2 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. el THE MIBL4M JOOaN&L. The3e ar' Sc.li ? Thftbe.tbln.il Jir .flrr bd.l ►jh.* pn, i' ff ever placed i‘hin i ereac:, ci at i tl ty. truly i- Eic ale BHvere. )i . tv n r t>. liver. bilioUKuexH. jaundice, erf \ i-n 0 -. kidneva. or any disease of the unn. . or ans m who requires au appeti-ter tonic or mil . lent, will alwave find Electric Ritters th- 1.. „„ only certain cur- known. They art enr-lv am quickly, every in.tT** ttua’anfeed to yiv* entire eatiaf.ctiou or money refunded. Sold at 50 cent' a bottle by Dr. J„ 11. Kirk. 4 TINW.ARE A largo assortmont of TiN SHEET TRON. GAL VANIZKI) and JAPAN WARE constantly on hanr' and manuiactured to order. 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