1882.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



163 



Our joys, when exlendeil, 

 Will always iiuTcase ; 



Our griefs, w hen divided, 

 Are hushed into peace." 



THE PAHMEK'S IIOPK. 



" Hope springs eternal in the human hreast ; 

 Man never is, but always to lie, blest ; 

 The soul, uneasy and eontined from home, 

 Hests and expatiates on a life to come." 



THE FAHMEU'S I'BOVI DENOE. 



" All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; 



All chance, direction, which thou canst not see, 



AD discord, harmony not understood. 



All partial evil, universal good ; 



And, spite of pride, ii\ erring rtuxon's spite. 



One thing is clear— whatever is, is right." 



EXCERPTS. 



TiiK rye crop will probably roach 20,000,- 

 000 biishcls. 



Of buckwheat, Pennsylvauia produces 

 nearly oiie-hiilftlie entire crop. The total 

 yield will be over 11,000 000 bushels. 



The potato crop covers an area approach- 

 ins; 2,000,000 acres, with a yield of about 80 

 bushels per acre. A short crop is foreshad- 

 owed in Xew York .State. 



Returns to the Department of Agricul 

 ture from all the 1700 counties of the United 

 States indicate a wheat product slisthtly ex- 

 ceeding .500,000,000 Imshels, or an average 

 yield per acre of about 13..5 bushels. 



In cotton, an unusual size and vigor of 

 plant, with capacity for a large production, 

 is reported. The general average of condi- 

 tion is higher than in any October for ten 

 years, with the e.xception of 187.5 and 1878. 



More than one-half of all the barley pro^- 

 duced in the United States is raised in New 

 York, California, and Wisconsin. The aver- 

 age yield is 2:{.5 busliels per acre, and the 

 total product will reach 45,000,000 bushels. 



Oats are an immense crop. The average 

 yield is higher than that of last year, Kan- 

 sas ranks among the highest, as it does in 

 wheat. The total product in oats of all the 

 States will probably be 480,000,000 bushels. 



The six principal winter wheat States will 

 aggregate 244,000,000 bushels. There is a re- 

 duction in tlie acreage of the spring wheat 

 area ot the Northwest, but the yield may 

 reach 11,3,000,000 bushels. The Pacific 

 coast will probably yield 45,000,000 bushels, 

 the Middle States 40,000,000 bushels, and 

 the Southern States a tritie more than 50,000,- 

 000 bushels. 



Kansas holds its reputation for large re- 

 ttirns to the toiler, with the extraordinary 

 average yield of 19.5. The country north of 

 the Ohio river, in the great wheat belt, aver- 

 ages nearly 10 bushels. Kentucky and Mis- 

 aouri promise about 14 bushels, and California 

 13 bushels. 



The average yield of wheat the country 

 over has never fallen quite to 10 bushels, and 

 it has never quite reached 14 bushels in years 

 of greatest abundance. This season it is un- 

 usually high in New York — 18.7 bushels. In 

 the New England States, except Vermont, it 

 runs as low as 14 bushels. ■ In nearly all the 

 Southern States the average is low, ranging 



from 7 to It) bushels. Texas and Arkansas 

 are exceptions. 



The yield of corn cannot yet be accurately 

 estimated. Mucli of it is still standing in 

 stock in the. liel<ls. It is believed, however, 

 that there will be at least 1,080,000,1100 bush- 

 els, or an average yield of 25 bushels, or an 

 average yield of 25 bushels to the acre, 

 agi.inst 28 in 1870, and 18 in 1881. Of this 

 totid the States north of Tennessee and west 

 of Virginia and Pennsylvania produciMl 1,2,")0,- 

 000,000; the Southern States, .'540,000,000; 

 Middle States, 82,000,000, and liew England 

 over 7,000,000. Tlie total product will be 

 more tlian four huiulred millions greater tiian 

 last year. 



Indigestion in Hogs.— VVhen pigs do not 

 thrive and try to eat gravel or earth it is a 

 symptom of indigestion. They are probably 

 overfed. Reduce their food one-half. Give 

 the two pigs half a pint of sweet-oil or linseed- 

 oil in the food daily for two or three days, 

 and as they recover gradually give them a 

 liltle dry corn in addition to their other food. 

 Some charcoal would be of service and may 

 be given frequently. 



DiAuitiicEA IN A Mare. — When a horse is 

 in good health and condition while feeding 

 upon grass, and when changed to hay is 

 affected by diarrha-a, it is doubtless some- 

 thing in the hay that causes it. Give the 

 mare half a pint of linseed oil once a day 

 for a few dtiys ; cut the hay and wet it, and 

 add to it a quart of bran and linseed-oil cake 

 meal in equal parts, and add little salt to it. 

 This will probably remove the trouble. 



