Nebraska advertiser., 1878-03-21
Agricultural Items.

Delano, Iowa, has shipped 365 900
hoop poles this!season.
A Texas hog weighs one thousand
four hundred and fifty pounds.
Two hundred and fifty varieties of
fruit are grown successfully in Geor-
gia.
Orange trees near Austin, Texas,
are so loaded with fruit that the limbs
have to be supported by props.
An Atlanta man shipped thirty
bushels of sweet potatoes to Chicago.
The sale lacked s23 of paying freight.
Milk producers on the Kankakee
river are about to build steam barges
to carry their milk TO cheese and but
ter factories.
English experience is that the con-
sumption of a ton of roots produces,
on the average, fourteen pounds OF
mutton or peer.
A Peoria. Gil. man has fish farm
stocked with SO, 900 California salmon
and 20, 600 brook trout.
Six average sized figs contain more
fattening matter than a pint of cod
liver oil, and one don't have to be dis
infected after eating them, either.
Wilson's Albany straw berries ap-
peared in New York some three weeks
ago, a month earlier than 1877. They
were from Norfolk, Va, and sold at
81 box.
A Swede in Rockford, H., has in
vented and patented a machine
which, it is said, knits a stocking, in
one piece, at the rate of about one a
minute.
The Texas stock-growers own, in
the aggregate ], ,O24, 900 head of cattle,
besides horses and mules, and have
an enclosed pasture containing $50. 600
acres.
A Dennison (rexas) paper says
Fourteen thousand bales of cotton.
or about two hundred aud eighty cars
were shipped to Chfaago during the
month of December.
The large number of negroes who
have rented farms in Alabama and
gone to farming for themselves, has
caused a great scarcity OF hands am
ong land owners who desire 10 farm
their own land.
The fruit-growers of St. Joseph,
Mich, have resolved that for the
coming season the sizes of boxes for
the sale of small fruit must be full
quart measure, and that peaches
pears, plums, grapes, etc., are to con-
tain one-sixth bushel in each basket.
An Atlanta paper says the sheep fe-
yer is taking bold there; that sheep
and Texas are the two great staples of
Georgia talk, and that Georgia will
be the great sheep State of the future.
A Michigan farmer recently cold
a large walnut tree for which he re-
ceived 1876. This is now the fashion,
able wood, though it does grow in this
country. and all large logs are cut up
into veneers not more than an eighth
of an inch thick.
Southern planters are beginning to
use Paris green very largely for the
destruction of boil worms and army
worms in their cotton fields. Exper-
iments with the common cheap white
arsenic for this purpose have also
been completely successful.
In 1916. dressed hogs sold in low a
at S1.75 per hundred pounds. At that
low price packers lost heavily, being
unable to dispose of the product,
which was actually given to steam
boats to burn for fuel. Nothing could
be sold except the hams and the lard.
The production of tobacco has re-
Gently become a very important agri-
cultural interest in Pennsylvania. 1t
is asserted that the State now produ-
ces more tobacco than the Connecti-
cut valley, and it is believed that ip a
few years it's crop will be larger than
that Of Connecticut. Virginia and Mis-
souri,. The yield OF Lancaster county
last year was eighteen million four
hundred pounds.