Agricultural.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 8 April 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

Agricultural.

!•' Pigs iro able to cmsulne .far, morojfood in .proportion'. to ;thoir ; weight tlvan. oithor or oxen.'., j... yTho gin.ornl, opinion is that tints t\re enemies to fruit trees, butit'lias long since' btk'pvoye'd 1 . .tlwt'tli'o| destroy laira and chr^fi and they ilo riot destroy the fresh fruit. •' fl1 " ] ■ '' Auimals, when. confincU < tittd' : suppliod' with' '•ftttonincf feed; 1 iilwiiys increase! largelyiin weight: duringflioiflrsffewweeks,'afterwliich .the rate; ot increase diminishes to a cousidorablo. extent. , > Ai'ruit shop in Paris'is creating,an immense .sensation by, exhibiting a pear tlmtwfighs nearly •JOlb,. II look? like!a mohs(or;sugnr' beet, 1 The ■ gardenelyit is'.said; his bcpli. ; three years.training the tific (for the prodigy, 1 ht«l' when- flowering 'season set in,-lie piheliod'otfall the flowers save 'two, anil so drove tlie'sap ultimately into a single.] peffi ll ' Such large' fruits are'ornamental ;onlv; : tl.idy lack tasto.' A' Russian prince ,has bought, it for tllb'Czar's sonv . ,' v.!".: 'doLXUHB FOR SUSIMIJR CROPS, • Inltlio course of. a, leiigthy, article 'upon tlie }philosopliy. ofsummer surface cultivation, the Opntra Costa Gazette, says ; ' Oar 'methods 1 "of ! culture foi? summer'crops'should bo. adopted &i far as p 'dcticable to prevent the useless;evaporation ot the .water elevated by capillary attraction, ( qnd rotaining/it to feed their growth; through tho roots j always remembering that cloioly tattled together and compact particles ■ of soil furjiish tho niinuto • chnnuels which elcynte water by tlw law of: adhesion govomihg. the relation iof.;Bolids' and liquids,, and that,tlie eniargomerit of.such 'charineTdestroya their die-

vhtingipower'in the ratio of such enlargement, The law has also an .application' to the winter preparation of ground lor grain seeding.:: If the ground is plougliod deeply and there is not suffi • cient after-rain to settle, the turned eartli .well down upon the undisturbed soil, the grain plants may not strike their roots,dcop onough before the suite supply of moisturo is exhausted in the spring and early summer,'to reach tlio water brought up by the capillary channels of tho undisturbed soil to the furrow bottom, where it i 9: ; retained for lack of tho' conductors to take it ' higher. Deep ploughing for grain crops is frequently a failure for this reason,. And, for tlio reason .that the waste by surface evaporation may bo thus in great measure avoided and all the earth storo of water utilized for the spring growth and early summer maturing of. tho crops, drill planting and surface cultivation for grain ought I to realize tho host results in our climate, •

A NEW PLOUGH, Tho Itvermora Herald has this to say of a new plough that is being constructed by H. W. ■Rico of Haywards :■ A. trial of a plough made in San Francisco < by H. W. Rice,, for preparing land for vino plaaiing, was mado on tho ranch oi. Jason A. Rose, near Pleasauton, last Saturday morning. The plough was a sulky gang, with the forward plough removed, its place boing taken by asubsoilor., A number ofour leadinggr.ipo men were present, and took great interest in the trial. Soveral depths were tricu—tho plough at eightand ■ Hie subsoiler sixteen inches, and the plough at ton,' witli tho subsoiler at fourteou. At both depths< the .work was woll dono, but it was .readily noticeable that the draft was too hoavy. This was found to bo due to tho : slmpe. of tho moldboard,: anil cair bo remedied. Another defect is also to bo found in tho solid subsoiler, . It.should be cast in two pieces, that the points may be changed wlion dull.. The plan of working tho subsoiler in the first furrow is an admirable one, and gives this plough, other things being etjunl, a docidod advantage over all others. By it, both horses ha>o a smooth hard path to travel in, while the soil, after boing stirred by the plough and subsoiler, is not troddoa hard, but remains looso and mellow throughout.