The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-04
Items Of Interest.

tuIdl SOlicet. III -AlIlcFlcan brOcer
estimates that over l9,66S, 900 cans of toma-
toes were put up last year.-A single ant
will lay millions of eggs.-Nine thousand
head of cattle are shipped from Florida each
month-Postage hereafter must be entire.
IN prepaid. IL ,9oI boxes of cheese were
shipped from New York during the last
week of July.-There IS growing demand
for American wind-mills abroad.-A new
pass over the Rocky Mountains has been
discovered by Prof. Marsh. ey-
poets to send 5, 1000 baskets Of peaches
tie market.-A Minnesota hen IS doing two
days work in one-32 eggs in Is days.
The latest for electricity-controlling a frac-
tious horse BY it while driying.-Feed the
'.pussley' to confined chickens. They eat
it with a relish-Eread in London is three
cents a pound, lower than for many wears.
The Connecticut Valley tobacco crop
promises to be unusually large.-Texas
has considered her education and appropri-
ates 5000, 900 for school work. Fancy North
Carolina spending that much for schools
Harvard College graduated its largest class
this year, over 2OO.--The Canadian GOV
eminent is engaging farmers to instruct the
Indians in farming IN the Northwest
Total value of postage stamps, stamped en-
velopes, and postal cards sold during the
past year was SO, $4,000, an increase of
S97l 500 over the previous year.-The
French Minister cstlmate that France will
pay 500, OOO, 900 for foreign grain, most of
.7hich sum will come to America.-The
quinine as a ebrifuge.-Illinoi gives
sl5,4 400 in premiums at her next State Fair.
The Golden Gate al1-foot schooner,
has left Boston tor a trip around the world.
Two persons 90 with it.-One hundred
years ago there were only four newspapers
in America.-During the year ending
June 80, 1879, 99,224 immigrants landed at
New York.-A farmer and tenof his COWS
were struck by lightning in England. -
Real estate IS rising III New York City a
good sign Of better times Nissouri has a
corn-cob pipe factory pays a cent a piece
for suitable cobs, and cannot supply the de
mand.-sayannah shipped $500 barrels
of rosin to Liverpool in a single largo -
Boston drinks $1,000 gallons of soda water
per day.-The English IIop-crop is re-
ported as being almost a failure. South
ern California IS expecting an immense
grape and orange crop.-The direct losses
to sheep-owners in the United States from
rayages of dogs is over 81 900, 900 annually.
Nebraska is reported to have gained
1902 in population IN the last year.--Il-
linois wheat will probably average twenty
bushels per acre for IS79.--A quail was
shot in Florida with a ruby in his throat
Each day there are 100000 gallons of pc
troleum brought to the surface Of the earth.
The Esterbrook Steel Pen Co. makes
over $50 styles of pens.-A ragged beggar
recently dropped, accidentally, a package of
S4OO.--Ice weighs about the same as
green wood-1,0OO pounds per cord. a
horse should have 1000 square feet OF
breathing room in a stable, and the more
the better.-Sleepy Tom, a blind horse,
has made the fastest pacing time on record,
2.l2l minutes.--A poor Florida fisher
man, while digging worms, found a pot con
tanning Sl,40O in gold coin.-kentucky
makes about 100000 barrels of whlskey,
| consuming 5000, 900 bushels of corn and
5OO,O 900 of rye.--Some Jersey cows Will
give in one month their own weight Of milk.
"A Texas wool grower has a sheep with
yariegated black and white wool.-Ihcre
are over IA millions acres of government
land surveyed and open to settlement, and
1000 millions yet to be surveyed. -IeSas
has 3,674,OOO sheep.--Salt your cattle
regularly 1.-THE annual production OF
| bees-wax in the United States IS twenty
million pounds.--Thirty swarms Of bees
swarmed at once on 4 single tree IN Boones-
vile, Ohio.-Always start a horse by the
voice and never by the Whlp.-ffahc
Belgium, and Cuba are the only countries
producing a surplus of sugar. In the irst
two named, it is from the beet in the last,
cane-sugar -Eleven cheese factories. were
built in one county in Wisconsin last winter.
All in operation 1t requires not one
fourth as much power to move a load on
water as it does by rail.-The City OF New
York disposes of -, 900 cattle per week.
The Indiana State Board of Agriculture has
created a woman department in their State
fair.--Virginia has l. cotton factories.
She had none before the war.--Some FAC
tories use 1000 pounds of vegetable ivory
daily, making it into various small wares,
The balance of trade in favor OF the United
States for the year ending June 80, 1879,
was 267 millions of dollars.--lhe 81. LOUIS
Cotton Exchange offers s., l25 IN premiums
for this staple article at the coming St; LOUIS
fair.-A Heliotrope II years old, and
covering a space of 1oxl4 feet IS reported.
Michigan has 10000 more acres OF wheat