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Around The Farm

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
March
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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Bkakes that have made themselves nuisances in wet lands may be killed by i draining off all superfluous inoisture. Some varieties of brake will grow only in heavy wet soil, and taking out the watei is taking away one of the elementa essential to their life and growth. The number of eggs annually laid by a fowl is estimated at flfty-two, which would weigh about six pounds, and as a fowl seldom weighs more than three poundd, a hen lays annually doublé her own weight. Seventeen eggs will weigh on the average two and one-fif th pounds. - London Groeer. A farmer who has profited by experience writes this sensible paragraph: "In building a new barn I would study to put in all the windows I eould possibly get in, of eonrse not making a greenhouse of it, but as inany as most folks put into dwelling houses. It is so niuch better doing the work in a light barn than in a dark one, eattle are more easily taken care of and are more quiet and better contented in a light place than in a dark one." A singla grain of barley was planted by an agriculturist in the Isle of Man, in 1872, and the same year produced three ñundred grains. ïhese were sown, and the seoond year's produce was about half a pint. These were again sown, and the third year's produce was fourteen pounds, which being again Eown, have realized this year about seven bushels, covering a space_of one hundred vards by five. Thus thêre has been produced in f our years seven bushels of barley from a single grain. The best material for hot beds is horse manure well turned and mixed with about one-third its bulk of tak leaves. Another excellent mixture is the above with cotton waste, one-half waste and leaves, the other half manure. The middle of March is the proper time to start the bed in northern States, and a mild dayshould be selected for the work. Big a pit about 3 feet deep in j front, 8 inohes deeper at the back, and 6 feet wide. This aöords an opportunity for adding linings if it be deemed necessary, when the heat in the bed decreases. Eveky human being who eats bread or wears olothes, has a direct interest in the resulta of the tillage of the soil, and in iarni economy in general. Hunger and nakedness are wants of the most urgent character. The Oreator of all things has placed these wants alike in every being. All are equally dependent on successful agriculture for the means of happiness. Let the soil become permanently exhausted ; or far less, let a famine prevail over the land but a single year, and the heart shrinks f rom contemplating the scènes that would inevitably follow so great a calamity. A wise, prudent population will always prepare for the future. A Man Who Knew His Business.- John Johnson, of Geneva, N. Y., carne to this country with little more means than to plant liim on his American farm. He saw the needs of his soil and commenced draining off its surplus water, and the jeera of his neighbors at his folly were soon turned to astonishment at t'he crops he produoed. They saw him reap a wheat erop doublé the average of the State, raise cattla and feed sheep at a profit, while others reported only loss. He proceedea, with the calm confidence of knowledge, to tile drain his 400 acres, at an expense much greater than he paid for his farm ; but for some yoars, in relief of his oíd age, he has been able to rent portions of it for $15 per acre. He had faith in hh business.- Liv e Stock Journal. How MuöhWorkaHobse Can Do.- At a meeting of the British Association, at Dublin, Mr. Charles Bianconi, of Caspel, read a letter relative to his extensive car establishment, after which a gentleman steted that at Pickford's, the great English carrier's, they could not work a liorse more than ten niiles a day, and wiskei to liear Mr. Bianconi's opinión on the subject. Mr. B. stated that he found by experience he could better work a liorse eight miles a day f or six days in the week thau six miles a day for seven days. By not working on Sunday he effeeted a saving of twelve per cent. Mr. Bianconi's opinión on this point is of the highest importanco, for he has over 900 horses, working thirty-seven conveyances, which daily travel 4,244 miles. It is also the result of forty-four years' experience. A i'ABMBR ivrites that he and his neighbors, having some grain to carrv to market, took the precaution to accurately weigh it before leaving home. The buyer made tho loads fcmr or six bushels less than they should be. One of the farmers had no evidence of his home weight, and so could 'Jo nothing, i as the grain was already mixed with thit in store. Tho other had a witness of the weight of bis grain on the home scales, and compelled the buyer to pay for the full amount. There is little doubt that such frauds are often attempted these hard times, when buyers' proftts are light. Every neighborhood ut least ought to have platform-scales, and many farmers could much better afford to btiy them than to sell theil prodiKie oxolusively at buyers' veight.

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Old News
Michigan Argus