| Show FAKM AND IA11DEN MATTtnO OH INTEREST TO AOnlCULTUntSTS 0550 lpolllIl Illnl AI lsa5 Ollllta has or the Kail mil 1 trill Thereof llnrllraltar Illltullnr an1 I loot I 11 n v Hi comparison of IP il l new and standard 7or varieties of wheat begun by tho Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania State Col o l j lego Agricultural i J t Iperlm Station r Fg I In 1890 baa been f continued through the present season 1 They were grown un ler as nearly ilmltir condition of soil exposure for j I I tlllirrs drainage culture etc as possible I possi-ble coil the ylel U reported below are I from careful weights ot the product of the different plod made at the time of threshing The plot were one twentieth acre In size The anl I woe plowe I early In Auguit to a depth ot ilx or seven Inches thoroughly pulvcrlied and firmed All varietIes sown Sept 1 at the rate of lIven pccka per acre Held of Ythcat arlctlei 1895 And the aurage yield for ilx tara hills 1S90 95 flraln Uraln Ifonie or Varlely Ielel hiehmh 1 II Ir A her A tills 1111 lteUable 120 33n9 ulotor 2999 SOOt Volley 2769 3069 OntarIo Wonllr 2619 3016 Wandotle lied 2813 3013 hello lonrberry lIeu 2545 3009 Cnrrrl Irollno 2767 3001 111111 333G 2890 Ialr 3636 286 I lJemocrlll 067 2863 1llrA Iarly Oakley9St 2SG9 Thelsa 2 96 2 n I Ijnlr 3242 2818 German Imparor 294 2823 lId bulIa 292 2821 1lIIerronan 2348 2819 lJclll 308t 2771 fligger 2896 27U ltauba IIIArk IroUne 2131 2712 Sibley Now Olll < lan 25 2G98 3IcOhoe lIed 3123 2097 Delhi 1ladUorrnllaa 2335 2074 Tlllclln hlaoll 281 SCOt Impron l mre 2790 Still rlvot Chaff t692 2397 SIllIers lroUno 2053 2330 I 16939 Itoal AnlrDllan 3348 31M I Canada Wonder 2677 1091 I The Iooh 2071 2990 I Jones Sqllare lIull 3241 2983 American IIronle 3246 29n5 lIub1 3097 29W I Jnnoa Wlnlr Fife 2709 2841 I 189tD5 Miami alle 3272 3073 I 1Iplion 063 sue I Oregon soot 2923 I I WIlier 2900 2913 I 1101llllanl4 2733 820 Wick 2795 28t SherIff 2909 2719 lebanon 5333 2707 I lrlllt or All 2682 2G90 hale 2221 2G1t Tlltmanlan lIell t907 2110 I Twenty ilx of tIme varieties have been grown sIde by chile for the pail all yeara Seven of theao have been unler trial for three coniccullvo yours and I tho trial with eleven aorta cocn two ean In 189 tho Mealy a imootli red wheat pro luccd 30 3G buihrli per acre tho largrit > Irlel I of any arlety tested following thIs variety In the order of their production are Hcllablo 342 Royal Auilrallan 33 C Miami ValllY 4 32 7 American llronxo 3245 and Jonci I Square Heal 3244 A far cater mraiure of the aluc of the conches cited will be found In the column allowing the overage yheioi 1 for tho past ilx ears TIlls column howl that scorn varietIes hove ghen an overage yltl I of over thirty buiheli per acre vlt Hcllablo 336 bushels Iuliaitcr 309 alley 307 Oitarlo onder302 WoOllolle lIed 301 helIx Ixtngbcrry lied 301 Currcl i Iroline 30 It will be observed that Mealy the variety giving the largest yield l thli year li not Include I In the oven mot productlvo ports which forcibly lila tratta the danger of forming n JuUr mcnt of the nlue of a variety from the rMuIti of a alngld acaion 1lhn 11 HMI In Spain more men are cmplo > r I In tho cotton Induitry than III any other except agriculture Till fact la brought out In n rrport on the SpanIsh cotton industry recently made to the stole deportment by Coniul lion en of liar cclonn It appear Hint In thread alone therj are 3000000 apln Hen 110 000000 capital luxcattl 31 SCO workmen work-men In whlto woven cotton goods I there ore largo oxporta from lIar > e loris Ten thouinn workmen are employed em-ployed In cotton thren 1 lure manufacture manu-facture near Barcelona and 38 000 arc at work In other parts of Spain In dye and itampcd cotton factories there are 10 C34 loom and 32000 work men employed reducing 4SSOOOOO neteri of cloth Cuba anl 1urrto Illco received Ihe most of thli The total number of apln lira In Spain employed em-ployed In cotton work la 2 614 WO and the number of loom la I C8 300 with n total capital of SCO 000 000 Cotton thread workmen are paid by the piece ai are alio the weaver Tho nerago wolFe paid per week aro ai follow Director and luierlntendcnti from II to 25 major domoi i3 to 110 machlulita 110 SIC firemen 3 to 6 thread worker and weavers Jl 175 to JO carpenteri II7C u U ordinary workmen 3 to tl 1 Tho average work roam wage In llarcelona anti vicinity are less than 70 cents a day The molt of the cotton that comes lo Spain U from the United States and nmounti 10 about UGOOOOOO each year Con 1 Iderable cotton however aim come from IHJPI While Spain la I poor tho coniul say the province of llarcelona U rich I nrloni Trrei The large orango tree In Ibo aouth la I a gigantic specimen which grow i out of tho rich aoll In Terre Donne parlih Loulilnna It li I fifty feel high RaIl I fifteen fif-teen feet In circumference at the bate Hi yield hat often been ten thousand orange per icaion The tallow tree of China haa a pith from one Inch to two fret In ill nmeler according to the size of the tree which