The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-12-11
FARM NOTES.


FARM NOTES.
A Canada farmers wife was lately
butted to death by ram.
A man is killed occasionally by the
bursting of the centrifugal machine
used in sorghum manufacture.
The prize.list Of the Smithfield Club,
whose live stock show opens in Lon
don, December 8, represents sum of
nearly $4,000.
Great Britain has revoked the Order
of November requiring immediate
slaughter or quarantine of sheep landed
from the United States.
1t does not seem altogether improba-
BILE that in course of time all Europe
will be head-booked, from Shorthorns
to chickeds, if the fancy spreads.
In Goodncston Park, Kent, England,
is Cedar Of Lebanon with spread of
branch 100 feet in diameter, and
pairs of naples and sycamores of 100
feet each.
Mr.. Henry +. Alvord. of Massachu-
sets, gets a silver medal from the Brit
ish Dairy Farmers Association, for his
good service in the matter of the cOllec-
ton of American utensils exhibited at
their recent show.
Horses increased in Great Britain
from 3O1 600 in 1870 to 44S,OOO at the
present time, and yet they are much
higher in price now than then, and
were il not for the disastrous season
there. the advance would be still
greater.
An intelligent German farmer is quo
ted by The Connecticut Couraat as
saying that he values tobacco stems for
manure ''about the same per cord as
stable dung: straw soaked in urine and
dried would be much the same"
The Portsmouth Weekly reports little
satisfaction among growers of sugar.
beets in that part of New Hampshire
this ycar-the not unnatucal result of
first venture. which it thinks expert
ence and improved methods of culture
may change.
At the recent cat show in the Crystal
Palace, near London, o66 grimalkins
were entered, in twenty-four different
classes; long-haircd and short-haired
and all imaginable colors. The heaviest
weighed over twenty pounds, and
might be match in a fair stand-up
fight for an American lynx.
A correspondent Of The London
Times, taking a car-window view as he
journeycd from New York TO Boston,
observed that corn has been well nigh
driven out by Western competition
ditto butchers meat. In their stead are
produced milk. butter, vegetables and
fruit. and he thinks it "a lesson for
Engiishmen. Let them turn their at
tention to markct-gardening and dairy
farming
An elegantly dressed gentlemen
walked through the crowded streets of
London the other day, followed by a
little black pig, answering to the name
of Johnny, and he kept as close to his
masters heels as would an efIectionatc
dog. A recent traveller in Italy says
he saw grown pig used there to hunt
birds. and he would scent, stand and
flush them as well as the best-trained
pointer or setter.
The London comic paper Punch
prints this rhymed protest against the
recent act Of Leeds court in letting a
trader in unwholesome eggs go tree on
the strange ground that hcn-fruit is
not food.
A sage has uttered from the Judgment seat
it's true-"Eggs are not meat"
In teeth of the old saw, dear to John buii.
Of las full as an egg ofmeat is full ~
puaek, who 10 differ from this judgment begs, |
Rulcs-eggs Is meat. As sure as eggs is eggs
The so-called hair-snake (gordius)-l
which comes al ora. and not from hu-
nan head or horses tail. and is capable
to DIR. Joseph Leidy, Of lay
me- several more than six million eggs
S credited with much usefulness as
ocust cxterminater Ii also inhabits
% the probable detriment Of their
,ealth. katydids and crickets, and has
,ecn found in cock-roaches. beetles.
moths. bees. flies, spiders and other
mall animals.
Four Merino rams were recently sold
u Australia at prices ranging from
s7a5 TO Sl,s75. They arc called the
ARA Merino. and are said to be .
new type greatly admired for form, [,
lcnsity Of fleece. and fine lustrous char |
c,cr of wool. What this new type is ,
rc do not exactly understand. Per
ans stolen cross of the Merino on the |
Leicester, rs was made in
rance some years ago. which has pro-
uced breed with very superior fine
ombing wool, used in the manufacture
+ IN extra quality Of worsted and
Their sceds.