The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-09-11
TILE FARM AND HOUSE.
EARN Notes.

A0EA8 NOt09s
In London bread of superior quality i,
now sold at three cents per pound, low
er price than for forty years.
The annual tobacco crop Of the United
States i about 420, ,000, 600 pounds, two
thirds & which 10 exported.
In view of the late ravages by grass
hoppers in the Pacific States. it is pro-
posed to import and naturalize the migra-
tory quail of Southern Europe there.
California shipped to New York last
year 82k 1855 gallons of wine and 96,440
gallons of brandy, the produce OF the
vineyards.
The farmers in the Sierre valley have
been obliged to cut their grain green to
keep it f'om the ravages Of the grasshop-
pcrs. =
The "Agronomicsl Institute is the
national agricultural university OF
France; its annual maintenance costs
5000 francs.
Reports from the hop gardens of Eng
land continue bad, and it is feared the
crop will be almost failure. From the
continent the reports are also unfavora-
bic.
1t is bad practice to plow up pastures
for re-seeding. The older the pasture, as
rule, the better the grass.
Mr.. L. s. Crozier, formerly of Mar
salles, France, and the wealthy cultiva-
tor Of mulberry trees and silkworms at
Slkvllle, Kan, proposes, it is said, to in
t'oduce the industry in West Feliciana,
La.
A Mr.. Duppy, near Marietta, Pa, cul-
,ivates go acres Of Tobacco. He feeds each
year from so to 100 cattle, the manure Of
which, together with 81 1000 worth yearly
purchased, goes to enrich mis- land.
At the agricultural congress held at
Liege, France, to study into the best
means to stimulate agricultural education
it was suggested that the teachers of the
national schools ought to visit with their
best pupils the superior farmsteads in
the vicinity.
The Iona State Register says the stat
utes of lows, sec. lila, code OF 1873, pro-
hibits horse-racing at county and district
fairs, the penalty being not less than $5
nor more than $50. In another paragraph
it states that "as there is no law against
ho7se-racing at state fairs, they will not
be obliged to omit the trial Of speed in
classes No. %, "a and rs at the state fair.
Last year 10, ,88s, 900 packages Of toma-
toes were put up in the United Safes.
Their value was $1,600,000. OF these
Maryland furnished 8,840,000 packages; !;
New Jersey, 592, 900; Delaware, 1884 900: +:
New York, 1,680,00O; Massachusetts,,
100000; Pennsylvania, $4,000; Pacific
Coast, 100000; Western and other
States, 100000 packages.
On the great Dalrymple farms in Min
nesota, comprising total Of 10000 acres
Of grain, 115 self-binding rcapers cut
1900 acres day. In threshing twenty
steam threshers are employed. The yield
this year will be between 20 to 25 bushels
per acre. Fifteen cars of grain will be
shipped per day when the season COM
mences.
The report of the agricultural statistics
Of Ireland for 1878 has been recently is
sued. In 1875 there were, in round num-
bcrs, 100000 acres of land cultivated in
Ireland. But Of this quantity 10000
acres were last year returned as having
been abandoned to barrcnness. The to-
tai number OF occupiers of agricultural
lands during last year *as 531 ,442, being
1884 less than in 1877.