The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-25
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

The Ontario (Canada " est) Agricul-
tural Society receives a Government
Grant, annually, of SIo,o00.
A yield of potatoes at The rate of over
$50 bushels to the acre is reported by
the Superior City, Wis, ItBseS-at the
Northwest corner of the State.
A Connecticut correspondent of the
Country Gentleman says ne has been
very fortunate in securing excellent
farm laborers among Swedish emigrants.
1t is reported that one mill in Warren,
Trumbull Co., Ohio, this year received
10000 bushels of fax seed, brought in
wagons from the surrounding country,
paying about $4,000 for this amount.
The Ohio Farmer names one-third SIS
the amount of food saved by protecting
animals from cold storms, compared
with the amount necessary to keep them
in the same condition when exposed
4 Minnesota cheese maker who was
employed for some years in Madison
Co., n. ", says as good cheese can be
made where the cows have been fed on
--~airie grass as where fed on tame grass.
II. PickreH, Esq, of Illinois, is said
I've taken 80 prizes to the amount of
LIS, on Short Horn cattle. shown by
short Horns by him are also reported
at prices ranging from $1,000 down to
$3.50 each.
The PydiTte Farmer states that at the
recent Short Horn sale By the Messrs.
Hauley, of Illinois, several head were
purchased by Mr.. Garfield TO be taken
to his stock rancho in Western Kansas,
to be used in improving the Texas and
Cherokee cattle.
Mr.. Harris, senior editor Of the Ohio
Farmer, who has just returned from q
trip to the East, says the great call from
Eastern wool dealers now is for more
medium and delaine woods, as they say
the y and XX Merino fleece production
is now overdone, and combing woods
are in sufficient supply.
We are glad to hear so favorable a
report of the New York Veterinary
College as is given by the ABaericdn
AgftcuIturiSt. Ii says the College has
president, DR.. Busteed, five or six
professors, and several other instruc-
tors that its library and collections are
large; that more than $500 cases were
located in its hospital last year, and that
several classes of intelligent young men
have graduated from it and are now
practicing. Perhaps equally important
is the fact that the President and Pro-
fessors are all cultivated gentlemen,
graduates of some of the best medical
schools.
An Iowa correspondent of the Amer
icdaa AgricUIturiSt claims to have used
for five years, with very good results,
a harrow made by attaching four arms
at each side of double hinged center
piece. These are placed foot apart,
and have teeth made of one-half inch
iron, inches long, driven in, sloping
backward at an angle of Is. degrees.
They are 6 inches apart III the first pair
5 in The second, 4 in the third and in
the last. This is not patented, and he
says such q harrow can be made for
from So to SO.
The Maine Board Of Agriculture are
authorized to specify to what purpose
one-h half Of the State aid to County Ag-
ricultural Societies shah be applied. 1t
decided that one-fOurth should be eX-
pended in establishing and supporting
Farmers Clubs, and one-fourth in pre-
miums to encourage wheat growing.
AS q consequence, says correspondent
of the Country Gentleman, the number
of Farmers Clubs has very greatly in
creased, and four times as much wheat
was grown in the State in 1870 as in
any two of the preceding ten years.