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NEWS, FACTS ANT) SUGGESTIONS.
THII TTST OP TUX NATIONAL WXLFAXX L THI INTKI.LI
UINCI AXP raoxrrtiTt UP TXX PAXMIR.
Erery farmer in his annual experience
(Uncover* something of value. Write it and
send it to the "Agricultural Editor of the
DKMOCHAT, Belief ante, I'enn'u," that other
farmer* may hare the benefit of it. Let
communteatwnn be timely, and be sure that
they are brief and well pointed.
ARK your hens housed in as com
fortable quarters, and as carefully and
intelligently fed us your other farm
stock? II they ate do they not give
evidence—in the egg basket —of their
appreciation of such care ?
THE Poultry World for December
has a description of an immense es
tablishment at Cresskill, N. J., de
voted to hatching and raising chick
ens for the New York market. The
birds are hatched in incubators, from
eggs brought from Massachusetts;
raised in hot houses heated by steam, j
and fattened upon food forced down
their necks by a patented machine.
THE House Committee on Agri
culture has directed to be reported to
the House for passages bill repealing
so much of the Revised Statutes as
prohibited farmers and planters from
selling leaf tobacco at retail directly
to consumers without paying a special
tax. Thus another unjust discrimi
nation against farmers will be done
away.
THE American Agriculturist pro
poses to open, at its otllce, 245 Droad
way, New York, a record of every
agricultural, horticultural, and other
kindred societies, in the United States
and British America. We call the j
attention of all officers of societies
who may see this, to this matter, and
request them to send to the Agricul- ,
turist such information as may be
needed for this purpose. This will
include the name of county and State j
where located, the name of the soci- j
cty, and the names and post-office i
addresses of the president and secre- j
tary.
THE correspondents of our valued
contemporary, the Connecticut Farmer,
are spending bottles of ink, and
wasting reams of paper in discussing
the different methods of "harvesting
corn." This is well enough, perhaps,
but we are much more interested in
Dr. Stnrtevant's "How to grow one
hundred bushels of corn per acre."
Whenever we become wise enough
and careful enough to reach this in
an average crop, we will manage to
get it harvested, somehow.
THE newly organized American
agricultural association has already
given abundant evidence thnt no such
institution is needed nor can be
maintained in this country. Western
States were not represented at the
meeting at all; the names of the
chief officers are comparatively un
known in agricultural circles; and
the executive committee, consisting
of five memlters, embraces one gen
eral, two colonels, one doctor, and
one ex-governor. Too many titles
there. The end can be seen from the
beginning.
W K arc under obligations to Gen
eral Lc I)uc for his November He
port of the condition of crops. It
reports the wheat crop this year to
be the largest ever produced in the
country, exceeding that of last year
by about twenty-six millions of hush
els. Pennsylvania held its own in
quantity and improved in quality.
The average yield per acre for the
whole country la 13.9 against 18.1
hist year—a gain of .8. Indiana re
ports an average of 20.3 bushels per
acre, an increase of exactly four
bushels over last year's crop. The
lowest average per acre is seven
bushels,in North Carolina; Colorado
takes the lead with twenty-three and
one-tenth, and Pennsylvania comes in
with fifteen and three-tenths. The
corn ctop is returned as fifteen per
cent, larger than last year, with Ne
braska leading with an average of
forty-flve bushels per acre. Tobacco
is reported as having gained very
decidedly in Pennsylvania, though
the crop for the whole country is
from sixteen to twenty per cent, be
hind the average for the past eight
years. Rye shows a decline of pine
per cent., while potatoes show the
largest average since 1875, with Ver
mont leading oil' with n'< average of
one hundred and forty-flve bushels.
IN our issue of November 13, we
published a circular from General
Walker, Superintendent of Census,
addressed to farmers, giving informa
tion as to what questions will be
asked, and what answers required by
the census taker, when he makes his
appearance in June. We desire again
to call the attention of our farmer
readers to this matter, and urge upon
them the importance of giving it
proper attention. "A wonderful de
velopment of agricultural production
has taken place since 1870, especially
in the cereals and in feeding of beeves
for (juality in rtieat production. He
sides, the eyes of the world are just
now turned upon our agriculture as
never before,on account of the strong
competition it oilers on every hand.
