Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29

as a small farm" Two hundred acres of
wheat is "slnall patch" Some farmers
have as many as 5000 acres devoted to
wheat In one season.
| A MACHINE has been invented and put
into operation in California, which it is
said has cut, thrashed, cleaned and sacked
the wheat from twenty acres in ten hours,
with only three men to work it. r.
THE town of Wells, Vt, has citizen
who married at II. His first child was a
a daughter, who married at Is, and
eighteen months afterward made her
father a grandfather, at the early age of
81 years.
SOME one versed has calculated that it
will take fifty rlen, working twelve hours
a day, seven years, four months and thir-
teen days, to read through all the public
documents issued in the United States
every three months. 8fasb eae g
Iris now seen that cotton has not ex-
hausted the cotton fields of the South, but
bad tillage A bale of 500 pounds of
cotton, when burned, leaves but four
pounds of ashes. All the rest goes into
the air from whence it came. 4. -.
In the amusement world the following
are among the dead of 1868: Rossini,
Samuel Lover. Sterling Coyne, Mary GAN
non, Julia Dean Hayne, Menken, Helen
Western, Anna Lacoste, G. M Walcott,
Sr. John Seton, Charles Kean, George
Jameson, VIM. Hanlon, Ronzini, Salvador
Tagliona, VIM. Harrison, George Christy
THE annual incomes of the various
English Bishops range from $4,000 to
about $4,000. Canterbury enjoys the
latter and Sodor the former amount.
London and Windsor have each an in
come of $4,000 a year, and Durham
$4,000. The other Bishoprics are worth
from sec, 900 to $27. 900 year.
ONE of the most productive taxes in
the city OF Berlin is on dogs, amounting
to three thalers on every animal. The
years, and is at present 20,950, of which
ing truck) This duty proc ces every
year for the municipal al )ut $4,000
thalers. .3es1 ei s '
! THE Protestant Episcopal Almanac for
1859 gives the following general summary
of statistics of that church in the United
States; Bishops, At; Bishop elect, l.;
clergy, 1926; baptisms, 1855 centirma-
tiOns, 18,406; communicates, 157
marriages, 1855; burials, II, asa; ordina-
tions, deacons, 85; presbyteries, SO ; can
didates for orders, $50; Sunday school
teachers, 1850; contributions, $3,443,
1887. ~
ORANGES were frozen solid on the trees,
at Augustine, Fla, on Christmas day. The
weather was the coldest known in that
locality since 1856. The thermometer at
daylight stood at twenty degrees above
zero. It afterwards touched seventeen de.
grees. In a climate where. even white
frosts are unusual, this was very severe
Last year, at the same time, the Florida
ladies were dressed in lawns.
A WRITER to the Waco (Texas) Register,
gives a summary of the profit of his farm
operations during the past year. He has
had $50 acres under cultivation-430 in
cotton, and 159 in corn. From this, with
the labor of forty-two freedmen, he has
raised 369 bales of cotton, and nearly
10000 bushels of corn. He has sold his
cotton on the ground for $24,675, and,
reckoning his corn at the going rates.
thirty cents per bushel-thatl would
amount to $4,000, masking the entire value
of his crop So, 7,675 TO offset this, there
is the cost Of labor of his hands, 1925 !;
provisions for same, Si,oS7; incidentals,
$1,000 making the entire cost of pro-
dscing this crop, $12,3 ,312. This leaves a
nice little profit of $15,363 as the result
of one years farming. y 9di juoaHW :.