The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-26
NEWS ITEMS FOR THE FARMER.

NEWS ITEMS FOR THE FARMER
Is MANY places in California, ~ We
learn from the PaciGc Ruroi Press
owners of ranches have had TO en-,
plOy numbers of men to fight the
crickcts that threatened to SWEEP
away crops of all kinds.
Six CAR loads of hemp were re.
Gently shipped from Troy, Kansas,
raised principally by Norwegian
farmers, on the high prairie west Oh
that town. The price ~receJyol was
sos per ton.
j. +. WmrLE, Of Cambridge,
Michigan, recently Bhcared from Il
buck, thirteen months old, eighteen
pounds of wool, aud from IN eleven
months old buck, fourteen pounds.
Both were American mcrinos.
BAD LUCK is simply II man with
his hands in his pocket and pipe in
his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come ont. Good luck is IL man
of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up,
and working to make it come out
right.
TIE Ohio Farmcr estimates the
wool clip OF Ohio this year as over
10000 600 pounds greater than last
year. From nine counties it has
reports and estimates showin9 an
increase Of III ,GO4 sheep over last
year. Amos III every case sheep
are reported to have been well win
tered and to be i'll good condition.
An AUTOMATIC scale, to be used by
millers ard others III handling grain
and flour, has just been invented.
The instrument can be set while
filing n car, so as to Indicate the
weight of the gram delivered. A
miller can also tell by the use of it
how much grinding has been done
without Weighing the flour.
THERE is II whcat-fcld ON the west
side of the San joachim river, Cali.
fornia, thirty-liyo miles in length by
eight in width, with an me of 49,
600 acres. Estimating the average
Weld at sixteen bushels to The acre,
it would give IL total yield Of $751;
500 bushels, or SG,Ol5 tons. This
amount of Grain would load s Col
cars.
c.r IN San,
a C''NE'H "'n 0n'i,'I9
FRANCISCO nave oot' '"PI'J 'n6 t"
toners WIN 'lo"' noi o "J','' tno
past me nIn %'io o't y @
Hounu' l'ateiS 'io en-
ih'o tn' iooiI "a H""'''", ,,m ;ram
n'''IIIlo"S H"p'''"'.' 90 "t,'r ~
"c'' 'hGrcpy III .h"m5 nht Tno
-" ,I;a.I,im ali Lnnwlrlco of
tLn mIstcry
lT IS stalled TINT Mt nn hSrlG'I'Nr'I
show III England, III lo'V' Il "1"i .,
the White Lancashire lnr@o oroI"
was exhibited, wlilch hau Ihe rcll'"'h
"''' '''o'
perhaps equally r~thlorhapio 'i'''
EaWnG been iattehcn 10 80 %''"O IL
weight, he was Afterwards ioo,',eU
III flesh, ana successfully "So" w
breeding purposes
L. YOU want to get rid OF flies, says
inc ~'lcASo'IS ln''","t ~ "nI
equal parts, ny "el3h'' u quo ""o
molassos !; spreai IL o'er common
brown paper, while not, win II
brush. Place II sheet OF paper III
every room of your house. 1t VIII
capture every fly IN the room within
the day. The paper can be thrown
in the fire and Il new one used, when
covered with the captured flies.
Tur LANDED proprietors of North
GERMANY boye taken alarm at the
,aniJ ];ycre,se of emigration, and
thdy ara sbrowd enough to use IL bait
which soonest tempts tho German
na a,vn Tbev propose to offer
innJ to the men who will agree to
.tav nj home. Meetings of land
lords have recently been held III
order to consider the condition OF
the laboring class, and appeals nave
been made to the government Tor
the adoption Of measures to iac'litate