The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-12-02

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Messrs. Reynolds Sc Co., of Peoria
Ill, expect to pack about $4,000 hog
this season.
j AT three Illinois fairs, Mr.. Garlic
took 81 ,0O3 in premiums on a stallion
and ten of his colts.
| 1t is said $4,000 in cash premium
were paid at the Fulton Co., ILL.,, Fair
There were, in all, 5000 entries.
Tioga county, Pa, sold, during 1869
221 ,91S pounds of butter, valued at $50,
$3.50, and 134,709 pounds of cheese
worth S20,206,35.
The KiIbourne City, Wis, Miro,
says good hops only command 6 to
cents per pound at that place, and thai
such hops are scarce.
The railroad is doing a great work fol
the Mormon Farmers, who were re-
stricted to the rudest forms of barter
before it came along.
At two recent English races, the
English bred colts entered were defeat
ed, in one case by French bred and in
the other by Prussian bred colt.
A correspondent of the Western Ru.
raj says young man named Farwell
dug 136 bushels of potatoes in one day
in Wayne Co., Mich. He used an i'm.
proved potato-hook.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Expert
mental Farm has raised, the present
season, 150 varieties of potatoes, be-
tween thirty and forty varieties OF
wheat, and thirty varieties of oats.
The Ohio Farmer names one third as
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.
1t is reported that one mill in Warren
Trumbull Co., Ohio, this year received
10000 bushels of flax seed, brought in
wagons from the surrounding country,
paying about $4,000 for this amount.
A well informed correspondent OF
the Country Gentleman, writing from
GAINESVILLE, Wis, says after trying
almost every kind OF stable floor he
finds two or three inch pine plank the
best.
Mr.. Newhold, of New Jersey, in
forms the American Institute Farmers
Club that soaking seed wheat in brine
and then busting it with air-slacked
lime is perfect preventive of smut in
wheat.
Mr.. James Hussey, of Vassalboro',
Me-, raised the past season 153 bushels
OF sound ears of corn from an acre OF
land. One trace weighed siXty-six
pounds, or more than fifty pound to the
bushel.
In the vicinity of Geneseo, ILL.,, hogs
are dying in considerable quantities.
Farmers are puzzled to ascertain what
the disease is. 1t has the appearance OF
a lung difficulty, and as yet no remedy
has been found for the disease.
The Central Illinois correspondent
of the Country Gentleman says that
there never has been gathered a sound
er crop of corn in that section than that
of the present year, but he adds that
there is a general complaint of short
ears and barren stalks.
In some places in Illinois, farmers
still Justly complain that they are not
fairly dealt with by grain dealers. The
lawful weight of rye and shelled corn is
fifty-siX pounds to the bushel, but grain
dealers take sixty-pounds for bushel,
which they then sell in Chicago OF East
ern markets at fifty-six pounds to the
bushel.
The published statistics of Rice coun-
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of acres in cultivation in 1870, was 3d.
SIG; of which 27,465 acres were in
wheat, 0,55l in oats, ,249 in corn. The
whole number of farms in 1869 was l.
4S1. The number of bushels of wheat
produced i'll 1869 was 46S, 237; of oats,
310,315; corn, I47,6S0.
A writer to the American Institute
Farmers Club gives the following
method to expel sheep ticks q feed
sulphur. 1t not only keeps them of
sheep, but drives them. | feed it with
salt mixed in equal parts, at the rate OF
three pounds of sulphur to one hundred
sheep. Then after five days | give an
other dose, the same as the first. Be-
fore l begin dosing, let them get salt
hungry.
The claim that the maize, or Indian
corn plant, is indigenous to the soil OF
the New World, has lately been contest
ed, and the recent investigations of GER
tain Chinese records are cited TO prove
that it was cultivated in China prior to
the discovery of America. Chinese
authors maintain that it came original
ly from countries west of China, and
that it was introduced into that country
long before the first arrival of the Por-
tuguese, in 1917,
The steam culture of sugar on some
plantations in Louisiana seems to be q
success. The deep blowing seems to
have been peculiarly beneficial. as the
cane has dark green color and thrifty
look, though other plantations were
suffering from the drouth. The expert
menter is very sanguine that the crop
can be made, with steam cultivation,
with one third less mules, One-third less
laborers, and will give one third more
yield per acre, than under the old sys-
TEN.
One marked difference in English
and American farming is forcibly pre-
sented by correspondent of the
Country Gentleman in the statement
that an English tenant farmer, liable to
be dispossessed of his place on six
months notice, buys corn brought 5000
miles with which to fatten animals, do
ing this chiefly for the sake of the man.
| ure, while an American farmer owning
the land he works, will sell even his
hay and feed no animals for the pur-
pose of enriching his own land.
The Massachusetts, PloHgItman thinks
the price of cheese must rise. 1t SAYS
the product of this country will fall
short of the average on account of the
drought, and the product of England is
prODa Oily at least third below the aV-
erage for the same reason, and that in
wolves a deficiency of something like
100000 of pounds there, while the
vast armies of non-producers, and great
consumers OH the continent will eat up
all that can be made there. We see nc
reason, therefore, why our shipments
should not command advanced prices.
The report of the United States De.
partment of Agriculture comes to the
| startling conclusion that such is the
wholesale destruction of American
| forests, there will be an actual famine
for wood in the country within thirty
years, unless immediate measures are
taken to supply their places by new
plantations. 1t is estimated that from
1850 TO 1860 100000 acres of timber
land was brought under cultivation
and that in the present decade no less
than hundred millions will be so re-
claimed. We see but one remedy fol
this Let the Government offer large
premiums for the cultivation of forests
A few Sundays ago, as Mr.. Beechei
was about commencing his sermon, {
stout, fatherly-lookingm man was endeav
oring TO make his way through tn,
crowd, to get within better hearins
distance of the distinguished orator. A
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