Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-12-06
RURAL ITEMS.

Mr.. Geddes believes in large farms.
Montana has very large hop crop this |
year.
a London milk dealer made SI5oooo
out Of the business and thtn died.
The largest corn field in the State OF |
Rhode Island contains twenty acres.
Iron nails thrown into the drinking water
will make good tonic for the fowls.
Bristol, in England, has milk tavern
Nothing but the tactical is sold over the
bar.
California is very poorly supplied with
water, and the people are sinking artesian
wells.
A farmer way down in Florida tainted in
his barnyard and the hogs ate up most of
his legs.
The hot weather in July and August in
,jured much of the cheese made in the ives
tern States.
Queen bees, or any sort of bees, for
that matter, can no longer be sent through
the mails
The wheat crop is so good in eastern
Maine, that that section will raise its own
bread this year.
Our reports from the tobacco fields of
Connecticut show that the crop is generally
below the average
The yellows and frost have been too
much for the peach crop about Benton
Harbor and St. Joseph, Mich. ~
Cotton IS so abundant in Gonzales coun-
ty, Texas, that farmers are giving one-half
OF the crop to pickers.
Hon. I. Stanton Gould says that the
Digger Indians of California eat clover,
both in its raw state and cooked.
Isaac Brown, an octogenarian of Iefer-
son county. Alabama, has plowed the same
field for sixv-two successive years.
The cheese-makers are happy. Horatio
Seymour having succeeded in getting cheese
adopted as an army ration
1t is claimed that the newly settled north
ern counties of Michigan have the largest
honey harvests in the United States. sa -
lis feared that the potato crop of Ire
land this year is almost as poor as that OF
1874, and ears of great distress are enter
tanned.
A Texas paper advertises a pillow which
has afurnace for the heating of the iron. 1t
is claimed that ii will pillow the stckiest
land. t7.,l.e
In Arkansas, all horses are trained to
swim as well as 10 draw in harness. They
Will often swim a wide river and carry two
persons.
Old boot-tops, cut into pieces the right
size and lined, make excellent iron-holders.
The leather keep all heat away from the
hand. ~
In the country districts of England the
cottagers use straw for hives, and smother
the bees and destroy the comb to gather
the honey. - sg,i
Its said by some that Italian bees do
not work on red clover. F. A Smell OF
Carroll Co., ILL.,, tells the Bee Keepers
Magazine that they do.
From one hundred hens E. r. Holdridge,
of Richland, ILL.,, made a net profit of $I3o
besides supplying his table with eggs and
poultry.
I
Women versus hens-A London editor
saws that the hens don't do near the dam
age in garden that the women do throw
ing sticks at them.
1t is estimated that thirty thousand peo-
pie have emigrated from Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to Kansas, tax
ing with them S6,ooo,ooo in capital.
Mr.. Smith, of Wisconsin, pitches into
the Crescent Seeding. This is the way
the merits of a new variety of fruit can be
learned. Let US have free discussion.
The management of the poultry depart
ment Of the Paris exhibition does not seem
to be popular. English exhibitors say that
birds are sold, etc, and not accounted for.
The potato crop on the Pacific viii be
| failure rfis year, but then the people con-
| sole themselves with the thought that the
yield Of grain will be the largest ever
known.
Black and gray squirrels are crossing the
river at Lake City, Mimi, from Wisconsin,
| in large numbers-estimated by the thous-
ands. The canse Of this migration is not
known. s;s
Mexico's national drink is made from
the century plant. 1t is SO everlastingly
lively thatit can be transported only short
distances, and with the bung'hole of the
barrel open.
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