published catalogue, and that they can buy seeds of him in the perfect assurance that they will be just what they are represented to be—no more and no leas. And this is a good deal more than we would like to say of some seed dealers of whom we have heard. We append a portion of his preface as a sample of originality and lor the agricultural wisdom it teaches: It is sixteen years since I commenced to grow seeds. But this is the first year that I have issued a catalogue. 1 fear it will be a poor one, but 1 shall try and comfort myself with the reflection thai no one will be asked to pay anything for it. 1 propose to send it free of ali charge, prepaid by mail to any and all i of my friends who desire it, I hope my seeds will prove to be fresher and better than my catalogue. I have been an agricultural writer for twenty-nine years. • • • I feel, therefore, that I am not altogether unknown to the farmers of the United States. • • • I want my friends and correspondents to try my seeds. And 1 should also es teem it a particular favor if those of my friends who receive this catalogue would aid me in distributing it among their neighbors and acquaintances. I pro pose to sell good fresh seeds at reason able prices. It may be thought strange that in a catalogue of farm, garden and flower seeds, I should include Cotawold Sheep and Kssex Pigs. Rut I am a farm er as well as a seed grower. Reed grow ing can be profitable only on land that is clean and rich. I have spent much time and labor in uoderdraining and killing weeds, and my sheep and pigs have helped to make the land rich. I have fed them well and they have af forded me fair profits and rich manure. • * # * • Seed growing requires not only much careand patient waiting, hut a large amount of labor per acre. This is very costly, and can only be af forded on the beat and richest land. In raising ordinary farm crops, it will be readily perceived that those crops which require the greatest amount of labor per acre are the crops which we can least afford to raise on poor land. The more labor a crop requires, the more important it is to make the land rioh enough and clean enough to pro duce a large yield per acre. I hope, therefore, to be excused for saying a good word for my sheep and swine. They have enabled me to make large piles of manure and these in their turn have enabled me to raise seeds which I hope will prove eminently satis factory to my customers. I do not make any extravagant claims for my seeds. Ido not guarantee the needs. If I wend a farmer a few bushel* of six-rowed barley 1 will not warrant that there may not bo a few kernel* of two-rowed barley in it, or even an oc casional oat. But I will tend a sample to any one wishing to examine it, and will guarantee that the barley sent shall be as good as the sample. I guarantee my seeds to this extent. If they are not what I represent them to be f will refunil the money paid for them. Iron Water Pipes Preferred. Hon. fleorg* oe is not buried deep enough to give perfect security. Or the pipe inay he surround ed with hydraulic cement; a coat an inch thick will protect the pipe, but, having tried both plans, I give prefer ence to the tile. The pipe and tile will hardly cost a dollar a rod at the place where the inquirer lives. A very recent experience, which we relate below, will deter us from en dorsing Mr. Geddes' recommenda tion. On our own farm we have a line spring, about eighteen feet above and fifty rods distant from the farm buildings, which a former owner, many years ago, brought to the stock yard in wooden pipe. In 1868 a por tion of these wooden pipes gave out, and the then owner took them all up, relaying such as were comparatively good at the lower or discharge end of the line, and purchased new ones, of the same sort, for the upper end of the line. We came into possession soon after, aud the line worked satis factorily until the winter of 1875-6, when the old pipe at the lower end gave way entirely. It being incon venient at that time to procure the wooden ones, we replaced the old lot, during the summer of 1876, with inch wrought-iron pipe, just such as Mr. Geddes describes, connecting it with the new lot laid in 18G8, and con gratulated ourselves u|>on the splen did stream we secured in our stock yard and upon the supposed perma nence of the job. For the past six i months or more the stream discharg ed from the pipe lias been growing "smaller by degrees, and beautifully less," and has required great care j daring the late severe weather to prevent it from freezing about the spout and stopping entirely. Final ly, on Sunday morning of last week, one of the men reported "no water running at