All these considerations conspire to
make this census far more important,
than any of its predecessors." For
thoroughness in this agricultural part
of the enumeration, dependence must,
in a large measure, be placed upon the
farmers, who should educate and
prepare themselves for their part of
the work. "The superintendent de
sires all farmers to prepare themselves
in advance to note the number of
ucres in each crop, estimate carefully
the quantities of products harvested,
and calculate their true values. The
numbers and value of farm stock,
implements, etc., should also l>c fixed
in advance. If these facts are not
carefully developed during this fall
and winter, the returns to the enum
erators will be a jumble of guess
work of very uncertain value." If
farmers will turn to our issue of
November 13, before referred to, and
cut out the circular of General Wal
ker, they will find it an easy matter
to prepare their answers as there
directed.
Farm Drainage.
Mr. Howard Meek*, of Kent coun
ty, Md., recently read a lecture before
the Grange of which he is a member,
upon the subject of draining farms;
in which, after giving some notable
examples of the benefits of under
draining, as ordinarily understood,
he spoke as follows. We arc indebt
ed to the American Farmer for the
extract:
But there is a kind of drainage that
is quite otherwise. These, like the
better sort, are not seen, or at leaat are
not so apparent as to attract attention.
They consist, as do the others, of mains
and laternls. To lay them costs noth
ing, but once laid they Income fountains
of perpetual poverty.
In the early history of Kent couqjy
tobacco was the staple crop and contin
ued to be so until the cry went forth in
every direction "farming don't pay."
Then farmers abandoned tobacco and
gave their attention more to cereals. It
denoted progress, for the cereals do
return something to the exhausted soil.
This kind of husbandry prevailed with
varying results until the discovery and
introduction of Peruvian guano. Its
action on first application was marvel
ous and excited the most sanguine
hopes. Further trials, however, dispell
ed the illusion, and demonstrated that
stimulants are not food, and that exces
sive excitation of land, as of animal life,
must result in subsequent and corre
spending exhaustion. Yet the process
is still going on. and taday farmers
everywhere are toiling on in the delu
sive hope of reaping some profit while
they are enriching the dealers in com
mercial fertilizers. A member of this
firange has made a close calculation and
finds that the farmer gets all the straw
and chaff and the phosphate merchant
all the grain. It is not atall extravagant,
I think, to say that the outlay for fer
tilizers in a single year in this county
would pay for a cistern to contain the
liquid manure of the barnyards on
every farm in it. Moreover, that this
liquid manure, now wasted, applied to
grass lands, would be worth more than
twice the price of the fertilizers employ
ed. <>n nine tenths of our farms this
finds its way into the Chesapeake. This
is pernicious drain No. 1. Added to
this is the almost universal practice of
leavinc solid manure exposed to the
weather to leach and evaporate until its
strength is exhausted. The lack of
sheds or covered pits to protect our
manure is insidious and ruinous drain
No. '2. These we may call mains of this
wasteful system of covered drains.
The laterals are innumerable. There
is no pit for ashes, and they are thrown
out to be scattered by the winds or
leached by the rains until they are
nearly worthless. The dropping* of the
iioultry house are suffered to lie about
In much the same manner until half
their virtue is lost. Plows, harrows and
other farm tools are left where last used
to bleach and decay, to he replaced by
new ones to pass through the same
ordeal. Cattle and other stock stand
shivering in the wintry blast eking out
a life ef woe by nibbling at a bunch of
straw; while the farm buildings, dwell
ing included, are tumbling to pieces;
while loose clap boards and swinging
shutters are olspping a pean of praise
to the presiding goddess of ruin ! The
farm has been drained and the owner
likewise. How long can such a process
ocntinue.
Every Farmer His own Miller.
In the long ago it WHS much cheaper
for a farmer to take his grain to the
miller, ami by paying liim one-eighth or
twelve and one half per cent., have his
grinding done at a fair price. Now, the
miller will obligingly exchange from IK
to 35 pounds of (lour for a hiudiel of
wheat, HO that if the wheat in worth 50
cents a bushel,* the farmer pays the
miller 1(i bushels of wheat for a barrel
of Hour, or nearly 70 per cent, of his
wheat for the grinding. The charge
for grinding corn is lOcenta per bushel;
that is, the husbandman Is permitted to
pay the miller one load of corn for
grinding another. Such being the case,
an agriculturist cannot attord to feed
stock ground food, or indulge very lib
erally in wheat bread, unless be does
bis own grinding. (loot] farm mills are
now so cheap, that it is real economy to
buy one.
