. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. temperature of the proper season for perfectingthe fruit materially varies from the above, a decreased production may beexpected, unless the crop is affected by artificial means. Winter gi-ain,vines and trees, all suspend growth, and rest in winter, in all of our NorthernStates. Wheat requires 120 to 140 days from the time of sowi
. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. temperature of the proper season for perfectingthe fruit materially varies from the above, a decreased production may beexpected, unless the crop is affected by artificial means. Winter gi-ain,vines and trees, all suspend growth, and rest in winter, in all of our NorthernStates. Wheat requires 120 to 140 days from the time of sowing to harvestin a mean temperature of si.\ty-one degrees. 1132. Storiag Grain in Cemented Caves.—It has been recommended as anexcellent way to store grain, to make cavities in the earth, plastered per-fectly water-tight with hydraulic cement, and of a form like a jug, which,being filled with grain, could have a cover cemented on, and thus preservethe grain for an indefinite length of time. We should like to have tiie airpumped out, and then seal it up, and we believe such grain-cisterns wouldbe excellent preservatories. Farmers who are troubled with rats would findsuch granaries highly valuable, and tliey can be cheaply constructed. Seearticle on 972 TDE GLEANINGS OF THE FIELD. [Chap. XV. 1133. A New Grain Mill has lately been invented, that operates upon anentirely different principle from any of its predecessors. Tliere are no nib-bing, nor grinding, nor cutting surfaces which come in contact witii thegrain. It is reduced to powder by blows struck upon it wliile siispendod inair. A shaft, armed with beaters, inclosed in an iron case, is made to revolvewitli great velocity, and the grain, being fed into the case near the shafr, iscarried out by centrifugal force, where the arms strike tljcir rapid blowsupon it, and shatter it to atoms, as a blow of a heavy iron bar, it may besupposed, would shatter a piece of glass, if hit while flying through the air;it is then b
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