Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-02-10
Agricultural Items.

Wheat was sown near Marine
city, Mich, on Jan. 6.
They are burning corn for fuel in
some parts of Kansas.
The American Patron fayors
Grange banks with large capital
The membership in New Jersey
is 1857 in Sc Oranges, an average of
nearly As members to Grange.
An Iowa breeder Of Poland China
last year raised 154 pigs from %
sows.
Over $500 worth of sheep were
killed last year IN Carroll County,
Illinois, by hunting hounds.
There is much uneasiness in
many sections lest the warm weather
should prove fatal to the fruit crop.
The Ohio State Board of Agri-
culture has a debt of $4,000 In
1915 $685. were paid III premiums.
Prof. Beal, Of the Michigan Ag-
ricutural College, is said to hold that
orchard grass is the Coming gfaas
Vermont reports 200 subordinate
Oranges and 1l,l10 members, gain
Of 1881 members in the last year.
"A bill to establish the whipping
post for wife beating has been intro.
ducod IN tho California Legislature.
The Ca1yornta Farmer says
Alfalfa, or Lacern is being planted in
that state BY the tens of thousands of
acres.
A yearling colt by Almont, out
of Annie Easton, by Morgan Rather,
was recently sold to an Iowa gentle
man for 81 500.
Vim. Arnett of Sullivan county,
Ill, few days ago, killed two Pol
and China pigs, seven months old,
weighing 500 pounds.
Smith Wright, Of Wiliston, Vt.
has in his poultry yards, $500 geese,
GOO ducks, 400 turkeys, eating 40
bushels Of corn daily.
The Jonesyille, Mich, cotton
mills are now in the hands of the
sheriff The GAINESVILLE, Wis, cotton
mills are reported doing finely
"A cheese factory, near St. Johns
Mich, was burned Jan. IL. The
loss was about 81, 900 including 500
worth of cheese. The insurance was
$4,000.
The Ohio State Agency has
closed a contract for 500 double row
drop check corn planters to be deliv-
cred to Patrons at cost not exceed
ing 1913 each.
Secretaries of Virginia Oranges
who have ordered goods for members
have been, under the State law, as.
sessed as sample merchants" and
asked to pay 800 tax each.
Robert CcI[ay, Michigan far
mer, says he would not be afraid to
start as poor young man and yet be
worth 100000 before his hair turned
gray And it is said Of him that he
has done this
Cranberries in New Jersey are
srid to cover 1000 acres - 600 in
bearing and 1000 new There are
also about 10000 acres more Of cram
berry land not occupied. In 1875
about 49, 900 bushels were raised in
the country.
Forty acres of land have been
secured three miles from the Cen
tennial Exhibition grounds at Phila-
delphia on which buildings will be
erected for the accommodation Of the
Order of =. Of II. visiting the Ex-
position.
The Iowa State Agricultural
Society is not in good shape finan
cially. A year ago it had 50 CPS on
hand, received 1903 during this
year, and paid out SASS. It has
assets of $500 and liabilities Of nearly
$4,000. The last Fair was intertered
with by rain. Several resolutions
looking to a reduction Of expenses
have been adopted.
AT a farmers Institute, held
recently at Rochester, Mich, destroy
ing Canada thistles was discussed and
all agreed that to keep them down a
year so that they could not obtain the
use of their leaves in the open air
would destroy them. Put two or
three feet of straw over them or cut
them off below the surface and cover
the roots with salt once a week |
throughout the season.
~ Stanley isstill on Lake Nyanza
enjoying the hospitalities of King
Mtesa, the potentate with three hum
dred wives. The latest news from
him contained in letter from NJ. De |
Bellefonds a French officer in the |
service of the Egyptian government,
who visited him at Nyarza by way |
of the MI, ard was entertained by |