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The Farm.
Some New Agricultural Industries.
The canning of sugar corn and to
matoes has grown into an industry of
considerable proportions in Cecil and
Harford dounties. The canners have
not attempted to push the business fur
ther, and include the preparation of
other vegetables or fruits by the air
tighting prorcss. Those additions to
the industry are processed in the large
cities principally. There is no reason
why the canning of peas, beans of the
various kinds, and other vegetables
should not be prosecuted by those who
have engaged in this branch of busi
ness, and have bacome familiar with
the work. The knowledge already
gained might be used as a stepping
stone to enlarge and extend lhe busi
ness. The buildings and machinery
are in place and it appears like a posi
tive loss to have them remain idle ten
months or more in the year, when the
canning industry is capable of being ex
tended to occupy a much greater part
of the time. Large crops of peas
and beans, also berries, rasp
berries and strawberries could
be produced in this country round
the Sun, and the cultivation of such
crops made infinitely more profitable
than coufining all labor to raising the
three crops, corn, wheat and grass
which all the world is engaged in.
There are hundreds of acres lying in
close proximity to the town, which
could be brought under irrigating
ditches with scarcely any expense, so
that our summer drouths could never
blast, or even shorten the crops. Land
that can be flooded at the pleasure ot
the farmer, is the most productive
In rainless climes, farm crops never
fail and are universally heavy. One
acre of irrigated land, planted to any of
the saleabl vegetables and berry crops,
will bring more ready cash than ten
acres in ordinary farm crops.
There is one other branch of the
green produce business which our can
ters night adopt with profit—profit to
themselves and also to the neighborhood
—which is the pickling business. Cu
cumbers, couliflower, small onions, pep
pers and tomatoes which are used for
pickles, could be produced right here
in immence quantities. To push those
crops to maturity aud guard against
failure or check from our usual summei
drouths, irrigating water must be ac
cessible.
With plenty of water and fertilizer
there is no such thing as failure with
these summer crops. The market foi
pickles is unlimited. There never is a
glut of these condiments. Would it
not be well for our farmers to mee
with the canners and consider a rev
departure to some extent, to be trie
gradually, and see if their fortunes cou’d
rot be bettered anti their whole farm
business improved ?
Preparing Ground for Wheat.
With the short rotation of crops that
is now c erywhere becoming to b
adopted, wheat follows oats or millet in
rotation, and even where wheat follow
wheat, ti e methods to be observed are
not altered. To retain the moisture of
the soil, plowing for wheat should im
mediately follow the removal of the oa
or wheat nop from the field. The fields
are usually covered, to a greater or les.-
extent. w th green vegetation ofdifferei t
sorts, ali oi which is during the dry, hoi
days of August drawing up the store.-
ot water from the subsoil, and evaporat
iug it into toe air. August showers are
apt to be lighi. ia character, and are
quickly dravvu up, and the weeds and
grasses again go on pumping up water.
If the field is at once plowed, there is a
certain amount of water in the surface
soil that enables the farmer to do better
work, and if the harrows and rollers fol
low in close order to the plow, the field
is neatly plowed, aud made fine, and the
reeu material at the surface, uow at the
bottom of the furrow, commences at ouce
to decay, and forms, so to speak, a strata
of moisture, both drawing from below
and slowly giving to the soil above; but
j. the surface vegetation now having dis
j appeared, roots and all, the “pumping”
operation cannot longer be carried on,
and so the seed bed soil simply absorbs,
and if, between plowing and seeding,
this soil shall be occasionally gone over
} with a harrow, making the surface yet
more mellow and fine, it will first act as
a mulch to retain the moisture in the
soil, and complying with well known
" rules, attract moisture from the air,
which will be about in amount to com
pensate for the evaporation. If time
‘ ly showers should fall, this soil is all the
more adapted to receive its just dew,
and retain it.
r
’ This surface is also at its best estate
to receive its quota of stable manure,
which should be harrowed into the soil
s fast as spread. If allowed to remain
upon the surface until it has dried out,
then when it is incorporated with the
soil it draws upon the latter
for the needed supply, and the
soil is made all the more diffierent in the
one thing needed, which loss cannot be
made good, except by a fall ofrain, and
which unfortunately cannot be depend
ed on to fall at short notice.
If plowing is delayed a week or so be
fore seeding, or the harrowing is neg
lected, the work of preparation become,
rauih more laborious. The hardened
siil is turned over in clods and lumps,
which thus doubly exposed to sun an i
drying winds becomes hardened almost,
beyond the power of crushing, and at
best are but little better than dust in
which to seed. The labor of crushing
them is double that of mellowing fie li
plowed soil, and going over these well
mellowed fields occasionally to keep
them in fine condition, using the wide
working harrow, does not equal by any
means the other half that the work of
the lumpy aud clod-covered field will
demand.
Another valuable point made in the
earlier plowing and fitting, is that ali
vegetation is put under, and the occas
>onal harrowing destroys any that may
ippear ; but the rough unharrowed
field often appears half covered w h
weeds and grass, which have grown up
through the half-turned furrows, and
which are a bother to overcome in the
hurry of a favorable day to drill the
wheat.
