Nebraska advertiser., 1877-05-24
Agricultural Notes.

A New York butcher bought bis
cattle on thirty days. sent them to
England, sold them, and the cable
told him that be had cleared 900
before the thirty days had expired.
Southern farmers are making pre-
pRrations for planting unusually large
area in tobace this season.
The product of the Wisconsin dali
ries is estimated at 81, 900, 600 per an
mum.
An egg-preserving factory is the Ia
test addition to the industries of To-
wa.
In France the keeping of poultry
yields an annual return of about $751;
600, 900.
A Texas sheep-raiser says there are
about 100000 head of sheep on the
borders of the Rio Grsnde, the finest
sheep-raising country In the world.
A correspondent of the New Jersey
AgricuIturiSt says: After spending
quite large sum Of money trying the
laying qualities of the different breeds
of fowls, / am satisfied that the White
Leghorns are as good, If not better,
than any breed have yet tried.
Squirrels are as destructive Ia many
parts Of California as grasshoppers.-
The farmers call on the State Agrioul-
tural Society to drop horse-rscing
purses year or two and devote the
money to developing some cheap and
and systematic plan for destroying
these pests.
Farmers need O breed of fsst-wslk-
ing horses, both for their own use and
for sale. A slow-walking horse is a
nuisance, whether blowing, harrow
ing, or hasvesting on the farm, or for
cart, truck, dray, saddle. or carriage
use in the city. Careful attention to
this feature would pay better in the
long run than breeding for trotters.
A wooden manufacturer says: Old
wool is worth more than new for
some reasons, among which are the
following: 1t takes color much bet
ter, especially where bright and fancy
dyes are required 1t works better and
wastes less In cardlng; and it makes
f1rmer cloth than can be made from
the same quantity of new wool. If
two or three years old it is all the bet
ter.
The grasshoppers are dying In
quantities in some counties Of Texas.
Upon examination 1t has been asoer-
tanned that each dead grasshopper
contains a worm or chrysalis of a
worm. 1t is said that this worm is
hatohed out of an egg deposited on
the grasshopper by q small gray fly.
A company for the manufacture of
dairy salt has been organized OF East
Saginaw, Michigan.
The Cheyenne wv. T. Leader says:
Tree planting has become a mania
with Nebraskans. One of the first
acts of the settler, after he has turned
over the sod and put in his first crop,
and after providing place for bis
family, is to plant trees about his
farm. Many species, especially cot
tonwood, grow vesy rapidly, and In
three years form a bsEieF to the wind.
Thelaw has set apart one day in spring
Ccalled 'Arbor Day. when everybody
devotes himself to the one object of
seeing how many trees he can plant.
The United States produced 1885,
600, 900 pounds of wool in 1875. netting
the growers, It is estimated, $40, ,0O0,-
900. or this California produced about
$4,000, 900 pounds, and Texas about
$4,000, 900 pounds. Last year we paid
foreign countries $50, ,OOO. 900 for WOOL
en- goods. Twenty millions more
sheep will enable us to produce all the
wool we want. We are working to-
wards IL. In 1860 we produced 65,-
600, 900 pounds; so, that in seventeen
years we have increased our annual
wool crop by 1873 .OOO, 900 pounds.