The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-30
HOUSE, FARM, GARDEN.
NOTES.

AGRlCULTURAL NOTES =
It takes the price of 30 bushels of
wheat to pay for the transportation of
one carload over the Union Pacific rail-
way bridge It Omaha. ~
In Kentucky when a mule gets 80 lazy
that he won't work for more than nine or
ten hours q day, they trim his ears down
and sell him to a Chicago man for a car
rage horse. .a..
Two years age a corn Spectator at
Clarinda, Iowa, refused sixty cents a
bushel for 10000 bushels of corn he had
bought for thirty cents. He is now vain
ly trying to get ten cents a 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 2 30
or better and one 2 IA 10.
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 that place for the ensuing
two years.
The well-known trotting stallion Path
finder, owned by Mr.. Joseph Snyder at
Lockport n. Y, died suddenly IN Thurs
day night, the Goth ult., at a 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
~ if it were previously softened by steam
ing or soaking.
It 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 a circle
segment of French burr. This new pro-
cess produces so per cent. Of middlinggs.
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 fostered rather than
destroyed.
Thoroughbred breeding studs are main.
tanned by the Emperor of Austria, who
has a large establishment, with an Eng.
lish 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 fol
driving they adhere rather to Arat
crosses of native breeds.
A homestead bill has been introduced
into the Lower House Of the Missouri
Legislature exempting from execution
100 acres of land, not exceeding $1,50(
in value; in cities of a population of 40,
coo or upward, eighteen square rods O.
ground, not exceeding the value Of So,
600, and in cities or towns of less thar
10000 population, thirty square rods O.
ground, not worth over $1,000.
The farmers along the Illinois anc
Michigan canal continue to manifest
strong interest in its preservation as a per
petual shield against extortion by the rail
way companies, whose present policy is tt
reduce rates below the point where tn,
receipts from tolls will render the cana
self-sustaining, the design being to fore
its ultimate abandonment by the Stat
and its removal from the field Of compe
tition.
An important movement is on foo
among the Hebrews of the United State
looking to the formation of a Jewish col
ony or colonies in the South or West
The subject was first mooted at the an
nual convention of the Union of Hebre1
Congregations, which was held in Gin
cinnati last July, when it was referred tt
committee on agricultural pursuits fo
nnnai0orofi0n whn hovo f,1o+ roror+o1 :
favor of such a moment.
Norway cultivates less than 2 IL percen'
of her area, forests cover about rs pc
cent, while the rest consist of naked, uz
inhabitable mountain land. Agricultur.
although pursued with increased vigor {
late is unable to furnish sufficient prt
duce tor home consumption; hence it ha
been necessary to import considerab]
quantities of grain, meat and butter. Th
fisheries give employment to a larg
part of the population throughout th
year.
A gentleman in San Bernardino, Cal
has been very successful, it is said, j
poisoning gophers, which rodents are, {
a general thing, very hard to kill b
poison. He takes ~raisins, opens the ski
sufficiently to admit of a grain of strycl
nine, and then drops one or two IN eac
hole. The gophers are said to be vel
fond of them. If green apples are use'
it will also be found that the gophe
will not refuse them.
Arrangements are in progress lookin
to a Grand Interstate Fair, to be held
Chicago, Illinois, next fall, the design b.
ing to concentrate theexhibitlons of Obi
Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, 1llinoi
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Kansas, into
mammoth exhibition at Chicago, and
offer such Inducements in the way
prizes and premiums, as will induce
public patronage greater than has eve
been accorded to public expeditions O
the kind.
The cultivation of cinchona, the bal
from which quinine is extracted, has m,
with complete success in the English an
Dutch East India possessions. Hollan
has at present 1900, 900, and Englan
100000 trees in good conditio