Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-04-18
Items for the Farmer.

items I0r the Farmer.
The hog cholera is said to have
disappeared from the northern part
OF Indiana
On New Years day new potatoes
sold In San Francisco at ten cents a
pound, IS bushel.
The poultry receipts at lie Sueur.
Mimi, this season, amount to $3.50
pounds, a falling off OF IL 900 pounds
from last year.
A colony. to be entirely composed
OF Spiritualists, gathered from all
over the Union. will buy land in Lin
coin Territory, aud engage in agricul-
tural pursuits.
The large number OF negroes who
have rented land in Alabama and
gone to farming for themselves has
caused great scarcity of hands
among land owners who desire to
farm their own land.
General w. 8. Rosecrans, General
Gilmore, Judge Fullerton and others
have organized a company with 81.
100000 capital to settle lands In the
southwest with Northern people. A
large tract OF timber land In Missouri
has already been secured.
Mr.. II. N. Krouse, OF Montrose, Ia,
should be known as the great West
ern CRATER" for 1t is said he thus
changed the variety Of fruit, last
winter, on 100000 apple trees, 5000
cherry trees, and 10000 plum trees,
Prof. w. J. Beal, OF the Michigan
Agricultural College, says, in the
Detroit Tsibssns, that 1it is usually
more profitable to feed off a crop of
clover, and pillow under the stubble,
than to plow under tops and all. The
stubble and roots haze been found to
do nearly as much good as the whole
crop. II sown without any grass
seed, use six to ten quarts OF seed to
the acre."
The valuable estate. Ciairmont,
lying in Surry County, Virginia. on
James River, formerly the abode of
the late William Allen, has recently
been sold privately to parties in New
FORK, for the sum of 100000. The
tract contains between five thousand
and seven thousand acres OF land. II
Is now being surveyed and divided
into one hundred acre lots. 1t Is to
be occupied by an Irish colony.
The Los Angeles. California, Her.
aid, mentions a farmer in that Sec
ton who sowed 15i pounds Of seed of
Australian wheat to the acre, and
harvested thirty eight bushels pei
acre. Noticing stool or product oil
one seed Of every large size, he
counted the number OF stalks, and
found that 1t contained 272. an extra.
ordinary number Of this usually
prolific variety, which, on suitable
ground, ordinary produces from 100
to $50 stalks to each seed.
Alderman inventor has patented
an apparatus designed to lessen the
strain upon the horse. particularly al
starting of a loaded vehicle. The
traces are fastened to an iron rod run
ming through the center Of cylinder
containing several rings OF gutta
percha. When the horse exerts him.
self the strain first comes upon and
congresses these rings, saving his
shoulders, The German war Depart
ment having made experiments and
found that the saving Of force. not
alone at starting out but during trsc-
ton. was at least a third. has resolved
to try the attachment In his artillery
and military trains.
The Butler. Cheese and Eggs Re
porter tells Of Mr.. Benton who
keeps eleven different kinds Of fowls
and Is very successful In their man.
agement. Mo Benton found weak
lye and wood ashes an effectuar rem
edy for canker. The doctors recon-
mend chlorate OF potash. Ashes are