The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-03
NEWS.
FRIDAY. May 8, ls72:I
AGRICULTURAL.

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Texas exports q million bushels
OF pecans every year.
Hay is quoted at $40 ton in She
boygan, Wisconsin, aud scarce at
that. r Es
Russia has moro agricultural So
cieties within her borders than any
other nation.
An Angora and Cashmere Goat
Association has been recently Or
gapized in California.
At the Farmers' Club of Damas-
Gus, Illinois, the wives of the farm
ers participate in the deliberations.
An association has been formed
in Houston, Texas, to commence
the planting of ramie on large
scale.
The wheat crop of North Georgia
is said to be immense, aud promises
to be one of the best ever harvested.
Fine, well tiHad soil absorbs
moisture from both above and below
and saves it for the use of plants,
when a hard, lumpy soil will not
retain it.
The Knoxville Chronicle says that
the prospect of large yield of
| wheat in East Tennessee is fine in
deed. A larger area was planted
than usual.
II. X. Young, of Grant county,
Wisconsin, has come to the conclu-
sion that mules makelthe best farm
teams, after having tried light and
heavy horses.
Farm fences are far less common
in France and Germany than with
us. Thousands of farms in either
country are simply divided from
each other by narrow foot path.
| The premium crop OF strawber-
ries in Burlington, n. j., in 1871,
was 263 bushels per acre, yielding
a profit of over $1,000. The aver
age is hardly one-third of the
amount.
The West Jersey Fruit Growers
Association estimate $3.50 profit per
Iacre on all small fruits from the re-
turn of 779 acres another estimate
makes the profit 1912 an acre.
The Lansing (Mich) Republican
says that the general appearance OF
the wheat crop is reported as very
unpromising in many parts of the
State, its failure being due to the
extreme drouth of last fall. In
some fields not spear came up.
| A resident of Tunbridge, Vt, il
the owner of singular fowl. 1t is
l. a ppa cnniy N
a guinea hen. The spotted feathers
are mixed about equally with the
white, the bird is larger than others
of his flock, and has different head
as well as different in every Other
respect, and its voice is harsh and
discordant in the extreme.
The ':Impressible" is the name Of
a new French strawberry, said to bt
ever-bearing, obtained by NJ. Ma
billie, of Limoges, (Haute Viene.
from the seed of the straw berry
Ananas du Chill, crossed with Troll
lope's Victoria, which is described
as a large continuously bearing
strawberry, which produces fruit a
large as the English or American
kinds, and continues to bear up Il
the first frost"
Colonel Warning thinks the bes
way "To Keep Boys on the Farm
would be to have husbandmen con
duct their operations in such man
ner as to show that we'll regulated
and skilfully managed farming pos
sesses every advantage they cal
hope to gain from professions which
are enormously considered NOR
learned, more worthy of an intelli
gent mind, and more profitable thai
this pursuit.
A foreign professor estimates tina
many millions more of men coult
be daily fed in Germany if it wer
only possible to pursuade the popu
lation of the advantage which breat
made of unbolted flour has owe
that ordinarily eaten. In taste ant
digestiveness it is preferable. We
the attempt to introduce it in Municl
failed. Children like it exceeding
ly, and their instinct is an excefien
pledge for the nutritiye value of th
: bread. aa.4