Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-03-27
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Agricultural Notes.

Agricultural Notes.
1t is estimated that nearly 1000 hun
tiers were chasing down and Strengthening
Michigan deer this winter. Hundreds
have been killed from pure wantonness
and left where they fell, nothing but the
hides being taken. -.-......
The State of New York is credited with
1,500, 900 cows, which produce an aver
age of $40 per head. Small as this is,
the aggregate is $60,O0O,00e annually,
and represents about one-sevcnth Of the
dairy interest in the United States.
The annual meeting of the stock grow
ers Colorado at Denver, was largely
attended by stockmen from Colorado,
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and
Wyoming Territory. It is thought the
name of the association will be changed
to include the States named.
Arthur Brown, the Kalamazoo lawyer
who was engaged in prosecuting the
Lenawee county grain thieves, has put in
bill for $617 for ten days service. The
supervisors allowed it, but thought j.
better in the future to have more
grain thieves and fewer lawyers.
Many teams of fine horses in England
and Scotland are without any hay what
ever during some parts of the winter
months, and yet are in good condition
from the abundant supply of oats, straw,
beans, grains, Swedish turnips or steam
ed potatoes. Even bean haulms steamed
are regarded as good and sufficient sub
stitutes for hay.
The total wool clip of the world il
1877 was about 1897, 100000 pounds;
worth $150,000,000. This, when secured,
would yield about 52,OO0,0O pounds
clean wool. The clip Of 1878 was small
er by 100000 to 100000 pounds
The clip of Australia reaches annually
about 284, 100000 pounds; that Of Buenos
Ayres and the River Platte, 223, 500, 600
pounds.
D. J. Briggs, of Turner, Maine, prac.,
tees the shearjng of sheep as early
as April. If there are any vermin
on the sheep, he gets rid of them by ear
ly shearing. He has taken off $50 pounds
of wool in April, keeping it till August,
when its weight had increased forty-fve
pounds. After shearing he takes good
care OF the sheep for eight or ten days,
and his flocks suffers no injury from the
cold.
The Japanese, like the Chinese, have
not heretofore paid much attention to
farm stock as We understand the term as
a means of human food or clothing. The
Japanese, however, are now paying at
tention to this matter. Not long since,
$25, 900 worth of sheep, cattle and horses
We're imported to Japan from California
for government farm, and we may soon
expect to hear of the results of this and
previous importations
Mr.. John Parker, of Halifar, is exhib
ting natural curiosity in the shape of
all animal that is half COW and balR
moose-the part from the shoulders back,
ward is formed like a moose, and the
head from the end of the nostrils to
across the eyes is also moose. Its actions
when out are those of wild animal, and
it never appears to get tame like another
COW. 1t was raised by Allen McAdams,
Bailey's Brook, Antagonist.
In barley, more than any other grain,
there is an extraordinary difference in
the prices of the highest and lowest
grades. The area adapted to produce
barley No. is limited; and not only soil
and climate, but also due preparation
of the soil, and harvesting when the crop
is at the suitable state Of maturity are
all needed to produce the best sample
In Chicago at recent date the range for
samples on track was from 35c. to Csc
per bushel.
The Prairie Farmer gives an account
of the sale of plants in Kansas under the
name of "0rapevine Raspberry" by per-
ambulating vendors. They falsely claim to
be agents of certain reliable nurseries at
the East. One Of them tells the purcbas-
ers that the plants grow with joints like
grapevines with leaves ten inches across
and with raspberries en- inch in diameter
the whole growing in the form of vines
so as to cover trellis or arbor. Another
vender states that they grow like bushes.
The Toxic Times states that the princi-
pal feature of American 7rsade with jap
an, is the petroleum export from New
York. The enterprise was inaugrated
only eight years ago, but the business
has 80 increased that, while only 200
cases of kerosene, valued at $500, were:
exported in 1870, in 1877, 366,639 cases
were sent to Yokohama, aud 12S,15S
eases to Hiogo, whittier none had been
carried direct. The value of these con-
signmen:s was over 100000.
Within the past year the oldest COW
probably, in New England, was ia tied
and sold for beef. She was owned by
E. L. Metcalf, of Franklin, Mass, and on
the day of the sale was within eleven
days of being twenty-eight years DID,
She was Jersey, and was giving four
quarts of good, rich milk per day. Had
given birth to but one bull calf, and alk
her heifers with one exception had been
raised by Mr.. Metcalf or his neighbors.
The last five years she gave milk con-
stantly without breeding.
Or. Collier informs US that in the val
ley between the Cucharas and the Apis
hapa, a strip twenty miles wide, there are
from 10000 to 10000 Mexican sheep that
would not sell for more than sixty-fve or
seventy cents on an average, and yet they
eat as much as sheep worth two or three
dollars head. There is certainly no
profit in such stock; but the same is true
of Texas cattle, of scrub stock generally
As suggested elsewhere, our stockmen
must turn over a new leaf, get better
stock, take better care of them, or suffer
the consequences.
An alarming disease is prevalent
among the cattle of Long Island, and re-
ports from different quarters show that a:
hundred mulch cows have died within ten
DAYS. 1t is believed to be pneumonia.
Swine are reported dying in many parts
of Jamaica and Hampstead. One farmer
at Fosters Meadow has lost ten pigs in
three days. Scarcely farmer has
escaped the loss of one or more. The
first symptoms of disease is the refusal of
food, then the flesh turns black, SEEM
ing paralysis follows, and death occurs
almost instantly.
Are Moles a Pest.
Germantown Telegraph.
There is great difference of opinion
as to the question. Our own is that the
mole is harmless as rule; sometimes it
damages lawns and gardens in pursuit of