The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-04-09
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCE.

, ACCORDING to the agricultural r
: turns of 1874 there has been an increa
, instead of decrease in the stock
horses in Great Britain. The tot
number of horses is 367, ZOO. The il
crease during the past five years is &c
900. The excess in 1874 over the nun
ber returned for 1873 is $4,000. Thes
figures plainly demonstrate that th
scarcity of equine stock SO loudly con
planned of is mainly owing to the create
demand.
THE Fultz wheat grown the past SET
son upon the experimental farm of th
Pennsylvania agricultural college, E
West Grove, Chester county, Pa, ha
yielded at the rate of forty-two bushel
to the acre. The next highest product
were the Britteny and red wheat, 81 A
80 bushels ; Rough and Ready, 81 81
80, and White Chaf Mediterranean,
40 so bushels.
The Alabama agricultural college an
a committee of cotton planters hav
established an experimental station
near Wheeler's station, in the northern
part of the state. Eleven acres are t.
be divided into plats of one eighth 0
an acre each, on which experiments ar
to he tried with thirty different kinds o.
qualities of manure, and then repeated
on subsoiled land.
A MICHIGAN man has raised five lem
ons on tree which he keeps in hot
house. It took four tons of coal, anC
he sold the lemons for twenty cents.
He is going to enlarge his building sc
as to raise oranges and bananas.
SOUTH AMERICA is the paradise OF
thistles. They are large enough to af-
ford shade for cattle, and are sufficient
ly tall to afford protection to highway
men, who with their horses hide behind
them.
EMPTY oyster and fruit cans are not
of much value, but if the cap to them
be melted off, and tho cans otherwise
uninjured they may be put to use. It
is good plan to fill them with lard for
summer use.
The Kansas City Price Current al
ready has information that SO, 800 head
of Texas cattle are to be driven to that
place this season, and thinks the total
drive will equal that of 1874.
The Wisconsin oranges already have
established Al cooperative associations
for selling goods, and manufacturing,
and 20 insurance companies; all -four
ishing, and representing capital to the
amount of 81, 100000.
In England the small farmers are
forming clubs for the purchase of short
horned bulls to improve their stock.
Their example might proftably be fol-
lowed in this country.
MOISTURE AT WILL.
M. Parar is said to be the discoverer
of way of doing without rain, if neces-
sary. He knew that the air is full of
moisture, and he knew that chloride of
calcium would attract and condense it
for culturing purposes. He has applied
this chloride on sand hills and road
beds, on grass, on all sorts of soils, sue
and he has ascertained that
it may be applied in such proportions
as will produce the irrigetion of land
more cheaply and efficiently than by
means of canals Or other methods of
securing artificial irrigation. One of
Mr.. Parar's applications will produce
and retain abundant moisture for three
days, when the same amount OF water
introduced by the present method will
in an hou'. He believes that
mis- preparation will not only produce
jwo blades of grass to grow where but
one now grows, but that it will render
possible fields, meadows, and prosperi-
y, where non there is nothing but sand
md desert waste.
CHARCOAL KILN.
To correspondent who asked for in
ormation about building q kiln for
charcoal burning, The New York Times
'eplies Pale or soft brick will not |
answer for charcoal kiln. Only we'll |
burned hard brick can be used, as the
year and tear is considerable. The
common shape of these kilns is conical,
pr that of an old. fashioned beehive, or
IS nearly as possible the shape of an
"charcoal-pit." It is most
economical to make them of large size,
boat twenty-four feet in diameter and
he same in height. The walls are
,rick and half thick for ten feet up,
md brick thick for the remainder.
Iuch a kiln will cost 81, 900, with the
ron doors and bands to strengthen it,
nd will hold forty cords OF wood,
ielding about 1,600 bushels of coal at
ach burning. Charcoal is worth twen-
y-fve cents bushel in New York.
SUGAR BEETs.
A correspondence The Indiana Farm
r writes: ST have raised sugar beets
n small scale for several years, with
cry satisfactory results, as they are
aten in the winter by almost all kinds
f stock with great avidity, and are an
xcellent substitute for grass, prevent
lg costiyeness, and keeping up a good
ppetite. They are rich in saccharine
latter, and economical food, as they
roduce enormous crops on suitable
md, when we'll cultivated. The most
1itable land for them is rich, loamy
oil, somewhat clayey, either naturally
ry or well-drained. They should be
rilted in rows, three feet apart, in soil
nelly pulverized. They should be
rilled four or five inches apart in the
'ws, and when well started, thinned
1T to ten inches apart. Cultivate thor
1ghly three or four times with one
orse cultlvator, after which, pull out
? hand any weeds that may remain or
lat may start after the cultivation is
one. II the season is favorable you
i'll get from 900 to 800 bushels per
re.
e.. CONCERNING CRoCKERY.
When buying crockery, it is poor
to buy an inferior article be-
Luse it can he purchased at one-third
ss price. A first, class article of porce-
in will out-wear many inferior pieces,
I'd still preserve It's freshness. It
ever absorbs stale odors, no matter
Ow many times heated. It does not |
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