The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-03-18
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.


The live stock of Iceland show de-
crease in numbers.
INCREASE in care of cow is shown in
increased milk product.
RUssIA's soil products amount annu-
ally to over billion dollars.
ILLINOIS orchards increased over 49,
900 acres in area in one year.
MICHIGAN has a quarter of million
of acres devoted to Embarrassing.
A THoRNLEss blackberry is a novelty.
Hoosac Thornless is the name given it.
CONNECTICUT agriculturalists are
moving to secure experimental stations
ALL the dairy conventions protest
against skimming of the milk in the
spring.
UTAH farmers are forming co-opera-
tive companies. The system seems to
work we'll.
A MINNESOTA horse travelled 40
miles in two days, and seemed no worse
for the long trip.
ABOUT five hundred hair-pins were
found in bullock slaughtered by Jer-
| sey City butcher.
A MICHIGAN farmer realized 1851
profit from one-seventh of an acre de-
voted to tomato growing.
The French Government is endeavor-
ing to secure prompt annual publication
of agricultural statistics
SCATTERING paragraphs all coincide
in the fact that the dairying branch of
agriculture is increasing.
A GEORGIA farmer found that sage tea
killed bots in fifteen hours. Tansy tea
destroyed them instantly.
AN acre of sumac in full bearing will
produce about three tons. and if we'll
prepared will be worth $50 to 500 per
| ton.
A FARMER who told his hired man to
give the best mixer an extra quantity
of oatmeal found he had stopped up the
pump.
EXCLUSIVE devotion to wheat culture
has seriously injured the farming inter-
est of the Northwest. A mixed system
is now working into practice.
A JERSEY farmer stopped the ravages
VI Vic ohio" Siuo Wy oPiiHhhhS oooe
along the rows. The SCOT also acted as
a vigorous fertilizer to the crop.
WILD carrot does not spread by the
root, but it produces an abundance of
seed to continue the crop. The plant
should not be allowed to perfect its seed.
CoTswoLD sheep arc supposed to have
derived their name from the scots" or
| oIo h.,l, faI tor
and from the "wOlds" or open, billy
grounds in which they were pastured in
summer.
The whole number of farmers in
France is in round numbers 7 400, 900,
of whom 100000 arc landed proprie-
tors. The landed proprietors constitute
one-seventh of the entire population of
the country.
A VERMONT farmer stroked his gray
locks and sadly remarked: 81 didn't
really know how old and feeble / was
until went to lick James this morning.
He's only seventeen, but l couldn't make
him holler."
A FARMER i'm Knox, Maine, named
Prime, lost valuable OK that was pois
oned from eating room paper which had
been stripped from the walls of the
house. The coloring in thf paper con-
tained the poison.
The English farm laborars now receive
better wages and their condition shows
steady amelioration. Thf number of al
lotments of gardens to tyem has greatly
increased, and educational facilities are
more generally improved.
In Great Britain prize of twenty
five guineas has been offered for the best
essay on "The application of sanitary
science to rural districts, with view tC
insure the highest condition of health
and the prevention of disease"
IN Keenc, N. H., the other day, 6
farmer brought into town single load
of wood containing eleven and one
quarter cords. After Bergh has read
this he will not sleep of nights until he
learns how many oxen the farmer had
hitched to his sled.
A PoULTRY-RAIsER kept on an aver
age 175 hens from January /, 1872, t.
January l, 1878, and realized for egg
and poultry sold $649.3O, besides 1876 fine
pullets for another year. He raised il
all $40 chickens. His hens were of tn,
kind known as " Everlasting Layers" ;
cross between the Black Spanish ant
the common hen.