Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-01
NUMBER 46.


On the island of Jersey land rents
for $50 per acre.
Steam cultivation OF land is in
creasing in Europe.
One half of the land in Scotland is
owned by twelve persons.
Onions fourteen inches around are
said to be raised in Minnesota.
Georgia crop OF dried peaches this
year will be worth 81 100000.
In Germany fairs are instituted
that contain nothing but agricultural
machinery.
The receipts and shipments OF cat
tie at Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the
18th inst, was 1.2O0 heads. - 81
Our consul at Liverpool sends
word that American poultry, alive or
dead, will find market there.
The Italian government supports,
free to all. permanent agricultural
exhibitions In certain sections Of the
country.
There are 81. 200 acres OF State
lands In Holmes county, Fla, which
can be purchased at the rate Of 75
cents per acre.
The number OF persons deyoted to
agricultural pursuits In Sweden, in
Guiding their families, amounts to
100000. out OF a total population OF
4,3S3, ,29l. -.
In Virginia and North Carolina the
acreage planted In tobacco ID fifty
per cent larger than last year, and
the yield promises to be better in the
same ratio.
A yellow Nansemond sweet potato
weighing five pounds, and raised by
J. b. Doane, OF Hamlet, Ind, was on
exhibition at the late interstate ex-
position in Chicago.
Charles Stetson, OF Cummington,
Mass, has grade COW that has pro-
duced 80 pounds OF butter in eight
months. besides supplying milk for
a family OF four persons.
H. S. Hendryx. Of Van Buren coun.
ty. Mich, recently bought .the two-
year-old Hambletonian colt, Egbert,
at sale held at Worcester, Mass.
giving 50. .425 for him.
A farmer writes to the Elmira
Farmers Club that alchoholi is q safe
and sure cure for lice on animals,
injuring neither hair or skin, and it is
seldom put to so noble use.
{ A basket factory Is about to be
built at Frankfort Mich, employing
sixty men and using from five hun
dred thousand to seven hundred
thousand feet of elm lumber yearly.
Bush fires are raging at wiIber-
force. Ont. Considerable property
has been destroyed, consisting Of
barns. grain and fences. The child Of
a German family was burned to
death.
This years peach crop Is one of the
most profitable in the past decade.
The aggregated value yield in Mary
land and Delaware is estimated at
50, 900 OF which amount the grow
ers received about 81 100000.
The Mechanics Falls. Me-, corn
factory, has just sent three carloads
OF canned corn to California, two to
st. Louis, and seven to Chicago.
During the season two hundred
hands have canned twenty thousand
bushels CT corn, making three mil
lion cans.
Castor beans are found growing
wild along the banks OF several
streams In Nebraska. They probsbly
sprang from seed dropped by settlers
In their journey to the far west,
were carried along by the water, and
deposited in the rich soil where they
germinated. ef
And now comes Charles Spliman,
Of Milton, KY, and claims to be the
champion SUM- flower raiser In the
country. He cIaimslto have a stalk
is his yard fourteen feet four inches
In hight and ten inches in cicumfer-
ence. 1t contained thirty eight
flowers at one time. ~
Speaking OF what Is known as the
Texas disease, the Houston Telegram
says: Every once in while a
strange disease is reported some
where outside this State and attri-
buted to Texas cattle. They have
such a complaint at Cleaveland. o
We have no such disease here that
anyone ever heard off,
A. L. Jewett. OF Winchester, N. H..
reports raising on his farm this sea-
son, from one hill OF eight-rowed
corn. six stalks, producing fifteen
sound ears, which latter contained
4500 kernels. One OF the six stalks
had four ears, that contained 1164
kernels OF sound corn. This shows
an increase hard to beat.
The newest industrial feature In the
world Is the introduction by Kansas
land owners OF the contract system
In raising wheat. Large tracts OF
prairie are broken. seeded, and har.
rowed by the poorer emigrants for
the older settlers. at a fixed price per
"cre. The plan permits the cultiva-
on'of immense areas by capitalists
small expenditure, while 1t
-ings ready money to the doors OF
lose arrivals who require employ