River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-06
Agricultural Items.

1t is reported that there will be ex-
| ported from the Province of Victoria
10000 900 bushels of wheat; the harvest
Is about at an end.
According to the report Of Secretary
| Sherman to Congress, the exports of
cattle for the last six years have aggre-
gated in value sos. 100000.
| Mr.. S. G. Dillingham;, of st. Adams,
Me-, has a pair of steers rising two
years old, that girth six feet and six
inches, and weigh 1878 pounds
They are dark red and grade Dur
hams.
John Swan & Sons sold, at Edinburgh,
Scotland, Feb. II, three lots of Ameri-
can fed steers, reported of strictly
prime quality, at $l42 to 1852, leaving
a margin for the feeder of about $40.
A Maryland paper says that ].
Thomas Budd, of Middletown, Del. is
the promoter of scheme to colonize
1000 foreign families on the Mary
land peninsula, and has arranged to CO.
operate with the New Yord Emigration
Society.
The best outlook for the New Fog
land farmers is in the direction of milk,
vegetables and small fruits in the neigh
borhood of the large towns and main
railroad lines, and the production of
mutton, butter and poultry in the in
terror.
England, Holland. Belgium, and some
other European States grow more fer
tile as they grow older, while China,
the oldest nation in the world, has the
densest population and feeds its mil
lions without the importation of foreign
food.
AS soon as the hen shows signs of be-
ing broody, which you will observe by
her remaining a long time on the nest,
and sometimes by clucking, then is the
time to see that you have everything in
readiness to place her where you wish
her TO remain.
Horticulture, in its various branches,
is felt by all who have gone freely into
it to be an exciting pursuit; particular
ly during early spring months, calling
forth all the energies of both body and
mind in supplying demands made on
us at certain times and seasons.
In making new orchard, says fruit
grower, systematic matters by setting
your apple trees so that your summer
apples will be together, then your tall
apples, then your winter apples, and so
on. twill be much easier to gather
them; you will not be compelled to haul
all over the orchard.
There are 4 100000 acres in the
United States planted with large and
small fruits; of these there were 49,
100000 apple trees, valued at $50, 0O0,-
900; 2S,260,000 pear trees, valued at
$14 10000 There have been in one
day, in the fruit season, 10000 bushels
OF Strawberries put upon the New York
market.
A hen that steals her nest is most
generally sure to have it on the ground;
and in seeking her food, she usually
goes abroad in the morning and returns
to the nest wet with dew, and the body
with her damp feathers, furnishes the
moisture nature requires, besides the
natural evaporation that reaches the
eggs from the ground.
Bran is fertilizer. A series of ex-
periments have demonstrated that bran
possesses peculiarly valuable qualities
as fertilizer, in fact, it is claimed to
be superior to guano, bone dust, land
plaster, etc. About onehalf ton to the
acre, applied once in three or four
years, is said to be sufficient, while the
yield is prodigiously increased. This
would make it a comparatively cheap
dressing.- M;Aing World.