©Jw tfrnirr r fhraocr;it. BKLLEFONTB, l'A. NEWS, FACTS ANI) HUMOKSTIONB. mac> tan raoni'iiirr or rai naaia. Every former in hit annuo I er/tertenee iliteorert somrthiny of value. I trite it ami tend it to the "Agricultural Editor t>j the DKMOCHAT, Eellefonte, I'enn'a," that other farmera may have the benefit ot it. I.et communieationt be timely, ami be sure lhat they are brief and irell /minted. WK regret to learn that an epidem- i ic of some sort is prevailing among j the swine of Chester county. The papers from which we obtain this news do not give any idea of its character. AT a late meeting of the Fulton, Lancaster county, Farmer's Club, one of the questions discussed was "does lime pay ?" .Most of the mem- , lers agreed that lime had been use- , ful, but that the land was now so full of it that they were warranted in abandoning its use. Happy farmers! Tub attempt to organize a Nation al Agricultural Society to which we referred in our issue of the 30th ult., has erystali/.ed, anil a duly au thorized committee has issued an ad dress to the public, stating the aims of the society, and calling a conven tion of all. interested in the subject at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York on the loth of December. The address is largely signed by represen tative agriculturists and public men throughout the country. WE particularly request the at tention of all our readers interested in farming, and particularly young farmers to an article in another col umn on this page, under the head of "A Farmers' Lecture Course." The article is entirely self-explanatory, and we only refer to it here to give the scheme our hearty approval, and urge all who possibly can to avail themselves of this opportunity for improvement in their calling. We know of no other way in which the sajnc amount of information can IK so pleasantly and cheaply secured : and the authorities of the College arc entitled to hearty commendation for this effort to disseminate correct agricultural information. ROAST turkey, with cranberry saiHc, flunked by well-grown and handsomely blanched celery, is pretty good living, and we hope that every farmer's family to whom the DEMO CRAT makes its weekly visits will have just such a dinner to-day. No one lietter deserves it, and no one can more easily have it than the farmer. Not a farmer in Centre county but can have just such a dinner, and all of it home-grown except the cran lierries, ("and the sugar of which they require a good deal," says our "better half," who is peeping over our shoulder), provided he or his family will take a little pains and forethought to secure it. The farm ers of America are not only feeding all America but nearly all' Europe as well, and who should be 1 >etter fed than themselves? WE learn from the American Dai ryman that the International Dairy Eair to lie held in New York in De ccmlier, and of which wo made men tion a week or two ago, promises to lie an immense success. At the last regular meeting of the Executive committee the various sub-commit tocs reported good progress in all di rections. Special premiums are be ing offered in large numliers and on a very generous scale, by prominent business men, and will make the ag gregate of premiums to lie awarded at the fair very large. One house in New* York offers SSO for the licst lot of cheese made in the State of Ohioi a Montreal house offers $. r ill each for the best factory butter and cheese made in Canada, and salted with Kiggin's Eureka Halt; and a Chica go house offers six gold, six silver and six bronze medals as first, sec ond nnd third prizes for butter salted with thu same salt, made in the State of Illinois, Michigan, lowa, Minne sota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The fair is to last two weeks, beginning the Bth proximo, and will doubtless contribute much toward advancing the dairy interests of the country. Just as we finish writing the above wc are in receipt, from Mr. Hals, the Secretary, of the prize list of the Nsi tiomil Kxliihitiou of Poultry to l>e held at Indianapolis in January, un der the auspices of the Indiana Poul try Association. The pamphlet it self is a iH'auty, and its contents a surprise to any who are not already j aware of the great importance the : poultry interests of the country have recently assumed. There are ino less than twenty classes, with very many sub divisions under each class. We have not time to foot up the premiums ottered, but they must run well up into the thousands of dollars. The first and largest one is a "special" of one hundred dollars j cash, offered by Stoddard, editor of our valued contemporary, the I'oul lr;/ World , for white Cochins, From this down to two dollars for cage of j white mice, everything imaginable in ' poultry or pets, is included. The I irrepressible Stoddard will lie on hand, and w ill publish a daily edition of one hundred thousand copies of, the Worhl , devoted exclusively to the great show and its interests. As illus trations of the rapidly increasing im portance of poultry and the dairy among the fanning interests of the country, these exhibitions are signifi cant. AT the late meeting of the Vir ginia State (Jrange, the Master, in I his annual address, insisted that the Department of Agriculture should be "dignified to a position in the Cabi net said of agricultural papers that "they have saved thousands of dol lars to the farmers ; but their influ ence for good is far greater in the educational feature than in the pe cuniary one," and suggested that "if farmers would devote more of their means to the education of their sons and daughters than to adding acres to their farms, they would have no reason to complain that all the exec utive and legislative positions of the country are filled by professional men." This is all very true, and very well put by Master Ilaylor: but with his sweeping denial that anything has ever been done for ag riculture; that "for this there has been no thought, no sympathy, no exer tion ; it has been suffered to languish from neglect by those whose duty it was to foster and encourage it," we cannot wholly agree. Master Ilay lor must be wilfully closing his eyes. FOR the necessarily limited space which we devote to agricultural sub jects, we cannot pretend to give even hints as to the work which needs at tention from week to week, nor do we think it advisable so to do. Just now, however, we want to call atten tion to two very important matters which our observation teaches arc too often neglected, viz; the timely and pro|>er care of farming imple