Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-01
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

in Central New York. The leading
variety planted was the Early Rose,
and they were killed by frost in July.
Morris Co, n. j., shipped this year,
5000 baskets of peaches. Last year
the shipments were $4,000 baskets, and
in 1876, $4,000. which is d full crop.
Many new orchards were set this year.
Mr.. Robert Bonner, Of New York has
bought the well-known Kentucky trot-
ting flly Maud Macy-prlce 10000.
What wonderful collection Of trotting
celebrities Mr.. Bonner now possesses!
An indianapolis man had Brahma
rooster that weighed nineteen and u
half pounds. 1t was such Il shining,
and ,withal,s large mark that he fired
at it and brought it down the first shot.
The Canada Lancet states that rowing
Gypses and horse jockies of most coun-
tries, and even Arabs and Taltars, give
their horses arsenic us u remedy for
heaves and broken winI, and to I'M
prove their general condition.
The Eldora HeraM saws. "The far
mers on election day, at New Proyi-
dence, Hardin county, counted mp the
losses by cholera among their hogs this
summer, and figure up loss in that
township, Of over two thousand hogs. !"
It is reported that the Milwaukee
wheat buyers will withdraw from the
main line Of the st. Paul & Pacific, and
that all the differences between the Min
ncapolis millers and the Milwaukee a.
st. Paul company have been satisfac-
torily arranged.
In England forty bushels Of wheat
per acre is not an unusual yield, and
fifty or sixty bushels per acre is often
realized as the result OF high farming.
Nevertheless, England is obliged to I'M
port each year about 100,000,00 bush
els in addition To her own crop, to feed
her people.
Nothing will more impair next years
crop Of hay than overstocking the
meadows in the fall. Innumcrablc
hoo!s beat down and loosen the exposed
roots of the aftermath, and the severe
frosts, ever active agents Of destruction
to the interests Of the farmer, will Kill
much more grass in the winter than if
the land was otherwise managed now.
Whenever horses and COWS are Ill
lowed large range of rich feed all ut
once, il is the nature Of the animal not
to 60 quietly to feeding, but to run all
over the enclosure, examine the bound
aries, snatch mouthful of feed now
and then rs they run, and finally to
come to the yard at night, tired, over
full, having tramped down three times
rs much us they have eaten.
The soil of the land in the vicinity of
puget sound is said to BE surprisingly
fertile, rivaling that Of California in
its ability to present the farmer with
enormous vegetables. A cabbage was
raised which weighed one hundred and
eight pounds and turnip five feet two
and one half inches in circumference,
hundred and twelve pounds.
Buckwheat, which can be bought at
this season Of the year very low, is one
Of the best articles of food that can be
fed to pigeons. 1t is very fattening, and
the young ones thrive much better
when it is fed AT first it should be fed
i'll small quantities, given with other
food. A well known fancier stated that
he had been very successful in raising Il
large number Of pigeons this season,
and accounts for ii from feeding buck
wheat.
A camel rancho is owned by David
Mather of Blstrop, Tex. He claims
that camels are no more trouble to raise
than horses or cattle. The colts, for
three or fouI days, arc rather tender,
and require close attention; but after
that they take their chances with the
herd. They are very docile, and rs the
females give birth to colt every year,
they are profitable, the animals selling
when reared, from $500 to $500 each
Mr.. Mather says that well-broken
camel will trlvel moro than one hum
dred miles day.
The Gefnaltoicn 1ekUaph says" A
correspondent asks why it is that the
short horn cattle are losing ground and
others are taking their place. He says us
mixers or for the shambles they have
no equals" That may be so. But
opinions and ,astes vary. The milk OF
the short-horn is not to compare to that
of either the alderney, jersey or guern-
sey in point of richness. But for
quantity it goes ahead of perhaps all
others. Its beef is unsurpassed. For
working oxeI the devons are the best.
But there is good "and the best !" Of
every kind, inst us it may be peoples
interest or choice 70 decide.
A Georgia paper says: A farmer liv-
ing III the Movon district undertook II
few evenings lgo to cure his hogs Of vor-
nin Ivy rubbing them with coal oil lie
provided himself with fat lightwood
i lnrrh aud mt ~ lie had nnt lhnn Mel