The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-12-18

Two Georgia farmers grew 800 bush
els of Irish potatoes on one acre {
land, and sold them for 500.
There are two jute factories now n
work in the South, one ut Charleston
and one at Columbus, Ga,
New Orleans expects to export 50
600, 600 bushels of grain next season
and Il produce exchange has been es
tablishcd.
California has rs many acres under
wheat, 8, 227, 900, as Great Britain, an,
produces half as many bushels, So
600, 900.
1t is stated that there is now in eX.
istence in this country $1,000 miles o.
railroad. The gross earnings of 1876
were S53S, 100000
A pasture constantly grazed with
sheep or cattle fed once or twice Il day
with cotton-seed meal, will rapidly
improve and will develop the best
pasture grasses and white clover.
In agriculture there are any amount
of theories, but there are a great many
more facts these have to be dug out
Of the soil, but theories can bespun in
an armchair at any time.
Great quantities of implements be-
longing to the stone and bronze ages
have just been discovered near the
rapids of the Dueiper. 1T is also said
thot an ancient boat dating back to
the time Of Rurick, has also been
unearthed.
Dubuque county, Iowa, farmers
report grain growing in the stack
from the effects of long continued
damp weather. The stacks are cover
ed with green sprouts three inches
long, of wheat and oats not properly
stacked when harvested.
a correspondent of the Country
Gentlemen insists that there should
be new departure in swine breeding.
He says the new departure must he
more lean pork and less lard; that
such hogs would command better
price in the meat market.
Statistics of English morality show
that during the last thirty years,
more women have reached the age of
seventy-five or eighty years than
men. The latter suffer more from
lung, heart and kidney diseases,
which have Of late been on the in
crease in England.
An exchange tells of Maryland
farmer who, while destroying potato
bugs by boiling them, accidentally
discovered that articles dropped into
the water We're colored brilliant scar
let, and he now proposes to form a
company to make dye from potato
bugs.
a whole afternoon of the recent
convention at Lansing, of the Michi-
gan Sheep Breeders and Woll Grow
ers' Association was given up to a
debate on the question of washing
sheep and the result was an almost
unanimous verdict to the effect that
the practice is not only useless and
barbarOus, but Improbable.
California has a perpetual skating
pond, There is lake on the Saw
Tooth Mountains, at an altitude of
nearly 1000 feet, which is constantly
frozen. 1t was discovered in August
of last year by party of prospectors,
and named Ice Lake. The sun seemed
to have no effect upon it, except in
places adjoining the shore.
Printing presses are now being made
in New York which will work off
complete papers at the rate Of 1900
copies per hour, printing from rolls on
lao 81 n
across, the top, FASTING the two sheets
together, folding the papers in five
folds, and counting and delivering
them ready for mailing.
News comes from Nebraska to the
effect that farmers there are drawing
corn out of the elevators to feed stock,
and in some cases selling their stock
hogs because they have no corn to
fatten them with. 1t is believed that
the corn crop of Iowa will be an i'm
mense one, that of Nebraska poor, and
that of Illinois thin IN places.
In the eastern sagar markets there
is still good deal of excitement on
account of the urgent character of the
demand and the totally inadequate
supply. AS and extra C's are espe-
cially scarce, and there is nothing in
the way of Il sharp advance were hold
ers disposed to take advantage of the
situation. Cotfees, teas, syrups and
spices are firm.
A man who lives in Alien Canyon,
near Denver, Col, has for several
years been hewing and blasting on
the granite knob of a mountain, en-
to give it the shape of a
human head. He thinks that the
thing will be great curiosity when
and that he will be recon-
Densed by the business of a tavern
which he means to open for tourists.
Petroleum stands third on our list
If exports, breadstuffs and cotton
llone exceeding it in value. During
he past five years the average guam
ity of petroleum sent abroad each
year was valued at about $4,000, 900, |
exceeding the exports of tobacco, by
ully S10,0O0,000. The standard Oil |
company controls eight-tenths of the |
petroleum wells in the country, and |
therefore, nearly the entire trade.
The sowing of bushel of oats per
Icre, with the winter wheat, has /
,ften proved of material benefit to the 4
wheat crop. The oats grow more Wig |
,rOusly than the wheat, and aid i'm .
atching and holding the snow. The 1
ats act as a protection or mulch to
he wheat. The little food the young
at plants draw from the soil is re-
urned during the spring, when, being
Tiled by the winter, they rapidly
ecay.