Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.


under cultivation than at any other previous
year.
The Mariposa Erpress says that a large
Irish potato from the I osemite Valley is on
exhibition in that town. Itweighs five
pounds and a quarter.
The oldest reaping and moving machine
in Washington county, Ohio, is to be sent
to the Centennial. 1t has been in service
nineteen years, ana has cut two thousand
acres of grain and grass.
Forest planting is thriving in Minnesota.
The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad has set
out over 100000 young trees, and altogeth-
crit is estimated that 20,O00,000 have been
planted on the prarie lands.
Peter Jansen, of Russian colony in
Gage county, Nebraska, owns 1900 acres of
land, 2,70O Sheep. of which number 1,500 are
ewes, five head of COWS, and seven head of
thoroughbred horses.
The Madison Indiana Courier says that the
farmers Of that section differ widely as to the
condition of the fruit crop, The majority,
however, contend that it is not materially
injured by the late cold snap.
Prof. McAtfee, of the Iowa Agricultural
College, says that, away back in the years,
Iowa was covered by an arid sea, and this
sea deposited what is known as the Iowa
Potsdam sandstone, which underlies the
whole of Iowa.
A correspondent of The Neso England
Farmer says that he has seen the applica-
ton of a liberal dressing of muck give that
part of field to which it is applied de-
cidcd appearance of fertility over the rest of
it, thirty years after the application was
made.
Mrs. T.. e. Cotton, of West Gorham, Me-,
reports that last year she took $50 pounds
of honey from one hive, all in glass boxes,
and which she sold at 33 cents per pound.
She fed the stock early in the spring to en-
courage early breeding, and kept it strong
all throrgh the season.
I'll Nebraska Agricultural Society offer
ed premiums for essays on sheep-breeding
and sugar-beet culture. Students Of the Ag-
ricultural College won two of the premiums
offered. These were for $lOO and $50, and
were taken by Harvey Culbertson and G.
Ell. Simmons.
It has been decided by medical experts
that Mrs. Ellen Tupper, the noted bee cul-
turist of Iowa, whose forgeries have attract
ed so much attention, is llopelessly insane,
and must be sent to an asylum.
Prof. Tice predicts wet and favorable
summer. And Prof. Riley predicts that
there will be no grasshoppers. Farmers
should take advantage of this piece of intel
1 ligence, and plow their ground early and
lots of it,
According to the Springfield Republican,
our agricultural college experiments to be
repeated in Japan. The japanese govern
ment have been for some time endeavoring
to engage President w. s. Clarke to found
for them an agricultural institution after the
/ plan of the one at Amherst. The trustees
have granted him years Absence and such
arrangements will be made thatit is believed
his going will not prove injurious to the
Massachusetts, college. Ample capital will
be furnished. Col. Clarke is authorized to
engage his assistants, and in every way TO
conduct the undertaking after his own meth-
ods. A special minister has been in the
4 country effecting the arrangement.
| The New England States, New York and
New Jersey report yields Of potatoes ex-
ceeding 100 bushels per acre, Massachu-
setts reaching l6o. The South Atlantic and
Gulf States all are below 100 bushels per
acre, except Florida. 2l0 and Texas, 100.
| Other Southern States report yield above
that except Afkanses 20, and Kentucky 6s.