The Hickman courier., 1872-09-21
NEWS ITEMs FOR THE FARMER


Is AI,NY places in California, rs we
learn from the Pacific Rural Press
owners of ranches have had to EN-
( ploy numbers Of men to fight the
c:ickets that threatened to sweer
away crops OF all kinds.
SIX CAR loads of hemp We're re
Gently shipped from Troy, Kansas
raised principally by Norwegian
farmers, on the high prairie west oil
that town. Tie price received was
$50 per ton.
J. T. WnIPLE, of Cambridge,
Michigan, recently shesred from a
buck, thirteen months old, eighteen
pounds of wool. and from an eleven
months old buck, fourteen pounds.
Both were American merinos.
BAD LUCK is simply a man with
his hands in his pocket and pipe in
his mouth, looking on to see how II
viii come ont. Good luck Is man
Of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up,
and working to make ii come out
right.
THE OLj1 Farmer estimates the
wool clip of OHIO this year as over
1000, 900 pounds greater than last
y ear. From nine counties it has
reports and estimates showing an
increase of 111,604 sheep over last
year. Almost in every case sheep
are reported to have been well win
tered end to be IN good condition.
An AUTOMATIC scale, to be used by
millers ard others in handling grain
and -four, has just been invented.
The instrument can be set while
filing a car, SO as to indicate the
weight of the grain delivered. a
miller can also tell by the use of it
how much grinding has been done
without weighing the -four.
THERE is a wheat-feld on the west
side of the San joachim river, Cali
fornia, thirty-five niles in length by
eight in width, with an area of 170,-
600 acres. Estimating the average
yield at sixteen bushels to the acre,
it would give a total yield of 2,867,-
500 bushels, or S6,015 tons This
amount of grain would load 8.6O1
cars.
A CHINESE fish company in San
Francisco have been supplying Gus
toners with trout for some time
past. The fish were sold by the
pound. Lately the fish had got
into the habit of swallowing such in
nutritious substances as scrap iron,
&c, thereby in many instances al
most doubling their weight. The
fishermen disclaim all knowledge of
the mystery.
IT Is stated that at an agricultural
show in England, IN 1870, boar Of
the White Lancashire large breed
was exhibited, which had the remark
able weight CT 1,30O pounds. Il is
perhaps equally remarkable that
Lavirg been fattened to So great a
weight, lie was afterwards reduced
IN flesh, and successfully used for
breeding purposes.
IF you want to get rid of flies, says
the Vicksburg Herald, boil together
equal parts, by weight, of glue and
molasses spread it over common
brown paper, while hot, with a
brush. Place a sheet of paper in
every room of your house. 1t will
capture every fly in the room within
the day. The paper can be thrown
in the fire and a new one used, when
covered with the captured flies.
THE LANDED proprietors of North
Germany have taken alarm at the
rapid increase of emigration, and
they are shrewd enough to use bait
which soonest tempts the German
peasants. They propose to offer
land to the men who Will agree to
stay at home. Meetings OF land
lords have recently been held, in
order to consider the condition OF
the laboring class, and appeals have
been made to the government for
the adoption of measures to facilitate
the acquisition Of small holdings.
a FARMER residing near Browns
vile, Fayette county, named John
S. Goe, lately sheared flock of
sheep, some of which yielded the
largest feeces that ever came off a
sleeps back. The fieeces are Of one |
7ear's growth, and net left over a
Tear, as is often done, to obtain
leavy feeces. One hundred and
orty sheep averaged Is pounds 6
'unces {; 100 of these averaged IL
'ounds Is ounces. Several ewes
heared Is to 20 pounds, a number
rom II and Is to 10 pounds each
ne two-year-old buck, 21 pounds s
gnees another 21 pounds 10
unces; one buck 80 pounds5 5 ounces;
ne eve 23 pounds 6 ounces.