Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-06-06
Agricultural Items.

The beet sugar works, at lsleton
CAL. are said to be working night and
day, and using about seventy tons OF
beets In twenty four hours.
or the farms in Pennsylvania, II
per cent are cultivated by their own
ers; 20 per cent. are farmed on shares,
and per cent. are rented.
The annual consumption OF sugar
in this country is about 100000, OOO
pounds, the revenue from which
amounts to sl6,OOO,O0O annually.
The large number OF negroes who
have rented land in Alabama, and
gone TO farming for themselves, has
caused a great scarcity Of hands
among landowners who desire to
farm their own land.
New London County, Conn, farm
ers are hiring their hands for the
summer season, at SIC to $40 per
month, with board. Eighteen dollars
Is said 10 be the average price, but
common laborers are very plenty at
these figures.
1t is estimated that only half as
much fuel has been consumed in
Minnesota the past winter as In or
binary seasons. Stock has got along
with one third less feed than usual,
and fresh meat, butter and eggs, have
been at times drug in the market.
The best thing to do with oobs,
says a correspondent OF the Practical
Farmer, is to burn them to a nice
charcoal, pulverize, stir in little salt,
annd feed to hogs. His eat the mix
ture every readily" and he is sure 1t
helps to keep them in good, healthy
condition"
John Baker. County Clerk OF Nc
Lean County, ILL.,. has bovine Curl
osity and veritable family treasure
In a new cow whose milk turns TO
butter without any churning whatev-
er. She is part Durham and Texan.
What valuable cross Of cattle for
lazy people, and what an interest the
small boy of Bakers family must take
in that cowl
Cinnamon who have returned TO
their native country, after a resi-
dence in the United States. have in
troduced the growing OF wheat to
take the place Of rice as food staple.
1t is claimed that with the close care
given to agriculture In that country,
the yield seldom falls below forty
bushels to the acre, and that labor is
so low that twenty-five cents a bushel
returns an average profit.
Every farmer should keep a pot CT
mixed paint in his work shop, and
should apply it literally to plows,
wagons, harrows, reapers and all i'm
plements that are exposed to the
weather. This will cause them to
last twice as long as usual. Farming
tools and implements are less fire.
quently run out by hard service. than
used up by useless exposure to the
weather when they are not in service.
The cattle Inspector Of Buffalo re-
ports that OF the animals arriving in
that city by rail, during February,
/ OFT were dead, and ,149 were Grip.
pied. The inspector, In conversation
with reporter, said that the man.
ner in which stock comes i'm Is
shame and an outrage. 1t Is carried
from Chicago to Buffalo without a
rest, or anything to eat or drink by
the way; and, what is worse, many OF
the poor animals are left in the yards
for three hours. without being water
ed or fed and are then reloaded and
shipped to New York" The Buffalo
Sunday Ne,os comments on the fever
ish and unwholesome condition of
some Of the cheap meat brought to
Buffalo.
The raising Of hay for market is in
creasing throughout Vermont, and
In the famous grass region
OF the Champlain Valley, where farm
ers claim that good crops can be
raised yearly IL stock are kept from