Daily globe., 1879-03-23
THE HOUSE AND FARM.
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Inc COtal WOOL clip OF the u nlteQ States
for 1878 is estimated at 211, 100000
pounds, which is the largest in the his
tory of the country. Colorado, New
Mexico and Texas are rapidly increasing
their production of wool.
1t is estimated that nearly 1000 hun
ters were chasing down and slnughtering
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
100000 COWS, which produce an aver.
age of $40 per head. Small as this is,
the aggregate is $60,00O,OO0 annually,
and represents about one-scvcnth 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 t.
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
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 in
1877 was about 1,497, 100000 pounds;
worth $150,000 1000. This, when secured,
would yield about 100000 pounds
clean wool. The clip Of 1878 was small
er by 100000 to 100000 pounds
The clip of Australia reaches annually
about 284,00O,000 pounds; that of Buenos
Ayres and the River Platte, 223,5O0,OOO
pounds.
Col. James Crooks, of Jacksonville,
Alabama, has introduced there 100 Me-
rino ewes and three bucks, from the flock
of B. F. Cockrill, Esq, of Tennessee. Mr..
Cockrill's flock is said to have furnished
the premium wool at the Worlds fair, in
London, more than twenty years ago, and
also the premium wool at the exhibition
of textile fabrics held at Cincinnati sever
al years since.
D. Briggs, Of Turner, Maine, prac-
tees the shearing 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,
$4,000 worth of sheep, cattle and horses
were 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 Halifax, is exhib-
iting a natural curiosity in the shape of
an animal that is half COW and half
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. II 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. 1 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 "Grapevine Raspberry" by per-
ambulating venders. They falsely claim to
be agents of certain reliable nurseries at
the East. One of them tells the purchas-
ers that the plants grow with joints like
grapevines with leaves ten inches across,
and with raspberries an 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 trade with JAP
an, is the petroleum export from New
York. The enterprise was inaugrated
only eight years ago, but the business
has so increased that, while only 900
cases of kerosene, valued at 5000, were
exported in 1870. in 1877, 36o,639 cases
were sent to Yokohama, aud 129,159
eases to Hiogo, whittier none had been
| carried direct. The value of these con-
signmencs was over $1,000,000.
probably, in New England, was fatted
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 old.
She was Jersey, and was giving four
quarts of good, rich milk per day Had
given birth to but one bull calf, and all
| her heifers with one exception had been
raised by Mr.. Metcalf or his neigLbors
The last five years she gave milk con-
stantly without breeding.
An alarming disease is prevalent
among the cattle of Long Island, and re-
ports from different quarters show that q
hundred milch COWS have died within ten
davs. 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
| escanad the loss of nna or more Tho