The Republican journal., 1876-10-05
Earn, Paragraphs.

Farm Paragraphs.
The cotton crop CT 1876 is estimated a
1900 600 bales, against :. 1928 900 bales il
rS75
There is a deficiency in the European
hop crop, which will not make our hol
| growers melancholy
Very early hatched spring chickens arr
difficult to rear, but are said TO be wortl
nearly double those later hatchcd
A large rice crop is expected in Geor
ga, although the rice birds have appear
ed IN great numbers, causing much dam
age
Kangaroo skins are becoming an I'M
| p0rtant article Of trade in Australia. They
make the toughest and most pliable leath-
er Ton. boots that is known
Four successive crops have been de.
stroyed 10y the grasshoppers in large
portion OF southwestern Minnesota, and
! the fifth is assured of destruction.
| Many, ii not all, sorts Of pears are i'm.
| mensely improved by being subjected to
| 4 temperature of 100 degrees for An hour
! w wv tIltNtttS W 'JtlI0 t'tttii.
The London Agricultural Gazette SAYS
the make of cheese in England must i'm
prove. or the Americans will keep down
the price of all the homemade article.
The cranberry crop on the Cape is be-
mo spoiled by small worms that are found
inside apparently healthy berries, and can
stand one hours soaking without winking
There are some root crops that produce
ON an average less than POO bushels per
acre, which, according to authentic rec
ords have yielded over 600 bushels.
1t is stated that jumping COW can be
cured OF her evil habits by mailing pair
of horse shoes upon her fore feet, in other
words, 10y shocing her IT'S one would II
horse
Fhas Taylor of Ludlow, raised the re.
cent season 800 bushels of Early Rose
potatoes on one acre, They We're planted
one eye in il hill. The net profits of this
acre Of land will be about $40.
The lloulton Times says that Il farmer
in liodgtlon finds that potatoes pay him a
good profit this year On three acres OF
land he raised 5000 bushels, from which
he will realize Sll1, net each per acre.
above the cost of production,
The News says that David Sproul of
Bristol has taken from his meadow three
hundred bushels of cranJerres lie sent
them to Boston, and they bring him six
dollars and fifteen cents per barrel. Every
body that owns cranberry patch has good
quantities,
Fall River is exhibiting an onion weigh
ing p II ounces, which was raised in the
Marquis of Waterlord's garden, county Of
Waterford, Ireland, and was brought over
from there by Mrs. d. F. Sullivan, who
arrived in Fall River last week from
visit to the old country.
The following is the scale of points for
butter and cheese at the centennial show:
Butter-lavor, 25 keeping, 20; solility,
10; texture, IL; color, ID; make, Is;
total 100. Cheese-ilavor % keeping,
20; quality, 10 texture, l5 color, 10 !;
make, Is total 100. Flavor ANA keeping
together reckon 10 points
Work is the beginning and the continu-
oHs requisite Of all prosperity. Capital is
hut its product. and wealth its result; and
wherever found it is still but the repre-
sentative Of work. He must seek for it,
and accept it whenever and wherever he
finds it, and when in illeness he must not
be too particular rs to what form ne finds
it in. There are farms which are fast re-
turning to their native widness, while the
country boys. who might find abundant
work in cuItivating them, 90 to the city
+. 4 al,
ant than farming; or being in the city
Idle, refuse to 90 back.
TREATMENT OF AN UNMANAGEABLE
HORSE. A beautiful and high-spirited
horse would never allow a shoe to be put
on his feet OF any person to handle his
feet In an attempt to shoe such 4 horse
recently he resisted all efforts, kicked
aside everything but an anvil, and came
near killing himself against that, and was
finally brought back to his stable unshod.
This defect was Just on the eve of con
signing him to the pillow, where he might
work bar eloot, when an officer in our SER
vice, lately returned from Mexico, took Il
cord about the size of a common bed
cord. put it in the mouth of the horse like
a bit, and tied it tightly on the animals
head, passing his left ear under the string.
not painfully tight, but tight enough to
keep the ear down and the cord in its
place This done, he patted the horse
gently on the side of the head, ard com
manded him to follow; and instantly the
horse obeyed, perfectly subdued, and as
gentle and obedleut as y well trained dog,
suffering his feet to be lifted with impuni-
ty, acting in all respects like an old stager.
The gentleman who thus furnished this
exceedingly simple means of subduing Il
very dangerous propensity intlmated that
it is practiced in Mexico and South Ameri-
ca in the management OF wild horses.
New York Commercial Advertiser.