The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-10
EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1872.
AGRICULTURAL.

mild one.
A. S. Welsch, president of the
Iowa Agricultural College, gets
$1,000 year.
Four new gram elevators are be-
ing built in Chicago, with a joint
capacity of storing $500, 900 bushels.
Z 1t is said to be pretty certain now
that the present cotton crop will not
be much, if any, beyond S,OOO,OOo
bales.
The average price of a sheep not
less than one year old has advanced
from 1915 to $4.56, in Vermont,
since one year ago.
j. \. Hughes. of Gloucester coun-
ty, n. J., ON March II, killed pig
OF the Jersey red breed. that was
3O7 days old, weighing ATT pounds.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Union says
within the next six years the wine
product of California will be %, 546,-
875 gallons per RnDum, value Sl6,-
364, 062.
A merchant of Wilcox county,
Ala, has contracted with western
granaries for 100000 bushels of corn
to be delivered in that county at
Sl.25 a.bushel.
South Logan, the garden spot of
| Southern Kentucky, has to bny
| corn, owing to the protracted drouth
of last summer. The people hope
for better things this year.
Some farmers in Maine have saw
ed hay by feeding browse from the
| woods, with meal, during the latter
part of winter. This is an old re-
sort of New England farmers,
At Grand Rapids, Michigan,
where there are immense deposits
of gypsum, 1t requires ten railroad
cars a day to convey from that place
the quantity required by farmers as
fertilizer.
The processes for making soil fer
tile have been known two thousand
years; yet modern science gives Us
reasons for these processes, and en-
ables us to distinguish between the
unnecessary processes.
Farmers in the State of Connect
lieut. say that the prospects of fruit
crop neZt Summer are very bad
The raspberry and blackberry crop
was about destroyed by the contin'
ued cold of March, while the straw
berry crop will be very slim.
Southern Illinois reports from
twelve places the aggregate amount
of winter wheat in store at 192,OOt
bushels. 1t is about the same quail
ity, but the amount held is consid
, erabIy lighter than at the same tim
last year.
VIM. Craig, of Keithsburg, Ill.
offers to make the quickest, cheap
est and best hedge fence in til
United States, on either dry or we
ground. Will prepare the ground
'e furnish the plants, set and cultiyat
them, and plash the fence for seven
ty-five cents per rod.
There is to be great Information
al fruit show sometime in Septen
Der next, in Glasgow, Scotland.
will be held under the West of Scot
land Horticultural Society. Its OF
ject is to give a new impulse to hol
Q ticulture in general, but moro pal
. ticularly to fruit growing.
The Flint (Michigan) Globe says
"From present appearances the wiz
ter wheat crop of this portion {
the State, will be light this snmme
But little was sowed, and the mo-
of that little was, in consequence
of the terrible drouth, put in undo
the most unpromising circumstar
ces,'
Lamont e. Rogers, of Tecpmsel
Michigan, aged eight years, last ia
husked four hundred bushels (
corn, and this winter has fed seve
head of cattle, twenty sheep an
2 several hogs, and chopped wood fl
two stoves, and walking a mile
school, has maintained his place
the head of the class.
The proposition of the New Yo1
Agricultural Society to hold Il
Sta C Fair for twelve years in thr'
differ ent cities, wakes up the appl
cants for that honor. Each eli
must guarantee to the Society Il
sum of four thousand dollars. Wa
tertown and Utica have commence
friendly squabble for the honor.
An excellent remedy for a foul
dered horse is as follows: Wht
you are satisfied that he is foqnde
ed, no matter what the cause, gi'
him one pint of dry salt with
an SPOON; then keep him in the stab
without drink for twenty-fol
hours, and nine times out of ten
radical cure will be effected. Tn
remedy, however, is recomm enGG
only in the first stages, or with
three or four days after the cause.
An experiment is to be made
Utah with the Angora goat, ne
st. George, Utah Territory, by a c
operative society. Goats were in
~ ported from Angora and Thibt
and an effort will be made to pr
: duce a profitable fiber, by breedii
up animals from the common goa
Some of the imported animals we
= lost in the late severe storms on Il
- Union Pacific railroad-leavir
something more than one hundrG
to begin business with.
If we were to classify all the pri
en- cipal breeds of fowls, keeping
mind geographical distribution
well as physical pecuIiarities, v
should place the Mediterranean fan
lily in the Southern group, ii
French breeds and the Polish, COL
prising about all the importa
' crested fowls, should go in the Mi
die Southern group, the Europes
breeds with no crests, no feathe
upon their legs, and with combs
moderate hight, such as games al
the common American, or ratht
English fowls, may be called Il
Middle Northern group, and IL
Asiatics (Which, whether found ne
the southern part of Asia or high,
up, are properly semiarctie bird
with abundant fluffy plumage, il
dicating severe winters) may
classified as the great Northel
group. 1t is not pretended that g
re the breeds of fowls in the wor
# fmay be readily referred to one
the divisions mentioned, but,
classification is attempted, v
should make neither more nor lie
than four groups in order to inclu(
the bulk of all the best know
Poultry World.