The anti-monopolist., 1876-06-22
FARM AND GRANGE
The chinch bug has commenced max

The chinch bug has commenced max
ing a corner In wheat, in Iowa.
The finest and softest wool is always
found on the shoulders ofa sheep.
Cabbage heads weighing ieghty pounds
each and melons of sixty pounds are not
uncommon in Colorado.
There is no profit in feeding stock that
is past its prime. 1t is waste OF feed and
money. As soon as any animal begins
to fail it should be disposed OF.
In radius of ten miles from Cald-
wells Prairie, Wis, there are one hun
dred thousand sheep bred tor wool pur-
poses, and in many OF the adjoining
counties they are almost as numerous.
An English farmer recently remarked
that she Ted his land before it was hun
prv. rested it before it was weary, and
weeded it before it was foul" We have
seldom. if ever, seen so much agrlcultu-
al wisdom condensed into a single sem
tence.
The production OF wool in California,
has increased with wonderful rapldlty
within the past few weeks. In 1850, ac-
cordlng to the Journal of Commerce OF
San Francisco, the wool crop of Califor-
MIA was but 100000 pounds. la 1873 1t
was 43, ,542 1928.
The fall in the price of cattle has been
so large within six months that the total
cost of winter feeding has been lost.
Steers by the thousand were brought
last fall in Chicago, that now, tat ana IN
hrin r mon.
ey than was paid for them.
The Canadian Parliament has ac-
knowledged that the patrons OF husband
ry are power OF the country, by a select
committee of the House submitting for
their consideration eighteen questions
bearing on the subject OF free trade and
protection now before the country.
At meeting Of the Western New York
Farmers Club, President Quinby said he
had plowed under good clover crops,'and
generally got good wheat crops follow
ing, but had come to the conclusion that
it is better to cut the clover and iced to
stock, and plow under roots.
The repeal OF the reform railroad law
in Wisconsin has advanced passenger
fares and freights, the former from three
to tour cents mile. The total scalping
of the industrial interests OF the State, IN
consequence of the repeal OF that law,
will not be less than S3,OOO,OOO.
Chicago elevators, as to last weeks Of
ficial returns, contain l,436,ZlO Dusnels
of wheat; 502, ,2O7 bushels OF corn; 2o3,-
517 bushels OF oats; 81 Jos bushels OF
rye: and 1873 ,539 bushels OF barley max
ing grand total of / ,416,551 bushels,
against 2,7S7 ,905 bushels one week ago,
and 8, ,547 1892 bushels at this period last
year.
Mr.. S. w. Hilton of Greeley. Color
ado, has built seven grasshopper killing
machines tor the coming campaign, and
is at work upon the eighth. The Greeley
Tribune says one of these machines Is
fifteen and another twenty feet in length,
but fails otherwise to give justifiable
curiosity in regard to their construction.
II q farmer can save 80 or 100 pounds
Of bones. it will pay to dissolve them by
packing them in water-tight cask OF
unleached ashes then Till in all the water
the cask will. keeping it tull for about
two months, when the bones will be as
a mass OF jelly. Then mix them. ashes
and all, with fouro five times their bulk
OF soil, and you will have valuable fer
tilizer.
Judging from the very complete re
ports to the Illinois State Board OF Agri
culture. and from the reports of cores
pondents and exchanges, it is safe to es
mate the winter wheat crop tor 1876 al
three-iourths TO seven-eighths OF an
average this side of the Rocky Mountains
on, account OF less average, ,and spring
wheat is nearly in the same condition
The California and Oregon crops will bt
more than ever before.