The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
AGRICULTURAL.
Around the Fnr1,..

WOOLrRAISlNG mas become an import
ant industrial feature of Oregon.
THE orchards Of this country are
estimated to occupy 100000 acres and
contain 10000 trees.
TEE only efectuaI cure for sheep
killing dog is large dose Of leaden bull
let from the barrel of fife, with plenty
of powder to give it force.
THE cultivation of the castor oil
bean could be made profitable in South
Florida, beyond doubt It grows here
for an indefinite period after being once
planted. and produces abundantIy and
continuously Tampa Guardian.
PASTURES are usually short during
the month of August, and if COWS are
not fed extra, the flow of milk will be
correspondingIy lessened. 1t is much
easier to keep it up by feeding than to
restore it after it has decreased to any
considerable extent.
4, CONNECTICUT farmer spread some
refuse from a brewery as a fertilizer,
this spring, and then planted potatoes on
the field. The pOtaUOe bugs, though de-
vouring everything else in the neigh
hood, have never touched the plants
where the brewery stuff was put.
THE difference in the amount of la
Dor performed by a well-fed man or ami
NAL and an ill-fed one is considerable.
There is no real economy in placing the
Iaborer upon a starvation diet. Album
dant and good food give bodily strength
and cOntentment of mind, which is an
important item.
WOULD urge upon the youth the
Importance of studying the history of
the world down to the present period,
and let him carefully note the large
number of great men who were agricul-
turists, who owed their success to the
iudicious training and good discipline of
country life Western RurGl.
I AN glad to know you are calling
attention to the HoIsteins. The COW I
purchased last season has made a re-
markable milk record. Her butter, too,
is excellent, particularly in keeping
quality. This COW, and others in this
vicinity, satisfy me they are the cows
for the northwest Western Rural.
MANY despise poplar as a timber,
but it has one golden property-it will
not burn. Some years ago factory at
Nottingham took fire on the second floor,
and burnt to the top furiously, but not
downward; although the floors lay a
yard thick with hot clinkers and melted
machinery, yet it did not get downward,
because the floors were of poplar.-The
Garden.
As MUCH as I detest being in debt,
] would rot hesitate to recommend a
Young man to run in debt moderately
for farm, if he loves the occupation,
and who has wife who does not mind
living on farm for l think with these
requisites, if he be cautious and frugal
for few years, he will be better off and
take more comfort on a farm than in a
city.-Boston CuItivat0r.
THE state of New York alone has
now nearly 1000 cheese manufactures,
which use the milk of more than $780,
900 COWS, making therefrom 100000
pounds of cheese, which is 1000 pounds
for every three COWS. The cheese pro-
duction of the whole United States is
over 100000, 900 pounds, of which 96,-
100000 are exported. England scarcely
exports 5000, 900, while little Holland,
which used to be the principal cheese
producing country of the world, exports
at present 100000 pounds.
THREE noted bulls died in Kentucky
during the very hot weather in July, as
follows: The seventeenth duke of Air
drie, $500, owned by Simms & McClin-
tOch, Williamsburg, died on the 10Th of
July. He was bred by R. A. Alexan-
der, of Kentucky. His sire was royal
Oxford, dam fourth duchess of Airdrie.
This fine bull was for several years at
the head of the herd of George Murray,
ESQ, of Racine. In December last he
was sold at J. B. Taylor's sale, at Toron-
to, for $4,000. GOuan's tenth duke,
owned by Gen. L. Desha, of Cynthiana,
died also on the 10th. He was four
years old: YVES sired by the fourteenth