Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1879 — AGRICULTURAL [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL

Bank up the oellar in time. Pack celery away In a dark place in sand. It will help to bleach it. There is probably no potato that is a better keeper than the Snowflake, r The tobacco crop in southwest Missouri is said to be almost a failure. w j Cabbage supply an excellent auxiliary for the winter feeding of cbiekeus. A Belvidere (HL) man raised $7--8.50 worth of clover seed this year from thirty acres of Mover. A second crop of barley (volunteer) at Sun Prairie. Wis., came into head before the late cold snap. 'To keep cider sweet, put oue ounce of the oil of sassafras in each barrel, and keep it in a cool place. Two sound eyes to a hill are sufficient As many potatoes can be r.ilsfid therefrom as If whole potatoes rare Two-thirds of the caltivated fond hi America is cultivated by the personal labor of the men who own tbe land. \ The best potatoes grown under favorable circumstances contain 20 per cent, of starch; poor ones, about 10 per ceut. The fovorable fall ifeatber in Dakota has enabled formers to get in an immense crop of wheat in the northern portion or the State. The value of forms in tbe United States is eleven billions, and the annual product is three billions. In four years, therefore, the farm products equal the value of forms. Turnips are healthful for Worses. They should be cut in slices, or. what is better, pulped finely and mixed with a little meal and some salt. Rutab ‘gks are better than white turnips. If strawberry beds are to Ihj protected this winter, the material used should not cover the soil wilh seeds. Probably straw, or even the leaves or small stalks of corn,are as good as anything that can be used, • A farmer living near Skyesville, Md., raised a broodof five young crows this year, and two of them are perfectly white. They differ In lio other respect from their black companions. One of the phenomena of the *easou is a second crop of the raspberries and strawberries in Delaware and Maryland. One grower has shipp<«j at one. time as many as 120 pints of raspberries from his bushes. For iron rust take dry cream of tartar and rub on with the finger while the cloth is wet. Hang or place where the sun will shine directly qpou ii. Should the rust not come out with the first application, repeatThe Rural New Yorker says: “We take the liberty to regard the use of hags as a covering for bunches of grapes, thereby protecting them from birds and insects, as one of the vagaries of enthusiastic horticulturists.'”

Peach trees blossomed in Kentucky tlie second time this year, and a market woman near Newport in that Htate sold a bushel of strawberries in Cincinnati, and had a large supply nearly ripe, destroyed, by the freeze. A cellar that is cool, dry and dark, and well ventilated, is the best place for preserving potatoes in large quantities. When smaller quantities are to j there is nothing like dry sand. The same may be said of fruits and roofs of all sorts. Cold and wet do much harm to young stock and stop the growth, which is rarely commenced again until the warm weather of the next season. A rough shed in the pasture will furnish useful protection, and a small supply of rich food is of value in keeping up the thrift. • ■ 6 In nearly all cases small-boned animals are good feeders,, will manure early and possess fine flesh. On the other hand, coarse bones and forge joints indicate late maturity, poor feeding quality and coarse flesh with a large proportion of oflhl. The season is too for advanced for turning horses out at night A bold rain coming on suddenly may do much harm. If horses are caught in the rain and tnoroughly drenched, it will be well to rub them dry, and then blanket them as spon as they reach home. But the blankets should never beputou till the horse? are thoroughly dry.