the spout." This meant disaster to all our stock for the re mainder of the winter, and so doffing our Sunday coat and donning the "regimentals" of the "six days shalt thou labor" part of the week, we de voted nearly half of the day to a vain search for the cause of the trou ble. At last, suspecting the cause, wc went up the line to where the iron unites with the wood pipe laid in 1868, dug down to the wood, tapped it, connected a stand-pipe, and were rewarded with a full one ami one half inch stream, —the size of the bore in the wood pipe. Upon examination, the following day, the iron pipe, which had been in use but little more than two years, and was full one inch inside diameter when laid, waa discovered to lie com pletely filled up with rust—absolute ly rusted shut. In the light of an extended experience, of which that above related la a very small part, in both the manufacture and use of va rious kinds of pipe, we would say to Mr. Calhoun use neither lead nor iron, but if you cannot get a good, well made and well put together wood pipe, turn back to the semi-weekly Tribune of March 22, 1876, and fol low the advice there given to Mr. Sutton, of Yatca county, N. Y., by the aame Mr. Geddee, who now wise ly counsels Mr. Calhoun against the use of lead. This subject of convoying springs to the buildings on the farm is one of great importance to many of Cen tre county's farmers, and for their benefit we quote a large portion of tlio very excellent and practical ad vice given by Mr. Geddcs to Mr. Sutton: The case of Mr. Sutton, aa he will havo hut little head of water, admits of something better than the inch gas pipe. Ho can buy • • tile, inch and a half caliber, for $lO per M—just a cent each. Thirteen will lay a rod, and a bushel of water-lime with good aand will make the mortar to lay those tiles in for that distance, and so surround them that they will form a tight pipe. The important thing to be remembered is, the tiles must be wet thoroughly by soaking in water liefore they are laid, and thus swelled to their greatest di mensions. The cement can be spread along the bottom of the trench, say one inch deep, for a few feet; the tiles placed end to end, and the joints poin ted and allowed to set a little, the In side cleaned out as each joint is made, by a scraper, which is simply a stiff wire having a piece of sheet iron properly shaped on one end. Having thus placed five or six tiles, commence covering witii the cement and preasing it firmly around the tiles till the work is finish ed. Do not cover this pipe, except to shade it by board* or the like, until the water ho* been let in and proof made that there are no leak*. The advan tages of such a pipe are ita small cost, it* large and smooth caliber (a I J-inch pipe baa 2} times the capacity to carry water that an inch pipe has),'and final ly its durability and perfect freedom from any mineral matter taken from ita own substance. 1 havo never soon a pipo 100 largo, but I have soon many too small. Though Mr.Sutton may not havo water enough to fully tax an inch nne made of metal or wood that turns down at the end, say one foot, and is enlarged at the lower end to many times the diameter of the pipe, and the end covered with a sheet of copper punched full of holes. A common house funnel gives the fortn. if weVmly cover the large end with the perforated sheet, and make the whole thing of sheet copjier. Such a device can !>e in serted into the lower side of a common pump log, ftoin which it can tie readily withdrawn, cleaned and repaired, and will last many years. Coal Oil vs. Hen Lice. We give the following statement of a writer in the Tribune the en dorsement of our own experience. Our own plan is to use smooth, half round poles, made from pine wood, and at least three inches wide, and tack a strip of woolen rag on the top. This is satuftitcd once a month, or oftener, with coal oil, and we arc never troubled with lice : "My hens, hennery end nests of set ting hen* became no i>rtsTtn WITH Lies a* to drive the h<*n from the nests, and fresh-laid eggs would have lice crawling on them. That wren in 1873, end I here not seen one of the parasites on my premise* since. I first tore out the round pole* with bark on used for roosU, and put in basswood strips 11x2 inches rounding the corners a little and satu rated them with refined petroleum (common lamp oil), burned up all my nestling boxes and straw, sprinkled the oil all over the floor and sides of the hennery, got new nesting boxe* and put about one inch of sawdust in the bottom and sprinkler! some oil on it, then put in clean straw on top; this I continue to do every Spring before nesting-time. 1 also