New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-30
Agricultural Notes.

Reposing in peace on the bosom of God!
Agricultural Notes.
Tea raised in South Carolina and pre-
pared in Baltimore was lately exhibited
in Washington to dealers, who were un-
able to 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 domes,icated 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 lite in the desert.
A company with a capital stock of 3d.
100000 has been organized in 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.t ry 4s
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 very
small ones appear-oHe 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 the favorite meat of the Eng
ish people of all classes, to much great
er extent than in this country, yet with
US the consumption is gradually increas
ing and perhaps fully as fast as the in
crease and Improvement of the fine breeds
of sheep. Good mutton is one of the
most wholesome as we'll as the most east
ly digestcd of all meat kind.
Franklin county, Vermont, a live
county consisting of fourteen towns, aver
aging six miles square, only seventeen
years ago could not boast of d 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 eth
er natives or grades. .V%F!s.. r1,ss
In speaking of the necessity of land
drainage, Mr.. Mechi says: 'The want CT
hole in the great agricultural plant-pot
during the last wet winter has caused
many an agricultural purse to be only
half filed. How strange it is that no
farmer would have plant-pot IN his
greenhe use or home without a 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 nave great
agricultural fair in 1879, at an expense Of
$350,000. It is said that agriculture is
declining in Great Britain. The number
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 ez-
eellent, tut it is principally consumed in
toe 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
in Scotland, which chiefly go to supply
provincial towns in the localities in
which snch butter is made, or at the
nearest market for the commodity.
England's wheat crop is below her
usual average; in Frar ce 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.
.lai. Powell is preparing for Congress
Sensational, but, it is claimed. accurate
report on the con- paritively small amount
of arabic land in the union now. owned
by the Government. In the humid or
arabic belt east of line from the eastern
point Of Lake Superior to the Gulf, he
SAYS the United States owns no lands not
taken up. In the sub-arid division, three
hundred and fifty miles wide, to the west
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