But few farmers bave a choice ofsoil
in which to grow wheat, and it is neces
-ary to obtain mechanical effects of ma
nures and machinery, to break down
and make very fine the seed bed. The
requent plowing under of crops of
clover, and the application of ttabl
manures, afford the mechanical effects
f vegetable matter. On the heavy clay
soils, clover is especially valuable, and,
‘ its importance mure clearly made evi
-1 dent each year, and as a means of rend
ering soil loose and friable, has no equal,
fhe improvements in machinery are
marked, and the turning, stiring, cutting
and pulverizing with sulky plows, spring
drags, Acme harrows, and field rollers,
are valuable aids. Unless the field is
, underdraiued, it is always better, on clay
I soils, to back-furrow, as then the surface
vater is readily carried to the outlets ;
but on sandy lands, this is not essential,
as these have natural drainage. In
back-furrowing, the dead furrows can be
{ carefully harrowed at the edges so as to
, cause but little, if any, obstruction to
> the reaper. — Country Gentleman.
►**•►4
e A. 11. Topsoil Esq. Milford Station,
e Pa., says in the year 1883 and 1884
I lie used Powell’s Prepared Chemicals
for wheat, and realized an increase
II
B of five bushels per acre over land
r where he used no fertilizer, and for
- oats and buckwheat the result was
J very good. Address Brown Chem
ical Co, Baltimore, Md.
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TINW.ARE
A largo assortmont of TiN SHEET TRON. GAL
VANIZKI) and JAPAN WARE constantly on hanr'
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given to
Roofing, Spouting and Plnnibinc
QUEEN{ ! 22*jCOAL OIL CANS
CHAMIi Elt s E TS , <t G.
ELECTRIC LAMPS—genuine mnk<
—best foal oil lamps in Mte world
TUBULAR LANTERNS with bond
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Have your HEATERS an.l FIiRNA
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teethe work. All kin is of HOtISEFUKNISIIiNt,
GOODS and KNICK KNACKS for the cook tatil.
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C U. MfCLURK.
Rising Sun. Md.
STEAM ENGINE
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th® SIZES and PRICES of cur
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tect bj adding commissions which customers must pay.
11. Potter. Cylinder. l*rice % on Wheels.
4 • ClB Stroke. . . . $450
6 Ox 9 “ .... 000
8 7xlO “ .... 600
IO SxlO “ .... 700
13 oxl2 “ .... 950
20 10x16 “ ••• 1250
Stntioimry rnttinm. 2 to 60 Horae Power,
Bmlera ot any style nr power. Stacka. Tailin'. Furnace
Work. Paw Mill*. Flour Mill anil Mining Machinery.
Steam Pump.. Centrifugal Pump.. Creameries fitted
up. Bark and Cob Mill, and t.cuernl iHucliinists.
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The above named medicine, and also
Se! lers’ Jamncia Ginger for sale by Dr. L
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HIGHLANDS HOUSE,
JOSEPH FRITTS, Proprietor,
HIGHLANDS, MACON CO.,
NORTH CAROLINA.
(ALTITUDE NEARLY 4000 FEE’j ~
HEALTH AND SUMME?. EESOET.
The Hotel is a commodious and quiet hoarding
house convenient to Pr st Office and stores. We
have pleasant suites of rooms for families. Our
table is supplied with the best the market affords.
Terms reasonable.
One mile of easy ascent to the top of Mt. Satula,
giving one ot the best views of the whole range.
Five miles drive to the top of the famous White
Side Mountain. Other grand peaks, also water
falls too numerous to mentiou. Health and pleas
ure seekers and lovers of nature may find hero a
mild climate, exempt trora gicat ext tomes of heat
and cold, pure, invigorating air. pure cold spring .
water, and grandest mountain scourry east of the
ltocky Mountains. Our grand and elevated region
of mountain country and latitude accounts for our
lout/, cool and even summer climate, the de'mht of
all who spend a summer here. No nnsquitois,
few flies and insects. Our beautiful town site os
near the crest of the Dlue Itidgj, about five miles
from the Georgia line, and contains nearly 300 of
the best class, from nearly every State in the
Union. Good society, excellent schools, church
privileges, stores, mills, boarding houses and sev
eral tine dwellings. We shall contiuuo to try to
make the visits ot our guests to tho Highlands
pleasant ones. We especially solicit the patrouage
ot those who wish to tarry long in this - Land ol
the Sky.*’
Highlands is 30 miles north of J Walhnlla, South !
Carolina. 30 miles south ot Webster, on the i
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Holland & Sitton’s, Seneca, S. C.. on Air Liue It. It,
ready to bring passengers to Highlands at reason
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Proprietor, j
' mil” rnuiuuT unit,
CLOD CRUSHER AND LEVELER.
This invention, the production of Mr. Fred'k Xishwitz, the original in
ventor of the Disk or Wheel Harrow, is the result of a long series of ex
periments, in which he became convinced that tlie Disk Harrow is adapted
only to superficial pulverization. Being himself a practical farmer, as well
as mechanic and inventor, and feeling the need of a thorough pulverizer in
his own farming operations, he conceived the plan of combining a Clod.
Crusher, Lender and Harrow in one implement.
His success hits been truly marvelous,
as is shown by the result, viz: the pro
duction of an implement which
Weighs much less than other Pulverizing
Harrows, Sells about one-third Less,
and withal Does the Most
Thorogh Work of any.
Brown Reeder,
RISING SUN. MARYLAND.
are Agents for this UNRIVALED Farm Implement No
Farmer will do without one if he Consults his own Interest
mjatk
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SURE GROWTH is a thoroughly
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phate. It is in excellent mechanical
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freely without trouble. To pro i•, cq
Wheat, it excels any fertilizer ? • d
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AND OTHER j
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