We find the above in the Rural
New Yorker , and quote it as written,
although the figures will not hold in
this section. The charges for grind
ing are not so great here as those
given by the Ruru /, but they are high
enough to prove quite a burden to
the farmer, and to cause many—|>er
haps most—to feed their grain whole
rather than incur the expense ol'
grinding. Careful observation lias
convinced us, from our own experi
ence, that if pays to grind all groin fed,
and particularly when it ran is;
ground at so small expense as upon
one of the farm mills mentioned by
the Rural. Of these, there arc many
varieties, and of them all, actual ex
perience leads us to believe that the
best and cheapest for the average
farmer arc of the clnss known as the*
coifee mill style, which have the lever
for furnishing the power directly
connected to them, and may be used
independent of any other power.
Our own is of this pattern, and was
made by J. A. Field, Son k Co., of
St. Louis, it being our choice after a
careful examination of all that we
had any knowledge of. We now do
all our own chopping at a cost of but
little, if any, more than that formerly
incurred by taking our grain to mill
and back, and save the miller's
charges for grinding. On a majority
of the farms in Centre county this
would amount to the cost of the mill
every year.
How Shall We use Hen Manure ?
D. N. Kern, in the late number of
the Practical Farmer , takes a new
departure on this subject, and, as
usual, he is right: v
I clean my poultry houses every
Saturday morning. In one house I
have li head, in another 29 head, and
in the third house 48 head—in all, 80
head, and the droppings from them
weigh 4 4 pounds every week. Lur
ing the months of July, August and
September I had 100 head. As soon
as 1 have my poultry houses cleaned,
J take the manure and spread it over
my wheat field, or on a poor spot in
ray meadow, and you can take my
word that a man with one eye can
see where I put it. To put hen man
ure in a box or barrel and keep it
one year before it is put to n crop. I
think is a wrong way. What would
you think of a man who had SIOO
ready to put out at interest, but
would keep it a year before he put it
out ? My opinion is, the sooner yon
give your hen manure to the needy
soil, the sooner you get the profit
from it. Not long ago I visited a
man, and to my astonishment
I saw aliout two tons of hen manure
lying in his large poultry house. No
wonder the chicken cholera comes
around.
1 iiK fsrmersof this country are at the
bottom of all its prosperity.— hlxchange.
True! Isn't it time some of them
were getting to ihe top of it ?
I nr.ur.vt that ts should linvc salt
t len.H once a week —twice in really not
too often—hut care should aUo he tak
en that they have acceaa to water. My
experience U that salt, unless soon fol
lowed by water to dilute it. haa injur
ious c licet a. It produce* alone a fever
in the atoinacb, and create* a burning
thirst which ia had for the animal.—K'-
chamff t
The plan which wc have found to
l)c the least trouble, and to give the
moat satisfactory results is to have
both salt and water at all times ac
cessible to the cattle, and let them
determine how often and in what
quantities they need either. Let a
box be permanently fixed under the
corner of the shed, or even under the
overshot of the barn, and keep con
stantly in it a mixture of say a peck
of salt, half a pek of wood ashes,
and a big handful of sulphur. The
cattle will lick at it daily, and "profit
thereby." Then, If there is a supply
of fresh, running water in another
part of the barn-yard, as there is on
every well-regufeted farm, they can
"dilute" it at their pleasure, and
"profit thereby," too.
WINTER and spring butter is often
injured in flavor by allowing cows to
eat the litter from horse stables.
How and Wliy to Use Lime.
Larger quantities of lime are used
upon the farms of our county every
year. In order to help our farmers
to a more intelligent application of
it, and understanding ot its action,
we re-print from the Religious
a very plainly written article by one
of the leading chemists of the day:
What are of lime in agri
culture '(
(1) Lime is always one of the nine
substances found in the ash of plants.
The grasses and forest trees particu
larly take it lqi from the soil in great
abundance. When lime is not pres
ent in the soil in sutiicieut abundance
to meet this demand, it should lie
added. •
(2) Lime is needed to hasten the
decomposition of vegetable matter,
and so make it available us plant
food. If we wrap up a piece of lime
in a cloth, in a short time the cloth is
so decomposed that it will fall into
shreds from its own weight. Tan
ners use lime in their vuts to rot the
hair from the hides. Now, lime lie
haves exactly in this way in the soil.
The vegetable matter in the soil is use
less until it decomposes, ami lime
hastens the process of decomposi
tion.
