Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-11
THE HERALD
Agricultural Items.

Egypt is the home of the fragrant
onion.
AT Madison, Ind, starch facto-
ry has Is 900 bushels of corn on hand.
"A Wayne county, New York or
chardist has 125 acres in apple or
chard.
The duty on hops has been in
creased from FIVE to eight cents per
pound.
They want to grow sugar in some
portions of Texas. Why not? 1t
ought to pay.
Large herds of buffalo are report
ed near Fort Benton, Montana, driven
in by the severe weather.
The herd of buffaloes north of
Moorhead, Mimi, reported at 800,
has now dwindled to 300 head.
Flora Temple, of old time trot-
ting fame, is hale and hearty at the
venerable horse age of thirty years.
"A boy historian says: "Todes is
like frogs, but more dignity, and wen
you come to think of it, frogs is wet
ter"
Two young Pennsylvanians re-
Gently ran ahalfmile foot race barefoot
for a half bushel Of apples--no feet
frozen.
The fruit men of the Michigan
Lake Shore fruit region claim that the
cold thus far has not been severe
enough to injure the buds.
"A Boston tea company wants to
give $5OOin gold for the nearest guess
at the gross weight of an eight horse
team which draws one of its wagons.
DIR. Glenn, of Jacinto, California,
harvested this last season 100000
bushels of wheat. 1t will cost him
100000 to get his wheat to San Fran
cisco.
1t is reported that the daughters
of the Queen of England each have
garden at the Royal Swiss cottage,
which they cultivate with their own
hands.
They have squirrel inspectors in
California, whose duty it is to see to
the killing of rodents. In the case of
Eon-residence, the expense is made a
lien on the land.
Central New York, farmers esti-
mate that, with average culture, good
soil and manure, the cost of produc
ing wheat is seventy five to seventy
eight cent per bushel.
Reports received by the Secretary
of the Illinois Board of Agriculture
indicate that the winter wheat in
Southern Illinois is badly injured by
the cold, dry weather.
The chief productions of Califor-
MIA previous to the gold finding were
hides and tallow, and now the produc-
ton is greater than then. Cause, i'm
migration and civilization.
During the first week of Febru.
arr six vessels arrived at Baltimore
from Rio Janeiro, bringing $4,000
bags of coffee, containing 3,924,000
pounds, valued at about 100000.
The Iowa Agricultural Society
in offering premiums for pedigrees on
Short Horns, is following the lead of
English societies, where blood is tax
en- into account in awarding prizes.
The weather wise who predicted
warm weather, because the weather
breeding woodchuck could not see
his shadow on Candlemas Day, are
beginning to think the rule don't work
The prospect for good winter
wheat crop throughout Bartholomew,
Johnson and Shelby counties, Ind, is
said to be very slim, owing to the in
tense cold weather, and no snow to
protect it.
The exports from the leading sea-
board ports last week include 1926
barrels ofpork; 3,352,O3 pounds of
lard, s,l12,9l2 pounds of bacon, Al
7l6 barrels Of flour, 228,933 bushels
of wheat, and 761 ,273 bushels of corn.
According to the Net0 England
Homestead, a west Springfield farmer
says he would have been better off if
he had never raised pound of tobac-
co. If the fertilizers had been ap-
piled to other crops, they would have
paid better.
"A Mapleton, Minnesota, farmer
has found flowing well upon his
farm at depth of sixty feet. A vol
ume of water is discharged with such
force as to throw to the surface stones
as large as mans fist. The water has
enlarged the top of the well to the
size of flour barrel.
During the late storm at Iowa
City, Iowa, boy was frozen to death
while driving q team home from town
over bleak prairie. When the team
reached home they turned into the
barn-yard, where the boy was found
in sitting posture, frozen stiff with
the lines in his hands.
The Missouri Democrat says an
order with 81 900 oranges and $780,.
600 members, to whose ranks assem-
sions are being steadily made at the
rate of 400 oranges with at least 49,.
900 members every calendar month
of the year, which has saved TO its
members st least S2S, 100000 dollars
thus far, which has $l7,00O,00O in.
vested in business operations, and
which daily is increasing the sphere
OF these operations, can scarcely be
said to be collapsing.
The New York Tribune says, at
the last Crystal Palace Pigeon Show,
much dissatisfaction was caused
among "the fancy" by the very open
tricks practised by some of the prize
takers. Beaks were sheared, feather
creased, trimmed, or plucked; the car
riers' eye.wattles were clipped, and
on the whole, such improvements
were made upon nature as disguised
the less knowing and consequently un-
successful exhibitors. 1t was freely
intimated in fact that many of the
shaves and shearings were simply bar.
barous.
ANTIQUITY OF MAN.-According TO
the Iron Age, wedge or plate of iron
has been found imbedded in the ma