Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

A large SILK manufactOry is TO be eStaD-
lished at Stonington, Conn.,, this summer.
MIR. Robert Boyd, of Greeley, Colorado,
in 1875, cribbed nearly six thousand bushels
of corn.
IsiS20, France did not raise wheat enough
forits own use, by about twenty-seven and
a quarter million bushels. In 1874, she had
a surplus of 10S 1854 1888 bushels.
Reports from all parts of Kansas show
that the wheat crop is better than ever be-
fore, with 20 per cent. more average than
lastyear. len per cent of last years wheat
crop is still on hand. Twenty-Five per cent.
more acreage of corn will be planted this
year than ever before.
| G1asshoppers are chewing up the growing
tobacco crop of Hancock county, Kentucky.
The tobacco flea is finishing the work by
sucking the stubble.
gagged for the season at SIS per month and
found, where last year, at this time, they
were demanding $50 and found.
A single field, in Grimes county, Texas,
contains $4,000 acres, all under one fence,
without a cross-fence in it; 10000 acres are
in cultivation. Nearly the entire field be-
longs to one man, who rents it out to tenants
at So per acre.
The Missouri Valley Times says: Chinch
bugs which were very numerous before the
very scarce. We will hardly be bothered
with this pest this season, as all things point
to wet season, which is not favorable to
their production.
/ Mr.. J. M. Hayner, of Lebanon, southern
: Ohio Mises over 500 acres of sweet corn an
5 nually and disposes of his immense crop
e by frs drying and then packing it in bar
t rels. The process is very simple. The fresh
| ears ar steamed for five minutes, to " set
n the mik,'' the grain is then rapidly removed
n from tie cob with cutters having concave
D faces. 1t is then spread on perforated zinc
tables, and heat applied for four or five
:. hours rom long furnaces, the grain being
q constantly stirred during the process of dry
q ing. is then packed in barrels of three
# bushelseach for shipment. Great care is
h required to have the corn just at the right
y age, anil have it dried just enough to keep
"a well. Four bushels Of fresh corn on the
n cob make one bushel dried, the wholesale
a price Of which is $40 to $22 per barrel. The
4 drying house employs fifty persons. AT
fifty bushels of this corn to the acre, 800
u acres would yield 25,O0O bushels, which
,f when Tried, make $3.50 bushels, or 2,O83
h barrels which, at $50 per barrel, amounts
a. to the handsome sum of $41 $3.50.
lie The tteamer Grenada recently brought to
IN San Frncisco two cases of young banana
er plants rom Honolulu. They were sent to
If. Los Angeles, where the soil and climate are
in though to be we'll adapted to the cultivation
I'd of thisuscious fruit. The banana grows in
It. great Isrfection on the Island of Santa Bar
o. bara, ol the southern coast of California,
lr- and seems to thrive best in localities ada
cent tothe sea.
m The Vinona Republican records the fact
~, that hshel of Scotch fife wheat raised for
an ty mile northward from Fargo, in the north
wester, part of the State, weighing sixty
four punds to the bushel, was lately ship.
'1' ned to the Centennial commission. The
average WELD of the field was forty-foul
81 bushels to the acre. "machine measure
g. A car lad of this wheat will be sent to th'
Centennial, with the facts verified; also yer
ar fled statements with samples OF the whea
OIL Weld. rDne less than twenty-seven bushel
NO to the cre, of thirty-seven other farms ii