Remedy for Flies. — As a remedy for 

 flies of all kinds in houses, stables, and 

 greenhouses, it has been recommended to 

 boil tobacco in water until the juice has been 

 nearly all evaporated. As it is the es.sential 

 oils of the tobacco which are effective for 

 this purpose when it is burned and these are. 

 evaporated with the steam in the boiling, all 

 the eO'ect is produced without the disagreea- 

 ble smoke of the burning. 



The Cabbage-'worm.— There is no doubt 

 the cabbage-worm can be destroyed by using 

 some very soluble substance that is poisonous 

 to it, but not hurtful to persons if it is wholly 

 washed off— but that may easily be done. 

 Nitrate of soda, glauber salts, and muriate of 

 potash have each been tried the past season, 

 and each one killed the worms. The dill'er- 

 ent salts were dissolved in water, half an 

 ounce to a quart, and sprinkled over the cab- 

 bages. 



Reducing Bones with Popasii. — The 

 waste potash from the muriatic acid makers 

 can be used to soften bones in the following 

 manner : Pack the bones in a tank or pit or 

 heap, with the potash and quicklime in pro- 

 portion of 25 pounds of each to 100 pounds of 

 bone, or even double that quantity, as they 

 are of value for the fertilizer. When the 

 heap is complete wet it until the lime begins 

 to slake ; then cover it with earth and leave 

 it exposed to the rain during the winter. In 

 the spring it may be shoveled out and mixed. 



Three and one-tenth pounds of corn will 

 produce, when fed to a hen, five-sixths of a 

 pound of eggs ; but live-sixths of a pound of 

 pork requires about live pounds of corn for its 

 production. Taking into account the nutri- 



ment in eacli and the comparative prices of 

 the two on an average, the pork is about three 

 times as costly a food as the eggs, while it is 

 certainly less healthful. — Hartford (Conn.) 

 Fanner. 



A SALMON was caught in the Penobscot, 

 near liucksport. Me., the other day, that was 

 34i inches long and weighed 10} pounds. It 

 was "tagged" as follows: "Salmon No. 

 1,135. This was a female tagged Oct. 28, 

 1880, and dismissed a few days later, weigh- 

 7} pounds and measuring .'iO inches in length. 

 She had just yielded 1 pound 15 ounces of 

 spawn, which would make her weight before 

 spawning 9 pounds 7 ounces." Another, re- 

 cently caught, was marked Nov. 13, 1880, 

 and then weighed 8} pounds. Recaptured 

 June 23, 1882, it weiglied 14} pounds, and 

 was in good condition. 



One hundred and fifty thousand pounds of 

 wool were purchased by one firm in Washing- 

 ton county. Pa., in one week. 



Cows cannot be cheated into giving liberal 

 quantities of milk. That which they give ia 

 in proportion to what they receive. 



A GOOD farmer is better than a poor doc- 

 tor, and a good horse-shoer is better than a 

 bishop who preaches sermons nobody wants 

 to hear. 



Always have a place where your chickens 

 can bo sheltered from the storms, and be 

 kept comfortable. It is the lack of this that 

 kills so many chickens. 



There are two things that every farmer 

 must have— things that subserve like pur- 

 poses and are of equal importance — a grind- 

 stone and a newspaper. 



A VERY successful farmer once remarked 

 that "he fed his land before it was hungry, 

 rested it before it was weary, and weeded it 

 before it was foul." 



CoTTON-8EE» FOR FowLS. — We do not 

 know if fowls would eat cotton-seed ; it is 

 hardly probable, unless the husk were free 

 from lint. The writer has fed the meal to 

 fowls mixed in equal portions with ground 

 corn and oats and wet with hot water, or 

 mixed with sour milk, and they thrived ex- 

 ceedingly well upon it. There is no doubt 

 the meal will be a very useful feed for poul- 

 try, but as regards the whole seed it is doubt- 

 ful. If some of our Southern readers would 

 try it and report we should be glad to publish 

 the facts. 



Give the steers about two quarts of grain 

 every day. 



Stable the horses at night, if they are 

 worked. In rainy weather, work them as 

 little as possible, and rub dry. '* 



Plenty of night feed for the milch cows. 

 Soft corn, corn meal, corn fodder, hay, bran, 

 beet tops, cabbage leaves and pumpkins, are 

 what they ought to have. 



Pens for farrowing sows should have a rail 

 round the interior, about a foot high and six 

 inches from the sides. Feed warm slops 

 after farrowing, and increase the quality of 

 the food as the pigs grow. After three weeks' 

 growth, feed' the little pigs in a separate 

 trough. Don't delay shutting up the pigs in- 

 tended for fattening. 



For early lambing, choose the best ordi- 

 nary Merino ewes and a ram of pure breed. 



