The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-12-13
pAnAeRApHs OF ALL SORTS.

pies from California.
Texas has single flock OF 6o,ooo
sheep. We would not like to smear
them.
Pear blight is sometimes arrested ny
Swinging with weak SOLUTION oi
potash.
The bulk of the peanut crop, con-
sumed in the United States, is raised
in Virginia.
Large shipments of American honey
are now being made to England. She
needs sweetening.
The geological garden at Baltimore
has a duck with three legs, which are
all used in swimming and walking
Now is a most excellent time for
planting out strawberry plants-the
ground is damp and the weather Is
cool.
All kinds of dried fruit are going up
in prices. Dried peaches are now sell
ing in st. Louis, from 6 to 9 cents per
pound.
South Australia has botanical gar
den which is adorned with So, OOO rare
plants, besides those of common
species.
Apples can be preserved all winter
by digging shallow pits in the GROUND
and covering over with straw and hVe
or six inches of dirt.
The French and English are now
consuming great deal OF lnaiah
meal. Heretofore it was only con-
sidered good food for horses.
According to statistics, our home
cotton consumption is increasing every
year, as population increases, the de-
mand for cotton increases.
IT is estimated that the cotton crop
which was sold in October, will BRING
the producers SlO,OO0,0OO more than
that sold during the same month last
year.
Mr.. HI. Massie, who lives about ten
miles from here, made this year, alone,
twelve bales of cotton, fifty bushels OF
corn, and plenty of oats. And still
some people say they can't live here
The golden lily of Japan, "Liliun
Auratum,n is said to be magnificent
flower; it attains height OF twelve
feet, and 10 beautiful flowers some
times adorn a single limb.
Method is great thing to have OF
farm there is a right and wrong
place for every thing. When spring
: opens don't have to look the place owe
for your tools-but go and get then
where they have been stored away.
Mrs. Smith, of Westmoreland coun
ty, Va, died last week. She measured
thirty-four inches across the shoulder
and weighed 610 pounds. The cotiil
was so large that two big men lay il
p if side by side. All we can say, Mrs
y Smith bate Mrs. Bates.
The total product from gold and sill
e yer mines, since mining began in CAN
;. fornia, is 81 ,617 100000. The value G
S agricultural products harvested thi
!, year, is 81 900, 100000. Sowe can forr
n a small estimate of the tremendou
j. wealth and power which flow from tn
e agricultural interest.
s. During the last five years, New Eng
Il land will have increased their cor
u sumption of cotton over 35O,OOo bales
~ This is owing, to some extent, TO I'd
L large amount of cotton goods no.
y shipped from here to China and til
lie East Indias-while there is deficiel
CIV of nearly half million bales for u
l. European demand.
~ Every farmer should keep a set
books, it is just as necessary for MI
a. as for the merchant; then, at the en-
- of the year, he can balance account
!, and know how he stands. Get yo'
~ merchant to give you a duplicate a
count of your months bills, and ent
=, them on book, then the farmer CT
=, know, every month, whether he
VI running too much in debt or not.
T. The largest cotton crop gathered
pc Texas, before the war, was 29o'o
It. bales now it is 100000 bales. !
III comparatively few negroes have go
to that State since the war, but alt
es gether white immigration from u
ne older States-it proves conclusive
O. that the bulk of Texas cotton is ma
ar by white Observation-Disclosures
~ great many Northern journals contel
no that it is nearly all made by freedme