Show facts for farmers well settled timothy hay will weigh about a it ton toil to tho the fifteen cubic yards corn planted about may overtakes and surpasses that planted ten tell days earlier tiro potato oats have been cultivated juite quite extensively and are general generally y successful corn is 13 a it plant that grows best in n a ve very warm moist soil and likes its utility fertility near tho the surface the carrot is not riot as good as a turnip for sheep rut rutabagas abagat perhaps perlia Ps are 11 re tho the cheapest root to raise for sheep there were bushels of corn produced in the united states last year or an average of 27 bushels to the acre corn is a plant that luxuriates luxuriated u upon dec decaying abing aying I ve vegetable c table matter w which on lie i the sod freshly illy turned and ad laying in I the sun quickly furnishes corn will ivill not germinate below 57 degrees and grows grows best at a temperature pera ture of 95 degrees the roots of corn do not riot grow if the blades do not an experiment tried in chester county penn resulted result cd in a crop of corn thirty per cent greater on land that was plowed shallow than oa on that plowed deep the wheat crop in illinois is is rc re ported by the state board of A agri I r i i culture as acres less than last year or about 91 per cent the condition of the crop is is unusually favorable according to a recent estimate there are at least hs lis in central and worked by oxen or camels employing persons and irrigating 00 acres of land the growth of the upland rice is is increasing i in n the south and many regard it as the most profitable food crop that can be raised it is more productive than any of the small gra grains ins and easier raised than corn statistics jeshow that scarcely ona in fifty of the young men who enter agricultural colleges in this country engage in the business of faim faiming 1139 after graduation something radically wrong with the colleges millet makes good feed for horses cattle or sheep if cut green before the seeds form sow sox a bushel per acre broadcast is best any good soil that will produce oats or corn will produce a good crop of millet but it is useless to sow it on poor soil at present there are eight or ten varieties of upland rice raised in south Ga carolina rolina the kind known as white flint is generally preferred A variety said to be brought from cochin china is is grown to a limited extent and is best adapted to quite high and dry ground grass and clover seeds are generally very profitable crops to raise if the business is carried on oil extensively and the best machines aro are employed for doing the work of harvesting flim thrashing shing and cleaning unless one has these ho however wever lie can not compete with those who have good facilities A vineyard of fifty acres in new jersey in 1880 marketed eight tons of grapes and in 1881 a larger amount E estimating sti mating the grapes to be worth three cents per pound at the vineyard the income from the pounds would be or 96 per acre veith less than bi half if the labor required to grow an acre of wheat or corn in increasing horseradish horse radish beds from cutting a small piece of the top or r crown must bo be attached to each p piece ieca planted set these pieces about bu t a it foot or fifteen inches apart each way and an inch or two below the surface and a bed from ei att to atwelle twello feet square will s supply U p p Y a an ordinary family with all they want A bed will last also indefinitely |