The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-16


A psor old Granger. stark and cold;
For the chap he'd helped to ONCE win
Had gathered him in; had gathered him il.
FOR FARMERS LEISURE MO
MENTS.
A large agricultural implement
mAnufaetory is talked Of for Medina.
California pays 100000 a year
to Scotland for wheat bags.
Dogs around Painesyille are still
making frightful ravages among the
sheep.
The Clyde Independent says q
Grange was organized in Republic,
Seneca county, last week.
The Texas cattle crop of the pres
ent year is estimated to have
brought $800o,O00 into the State.
Samuel Snider, Of Madison coun-
ty, shipped 70 Christmas besves to
the New York market, that averaged
nearly 1850 pounds.
The State Agricultural Society
met at Columbus on the 7th. The
Treasurer's report shows net bal
balance Of $S,692.
A horse that was worth $S5, 900
two years ago is now used on a
Boston horse car. A broken shoHl-
der caused the depreciation.
The shipments Of Iowa Changers,
through their agents, to the Union
Stock Yards of Chicago for the yekr
1873, amount. to over $2t6,060.
The cooperative packing house
started at Muscatine, Iowa, by the
Changers, has packed four-ffths Of
all the pork made at that point this
season.
Oregon has a surplus of 100000
bushels Of wheat this season. and is
selling it st 81 per bushsl gold.
This is pretty well for population
of /, 100000,
Eastern farmers may be be-astonished
to learn that, stacked between Gree.
iy and Green City, Col, are 9, ,000, 900
tons Of hay, almost worthless on ac-
count of no mesns to get it to mar
ket.
A. B. French, the great nursery
man of Clyde, has purchased the
farm lately owned by Mr.. Cobb,
and has already got a good share of.
it cut up into lets, making streets,
fifty feet wide.
An Indiana farmer don't pay any
tolls. He shoots the gate-keepef,
and jogs right along. they have
tried him twice, but he gsts cleat,
since one Of his aunt's cousins used
to act "1ighty-like."
The annual report of the Michigan
salt inspector shows an increase over
last years productof nearly 100000
bushels, the total production Of 1873
being 4,ll6,730 bushels. The reve-
nue. received from inspection was
$12,s5O.
Saturday last, D. C. Rule & Son
shipped from to New York . lot Of
hne fat cattle. Ten head Of them
Weighed 22,195 pounds, an average
of 2,2194 pounds each. Eight head
weighed 16,999 pounds, averaging
2,I245 pounds. These cattle were Of
the Durham breed.
There is exhibited in st. Louis
just now a curious bit of work in
amateur art. 1t is q medallion of s
sleeping face, very well executed, not
in clay or marble, but in butter. It
came from the head and hands Of
an Arkansas farmers wife, who
caught the idea while busy in her
dairy.
Chang and Eng, the Siamense
twins, are settled in North Csrolina.
They each have a very good farm
adjoining each other, and both have
families. They stay alternately two
weeks at time at each others farm.
Both have children, who have fine
education, and one of the twins had
a daughter recently married. They
have good residences on their farms,
and are successful farmers.
The regular annual meeting of the
Ohio Dairymen's Association will
be held at Temperance Hall, No. 81
Superior street, on Wednesday and
Thursday, January 28th and 29th.
The exercises will consist Of address
ses, discussions relating to the bust
ness Of dairy husbandry, markets,
&c. The headquarters Of the Asso-
citation during the convention will be
at the Forest City House, Corner Of
Superior street and the Public
Square, Cleveland.
"Shanks," correspondent to the
Green Springs Gazette, gives the fol-
lowing: There are efforts being
made to start Grange Of the Pa
irons of Husbandry at the Springs
soon which I beg leave to preface
with short story: A preacher took
occasion to spice his sermon with
Grange doctrine. During the fol-
lowing week he went to purchase
meat OF his butcher, who refused to
SELL much to the surprise Of the
preacher, who wished to know the
reason. The butcher replied: "You
preach against dealing with middle
men. can not receive the teach
ings of Christ through you; neither
can you buy meat of me. We are
both middle men,"
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