, 1873-10-18
Agricultural Items.

Peaches weighing twelve ounces
each are raised at Marysyi!le Cal.
An Ethan Allen colt, four years
old, was sold at Syracuse, y. Y,
for So, 900.
The elevator at Atlantic, Iowa,
IN twenty days handled eighty
thousand bushels of wheat.
The fruit-canning establishments
started last year in San Francisco
have proved a success.
\ Southern fruit-canning estab-
Iishment is putting up artichokes
for the Northern market.
! North Platte, Neb., is encourag.
inc emigration by the exhibition Of
corn-staIks fourteen feet long.
Raising and fattening hogs on
buffalo grass Is the latest discovery
III the farming line on the Plains.
The cotton supply annually IN
| creases four per cent. faster than
the misunderstanding population Of
the world.
Reports from all sections of Min.
nesota agree in the statement that
the red Osakis wheat has badly
rusted tins year.
The papers OF San joaquin Val
ley, California, are urging it upon
farmers to engage in the cultiva-
ton Of tobacco.
a Maxon, Ga, spring chicken,
born il February, has laid sixteen
eggs and hatched from them a fine
brood Of her own.
Only twenty-one steamboats, are
now engaged in the Upper Missis-
siPpi River trade, while in 1860
there were sixty.
1t has been proved that bolts
which inteSt horses stomach Will
I've twenty-four hours in turpcn-
tine or a!chohol.
There Is a mule owned by sharp
crs travelling through Illinois that
can trot q mile in 2::22S. Five min
utcs IS considered good time for
this species Of quadruped.
y ycw in 4 Derbyshire church
| yard IS thought TO be one Of the
most ancient trees in England. 1t
is calculated to be 1900 years old.
1t Is not very high, but its trunk is
80 feet in circumference.
y California paper tells about a
boy climbing 4 tomato vine TO get
away from a mad dog. Tomato
vines attain an enormous size in
California, and so do lies. Why
didn't the dog &c up, too?
The amount of live stock weigh
ed in the Union Cattle Yards at
Chicago during the seven years ex-
ceeds the avoirdupOiS of all the
human beings in North and South
America by 7j,000,Qnn nomds
4 recent railway traveller m
d., -o,---.- .L4t hundreds of
tons Of buffalo bones have been
gathered by the settlers and piled
up at the stations, awaiting ship
ment East, where they will be used
for making boue-black for the
sugar refinery, or ground for ma
nure.
Fred. Girard planted five acres
on new breaking at Bismark d. T.,
on the Upper Missouri, last May.
lie has sold $50 worth Of truck
from lis garden, and has Goo bush.
els Of potatoes left, which he is now
selling at g buShel. lie viii clear
$4,000 for his summers work.
The Usage Indians are said,
many of them, to have goGe TO
work splitting rails and preparing
to fence land for next seasons
crops. The Osages are good horse
thieves, but, on the score of their
agricultural tendencies, and their
capacity for splitting rails, the
frontiersmen of Kansas will be like
ly 10 remain skeptical.
\ Nc1C Eaglmd Farmer cores
pondent tells the way to get a
! woodchUck ont of a stone wal!
without tearing it down is to take
q piece Of wire about three feet
long, place both ends in one hand,
and put the curve at the creatures
nose. lie will usually lay held,
and being unable to let 90 when
there Is steady pull, he is speedily
brought to daylight and destruc-
ton.
MarysyiIlc, Ca, is eujoying a
visit from several millions of new /
KIND OF bug. He is about the size /
and shape OF a mustard seed, and a !
microscopic scrutiny fails TO dis /
close any head or legs, only little !
aperture in the SIDE. But he con /
trires to jump about in a lively |
manner, and there are so many OIL
them that vegetation is covered. !
30 says one Of the California locals. !
most OF which are noted for their
veracIty on the subject Of CaIifor- !
man lhEm-)bugs and monstrosities. |
y New York paper says there
are hundreds Of wild dogs in the I
western end of Long Island, withiE .
fifteen miles Of New York City, I
Three Siberian blooi-hounds, own |
ed by a German family, took to /
wild lie three or four years ago, /
and started the pack, and their of
spring have sweiled their numbers
till they have become dangerously
bold. Being unable to find game
enough TO live on, they 10 not hesi-
tate to appropriate stray calves and
pigs, and even visit tarm-yardS 1t
/ is stated that they haze also At