River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-10-24
Agricultural NoHrns

Agricultural notes
Tea raised in South Carolina aud pre-
pared in Baltimore was lately exhibited
in Washington to dealers, who were I'M
able 10 distinguish it from similar varie-
ties of Chinese and japanese growth.
So thoroughly established is the excel
lence of the desert horse as compared
with the more domesiicated kinds of the
Arab horse, that in selecting Arabs for
turf purposes, it is thought among the
first essentials TO pick one that has been
all his life in the desert.
A company with a capital stock of So
100000 Las been organized III California
for the purpose of making watermelon
sugar and oil, claiming that ten per cent.
of sugar can be obtained from the juice,
and twenty five per cent, of oil from the
seed, suitable for table use.
A sleeps front teeth the first year are
eight in number appearing all of size.
Second year two middle ones are shed
out and replaced by two much larger
than the others. Third year two vegy
small ones appear-oRe on either side OF
the eight. At the end of the fourth year
there are six large teeth. Six years all
begin to show wear--not till then.
Mutton is tine favorite meat of the Eng
ish people of all classes, to much great
er extent than in this country, yet w}-h
us the consumption is gradually incre@s
ing and perhaps fully as fast as the in
crease and improvement ofthe tine breeds
of sheep. Good mutton is one of the
most wholesome as well as the most east
ly digested of all meat kind.
Franklin county, Vermont, l.,1
county consisting of fourteen towns, aver
aging six miles square, only seveateen
years ago could not boast of single
thoroughbred COW. Now she has about
1000 thoroughbred cows, with nearly all
good grades for the balance. This is a
good record. when we consider that three
quarters of the COWS in the State are eiti.-
er natives or grades. .
In speaking of the necessity of land
drainage, Mr.. Mechi says: "The want 81
Die in the great agricultural plant-pot
during the last wet winter has caused
many an agricultural purse to be only
half fiji ed How strange it is that 30
farmer would have a plant-pot In his
greenhC use or home without hole in
the bottom, while the same individual
often does not consider one to be neces-
sary in the big plant pot outside"
The English propose to have great
agricultural far in 1879, at an expense q
$250,000. 1t is said that agriculture ID
declining in Great Britain. The numbes
ofcattle, the wheat acreage and other
crops are increasing, and very nearly one
half the population of the United King
dom is now dependent for sustenance on
imported food. The people hope that an
exhibition as proposed will help TO re-
vive dropping business.
The character of Welsh butter is ex-
cellent, cut it is principally consumed in
the Welsh mining districts, as also in
Birmingham and other manufacturing
towns in the midland counties. Large
quantities OF good butter are made in
Yorkshire, in the North of England. and
provincial towns in the localities in
which such butter is made, or at the
nearest market for the commodity.
England's wheat crop is below her
usual average; in France only moderately
good; in Italy not abundant; in Bulgaria
the best ever known, but the inhabitants
have been unable to gather it; in the
Southern part of Russia the crop is very
abundant; in Austria it is good; in Ger
many though the yield is fair the grain is
light in weight. No nation on earth is
blessed with such an abundant wheat
crop this year as the United States.
Maj. Powell is preparing for Congress
a sensational, but, it is claimed, accurate
report on the comparatively sun IL amount
of arabic land in the union now owned
by the Government. In the humid OF
arabic belt east of line from the eastern
point of Lake Superior to the Gulf, he |
saws the United States owns no lands nor
taken up. In the sub-arid division, TIRES |
hundred and fifty miles wide, to the west
the United States owns considerable |
quantity of land, which may be cultivat
ed by irrigation. West of that, in the |
immense arid belt extending from the !
Rocky mountains INTO Eastern California,
only two per cent of the LAND can be Gull \
tivated, and this, much has already been |
pre-empted.
The value of small proprietorships, in
increasing the frtility Of the soil is strik-
ingly illustrated in the village of Werder |
near Potsdam. The area of this parish, !
which has population of 1900, is 2,300 !
aces, of which 075 acres are devoted to |
fruit culture. These 975 acres are dis
tributed among no less tan $50 owners, /
so that each cultivator holds on an aver
age "a acres of land. The natural soil
of the district is for the most part exceed
ingly poor, but by the skill of the occu-
piers the land under cultivation is now
remarkable for its frtility, and very heavy
crops of the finest quality are annually
The crops as matter OF
course, vary according to the season, but
in 1875 no less than 100000 gallons of
fruit we're sent TO Berlu alone.
The Maine Farmer is jubilant over the
agricultural results and prospects in that
state, saying 7" The dry weather has in
some sections been severely felt, and will |
show itself IN light potato crop, but
In others the yield will be abundant. Of
apples there will be a fairly avarage crop
than in any year for the past
FIVE or six. Our cheese factories and
butter diaries are doing excellently well
aud will make most prosperous season.
In brief, the year has been most favor
able one for the farmers of Maine, and tie
inpafhering of the harvest will find them
with an abundant yield Of all the richest
products OF our fruitful soil. The acre.
age of corn and wheat last spring was
double that of ten years ago; and the
State of Maine was never in so good
condition, and never SO near supplying
The breadstuffs which its people need,
grown from its own soil, as it is at the
present time. i
How tOMaEe Cows Give MBik-
A writer ia the Southern Farmer says
hat his COW gives all the milk that is
wanted in family of eight, and that
rom it, after taking all that is required
,or other nurnoses 290 mounds of butter