Show mi FOOD FOR FRO CROPS P 57 A correspondent of the germantown tele cde g raph rapi eaph p h in a communication relative to food for crops cr 0 ps p says saya it has hab been said that the farmer feeds the world in the first place be he supplies food for foe himself atri aul ani faintly fai nily then he feed his domestic animals fowls ac and lasly lasiy las lybe be bijl pies aliment ailment to those wile are e et in artistic and other pursuits around him ilis his industry gives nerve to broad w ns ng s f commerce ana apa to the rough hand of the operative opera operal ive lve wherever 4 her he maybe e the fowls of the airale aiso also I 1 pensioners pension els eis upon his bis bounty and anil wherever heraver he rever reven ife pulsates there may way he behold tl tip the P results of his lis pi pl p i lent and productive efe eff lorts efforts develop d in the phenomena of bt eathInE and ani joyous life but how bow be la Is enabled to do all tuis una is i s mor mori than be he can tell you he plows ami arid bows ilta fita hi I 1 i aed saed sed and beneficent bene benefi ficen cen een nature accomplishes for bim him the result ile he examine examines 4 not noi tio into tinto the mysteries of her opp opa operations rations contented with the result he tie inquires not ilot into the modus operandi ope tandl randL cf of her system or the principle of ner her ulicy policy for that cereto were to become a philo sop sopt er and philosopher sopher hei hel he is nune none 11 the soil boil be considers as a bank of wealth aiom fi orn abich which ho h may adraw araw draw indefinitely wi ho t making any corresponding correspond in returns E ey plant he cultivates he is very well weli aare aware must be sup opted by alimentary matters from s ome gome source and this louice he regards as the I 1 soll soil oil but let us iia examine th s subject a little inore teore closely of what are soils compos compo sd d of the debris of rocky masses they are arp of different dil Terent constitutional cha acter arid and differ ent derees of productiveness at AR a general thin thing they contain not more than one part art in ia thousand of the atoms in an available or appropriable form which natu e makes use 1 I or consumes in forming a plant of any kind een E en where the caf cat texture and aphis ical properties 0 tie tle a of soils are ii 1 antic they will be foun found d dil upon on analyzing analysing ana lysing them to be possessed of very different r nt degrees degree s 0 of alimentary powe power pants must be supplied from the soil or t om the atmosphere with alithe ingredients requisite to their formation no matter in how small email a dezree decree a constituent may maj may fall fail faili short oe of the actual quantity required to nish forth the or anizel structure the I 1 clency will be fatal fata to the result no sooner Is the sti str ply in the soil exhausted than the 1 dev elopement of the plant cease ceases sr disease supervened supervenes super venes and arid decay and death follow as inevitable results I 1 j iron is always found in the blood of animals and aid is derived tron fron their food both phosphor rus and sulphur are extant both in the brains a id muscles of animals as const elements baese are derived from fron ther food and of primarily from the soil if the food of ivich we partake in common with other ani I 1 mais mals were deficient in either of these constituents would not the deficiency induce weak weakness I 1 and ai disease bease sease and anti ultimately premature death cath d phosphate oe of lime is rew reg regarded added as the bone earth of vegetables now if nature should vegetation without this constituent constituents could the vegetables so produced and anti constituted supply to man and anim ils lis the solid earthly matter dequis te to impart solicit solidity Y and arid strength bones certainly not proceeds in all ber her evolutions the most simple as well as the most complicated upon alys huys anya anys a hys hya ien len tem teia equal y well welt graduated nd coin coln preb n sive she refuses to org nise anise vegetables 1 without velt vilt hout the p in the soil in an avail avalt abl form ot of thosa those peculiar atoma ad apted alike to the wants wanta of vegetable and animal vitality it is very easy for a armer f ajner ot 0 t a di arn anin abing mind to perceive when there is a failure of the important constituents of zt fertility I 1 in his lands although he be may not be always certain as to the extent or actual caracter character of bf the deficiency wheat for instance after yie yit liing bount ful y for fok one or two years will 0 i being again sown on the same land prove an jan entire failure this thit thi failure indicates and demonstrates d mon strates the edaa exhaustion the ibus crops ot of some principle without which aich it cannot be organised organized sed and before another remu crating rating rie ri crop of the same grain cn be taken from that boi soi it must be replenished with the im of which it has by the successive crops it has already produced been hausted exhausted elc cic remove the silica sand sand from the soil and ani you will find that notwithstanding nature will lilt put forth an effort to produce corn or wheat yet yat yet tap hf stalks will be weak and diseased and i 1 th 0 anal result will be little else than a perfect 1 failure in supplying bupp ying manure to cultivated land and with reference to the productiveness ft of sp cefic crops it would be well for the agri