The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-12-06
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cola, Florida, has no doubt the largest
fig orchard in America; he has 1900
bearing trees, and two or three thou
sand to come into bearing.
Those who maintain that Fair can
not succeed without horse-race, should
read this from the National Live Stock
Journal: AS whole, the British
shows are probably better adapted to
instruct, and less suited to amuse vlsi-
tors than our Fairs. II we go to an
extreme in horse-racing, they perhaps
go to the opposite extreme, as 1t is ex-
ceptional to have horses shown in har-
ness in any class. There is no approach
to track. At some shows exhibitions
of jumping over hedges and pools of
water are given. There seems a greater
degree of interest on the part of visitors,
in the legitimate object of the show
with them than with u.s."
Some one wishes to know the botani-
cal name of Irish potaties; tu6eros"n'
solanum is the botanical name, but it
would be better for you to call them
potatoes, particularly at the table, as
your children and probably your wife
would not know what you are talking
about.
A writer for the Southern Cultivator
says: 1--WE produce 100000 bales OF
cotton, and we sell it for $500, 100000
The cost of producing it reduces our
labor to profits SO uncertain, and SO
meagre at best, that our farmers are
generally poor and detected. We labor
more continuously than any agricultu-
raj people in the world If farmers
would diversity their products more
and produce less cotton, they would
certainly be able to raise cotton cheaper
than where they have to buy every
thing to produce that amount with.
The cheaper we can raise any product
the more profitable it will be to the
producer.
Concha grass isnow being introduced
into Florida from Texas. 1t is sown i'll
the early spring, and by the LIST of June
reaches two or three feet in height.
1t yields Is to 20 bushels of grain to
the acre, and the heads are six to seven
inches in length.
1t has been calculated by Prof. Miles
in his work on stock breeding, that a
hen, during a life time of nine years,
will lay 900 eggs; these at Is cents per
dozen, would amount to ~ 50-a good
interest on twenty-five cents.
Peas are now in bloom, and Irish
potates out of the ground at Leesburg,
Florida. Oranges are being bought up
by spectators and at 1t and cents
apiece. We went once to Leesburg
to live, and found an abundance
of climate and no soil, and moved
back to where we are.
Land rents for 81 so per acre at the
present time in England, while meat
is worth only IS cents per pound. No
wonder the poor tenant is half starved,
and oppressed Ireland is crying for
bread. The tenant system of England
is worse than the old feudal system of
the middle ages.
During twelve days nearly $4,000
hogs were packed in Indianapolis.
Last week one man in Cincinnati
lost his cattle pens in which were SUI
cattle. Is not this cruelty to animals?
The failure of the vintage in France
during the present year, will amount
100000 francs.
Chicago now holds one-third of the
wheat supply of this country and
Canada.
Thousands of bushels of apples are
still in the orchards at New Haven,
Michigan, under twelve or fifteen inches
of enow-whiIe we are eating straw
berries.
Last week sheep raiser dipped 1900
of his sheep in decoction of tobacco,
for some kind of disease, and it killed
all of them. The remedy was worse
than the disease.
While England has only 2,89O,0OO
acres in wheat, the United States has
80, 100000.
There are SO cotton mills in operation
in North Carolina, which consumed
this year nearly 10000 bales of cotton.
Enough cloth is made from old rags
in Great Britain, with little mixture
of wool, to supply all the adult popula-
lation of that country with suit of
clothes.
The European demand for hops is
very large this year, the English
brewers having contracted for 9O,OOOO,-
900 pounds from this country. Hops
which were selling for fifteen cents per
pound last year, can't be bought for
less than 40 cents this year. American
hops are much preferred and sought
after by German buyers.
A farmer at Morton, in this State,
has made 800 barrels of sorghum mo-
lases this year. The majority Of the
farmers in Copiah county are now man
their own mOlasses, and have
some to sell. This is new industry
which has been started since the war.
When the people learn to live more at
home, farmers will become Independent
and self-sustaining.
We know a gentleman in this county
who gathered, twenty-five bushels of
wheat from three acres, this year; of !
course the land was well MANFRED, but
Illinois can't beat it much on her fer !
lie prairies. The same man with two I
lands beside himself made 20 bales of i
cotton. Mr.. L. J. Rhymes, near Crys-
al Springs, gathered 300 bushels of /
iweet potatoes to the acre this year; 8
which, at 80 cents per bushels, would be
$50 per acre. With these facts Of the
wonderful productions of our soil and '
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