Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-01
HOUSE, FARM, GARDEN.
AGRaCULTURAL NOTES.


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In Kentucky when mule gets so lazy
that he won't work for more than nine or
ten hours day, they trim his ears down
and sell him to Chicago man for car
rage horse.
Two years ago q corn Spectator at
Clarinda, Iowa, refused sixty cents a
bushel for $4,000 bushels of corn he had
bought for thirty cents. He is now vain
ly trying to get ten cents bushel for it.
Robert Bonner goes in for fast horses,
and between his stables in New York
city and his farm, he keeps nineteen trot-
tiers; thirteen of them have trotted in go
or better and one 2:14 1-2.
The State Board of Agriculture, which
met at Columbus, Ohio, the 26th ult, de-
cidcd to accept the bonds OF $4,000 ten
dered by the citizens, and located the
State Fair at thst place for the ensuing
two years. eg.-.e
The well known trottin9 stallion Path
finder, owned by Mr.. Joseph Snyder at
Lockport N. Y. died suddenly on Thurs
day night, the Goth ult., at a stable of his
owner. Mr.. Snyder had just refused
1900 for him.
As regards its fodder value, Professor
Stsrer says that from analysis, buckwheat
straw. when mixed in small proportion
with richer kinds of food, might, like
other straws, be usefully employed for
feeding animals in many cases, especial
ly if it were previously softened by steam
ing or soaking.
1t is stated that Minnesota miller has
invented an entirely new process of
grinding wheat, which does away with
the millstones now in use, and substi-
tutes therefor a vertically running granite
disc in direct combination with circle
segment of French burr. This new pro-
cess produces 80 per cent. of middlings.
A homestead bill has been introduced
into the Lower House of the Missouri
Legislature exempting from execution
100 acres of land, not exceeding $1,000
in value; in cities OF a population of 40
600 or upward. eighteen square rods of
ground, not exceeding the value of 3d.,
600, and in cities or towns of less than
10000 population, thirty square rods Of
ground, not worth over 81 500.
The farmers along the Illinois and
Michigan canal continue to manifest a
strong interest in its preservation as per
petual shield against extortion by the rail-
way companies, whose present policy is to
reduce rates below the point where the
receipts from tolls will render the canal
self-sustaining, the design being to force
its ultimate abandonment by the State
: and its removal from the field Of compe-
tition. vs. "a.
An important movement is on foot
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looking to the formation of Jewish col
ony or colonies in the South or West.
The subject was first meoted at the an
nual convention of the Union of Hebvew
Congregations, which was held in Gin
cinnati last July, when it was referred to
a committee on agricultural pursuits for
consideration, who have just reported in
favor of such moment.
| Norway cultivates less than IL percent
of her area, forests cover about % per
cent, while the rest consist of naked, uR-
iHhabitable mountain land. Agriculture,
although pursued with increased vigor OF
late, is unable TO furnish sufficient pro-
duce Tor home consumption; hence it has
been necessary to import considerable
quantities of grain, meat and butter. The
fisheries give employment to a large
part of the population throughout the
year.
A gentleman in San Bernardino, CAL,
has been very successful, it is said, in
, poisoning gophers, which rodents are, as
y a general thing, very hard to kill by
t poison. He takes raisins, opens the skin
sufficiently to admit OF grain of strych-
nine, and then drops one or two In each
; hole. The gophers are said to be very
fond of them. If green apples are used,
q it will also be found that the gophers
. will not refuse them.
, Arrangements are in progress looking
to Grand Interest Fair, to be held at
Chicago, illinois. next fall, the design be-
, ing to concentrate theexhibitlons of Ohio,
, Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois,
, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas, into q
mammoth exhibition at Chicago, aRd to
offer such inducements in the way of
prizes and premiums, as will induce a
public patronage greater than has ever
been accorded to public expeditions of,
the kind. zs,-a-z..eszs.
The cultivation of cinchona, the bark
from which quinine is extracted, has met
with complete success In the English and
Dutch East India possessions. Holland
has at present 100000, and England
100000 trees in good condition,
France is also engaged in experiments in
the Island OF. Reunion. Some trees in the
English. possessions have yielded sixty
one instead of thirty-seven per cent. of
! the product in South America; on the
, latter continent the forests of clnchona
were rapidly being destroyed.
, A correspondent, writing from Gull
ford, Conn.,. protests against classification
. of the oriole among mischievous birds.
He says that he has frequently seen them
tear open the nests of apple worms and
devour them. and thinks that birds with
pluck enough TO destroy such disagreed
, BILE pests ought to be fosterea rather than
] destroyed.
r Thoroughbred breeding studs are main
tanned by the Emperor Of Austria, who
has large establishment, with an Eng
lisA trainer at its head. In his kingdom
of Hungary the nobility and landed
, gentry largely cultivate the blood horse
. for racing and riding purposes, while for
, driving they adhere rather to Arab
crosses of native breeds. Say
Keep the Cows Healthy.
, It is now generally conceded that milk
unduly retained in the pdder Of the COW
} is absorbed. The flow is decreased, and
! the animal gradually goes dry. Once
this process begins, it is next to lmpossi-
3 bic to bring the COW back to her full iow.
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