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The Farm

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
February
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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S. Walter of the Delaware County Republican, a few years ago, gave to a citizen of New Jersey some California potatoes, which he received from General Beale, and have been successfully grown in the former state. They are said to be larger than the eominon sweet potato, have a peculiar and pleasant saccharine taste, and are less Hable to rot in the ground than those in general cultivation. Too many farmers manifest a uegree of contempt for the smaller producís of the farm, particularly those cultivators who are engaged in raising large quantities of wheat, corn, or who are largely engaged in the dairy bvisiness. As a consequence, there is often a lack of vegetables upon such farms, with perhaps a short supply of eggs, honey, combined often with a complete neglect of small fruits. lt' taiméis could employ inore capital they would have better implements and better cultlvation. If they gave more careftil attention to the seed they used they might increase their crops f rom twenty-five to flfty per cent. If they could sncceed in producing ast much weight from an animal at two and three years of age as was formerly accomplished at tive and six years old, farming might be made as profltable as any other brancli of business. Mr. Richardson, of Westville, N". ,T., keeps a flock of about forty black Spanish fowls, and fmds that feeding them offal cheese has a wonderful effect in increasing the quantity of eggs. He soaks the cheese in water for a eouple of hours, and feeds at the rate of a bucketf ui per day. Many of the eggs contain doublé yolks, and the augmented number obtained much more than pays for the small cost of food. The proprietois of grocery stores are often glad to get rid of spoiled cheese at any price, which could thus be profltablv fed. Sir John Lubbock has made a discovery which may turn out of soms importance to our Western farmers. In the neighborhood of the site of ancient Troy Sir John has come across a beetle whose mission it seems to be to destroy locusts by consuming their eggs. Even before they arrive at the dignity of full blown beetles, while in the grub stage of their development, they begin their attack on the unhatched young of the "wingeil destróyer." The voracity of the Lubbock beetle is said to be extraordinary, and some of them seem to be able to destroy the whole erop of "hoppers," and have actually done so in certain parts of Asia Minor this season. It is fair to presume on sanitary grounds that meat froni animáis in any way diseased is always unwholesome until proved to the contrary, and the public should always insist uponproofs, never ii) such cases being satisfied with bare statements. Even the fact that persons may have eaten meat from diseased animáis, and escaped without any bad consequences, should not always be accepted as a proof that the meat was harmless, for others might eat from the same animal and death be the result. Around Shanghai lie 50,000 square miles which are called the garden of China, and which have been carefully drained for countless generations. This area is as large as Xew York and Pennsylvania combined; it is all meadow land, raised a few feet above the river - lakes, rivers, a complete network of water communication. The land is under the highest cultivation ; three crops a year are gathered. The population is so dense that wherever you look you see men and women in blue pants and blouses, so numerous that you fancy some fair or muster coming on, and all hands turned out for a holiday. Xo one can deny that the Chinese are án industrious people.

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Ann Arbor Democrat