The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-23

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a dainty fellow withal. as, after kill
ing the sparrow, he brushes the skull
and eats only the brains.
a correspondent of the Country
Gentleman had four horses that
contracted the habit of crib biting.
He painted the woodwork of the
stable with crude petroleum, and
was amused at the grimaces of the
animals at the smell and taste,
but rejoiced that III his case it eff
fected a cure.
VIM. W. AIdrich, of Ohio, is one
of very few men in the United
States engaged in breeding Here
ford cattle. He highly praises their
good qualities, claiming not only
good fattening but superior milk
ing qualities. He had n public sale
rscently at which good prices were
realized-from $3.50 to $500.
I Indian corn, or maise, was the
most valuable crop grown in the
United States last year, the yield
being worth S47S, 275, 800; hay
comes next. the money value being
1851 III ,035; wheat third, $500, AL
$50; oats fourth, Sl02, sc, $50: po-
tatoes fifth, ST. ,S36,G7I /; cotton sixth,
Sc, 2S2, 1858; and tobacco, S25,901,-
42l.
When the farmers have anything
to sell, the prodnct, whatever it is,
in most every instance, is measured
out in the half bushel, but every
thing they are obliged to purchase is
| sold TO them by weight. The bal
ancc is always against them. We
| contend that the only fair way of
! selling agricultural or horticultural
products is by weight. That is
what we are coming to, and the
quicker the better.
We saw lately, near the house of
Mr.. IL. X. Vickroy, superintendent
of the horticultural department of
| the Industrial University az Cham
paign, u remarkable case of sus-
! pended animation i'll a green ash
tree, planted in May, 1871, which
remained without leafing until June
4, 1872, q period of some thirteen
| months, when it put forth buds,
| and on the 10Th of June, when we
examined it, was in full leaf, with
\ growths of tour inches in length
Pacific Farmer.
! The wisdom the Japanese exhibit
i'll their policy Of studying the laws
and customs of the most civilized
countries is worthy of attention and
commentator. They are adopting
| and enacting such laws as will slim
| ulate their growth in the industrial
| arts. They have now patent law
| which not only protects home in-
ventions, but is intended to protect
| foreign inventions also. We expect
that Japan will yet contribute
largely to American inventive gen.
ius, because American inventors
will, to q great extent, occupy the
rich field thus thrown open to
them.
Though questioning the sound
ness of the principle of homeopathy,
DIR. Paaren, of the Prairie Farmer,
admits that this school of medicine
has done the State some service by
showing forcibly the great power,
of the Uis med5catTic nature, (the
restorative power OF nature,) and
the inestimable Importance OF regi-
men and diet as auxiliaries to the
medical treatment of disease. Fur
Their, it has aided in the advance
ment of a more rational system Of
veterinary practice, by discounten-
ancing those copious and repeated
bleedings, and large and reiterated
physicings, which were indiscrim-
inately prescribed for all patients.
a correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, in a recent letter to
that paper, speaks as follows of
Texas cattle: "In the summer OF
1868 great numbers of Texas cattle
arrived at Tolona from the South,
and were distributed from the sta
ton. Here the famous Texas cattle
| fever broke out aud spr cad over the
State, causing great excitement.
And by the way, do not believe it
has ever been satisfactorily settled
what the Texas cattle fever was, if
it was not q sickness brought on by
hardship and exposure. 1t has,
however, been satisfactorily demon
| strated That Texas cattle cannot be
taken to Illinois, summered, Win
tered and fattcd, and made n profit
able business to the grazier."
The experiment of probably
manufacturing sugar at Chatsworth,
company conducting the enterprise
have moved their mandatory to
Freeport, in the same state, in order
at Chatsworth, though producing
fine beets, is said to contain so much
saline matter that, coupled with the
want of proper supply of water,
the sugar could be produced only at
Il loss. An analysis of the soil AZ
Freeport seemed to indicate that
| the sugar beet would do well there,
and the company at once decided to
remove their works thither. One
of the leading proprietors has two
hundred acres in beets, and there
are about five hundred acres more
being grown by farmers in that vi
cinity. The test of success or fail
ure in the new location will in all
probability be decided with this
1 years crop. 1t is stated that mil
lions of capital have been held in
allegiance TO know the result of man
ufacturing sugar from beats raised
in prairie soil. With success once
demonstrated, it is probable that it
will become a great industry in the
West, and this prominent instance
of failure at the outset does not
seem SO discouraging when it is re-
membered that one of the now
richest beet-sugar snufacturing
companies of continental Europe
made three disastrous failures be-
fore finally succeeding.
Corn FoDDER.-Mr. Alexander
Reed, of Lockhaven, Clinton ceun-
ty, Pa, reports that his practice is
to cut up his corn as late as possible
and avoid frost. After husking,
the stalks are bound and carefully
shocked till cured, and then slowed
in the baIn. They are prepared for
feed as follows: Each morning
and evening the quantity needed is
cut with power cutter" put in
tight box, with mixture and bran
sprinkled in; boiling water is then
poured on, and the box closed with
3 tight lid, so as to shut in both
heat and steam. That steamed at
night is warm when fed in the
morning, and that in the morning
when fed in the afternoon. Mr..
Reed states that, prepared in this
way, the cows eat all the butts, and
a ton will produce more and much
better milk for butter than ton of
hay prepared in the same way
Department of Agriculture MONTH
ly report.
4 The Vermont State trial of now
ing machines and hay implements,
) at Rutland, lasted four days. The
/ award on moving machines we
have not seen, The committee On
hay horse-rakes awarded a gold
medal to the HolIingsworth rake; a
silver medal to the Welcomb rake I;
bronze medal TO NYe's Improved
Bay State" rake, and diploma to
the new model BaY State. a gold