The Russellville Democrat., 1879-09-11
Agricultural. 4

| It IS Sald that over 0OU neau o cattle are already promised for tho next St. Louis far.
 The wool product of Siskiyor county, Cal, fos the spring cliE amounted to little over 261, ,00( pounds. In London bread of superior qual ity is now sold at 30 cents per pound a lower price than for forty years.
 There has been shipped the pres ent season from Aurora, H., 210,O0C pounds of wool to the eastern mar kets.
 The annual tobacco crop of the United States is about 42o,000,00( pounds, two-thirds of which is ex ported.
 The farmers in the Sierra Valley have been obliged to cut their grain green, to keep it from the ravages of the grasshoppers.
 California shipped to New York last year, S24,185 gallons of wine and 96,449 gallons of brandy, the produce of the vineyards.
 The "Agronomical Institute" is the national agricultural university of France, it's annual maintenance costs 243,000 francs.
 In France dealers sometimes give an irritable or wicked horse two ounces of laudanum in pint of brandy, to calm his nerves before being shown.
 On view of the late ravages by grasshoppers in the Pacific States, il is proposed to import and naturalize the migratory quail Of Southern Flu. rope there.
 From March l to August 8, I,291,- 900 hogs were slaughtered in Chi cago. For a corresponding period in 1878 the number was 1915, ,000 and 1,005,000 in 1877.
 According to Mir. Forrest, the English Consul at Teintsin, the deaths in China, during the preva lence of the late famine, aggregated 9,500,000 individuals. r .a
 Reports from the hop gardens oi England continue bad, and it is feared the crop will be almost 2 failure. From the continent the re ports are also unfavorable.
 It is bad practice to plow up pas lures for re-seeding. The older the pasture, as rule, the better the grass. If pasture fails to top dress it with well decomposed manure. About 1000 head of cattle were lately sold in California for $13 pel head all around. When rebranded they are to be placed on ranch al the head of the American river MT. L. S. Crozier, formerly of Mar seilles, France, and the wealthy cul tivator of mulberry trees and silk worms at Silkville, Kan, proposes, it IS sad, to introduce the industry in West Feliciana, La.
 A Mir. Dupy, near Marietta, Pa. cultivated sixty acres of tobacco He feeds each year from sixty to one hundred cattle, the manure oi which. together with $l, ,600 yearly purchased, goes to enrich the land.
 Early fields of seed leaf tobacco are now reported as nearly ready to be cut in Wisconsin. Some pieces of Spanish have already been cut The crop of 1878 is about all sold out so that when the new crop comes in it will have clear field.
 The deficits in receipts as com. pared with expenses of the Royal Agricultural Society of England IS now stated to be EI5,000, or $75,- 900. Stock exhibitors especially who incurred great expense in moving their stock have also been neavy losers. .t......, ........
 At the Agricultural Congress, held at Liege, France, to study into the best means to stimulate agricul tural education, it was suggested that the teachers of the national schools ought 10 visit with their best pupils the superior farmsteads in the vicinity. "3a h
 Another enemy to heat-growing is reported in the shape of a weed soinewhat resembling coclle. In some parts of the east it has become l " IL