Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-12-04
STOCK AND FARM.

Howard's tobacco crop, It is estimated
will exceed 5000, 900 pounds.
Representative Broadly Hull, of Lin
coin county, has been appointed pur-
chasing agent Of the state grange.
Nearly all the fat cattle in Colorado
have changed hands recently or will do
so soon. Never in the history of the
territory has the trade In cattle been so
active.
y dOwn-country farmer who put
in half acre with turnips last summer,
says they didn't bring him cent. He
should try onions next time. They al
ways bring scent.
John I. and j. S. Wilson sold eight
three-year-old steers. of their own rais-
ing, averaging 1,76O lbs. Two of the
animals weighed respectively 2,OS5 lbs.
and 19sO.-[Maysville Rep.
1t is regarded as matter of positive
eel tainty that the hog crop this year will
be from II to 15 per cent less in num-
bcrs and per cent. less in weight and
size than that of last year. Those hay-
ing hogs to sell would do well to bear
this in mind.
The average cost of farm labor bv
the year in Missouri is ascertained and
reported by the United States Agricul-
tural Department to be, without board,
SIG 40, and with board, $I3 Is per
month. The average rate of wages
throughout the United States, is sl2 40.
The bones of the great old racer,
Lexington, have been exhumed by an
agent of the Smithsonian Institute, and
will be mounted and placed in the
museum OF that institution to be study
for the equine anatomists for all time.
Prof. Ward and DR.. Poynter exhumed
them at A. j. Alexander's on Friday last.
The skeleton will be exhibited at the
Philadelphia centennial next year.
1t is related of girl, IL years old,
down in Southern Georgia, that she can
cut up Il one-horse load of hickory wood
in one hour and twenty minutes, with
an axe. She can carry the same in the
house and gather up all the chips in
twenty minutes. She can write COM
position the same night, make up rolls
for breakfast, and learn four difficult
lessons, which she recites perfectly the
next morning.
The New York World says: 1.-TWO
things especially the grange does we'll.
BY promoting the exchange of expert
ences and by establishing agricultural
libraries of reference, it is doing work
the full value of which to the agricul-
-ural class and the community at large,
It would be difficult to overrate. It is
also doing Il good work in educating
he farmers to investigate for themselves
;auses, the effects of which they feel.
A curious statement has been made
lnd published in a French paper in re-
gard to hens. 1t reckons the number of
lens in France at 10000, 900, valued at
$40, 100000. OF these about one-fifth
IRE killed annually for the market.
There is an annual net production of
$4,000, 900 chickens, which in market
leld S24, 100000. The extra value to
,e added for capons, fattened hens and
he like, is put at S2,2OO,OO0. The pro-
luctIon OF eggs is reckoned at an
.verage of 100 eggs per hen, worth
'4S, 100000. In all it is reckoned that
he value of hens, chickens and eggs
old in the markets of France, is $50
10000.
:, Oregon has a new cereal which looks
ike wheat, rye, and barley, and isn't
ither of them, and the "leading agri-
ulturists' OF the state are puzziing
about it. Its history IS
TRANCE. About four years ago u farmer
wing in Tilamook county, Oregon.
illed a wild goose, in whose crop he
'und peculiar looking grain. He
lanted it; it multiplied Wonderfully.
nd he subsequently raised forty bushels
n half an acre of land. Its growth is
ecullar, from seven to ten stalks spring.
ig from one root. The kernel is very
I'm and compact, of bright straw
DIOR, and extremely hard.
Carlisle Mercury Items: Samuel
lartlne sold to John F. Payne, of Scott
rty yearling mules at 100 per head,
. Nj. Neal sold to Mr.. Wheat. of Bour-
On. two-year-old steer that weighed
go pounds, and also to Mr. Jno. Nc
lintock an eight-month old steer that
elghed $50 pounds. Joe Sledd fiudino
very dull market in Virginia, went on
North Carolina, where he whole
led his mules. Though finding a duIl
arket, he managed to make, Clear of
expenses, from first to last S24O on a