cuU c 1 uarl narl in tereAs interests of the farmer and those of j it the h 1 1 country at large it a more perfect idea of or I 1 vegetable alimentation were obtained if the I 1 j soil noil and the grains gra ins be he cultivates could but bu t be analyzed by the farmer how vastly more morel pleasant and productive would be the now nowr onerous and uphill up h hill 11 business ot of farming we lament lamant that it is not so but lived live nevertheless in the hope of thy the good time coming 4 PARSNIPS FOR CATTLE this ibis root hab hag frequently been recommended for culture as a fool foot for prime a tocks but fon for bome some reason has never become a favorite chait has daver acier beca been beca fati extensively eh grown tor for fori tori feeding purpose 8 the canadian agriculturist has the follow following g article v ll 11 ich may maybe ba useful to our readers interested in the question on the one subject most roost difficult of all in root cil ell culture ture in this climate cilina tp and still more BO so in canada parsnip doub less has some advantages we weinman mean in keeping in the ground gro lind through the winter The difficulty of wintering root roots a is the greatest dra era v ba cato cultivation bele bese 1 toe e pats nip vip is to one of the most valuable roots roo that cari carl be grown in the island of jersey it is used almost exclusively for fattening bening both cattle and swine acc abc acceding to la contour the weight of a good crop varies finin birteen to twenty seven tons per aar iven wen lyen larsn pa ps are given to cows with a little h y in the inter hiter season he ille butter i found to be of as gue hue a color a d excellent flavor as when the animals are feeding reeding in the best pastures As ipg contain mix six x per cent more mucilage than cago caro carols the difference may he be sufficient to account for the supe lor fatten ng as mell well eil ell as butter baking ti akin i Iu ailta alitt of the parsnip in the fattening of cattle the parsnip is found superior to the carrot performing I 1 the business with more morea expedition and affording meat of exquisite anif anil highfi juicy flavor he be animals eat it w ill ih much greediness the result of experiment hs has shown that not only in neat cattle cattie blit but in the fattening of homs boga and poultry trie animals become fat at nuch 1101 sooner Er aad aid are more health beaith healthy than when fed vilh v ith any other root or vegetable arm and that beside the meat is more sweet and tiflis ous oils the p leaves bell belr being more bulky tsan those of the carrots car rots rols may be mown off beffie taking the roots rooth and given to oxen cows or horses by which they will be greezil gree fil iny fHy y eaten another thing in favor of parsnips par snips for this country is that the frost does not injure them they may remain in the gr u und rid iid until spring when they make a splendid feed at a time when every other kind of root or green thing a scarce embey may be slightly buried where they can be obtained almost anytime any time during durling the winter on account of their raad grath gr ath when yo young ng the wedi weeding 1 is less trouble te than weeding e nar carrots carrots carrota rots ciufi FLAX FLAM during the past year a series of experiments mechanical and chemical combined have lave laye been made in rhode island the object of 0 which was to provide 19 us as 19 a substitute jor for co ico ton a material that could be manufactured without any alteration oe ot now in use the object has been attained by the prodoc tion of a material which is pro properly perl na named in e d cotton zed flax I 1 be olix flix is pulled in the field by a machine which doea the w ekof forty men either matured flax or flax not in seed may anay be used As flax is cultivated for the seed a double crop may be he thus produced a crop of seed aeed a as eil eli well weil ell as of flax the dried fl ap x as gathered from the field is first cut by va chinery machinery f into suitable lengths represent representing in the he staple cf upland cotto cotten n about one and one eighth i ath inch rich long this process is performed by automaton machinery with great facility and at little tittle cost coit the material is subjected to a steaming proc process ss in large vats vate and ii is then dried by machinery next it passes through what may be called a binnin broer pr pro oeR oes w whereby hereby the woody husk I 1 or chive Is 13 separated from the he by chemical process the fib e is ben hen then elpi ded tied longiotti jon lon gitti ritti li nally arid assumes the required fineness or of cot cotto tori torp i the whole process is s rapid simple and cheap in thim tha torta forta the material ia Is successfully carded pun and woven a 6 eci acl mens of flax cotton drawing so jovings yarn I 1 and arid ciotti and 00 a 0 of flax mixed with cottone cotton have 1 a ve been exhibited to the secreta y cf vc the he tet tei of I 1 others by ex gov go v jackson jack JacL son soa of rhode island ai a material for mixture with wool the cottoni zed flax is vastly preferable to cotton it combines ia in the carding c process with greater facility the thelara chevara Th evara ara la is stronger the cloth is more du able even more so than if made wholly of wool tae te lustre of the cloth is is improved flax wool also receives rec elvis a dye with the same facility as wool itself ina na dional jn inelli 0 ancer 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