Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-08-09
Agricultural Items.

Agricultural Items.
Tobacco grows splendidly in Wash
ington Territory.
At and around Seattle, Washing
ton Territory the fruit crop is i'm
mense.
A vast army Of potato bugs have
got into Vermont, by swimming
Lake Champlain.
Down East the potato bugs eat
Paris green, and sparrows eat the
bugs. The results death to both.
A colony of one hundred and fifty
Mennonnites, from Russia have To-
Gated at Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
Fifty thousand acres of land in
Arkansas have been purchased by a
colony Of Poles. They are well fixed
to raise beans.
1t costs the New York press s45,-
600 per annum to report the Produce
and Cotton exchanges and the cattle
markets.
California has sent abroad three
hundred and one cargoes OF wheat
and flour during the year ending
June 30th, valued at SIS, 427 500. 1t
was remarkable year.
The reports OF the wheat crop in
Southern France indicate a short
crop. In central France, however.
the wheat crop is the best known for
many years.
The wheat crop in western New
York is the best in quality and guam
tity that has been gathered for many
years, Ohio claims yield of thirty
million bushels this season.
There is complaint that Canada
thistles are increasing very fast this
season In Indiana Let farmers re-
member that there are fines and pen
alties on the statute book for not
using due diligence in exterminat-
ing them.
During the past year nearly three
million sheep and lambs, represent
ing 100000 have been killed
throughout the country by dogs,
wolves, and various diseases. The
proportionate loss is highest in
North Carolina, Florida and Louisi-
ana.
The grounds in front of the Agri-
cultural College Of Massachusetts,
were LEFT with no fences between
them and the street The farmers in
that vicinity have followed the fash
ion till now there is no fence for the
distance OF q mile on each side OF the
college farm.
The agricultural editor OF the De-
1oit Tribune says that the cooling
moth Is getting the entire crop OF
apples in Michigan this year for his
own purpose OF building up his clan
and increasing his ugly members.
All the apples show the black ooze
at the caylix. They should be gath
cred, everyone Of them and fed to
swine
A citizen Of Washington, N. Y. lost
a COW recently in singular manner.
In going down a hill she attempted
to pass between two small trees that
stood within about fifteen inches of
each other, and her hips stuck be-
tween the trees, holding her fast in
this position. She was found dead.
The export Of eggs from Kent coun-
ty. Canada, is estimated at three
thousand dozen per day. and one
dealer in Chatham has laid away in
pickle for the Fall trade over fifty
thousand dozen. When one reflects
that one thousand dozen all tell
barrel tub, some idea may be formed
of the space and labor requisite to
carry out this trade.
Europe is importing a surprising
quantity Of American fruit-$3. 5O0,-
600 worth within a year past. esti-
mates the New York Tribune, to
100000 worth the year before.
Dried apples figure largely in this
movement This country has ex-
ported over $4,000. 900 pounds Of them
since last June. as compared with
522 600 pounds the previous year.
This new addition to the trade OF the
United States Is due to invention,
which has occupied itself OF late with
improved methods for drying and
preserving ana transporting fruit.
= One pound Of corn is equal as food
to about three and quarters
pounds OF potatoes, or eight and one
half pounds OF white turnips. Analy-
SIS gives the nutritiye value Of corn
to be, compared with that Of oats, a.
20 is to 60. An average Of scvera
tables takes the value of q giver
quantity OF oats to represent 100
while the value OF the same quantity
of corn would be 80. weight being
identical in each case. In practice
one bushel Of corn Is equal to two o.
oats for fattening: but oats are alto
gether better for the growing animals
than coin. 49,