The Grange advance., 1874-01-07
AGRICULTURAL,

California has land enough to sup
port 100000 people.
Cherry trees in Alameda Co., Cal.,
have already budded and bloomed
Ripe strawberries, grown in the
open air, are the luxury in Mobile.
Ulster Co., N. Y, is developing as
leading grape-raising region.
1t is claimed in Kansas that this
has been the champion year for prairie
fires.
quite large number of Pennsyl-
vanians are emigrating to Southwest
Missouri.
There are 2,300 acres of Govern
ment land in Greene Co., Mo-, subject
to entry.
From Sheboygan Co., Wis, there
has been shipped this year 102, 400
dozen eggs.
The farmers of East Tennessee
have sown more wheat, and it is looking
finer, than ever before.
The Colorado market is supplied
with buffalo meat, which sells at two
cents per pound.
Certain farmers Of Marion Co., ILL.,,
think of organizing cooperative pork
packing association.
The first steam grist mill in Idaho
was recentlv erected on the Camas Prai-
rie. at Mount Idaho.
A great cheese, weighing 4,O81
pound, in Faneuil Hall Market, Boston,
was cut on the Saturday before Christ
mas.
Dogs have killed seventy-four and
wounded eli ghteen sheep in Smyrna
township, Ind, during the last eighteen
months.
The number Of hogs slaughtered
between Nov. l and Dec. 18th, at Gin
cinnati, was 100000; during the same
time last year 268,000.
An Iowa widow wouldn't sell 1900
pounds of wool during the war as she
wanted 81 per pound, and she has it in
the barn yet
"A rat gnawed hole in Dubuque
elevator and 600 bushels of wheat
streamed out on the dock before the
mischief was discovered.
The number of immigrants from
foreign countries who arrived in this
country during the yast fiscal year was
459, 1903, an increase of 81, ,997 over the
preceding year.
up to Dec. 18th, during the pres
ent packing season, Chicago pork-pack-
ers have handled 10000 hogs, against
429, 9,430 head for the corresponding
period last season.
Autumn has fled and Winter has come.
The groves are mute, and the birds are dumb;
The winds are cold, and the skies are gray,
And the weary sun makes short the day.
Prof. LOOMS, of Yale college, says
that the last November was the coldest
Of any within seventy-6ve years, the
nearest approach to its severity being
the November of 1898.
The Wichita, Kan, land Office re.
ports that ninety -four claims have been
taken under the tree planting act Of
last March, and that the amount Of land
thus taken is 15,040 acres.
An English engineer, Of large ex-
perience in the irrigating system of
India, is preparing maps and plans for
the irrigation of the California valleys,
to be submitted to the next Legislature.
There are, in Wright Co., Minn.,
thousands Of acres of land adapted to
the culture of cranberries but Of little
value for any other purpose. This
fruit is always salable, and is worth
now about four times as much as wheat.
-California has about 10000
head of sheep. The wool crop in two
shearings, At an average Of ten pounds
per head, would amount to 10000, 900
pounds, or $1,000, 900 more than tn.
total product Of the United States in
1871.
The receipt Of hogs at the Union
Stock Yards, Chicago, for the month Of
November were 612,301 head, tho
average weight being 267@ pounds.
During the month of November, 1872.
there were received 373, 1853 head, the
average weight being 272 pounds.
"A company has been incorporated
at Denver, COL, to construct canal
from Platte River Canon, in the Rocky
Mountains, to the eastern borders Of
Colorado, over $50 miles. It is to
carry 300 feet of water, which is to be