(.'}) Lime is frequently necessary
to correct acidity in the soil. Soils
charged with vegetable acids are
never productive. On such soils we
put lime, which, combining with
these acids, forms neutral salts o(
lime. A person takes u little liine
water, for exactly the same reason,
when he sutlers from acidity of the
stomach. When lands have been
freshly drained, they are always acid.
The excess of water, with which the
land was saturated, had excluded the
atmosphere, and so had prevented
the complete decomposition of vege
table matter. This vegetable matter,
if the air had not Iteeiv excluded,
woidd have been converted by at
mospheric oxygen into carbonic acid,
ammonia, Ac.; but without oxygen,
its elements rearrange themselves,
and form those injurious compounds,
ulroic, humic and geic acids. When
the soil is drained, the atmosphere
strikes through and destroys these
acids, but not entirely in a single
season. The process of. necessity, is
slow. The sod to the depth of sev
eral feet, it inay lie, is sour, and it
will lie some time liefore the atmos
phere can thoroughly permeate this
soil and burn out these hurtful acids.
Lime, then, com< s to help the slow
operation of natural causes. When
It is spread upon the soil, it is carried
downward by the rains, and combines
with and neutralizes speedily and ef
fectually these vegetable acids. We
Cannot possibly err, then, when wo
put lime on freshly-drained lands.
In such lands there are not only free
acids, but a large amount of organic
matter, which has not been decom
posed because of the exclusion of
atmospheric oxygen. The applica
tion of litne to such soils corrects
this acidity, and by decomposing,
renders immediately available this
large amount of vegetable matter.
The ash of the grasses contains 22
per cent, of lime. Hence the practice
of top dressing the grasses with gyp
sum, which is the sulphate of lime.
Lime may lie injuriously applied,
if the soil contain but Utile vegeta
ble matter, the applicatioh of lime,
particularly heavy applications, will
cause this vegetable matter to decom
pose too quickly. When the crop
approaches maturity, it finds that
its quantum of vegetable matter lias
already lieen decomposed and used
up. The result will lie conspicuous
ly disastrous if the soil was not de
ficient in lime. The lime has sup
plied no want, but has only inflicted
an injury.
(1) Lime is known as caustic or
quick lime. This is the nrticle as we
obtain it from the kiln. Heat has
expelled carbonic acid from the car
bonate of lime, and cnustic lime is
the result.
(2) Hyd rated or slaked limo.
When we add to lum|m of caustic
lime alout 25 per cent, of water, the
lumpa fall dowti into a perfectly dry
jKrwder, giving u slaked lime.
(3) I'pon exposure to the atmos
phere, this alaked lime loaea its prop
erties. It become* the carbonate of
lime, or mild lime—the very com
pound chemically from which the
lime was originally obtained. Thi*
mild lime, or carbonate of lime, ha*
no caustic or disorganizing proper
ties whatsoever. It tnny be naked,
then, why we do not use lime in it*
natural state, namely, the carbonate
of lime, if it geta into that condi
tion when we spread it on the soil f
We answer:
(1) Although lime goes l>ack to
carbonate of lime, it does not do so
all at once, and, in the process of re
turning to that condition, it decom
pose* vegetable matter, and so makes
it plant food.
(2) The natural limestone rock—
the carbonate—is very hard, and its
reduction to a powder by mechanical
means would be difficult and expen
sivc. Now, when lime slakes in the
air it falls down into a dry powder.
No mechanical reduction, therefore,
is necessary. It requires less expen
diture of force to burn the limestone,
and let the lime fall to powder of it
self, than to reduce the natural rock
by mechanical power.
Tho Older Mill.
V?ndR III* llu Nw KU gland BIIIMI,
Yloodod with unliiu<-, a valley let,
By the rHMjai'|e atatid* (he elder mill.
Where a lowland aluuiher Wait* the rill;
A gnat brown building, two atri*e liigh,
On the western hilMfoc warm and dry ;
And odorou* pila t,f applna there
fill with InrerjM the g l h n air ;
And li w|mi of pnmlre. mlxad with atratr,
To their amber *wc<U lh late flirt draw.
