The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-02

The estimated crop OF hax seed raised
Ia this country this year is 5000 600 bush
els.
Mr., G. W. Whitney. Williston, VT,
churps with collie dog inside drum
wheel.
A field of jute in Sampson county,
North GCarolina. averages twelve feet IN
height.
wyoming has 467 1884 cattle and 1892 56S
sheep on her plains. The human popuia-
ton is 2O.S04.
Farmers living two hundred miles from
Sherman, Texas. haul their cotton IN
wagons to that place.
Southern planters hope to find the Eng
lish sparrows an efficient remedy Tor the
ravages of cotton worms.
Five hundred bushels of Irish potatoes
were grown by two Georgia farmers on
one acre of land. The tubers brought
$400.
The appis crop of Wisconsin is assum-
ing large proportions. Every year the
extent of the apple product increases and
the quality improves.
1t ia reported that the damage done the
Florida orange crop by the storm which
wrecked the Vera Cruz, has been greatly
exaggerated.
Waupaca county, Wis. is producing
large quantities of amber cane this year.
A large amount Of syrup and sugar is now
belng manufactured here.
In the vicinity of Vineland, N. j., the
sweet potato crop will average from forty
to fifty bushels per acre, worth at present
about $3.50 per barrel.
Bunches of grapes were kept three
months by an Australian grower by dip
ping the ends of the stem IN wax and pack
ing in kiln dried ground bark.
The present cattle grazing belt of the
United states-that is wild lands-is
about 1000 miles long, by $40 wide reach
ing from the Rio Grande to Manitoba.
The corn crop from the Ohio river &c
the Atlantic coast is a grandiene, .ssays an
exchange) and farmers, knowing that q
big crop of corn makes everything COM
Portable at home and cheerful
Eastern California from Medoc county
to Mono is suffering from the locust
seourge. Nearly all the valleys hanking
the Sierra are more or less affected. The
loss for standing crops exceeds $4,000
It's estimated that Minnesota requires
five million pounds of twine to bind Its
wheat crop and the farmers board OF trade
recommends home manufacture and the
cultivation of hemp for that purpose.
A British gardener green's all his seed
potatoes by leaving them In light place.
but shielded from the sun. sand finds that
thus treated they keep better during win
ter aud ARE much harder for seed"
DR., Hugh j. Glenn, the noted wheat
COVER. owns. $4,000 acres Of land.
$4,000 acres of which were in wheat which
at the 1880 harvest was estimated tt
yield an average of Is bushels per acre
an aggregate OF ll2,500 bushels.
The company in Florida that have beer
experimenting with palmetto for making
paper has met with such gratifying sue
cess that it will erect about twenty paper
mills in the state where palmetto trees
grow in abundance and where the trans
portation facilities are good.
The raising of horses in the great oil
lowssone valley has become an importan
and profitable business. Some of tn
herders have from 500 to 1900 each. aDC
dispose of their three-year>old colts a
from $50 to 800 per head. The amin al
feed of grass alone, and the only shelte
from the weather ID roughly built sheds
The annual product of the wool en- man
ufaotories OF the United States ia estimat'
ed at $288, 328, 900, and the dairy products
at $3.50, 100000. Butter being in excess
of consumption. the balance has to seeI
foreign market, while the production o
wool being far below our consumption, W,
are annually importing large quantities.
The crop of wheat at the Virginia Agvi
cultural College this year, on Glove. fal
low and superphosphate costing on tn
land. 81 per acre, weighed sixty seve
pounds per bushel On account of tn
mildness of the winter the crop had TO b
graZen down twice with sheep. Befor
harvest it suffered from drouth So say
the Planter and Farmer.