Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — FARM AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE]

FARM AND GARDEN.

- ** , a''*2, « lot to fat oarmriiJlT If thik IU-kfUir la a drv on# - n .« • J |^M| l rrjM II I that aectiotfc* *> • *’ ’ "Fb ■*•■ f 1 The low* Agricultural College wtß ex rectora fa »tipDiying • separate wtog for Us use, will enable the college to make a complete display of the products of student labor. According to the average of thirteen an* alysls made by Prof. Emile Wolf, of Germany, men grass contains 88 per cent ot nutrition. If cut when in bloom, it will contain but 89 per cent, whereas if not cut untill tbe seeds am fully formed or ripe it will contain only 81 per oent, of nutrition. Robert McKlnstry, of Hudson. Hew Turk, is believed to own the largest fruitorchard in tne United States, it contain* 84,000 apple trees, 1,708 pear, 4,000 cherry, 500 peach, 900 piumb, 900 crab apple, 15 000 grapevines, 6000 currant bushes sod 500 chestnut tress. As many as 80,000 barrels of apples alone hare been produced In a season in this gigantic orchard. Prof. Eedsin, of the Agricultural College of Michigan, and expert chemist, recently said that a paint <r wash mads of akimed milk, thoroughly tkiinrmd, and water brine will render wood uninSimable, sod be proved it by experiment. He said this paint, or whitewash, if durable, very cheap, Impervious to water, of sgreeabh color and as it will prevent wood fiom taking tire, he urged its uae, particularly on roota, out-buildings, barns, etc. The Charleston News says that in South Carolina farming is being done more extensively, more industriously, and more intelligently than ever before known by the oldest inhabitants. Men are' working with all theii might, and with cheerfulness, thereby raisiog agriculture from the previous status of au Isolated and plod ding calling to that of a live hopeful business, in which an enligfated and economical consideration is given to surroundings and their bearings-

Tbe last lowa Legislature passed a law providing that a lawful wire fence shall be one whose posts are not to be more than two rods apart, with two slays between, or one rod without stays; top wire not to be more than fifty-four inchesnor less than torly-eight inches from tbe ground; wires to be securely fastened to the posts, to be three wires barbed, or four wires, two of which shall be barbed, with not leas than thirty-six barbs, with four points each, to the rod. The act goes Into effect July 4*h next High prices are producing an immense increase in our imports. The United States furnishes at present a moat excellent market for products of ioreign manu facture, and the languishing industries of Europe are not slow to avail themselves of the opportunity offered. If we are nni careful we will find ourselves in the ncai future burdened with another foreign debt; which we will be compelled to pay as wc did the one incurred during the years bl intUmation, by selling our produc! a! ruinously low figures. The Maine Farmer says that the husbandmen of that state who raised beeu and sold them to the Portland licet Bu?hi Company received at the of SIOO to sls" per acre. The Company offers $5 50 fro 2 240 pounds of unwashed beets, free from earth and stones. For-every acre of beet* sold the company offers to return to the iarmer a carload of beet-pulp, containing ten tons, at the rates of $1 50 to $1 80 per ton,delivered to him at the nearest railroad station. The crop was extensively planted this spring in that state, and Ih< prospects arc that the supply will be great er than the demand. A singular feature of cur export trade U shown in the fact that America has so developed her facilities as to underbid even the Russian in laying down wh at at O desaa itselt. This causes the Russians to complain about as ipuch as the English would do if America should begin to ex port coal to Newcastle, for Odessa ha long been the principal depotof the grain trade of Europe. Wheat is as plentiful as dirt in the interior of Russia, bat the freights charged by railway and Black sea steamship lines are so excessive thamerchants find it cheaper to bring grain from America. The c»t in Odessa ot bringing grain from the cars to export quay is heavier than of its carriage from Odessa to London. Tbe Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals pats forth the following roles for the treatment of balky horses, which will bear reproduction: ' Pat the horse upon the neck, examim the harness carefully, first on one sido mid then on the other, speaking encouragingly while doing so; jump into the wagon and give the word go. Generally he will obey. A teamster in Maine says he can start the worst balky horse by taking him out of the shafts and making him go round in a circle until he is giddy, if the flr.t dance of the sort doesn't euro him the second will. To cure a balky horse, simply place your hard over the horse’s nose and shut eff hit wind until he wants to go, and then let him go. The brain of a hone seems to entertain but one idea at a time, and continued whipping only con Aims hit stubborn re solve. If you can by any means give him a new subject to think about, you will generally have no trouble in starting aim A simple remedy is to take a couple ol torus of stout twine about the fore leg, lust below the knee, tight enough for the horse to feel, and tie in a bow knot At tbe lint check he will go dancing off, and after going a short distance you can get out and remove the string, to prevent in : jury to the tendon during your farther drive. Take the tail of the hone between the hind legs and tie by a' cord to the saddle girth. j Pour water into the hone's ear.

There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insalt to Heaven itself Each of ns most have known more than one instance where a saintly or heroic life has developed from what at first seemed a stroke like death itself; a life full of the calmest and truest happiness—because it has bent itself to the Divine will, and learned the best of all lessons, to endure. Bat bow that lesson is learned, through what bitter teaching, hard to be understood or obeyed, till the'hand of the Great Teacher is recognised clearly through it all, is a subject too sacred to be entered upon here." Cheerfulness is jest os natural to the heart of a man in strong health as ooloi wiS ; *^ nd wLer ever there is ha, bitnal gloom there most be either bad air