The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-13
EMPORIA NEWS.
Friday, january I3, 1871.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

A company has been organized at Sa- |
lem, Ohio, for the manufacture on a
large scale, of an improved cattle car.
Mr.. J. b. Bennett, of Michigan, has
given his daughter 1900 acres of land
in Ottawa county, Michigan. The tract
is known as the ''Robinson Marsh" and
is TO be converted into dairy farm.
The U. S. Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, Hon. Horace Capron, thinks il a
matter of regret that so many inventors
who are turning their attention to steam
plows, should adhere to the plan of hav-
ing traction engines.
The New England Farmer, in COM
mcnding the recent New Hampshire
Farmers Convention, says one unfortu-
nate thing about it was that there were
scarcely a dozen young men present at
any meeting-although the attendance
was large.
Horace l.. Emery says, in the Country
Gentleman, that any ten average horses,
will, with five piows, turn over twice as
much land for ten hours per day as any
ten horse power engine can do in the
same time, field and soil, the engine to
travel over the field and pull its plows
after it, as the horses do theirs.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman thinks he has found out that oats
although good feed for horses, should
should not be their only grain feed
that corn or corn meal had better be
given half the time, or q mixture of corn
and oats. He also advises feeding horses
twice a week, mess of potatoes as
medicine"
Some of the newly settled Counties
of Wisconsin make rather small show
ing of agricultural products. The CEN
sus returns states that the total agricui-
tural products of Douglass Co., for the
year ending June 80, 1870, were but
$50; those of Bayfield, Co., but S725.
The value of similar products in Dane
Co., in the same State, were S5,4S3, O47.
An Iowa Farmers Climb, at East No
daway, unanimously passed resolution
instructing the Executive Committee to
ascertain if any number of the club neg
lected to take an agricultural paper ;
requiring any such persons to be ''labor-
ed with" in the endeavor to show them
their error, and in case any one should
persist in neglecting to take such paper
the committee was instructed to report
his name to the Club.
'sMr. Brown, of Massachusetts," who,
we suspect, is the senior editor of the
New England Farmer, recently stated
III luc NCW IluLlD5DlEC SOh~
vention, that the result of the action Of
the farmers club in his town has been :
"a decided increase in the crops, at O
less cost than heretofore, an edu cation
to the members which the best schools
could not give, and more interest and
satisfaction in the employment"
L. f. Wood, of CEDAR Falls, Iowa,
has been experimenting on the i'm
provement of popcorn. The first year
he planted corn from an ordinary sized
ear, and each year selected the best of
the crop to plant. After four years OF
trial he has grown ears nearly as large
as the ordinary corn. He proposes to
keep on and see what he can develop.
His experiments certainly show that
the seed of the largest corn should be
selected.
The foot and mouth cattle disease
which has been known for many years
III Europe, has made its appearance in
the State of New York. The first appear.
ance was in Oneida county. A few
weeks since it made its appearance in
Duchess county. 1t is thought to have
been introduced by n drove of cattle
from Canada. There is some danger
that the disease may be brought west
though the probabilities of this are not
so great as of cattle disease appearing
in the west being carried east.
a New Hampshire farmer is reported
to have threshed, with fail, two BUSH
els of wheat for seed. These two bush
els were sown in the same field and
with the same conditions as seven bush
els of machine threshed seed. They
were found to yield one-third more per
bushel than the machine threshed. There
is very general opinion that machine
Nyh heat iG haf
seed. Ifsuch injury prevails to any thing
like the extent indicated by this expert
ment, it becomes a matter of much i'm
portancc.