The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-17
PARAGRAPHS OF ALL SORTS.
The peanut oropin Virginia is being

and East, and is said to make good
article of white paper.
1t costs 25 cents to send bushel OF
wheat from Chicago TO Liverpool,
A correspondent of the Fruit Re-
corder enclosed 700 lunches of grapes
in paper bags, and had no rot, no mil
dew, no puncture from birds. 1t was
"A success, but some trouble and eX-
pense.
1t was reported in Washington, the
other day, that the cotton crop would
amount to 5,GOO,0O0 bales this year,
and it was owing to the means having
been discovered of checking the raw
ages Of the army worm. The people
ut Washington are Il wonderfully
knowing people. When the cotton
runs the gauntlet of rot, boil worms,
army worms, rust, early frost, heavy
rains, storms, etc, they can have some
material upon which to form their re-
port.
In some portions of Kansas they
have had M rains since last year.
1t is said that the soil Of California,
after deducting her mountains, rocks
and arid deserts, has capacity for
supplying 30,0OO,OO of people.
| MAN utppaE for
! higher wages few days since, in Liv-
erpool.
S. H0xie, of Oneida county, N. y,
has recently imported 100 Holstein
cattle.
Mr. Asa Hoyt, of Peacham, Yer
mont, has a two year old heifer that
makes II pound Of butter every day,
besides supplying four families with
milk.
They have, in Bombay, what is call
ed the "sorrowiu tree" which flowers
only nj night
Vermont produces annually 9,OOO,-
600 pounds of maple sugar, worth
500, 900.
The peach crops of Delaware and
Illinois are very large this year.
A large area in castor beans is being
planted around Los Angeles, Cal.
Wasp nests are frequently ignited
by some chemical action, supposed to
be the wax upon the paper-like sub
stance of which the nests are made.
The Board of Health of New York
say the people of that city are de-
frauded to the amount of $4,000 aday
by watering and skimming the milk,
causing disease and death to $4,000
children under five years of age.
The Southern Cultivator says Mr..
II. G. Warthen, Of Washington county,
Ga, raised on an acre of land 6,S9l
pounds of seed cotton, making over
four 500 pound bales of cotton. Mr..
Warthen should rise and explain how
he makes so much cotton per acre.
The mustard plant, which grows
comparatively small here, is said to
grow to the height Of ten feet, in the
vclley of the Jordan, and birds roost
in the branches.
A herd of ., 300 cattle is now being
driven from Oregon to Montana. 1t
requires for the jorney 100 mounted
men, besides provisions, wagons, guns
and ammunition, 500 horses and 40
dogs. They only travel nine miles
per day
1t is said that the Chinese and
japanese excel all other people in rails
ing fine vegetables, and they use
almost exclusively liquid manures.
A little soap placed on the hinges of
door will stop it from creaking.
Gum camphor, placed on the shelves
will drive away the mice.
An enterprising American shipped
some wheel barrOws to Rio JanelTo,
and the natives filled them with stones
and carried the wheel barrOws on their
heads.
Wheat is being engaged in Missouri
ut 50 cents bushel.
Three hundred thousand shad have
been placed in the Oconee and Ocmul-
gee rivers, Ga.
The number of cattle annually kill
ed in the United States is 1,l85,OO0.
A New York farmer kills cabbage
worms by sprinlillng the plants with
black pepper.
An English farmer says the dura-
bility of posts can be prolonged 80 per
cent. by placing them top downward
in the soil. The theory is that the
capillary tubes in the tree are 50 adj
justcd as TO oppose the rising of mois-
ture when the wood is inverted.
There is Il prospect now of an inn
mcuse apple crop in the West.
G. l.. Hoog & Co., of Lockport, n.
v, have a new grape, called niagara,
which they will not put on the market
till next year. They think that it will
take the place of the Concord.
1t is predicted that in less than ten
years we will be doing a large bust
ness in supplying France with silk
worms.
The Danish government, in 1864, es-
tablished dairy school for girls, the |
consequence IL Danish butter is worth
five cents more per pound in the Eng
lish market.
Tobacco mixed with sulphur is said
to be an excellent preventive for the
rayages of all kinds of insects.
The weather was fearfully hot in
New York city last week 100 per-
.f oua