Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-19
HOUSE. AND FARM.
Earn Notes.

Twelve years ago Texas sold but 70,
600 bales of cotton. Last year it footed
up 100000 bales.
In bad seasons business men anxious
" look for crop reports. Itgives them a
realizing sense that all wealth comes prin-
cipally from the soil.
The whole English market dependent
upon French and Spanish graz es and
wines has risen. 1t is supposed that it
will raise nearly so per cent.
Indian corn was first grown by Euro
peans In this country at the James River
settlement In Virginia, in 1903. In 1909
more than forty acres were grown by the
Virginia planters. Now the corn crop
OF the United States is one of the very
first Importance in agriculture.
Wheat is successfully cultivated in
Mexico only on the table lands of the
| Cordilleras, at an elevation of from 1880
| to 1880 feet above the level of the sea.
In sections where it does not mature the
grain Is grown as a green solling crop
or forage for cattle, for which it is eg-
teemed.
A visitor to the hop districts of New
York, writes to the Utica Herald that
growers "Would sooner allow their chick
ems to be killed than skunk" since this
useful creature, usually in such bad odor
with most people, proves very great
help IN the struggle against the grub
which does so much injury to the vine.
The weekly (Toronto) Globe says the
golden drop wheat as raised there is nat
urally spring wheat, but that 1T can be
grown successfully as winter wheat
That the grain is plump, and as large as
the ''est samples OF fall wheat; the straw
is particularly clean, and has not been
troubled with smut or rust.
Professor A. S. Packard, Jr., mentions
as an interesting fact that the Pueblo
Indians of New Mexico have, like the
Egyptians of old, long been in the habit
of laying up. stores Of wheat and corn two
and three years in advance. It is not
certainly known whether they do this as
a provision against drought or the ravages
OF the locusts; though from facts recently
tanned, regarding the southern range of
the Rocky mountain locust in New Mexi-
co, it would appear to be the last named
The area of Ireland and the natural
wealth of its soil is capable of support
ing from 100000 to 20,000,0OO of in
habltants if restrictive land laws did not
operate against the full development of
the country's resources and the unfetter-
ed cultivation of the land. Yet a popu-
la.ion of 100000 previous to the year
1S47 was reduced by death, starvation
and exile consequent upon an artificial
famine and continued impoverishment to
little over 100000 OF the present day.
A new patent process of training hop
vines has been introduced into some of
the fields of central New York A pole
is planted in each hill in which there are
eight or ten hop-vines. Strings radiate
from the poles and are attached to other
strings that run in two directions at the
height of the poles. By this arrange
ment each vine grows by itself, and all
crowdlng is obviated. AS the vines re-
ceive more air and sunshine, the clusters
of hops are larger and better matured.
| One grower who has ten acres of vines
trained in this manner expects to harvest
at least 10000 pounds af marketable
hops.