The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-08-19
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
THE annual hay crop of Great Britain
worth S010 000 000

THE annual hay crop of Great Britain
is worth $240, 0,000,O 900.
DIR. GLENN, a California farmer, has
just sold out his last years wheat crop
for $500,000.
JAPANESE law requires that when a
person cuts down a tree he shall at once
plant another.
NORTH CAROLINA furnishes three
fourths of the dried blackberry crop that
is consumed in this country.
SOLOMON EATON, of Irasburg, is said
to have the largest hop-yard in Vermont
He has 5000 hills, covering ten acres.
ONE of the modest little farming
patches in Illinois is laid out in $4,000
acres of corn, $500 acres of flax, 1000
acres of oats, and enough grass to pro-
duce about.8 900 tons of hay.
A VISITOR to Vanmeter's stock farm in
Kentucky saw three pure-bred short
horn cows, worth on an average $4,000,
working in the yoke to prevent the ac-
emulation of fat and consequent bar
renness.
A REPORT, issued by the Minister of
Agriculture of Hungary, shows that the
losses of cattle, by the plague, between
1861 and the end of 1873, amounted to
165,732 head, of a total value of nine
millions of forins.
MIR. WILLIAM HORNE, V. s., says in
the Country Gentleman, that in thirty
years practice as a veterinary surgeon,
he never has found a single instance
IL IN,
traced to bots rs a cause.
The Crown Prince of Prussia has a
fine stable of cows. Over the stall of
each one is its name, and they rejoice in
such classic appellations as Aurora, Vic
toria, Juno, Hebe, Helene, and so on.
Their milk sells at good figure.
The farmers everywhere in California
have been complaining this summer of
the ravages of the squirrel on their crops.
In one instance a stock-raiser estimated
that he had lost enough grain 20 fatten
for the market one hundred head of hogs.
The large podded milkweed almost
invariably causes the death of every bee
alighting upon it. The bee either ad-
heres to the plant, or else bears away a
small scale sticking to its feet, and Grip
pies itself fatally in attempting to re-
move the annoyance.
The Conewango Swamp, containing
some $4,000 acres of wet farming land,
in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Coun-
ties, New York, is about to be reclaimed
by drainage. 1t is estimated that by this
means over one million of dollars worth
of land will be got under cultivation.
F. r. ELLIOTT, writer on agricul-
ture, has been collecting certain data in
regard to fruit culture, and gives the
total market value of the crop of the en-
tire country at forty-seven million dol
lars. New York leads all the States in
amount, with seven million dollars. Cal
ifornia's figures are largest i'm proper
ton to population, being six million
dollars-this sum probably including the
yield from vineyards. The total sum
for the New England States is put at
six millions of dollars, the individual
States not being itemized.
The Stock Journal, of Texas, upon the
subject of stock raising in Texas, and the
future development of the industry, says
that the 100000 of beef cattle which
Texas has sent for the last three or four
years annually to the markets of st.
Louis and Chicago, have not, in any ma
terial degree, diminished the price OF
butchers meaC in the markets of the
chief .cites of the Union. With a
quadrupled population, even, the de.
mand, and consequently the price, would
without doubt keep pace, since Texas is
now shipping immense quantities OF
canned beef to Europe.
The Kansas State Horticultural So
ciety recently adopted the following res
olutions:
Resolved, That in the opinion of the mem
bers of this society, birds are the most eff
fectual means of subduing and keeping in
check the hordes of destructive insects that
prey upon our fruits and other products.
Resolved, That as a society we earnestly
protest against the wholesale destruction OF
quails, grouse, and other insectiverous birds
either for food or sport, practiced in most
parts of our State. Furthermore,
Resolued, That we earnestly request the
| Legislature, at its next session. to enact such
laws as will prevent the killing of prairie
chickens, quails, plovers, or other insectiver
Gus birds, and shipping them to distant mar
kets, or exposing them for sale in the mar
kets of our own State, for term of not less
than five years.