ments, and the opening of surface drains on the w heat and clover fields. Even on the Is-st tools are sometimes dur>r-puny months, either left lying out where last used, or hnstily and carelessly thrown under the sheds without lie ing put in proper condition. Now is the time to gather them up, clean and oil them, and carefully put them out of harm's way for the winter. If they need repairs from ordinary wear and tear or breakages, these may le postponed until the stormy days of winter make indoor work particular ly desirable, but every day that any valuable implement is permitted to remain exposed to the deteriorating influences of the weather or the rav ages of rust consequent upon the filthiness of its condition, shortens its "life" more than the hardest day's work that can Ins exacted of it. (lather them up, clenu and oil, and put them away. It will /my b>tl> r than an invcefmrnt of their mine in government bond*. In the matter of draining a few hours or days can lie most profitably sjient in opening ways for the escape of water which will surely collect in the "low places" in the wheat fields Ixitwecn this and fair spring weather. Of course it would lie better to un derdrain, but this is expensive, and cannot always lie done, and the next thing is to "surface drain." With a team and plow, and one or two men with shovels, furrows can lie o|icned in a short time which will eirectually remove all surface water from places which would otherwise be "drowned out" during the coming wot times. The lalior and expense of plowing and seeding has already Ik-cii incur red, and it seems a pity thut acre alter acre of "well-set" grain should he rendered entirely unproductive for the want of n little udditionul time and labor. In this connection wo quote the following from the Attn riciin Agriculturist. Do not neg lect this matter; attend to it to-mor roir: "A simple protection for metal lic- surfaces, as of plows, and indeed of all other implements, tools and many household articles, is n mixture of say u pint of lard and a piece of tosin (resin) the size of an egg, melt ed with it. This supplies a sort of I cheap varnish that may Ik- ruhls-d on with a elotlc very thinly. The rosin will shut out air aud moisture-, and 1 keep the surface bright." Milk-Producing Feed. A correspondent of the St or I- Jour \ nut states that he is short of hay for his dairy, and can buy bran at sll per ton, ami corn meal at sls per ton, and asks from which he will get the best result in milk, proportioned to the cost. The reply of the Jour nal is full of instruction, in plain, well-chosen words, and w<- quote it entire for the benefit of tlu- many of our Centre county fanners who find themselves iu much the same situa tion as the Jnunml's correspondent: brail is peculiarly u milk producing food. It large percentage of albumin Olds supplies the casein 111 the milk all -I replaces th<- muscular wnteof the cow'* system. It has been determined, by numerous experiments, that the milch cow requires, fur H large yield of milk, a nitrogenous food, nii.-li m pea meat, oat, o,t meal, bran, g -oil clover hav. etc. Corn iiu-itl may be fed wall good clover bay, or with any of these intra geltous foods, I.ut it contain* !■* Inge A proportion of starch, or carbon, to lu ted largely by itself or wall poor bay, straw, etc. The following table gives the (ierinall analysis o( the digestible elements HI bran, corn meal, and clover bay ; Al' i.liille < . t| , oi u hj-Irtui. Fet Km Its* j H.! f .n I* 4. T • 1 -.i : • • n . 4 •• 4 4 • .....111 ( Im; (Wjr * •. i: .. : # j The proportion of dige-tible elements fixes tbe value of a food. The Hermans claim, in their experiment', to have de termined the preci-e pro|>or(ion digest ilde in most ot the feeding stull". Ibe values given are those ol the Herman standard, but in this countty can only be said to be th- proportional value. • 'nurse wheat bran is determined to be worth $1.04 to corn iiiea! $1 11 per bun dreard can lc had in the m-igh!x>rhood at $3 |x-r week ; and, In-foic the time named for the open ing of the course, the officers of the College will endeavor to make ar rangements by which farmers, and others in the vicinity, will receive boarders at lower rates. The above course will lo given, provided that by the 31st of Decern- IHT, IH*SI, applicants sufficient in number to justify the prosecution of the plan shall have notified the Pres ident of the College of their inU-n --tention to attend. All such |>ersoiis, therefore, are urged to communicate their purpose to the President trt'Motd delay; and he will at once send them such additional information as may then seem needful. Address, I'res't. JAMES CAI.HER, State College, Centre county, Ps. llowr.vr.H plausible an agricultural theory, the careful farmer will not largely emliody it in his prscticc un til it has ln-en satisfactorily tested by practical experiments under va rious conditions. Anvicic to ahccpowncrs—"Knact a dog law of your own. The dogs will prefer a fresh piece of meat with a little strychnia folded inside, to tin killed mutton." HARDIN anys: "Buy n big udder nnd it matters little what kind of a cow is attached to it, for all the other I>ointa are merely accessories." TIIK present is probably as good a time as nny in the Tear to cut out the canes of raspberries and blackber ries that have lorne fruit. TIIKRF. is nothing on the farm that sooner feels neglect than the dairy cow. A tfood family pajver, the CENTRE DEMOCRAT. Among Our Oontcmjioraries. Our old frlond, the American Agrieultur. Mt, (we have read it regularly for near! twenty-live year., and nipect XA> read It regularly a. long a. we .hall read anything, : and are therefore entitled to eall it "old friend ), ha. rent u. it. proapcctu* and premium li.t for IhRO. A. u.ual, iu prus | ax-tun prom i.e. lot. of good thing, for the new year, and a. in our long acquaintance with it we have never known the Agrirul (m ill to break a promise, we have rea.on to helieve that tile volume for IHHU will he a better one than any that ha. proceeded it , and Ihit U a. high prai.e a. we can give. It. premium li.t i. .imply wonder ful, embracing no lea. than hi? books, and -i-VI diHermit arliele., including almo.t every imaginalile thing, from an HO-uero farm or aelf-rake reaper, down to a jtocket comb or toy wheelbarrow. To aid in cir fii.ating the Agriculturist i. alwny. to do g'eel, and by it. arrangement for premium. it give. g.Kal pay for doing it. Whether you want to tub • rile- lor it or not, it will in/so M. 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