The carta Urk up hi the upper d#or #
And |'HI their treaaurea on the ft .or ;
!>'wn through the toothed wheel* they K „
To tha wide, deep rider pn-M helow ;
And the aciew* are turned hy -low degt<--
iKiwn on the ftrawdnhl chief chee ;
And with *'h turn a fuller trwm
Burnt* from h.doatl, th groaning Iwwin,
An Niiilo r -tr. i.io the god* might alp,
And far n morrow'* parched Hp.
With rla*ir*gnh||-t t r felt
Hlieh tin illtiigjotiche* through (t iiodt,
Am throh electric along a at raw
When the Uitlih tip* tire cider draw >
The y ear# are he-uy with **r% aoiinda.
And their df*ord life** *w.et mind' drown*;
But jet I he.tr. Oh ! awe. t, (||, • kweet,
The rill that hathed my hare, hrown f • t.
And yet the rider drip* and fall*
'hi in)* Inward ear at lutertaJ*;
And I lewd at tliriea in a and. *weef dream,
To Ho- lail'hliox of that little atr an, ,
And I ait in a viaiurfed autumn "till.
In the auiiuy door ol the rider mill.
—JoliU Whlttier.
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CONSUMPTION
POMITIVELV PI ft 1711.
A LL suflTorrm from thin diene
1 V lb.l .r<- •tntbti. n l> run*.! b 11M Irv tin
KlMtNliK * 4'KI.KHKATKI. IVtNM MI-TIN K I'ONN
PtM. Tlww Po.-.lf f• .rr th. nly pr> porotlnn ktm.n
that *lll ran an<) all itbaun f the
Tnnr * t.r*oa—lndowl, m atrons I. nnr f.l.h In
IN.m. ati'l al*> to roa.liK* >n that ilt.jt ar* no hum
b(l. w will h>rwar>l to rj xifTorrr by mail, poat
pal l, a mat Tat u Hot.
Wa ibm*t * a tit yoar mnnav until yon at. parfarlly
aatiaAaH ol thatr rurntlaa p-nart. II yoor llfa la aortii
aatlnc. i|..n l dalay In ci.iti| lhaaa Ton ntna a Ulal. aa
thay nill anraly ctira yon.
Prim, for lar*. M, Bfll, oant lo any part of tha
L'nila.l ctalaa or Canada, by mail, on romlpt of prtra.
Addrana,
ASU & ROB BINS,
44 ly ann Fnlb.n htraat. BnaAlyn, K. T.
FITS, EPILEPSY,
OR
FAlalalNfa K|tk\lN
I>EKM A N KNTLY CURED—No
A llnmlt(t— by ana moMh'a aaaga nf Or. Qa*
Urd't Calabratad Irfall.bla Fit Pawdcra. Tcoa
tinea anlfarara that lhaaa piarlara will ito nil tra rtalm
for lham wa nill nand tham by mall, wary run. a rntt
Tbtat not. da l>r. (boil.nl |. tha only phyblan that
haa a*ar mada thla dtarmaa a aiwctal atndy, and aa to
onr Inonlad,.- th-maanda Kara lawn maitnmt r*r
ad by tha naa of Ihw Ponntna. w i iu. ortnanTnt
rnirttrr rnra In ayary rata, or atri al, lot' aid
■oant urtaaaa. All anffatari ah.mld lr tboaa
Po*.lara an aarly trial, and ha ounvln. ad of tbalr rnni
ttra notrora
Prim. Aw larg" ho*, fem, nr 4 hnaaa Aw (1.1 .mi. aant
by mad b> nny part of Utr I'nitad Htataa or Cnmadn
on racalpt of prim, nr by ataraa. C. O t) A<tdraaa
ABII A BOBBINS,.
M-'j B*l Mb* Atraat, Brooklyn, Jf. T.
Eggs in Winter.
| Correspondent of Poultry World,
Winter in lite time when our farm
| era growl about their hen* „,,t | aV in.
1 lie moat of them are umler the
impression that all that In ns eat at
thin season is thrown away, ami in
many canes this in true, ib,w
a man think that liens will lav
winter when tlieir whole time in con
sumed in standing first on one foot
and then on the other, to keep then,
from freezing? The egg come,
from the surplus nutriment, after tin
bird has had enough to supply
warmth and replace the natural waste
of her body. If owing to exposure
nil her food is used up in keeping her
warm, I don't see how she can have
, anything for eggs.
When people learn to enre for their
fowls as they care for other strn k
thru will they receive as handsome'
profits.
SAKATOOA milk dealers have form
ed an association to advance the p,je C
of nrlk one cent per quart.
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