saturates! the perch three or four lime* a year with oil, and I have not seen a hen louse tine*. This six years' test baa satisfied me of the certainly and safety of this plan as well as of its cheapness and ease ol application. Pear Blight COLI.KGK, Feb. 24ib, 1870. Mkm a*. Emma*:—Having noticed that [•art of your paper was devoted to agricul tural topics, I thought it would be a good place to gain information concerning some points relating to the above, either through you or your subscribers. Heveral years ago 1 had planted quite a number of One pear trees which grew exceedingly well for a number of years, but during the last two summers they have suffered greatly from some disease. Its first approach is noticed in the outer leave* of the branches, which become blacked and wither, at If there was not sufficient moisture; but rapidly spreads over all the tree, giving it the appearance of having boon burnt by fire. The stem becomes cracked and ha* a brown feathery substance on the bark. Tree after tree was effected in the same way, and notwith standing all I did, the trees could not be saved. Having tried everything that ha* been recommended,with no success, I resort to your paper as a last hope. I bellve the cause Is not folly known, but should say, foom careful attention to the case under my notice, that it was caused by the heat of the sun's rays immediately after a rain. Your* Ac., H. Our correspondent's tree* are evi dently suffering from the dread "blight," and we regret that we can offer him but little encouragement to hope for a cure. The authorities, prominent among whom are Qulnn and Barry, agree that the beet means for prevention la to ao treat the trees aa to secure a vigorous growth early in the season, though this is by no means sure. It seems to be universally con ceded, however, by our most experi enced penologists that after the dis ease has made its appearance there is but little encouragement to attempt a cure, and that the best that remains to be done is to prevent its spread by the prompt and energetic use of the saw and pruning-knife. Quinn says, "Our plan has been the instant any tree showed signs of being af fected, to saw or cut ofr the branches or main stem, six or eight inches be low where the disease appeared." Harry says, "When the pear tree is attacked, it is difficult to save it, the disease spreads so rapidly. The only remedy is, to cut away instantly the blighted parts, into the sound wood* where there is not the slightest trace of the disease, and burn them up im mediately." Egg-shells for Laying Hens. Frutit lb* Farm Journal Many (tcoplu who keep fowls know that a laying hen requires lime in some form to furnish the shells for her eggs. Ground bone,oyster shells, mortar, rubbish, etc., are recommend ed and used by many for this pur pose. These articles are all good, hut the broken or ground oyster shell is the best, as well as the cheajiest of them. Some recommend and use the shells of eggs that have been used in cookery as a part of the bill of fare for the hens; others condemn the practice of feeding the shells. The first objection is that it will teach the hens to eat eggs, some claiming that their hens acquire the vice of egg eating through the practice of throw ing them the shells from the kitchen. This vice might be learned by the hens if the refuse shells are thrown to them whole. Wln-n they are given to the hens they should be broken into small pieces and mixed with oth er feed, or put into a IKJX with other similar lime-giving material. Another objection is that the shell is a product of secretion, and having once passed through the system of the hen is a waste product and can not be utilized again. "After a thing has once gone through the system," says a Massachusetts man, "it is use less." The contents of the shell, as well as the shell itself, have gone through the system of the hen, and arc they therefore use-less* Milk is a secretion from the cow; is It use less? Hardly. Hones and oyster shells are formed by processes of secretion, but they are not condemn ed as useless liccatisc they have once (•assed through living organisms.— No more should egg-shells be con demned. Therefore, instead of burning them, as is the practice of many, or throw ing them into the awill tub, where they are a nuisance, break them into small pieces and mix them with the soft food of the hens, or throw them into the box containing other lime producing food, an|-1k at int. tm In U.s t blUxi ft| *l *ti iiU">i gjn to In|effHv(* UM M ifw the iflW. all to inraati i** or Faionu **• •I*. Ifvtir* in aud <>()* loraian roatitri**. rtM. 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