The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-09-23
AGRICULTUAL ITEMS.


a -Frcnchman has 10 acres OF po. Ipies
growing at Lower Lake, Lake CO nty,
California.
The Colorado potato bug has mao its
ada.
A second bale of new cotton sold at
thirty-siX and One-half cents at n ont
gOmery, Ala.
Mississippi is to have no less tnyp for
ty Agricultural Fairs during the coming
autumn.
A short time ago a sale of TEXTS cat
tie, amounting to 100000, was made at
Omaha, Nebraska.
During the second week in August
over 100000 sacks of wheat were shipped
from San Francisco to Great Britain.
Horace Capron, Commissioner fAgri-
culture, with his wife, has left Washing
ton for few weeks recreation in the
country.
There are over fifty miles of bitches
for irrigating purposes within space of
five miles square, around Los Angeles,
California.
Advises from the agricultural districts
of Northern and Central Russia repre-
| sent the crops as looking well, and prom
| Using yield above the average.
The Commissioner ofthe General Land
Office has issued a caution against coun-
| terfeit agricultural college script, which
| has been extensively circulated.
Mr.. William Duncan, of Antauga cOun-
/ ty, Alabama, is the owner of a pig hay
! ing two distinct bodies and only one
/ head. is on exhibition at Il saloon.
\ farmer in New England writing to
/ the Boston CUttjUdtOr says that since he
/ commenced keeping farming accounts
/ he has cleared double the money he did
before.
| In Christian county, Illinois, a short
/ time since, a meadow containing ten
acres, was struck by tightening, and the
! grass was so dry that it took fire and
| was consumed.
A Camden county, N. j., farmer re-
| Gently gave away his load Of egg plants
because he could nos get his price for
! them. Another threw bis load into the
| Delaware. E4
a gentleman writing from Biloxi,
| Miss, says the heaAand drouth have been
| so long and severe in that region that
| the wells are almosedried UP, and that
many pear t. ees have died with the fruit
on them.
Fairfield county has been the greatest
sheep raising district in Ohio. Now,
| however, farmers are said to be losing
their interest in sheep, and turning their
| attention to horses, cattle and hogs.
At the great pillow factory of B. F. Az
cry, Louisville, KY, turn out 500 piows
| per day. Mr.. Avery is one of the oldest
| plow- makers in the country. He work
ed originally, in 1925, under Jethro
! Woods patent.
The cheese and butter factories of Wy
| Oming county, n. Y, are said to number
| sc. The daily product is estimated at
III, l..
| say $1,000 worth; and 800 pounds of
choice butter.
Miss Carolina Wood, of Iowa, has re-
claimed 160 acres of wild prairie land,
and has planted 200 fruit and 1000 maple
| trees all with her own hands. She raGh-
! er wants an accomplished husband to
play the piano and do homework.
The valuable pine forests of New JeI-
sey are likely, at no distant day, to be
| entirely destroyed. Every Summer fires
| break out, or are maliciOusly started in
| the swamps, and hundreds of thousands
of dollars are lost before they can be
| smothered.
| The daughter of wealthy citizen O
! Gorham, Michigan, died on the 18th ult.,
from the effects of bite from potato
bug. She was awakened during the night
by a sharp, singing bite on her face,
when she crushed the insect and threw
it on the flour. The poison began its
work and caused her death.
Lameness in hogs is caused sometimes
by the large pores in the back part of the
legs getting clogged. They are little
| above the knuckles in the back part of
the legs. Wash the lame legs ZAP
| and lukewarm water, using a stiff brush
| and rubbing hard till the pores are open,
! and when the pores are washed open. the
| lameness viii leave.
| The Southern papers promise a cotton
crop of not less than 100000 bales. The
| Macon Messenger remarks: 'sThis comes
! of cCSDbatztng everything to death, and
| neglecting corn, chickens, hogs, cows,
bullocks, sheep, goats, wheat, potatoes,
| peas, oats, rye, clover. butter, turnips,
wool, and everything else man wants
to help him on comfortably in his jour
ney through life"