Daily globe., 1879-04-27
HOUSE, FARM, GARDEN.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

one carload over the Union racine rail-
way bridge It Omaha.
In Kentucky when mule gets so lazy
that he wont work for more than nine or
ten hours day, they trim his ears down
and sell him to a Chicago man for car
riage horse.
Two years ago q corn speculator at
Clarinda, Iowa, refused sixty cents a
bashel for 10000 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,
city and his farm, he keeps nineteen trot-
ters; thirteen of them have trotted in 2 30
or better and one 2: IA 1-s.
The State Board of Agriculture, which
met at Columbus, Ohio, the Goth 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 ensuin
two years.
The wellknown trotting stallion Path
finder, owned by Mr.. Joseph Snyder at
Lockport n. Y, died suddenly on Thurs
day night, the Goth ult., at stable of his
owner. Mr.. Snyder had just refused
$1,000 for him.
As regards its fodder value, Professor
Storer 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 a 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 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 disagreea
BILE pests ought to be fosterea rather than
destroyed.
Thoroughbred breeding studs are main
tanned by the Emperor of Austria, who
has large establishment, with an Eng
ish 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.
a homestead bill has been introduced
into the Lower House of the Missouri
Legislature exemp'ing from execution
100 acres of land, not exceeding $1,000
in value; in cities OF a population of 49,
600 or upward, eighteen square rods of
ground, not exceeding the value of 49,
900, and in cities or towns of less than
10000 population, thirty square rods Of
ground, not worth over $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-sustainng, the design being to force
its ultimate abandonment by the State
and its removal from the field of cempe-
tition.
An important movement is on foot
among the Hebrews of the United States
looking TO the formation of Jewish col
ony or colonies in the South or West.
The subject was first mooted at the an
nual convention of the Union of Hebrew
Congregations, which was held in Gin
cinnati last Jul y, when it was referred to
q committee on agricultural pursuits for
consideration, who have just reported in
favor of such moment.
Norway cultivates less than 1.2 percent
of her area, forests cover about 25 pei
cent, while the rest consist of naked, un-
inhabitable mountain land. Agriculture
although pursued with increased vigor OF
late, is unable to furnish sufficient pro.
ducc 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, ii
poisoning gophers, which rodents are, as
a general thing, very hard to kill by
poison. He takes raisins, opens the Skin
sufficiently to admit of a grain of strych
nine, and then drops one or two IN eact
hole. Tie Eophers are said to be very
fond of them. If green apples are used
it will also be found that the gopher
will not refuse them.
Arrangements are in progress looking
to Grand Inter state Fair, to be held q
Chicago, Illinois, next fall, the design be
ing TO concentrate theexLibitlons of Ohio
Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas, into
mammoth exhibition at Chicago, and t.
offer such inducements in the way O
prizes and premiums, as will induce
public patronage greater than has eve
been accorded to public expositons of
the kind
The cultivation of cinchona, the bari
from which quinine is extracted, has me
with complete success in the English ant
Dutch East India possessions. HOLLAND
has at present 100000, and Englant
100000 trees in good condition
France is also engaged in experiments il
the Island of Rennicn. Some trees in th
English possessions have yielded sixty
one instead OF thirty seven per cent g
the product in South America; on tn
latter continent the forests of clnchon
were rapidly being destroyed.
The Messrs. Stockhouse at Crysts
Springs, Mississi ppi, are extensively en-
gagged in peach culture. The first ea
pertinent was on Hale's Early, but it di
not gay. The greatest success has bee
with the Alexander, Amsden, Beatrice
May Beauty, Crawford, and Susquehann,
which ripen in the order named. MOI
young trees will be set in this spring tha
ever before, as the road has made specis
1,rnnaratiOOS for tho trade ap1 tha pao,,1