The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-05-13
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.

They were sharp fellows who engin-
eered the Angora goat humbug. They
persuaded the farmers in California to
invest in them at 5000 head by hold
ing out the inducement that their hair
was worth IS per pound. The fashion
for tassels of tins hair lasted a year,
and since then there has been no market
for the material. Now they are per
suading the farmers in Florida that
these goats are very superior milk-pro-
ducing animals, and Just the things for
a southern dairy.
Walnut trees sometimes attain pro
digious size and great age. An Italian
architect mentions having seen at St.
Nicholas, in Lorraine, n single plank of
the wood of the walnut twenty-five feet
wide, upon which the emperor, Fred
eriSk III, had given a sumptuous ban
quet. In the Baidar valley, near Bala-
klava, in the Crimea, stands n walnut
tree at least 200 years old. 1t yields
annually from $4,000 to 100000 nuts,
and belongs to five Tartar families, who
share its produce equally.
The loss to the sheep interests of the
United States by the depredatiOns of
dogs is summed mp by the department
of agriculture reports at , per cent. per
annum of the entire number of sheep
in the county. 1t is shown that in
those states where stringent dog-laws
exist, the destruction is much smaller
than in the unprotected states. In
Florida, where there is no dog-law, II
per cent. of value were destroyed in
Ohio which has dog law, only iOur-
tenths of l per cent.
The farmers in Florida want a game
lnvrr 10 OF A a
alligators.
The maple sugar crop, the first crop
to harvest during the year, is reported
very short.
Several of the western oranges hold
open meetings where scientific anC
practical agricultural matters are being
discussed.
Flora Temple is now thirty years old
and her kind hearted owner is doing al
he can to smooth her pathway to the
glue factory.
Secretary Kelley, of the national
grange of patrons of husbandry, state:
that the order is increasing at the rate
of thirteen subordinate oranges per day
This has been the averaye increase since
the adjournment at Charleston. The
increase is chiefly IN the south and east
the largest number of new oranges es
tablished being in New England
We shall have the best kind Of farm
ing in this country till land becomes
dear. The London market gardeners
pay 5000 per acre yearly for the land
they cultivate, ana their average profits
amount to $500 per acre.
It seems California has, thus far, en-
tirely escaped n visitation by the Colo
rado potato beetle, and as this well
known lover of the potato plant has
thus far travelled east and not west, the
Oalitornians hope TO be spared it
acquaintance.
The horse shambles of Paris sup
piled the public during the third quar-
ter of the past year with nearly $50, OO'
pounds of meat, the result of tn
slaughter of 1855 horses, mules, an'
asses.
A correspondent Of Land and Waite
recommends onions for sleeplessness
He says opium and all preparations
it produce injurious consequences
none of which come from eatin
onions.
The patrons manufacturing com
pany, Of Muscatine, have sOmethin
| over $40, 600 invested, and mauufactur
weekly "a wagons, 60 oultiyators, 4
plows, and as many buggies, beside
] other articles,