li I componcl of a grcaiy WIIX which Ii I 10 highly volatile thai It often catchci fire opontancouily consuming the tree to tho very ends of Ita roots The largest oak tree now left standIng stand-Ing In ngland li I Cowthorp oak which Ii levcnty eight feet In clrcum fcrenco at tho groun I The oldest tree In llrtaln li I I arllamcnUry oak In Cllpitone park Lon Ion which li I known to be nftcen hundred years olib I The Inrgcit npplo tree In New York Plate li said I to bo one Handing near the town of Wllion It wan planted In the year of hIlt and III li on record that It mare yleldel thirty three barrel of sImple In a ilnglo scoreD There are four hundred soil thirteen speclei I of trees fount growing within lie limit of the United Statci The curloilty of the whole lot li I the black Ironwood of Mori la which li I thirty per cent imat her than water Scll dried block Ironwoo I will clot In water almost ni quickly aa will a bar of lend Tho life tree of Jamaica li I harder I lo kill limn any other specIe of wood I growth Known lo nrborlcultiirliti It eontliiuci to grow and thrive for I monlhi after beIng uprooted and cx loicl to thin shin llrklni sol lrklix nr Ieao5me There Ii I nlmoit ni much Importance In Ihe picking and packing of peaches aa In growing them Thry must bo ban Hid with the grcatcit of care In order to atoll heavy lossei If they aro to be ihlppel they mutt bo picked ill oon ai colored and before they become be-come soft Handle the fruit na lltttlo u poaalblc It should l be placed when plckc I In tIme receptacle that la I to contain con-tain U until rally to hlp It peaches are roughly tumbled from one baaket to another they will become bruited nol decay rapidly When packcl for shIpment the fruit slioul I bo carcfull graded according to ilri 1 degree of rlpentim etc Illcmlihcd fruit It don not tiay to shIp ni ono or two specked or knotty ivclmeni will loner the olue of an entire baikct The splint baskets holding one peck are the best shoe mil ihoul be packed careful nnd the baaket filled up well na It will ctttn n little from Jolting Then the cover ihoul I bo firmly put on If of splint lack It firmly and leave n little pace so that the fruit may bo teen Mark Iho grade of fruit on Iho top of tho basket If netting la I used put It on tight anl mark tho gralo on tho pIle l of the basket raporntlng Poor Applesit li I told that In nyno Count N Y which la not a cry largn county something llko n million of buiheli of npplci were caporat l last year lcl ling a pro luct north tSOOOOO 11 mot of tills vai from fruit that could not very well have been marketed In any other form and lomo of It probably was Jut good enough nnd largo enough to hao tempted time craver to try to work II I Into hoe barred If they could not have utilized It ni they dhl 1 nnd thereby leu cod the market aluo of the better np 11 I In among which It woull bate been put wn toy bIasIng on the man who Invented tho evaporator fool 1 hopo to ico them In mora common uio In New Ijirlan I coon They aavo fruit that woull go to wnito or toworao than waste the elder barrel unit Improve tIle quallt ofullie applet lent to market It those who lisa them will itop tho artificial arti-ficial leaching I of their evaporated ap I 110 tho pro luct will loon bo more popular pop-ular While formers color their butter and bleach their npplea they should not make much outcry about the shod il l goo Is tent out by manufacturer American Cultivator tiling In Fruit TnIa nply ton query regarding the ndt liability of fillIng fill-Ing In nn orchard around tho trees the DM MoInes Register cape If on Iry round tIle tree will enlace the filling up for three years they will moko I little growth and bear little It any fruit Hut when the nitrogen feeding cools begin to extend uptsanl not 1 roots I rgln I to atari from the burled atoms the nil begin to grow and bear In tho vicinity of our tItle of tho writ I built on uneven ground wo hove had hundred ot object Ion dating back for twenty t fho year In the way ot I filling up among trees ot different agea I Tho trees on rather wet ground filled up three feet loon die unlcii drainage tIles are laid below the root before hilling up On dry uplan I with porno subsoil the flllcl III tree have llvcl longer mid borne more fruit thun thoso itundlng at ordinary dtlltbII Now York Ilotanlcal Qarden At hit It hit been decided that New York II li to have a botanical garden Tho state leglalaturo of 1893 passed a lawmaking law-making It mandatory upon the city to I prolda 250 acres ot park land and to I proprlate I SiiOO 000 for the purpoio ot I establishing R botanical garden pro i I violet that within three jears the rill zcna would contribute I2SOOOO for the same lurpoae The money waa railed at n meeting at Columbia Colltgo last week The Individual contribution ranged from 1000 to 921000 The witch treo of Nevada and anuthern California exudes or cxhaln n phosphorescent oubntaneo which makes every branch leaf And icctlon ot ito bark 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