The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-10
PARAGRAPHS OF ALI SORTS.

PARAGRAPHS OF ALI SORTS.
The late census shows u decrease il
the population of Kentucky in the las
ten years.
The number of emigrants arriving
from Germany during the first foul
months of the present year amounted
10 12,S60.
Accounts from all portions of the
country give the most hattering re.
ports of the wheat crop. -
Thirty pearl divers lost their lives
by sharks in the Persian Gulf during
the past year.
Texas wool growers have recently
purchased in one county 100000 acres
Of land, bordering twenty miles ON the
Rio Grande, upon which they intend
to Craze 100000 head of sheep.
To destroy cabbage worms sprinkle
about teaspoonful of salt over the
heads of the cabbage.
The first annual meeting of the
American Association Of Nurserymen
and Florists opened on the 10th inst,
at the Exposition building in Chicago.
There was n large attendance and
important essays were read on "Hum-
bugs in Horticulture" Tree Ped
dlers," "The effect of various stocks
on the scion," e" Propagation as de-
pendent on the similar Functions of
seeds and buds,n "Intluence of Phyl-
loxera Oh American grape vines" and
"Duties of Nurserymen in propagaing
varieties.N In many places, it was said
that the great drawback in raising
peaches was caused from the yellows,
which was caused by Il fmgoid growth
on the tree, and could be obviated by
grating peach.shoots upon hardy va
rieties of the plum tree.
The Detroit Free Press says give the
country n certain cure for corns, freck-
les and warts, and Presidential Con-
ventions and elections would not
create a ripple of eXcitement-provid-
ed you take Hancock out of the race.
In some portions OF Illinois, harvest
hands are paid from S2.5O to SD 50 per
day.
Texas has the largest crop of cotton
planted since the war.
1t only costs II little over one cent a
mile to go from New Orleans to Chi
cago. Cheap fare this but il only
lasts thirty days.
A number of the students of Dart
moth are spending their summer at
Coney Island, rs walters, at $50 per
lodging and washing in
cluded.
The factory at Wesson is paying 40
cents "A pound for wool.
An acre of sunhowers has has been
planted near Columbus, Miss, for the
benefit of the oil mills.
Half million pounds of wool have
arrived in Fort Worth this season.
In twelve hours the worms destroy
ed twenty acres of cotton, near Den
nison, Texas, and their devastations
are not confined to that locality.
Typhoid fever is prevailing as an
epidemic at Fort Worth, Texas.
This has been the dryest spring in
Paris, since 1916.
DIR. A. II. Ledow, formerly of the
North Carolina Experiment Station,
suggests the establishment Of u model
farm Of 1000 acres, near New York
City, where boys can be learned prac-
Iical farming, in all its departments.
Cotton clothing can he kept from
catching fire by the use of borax in
'tarching-a teaspOonful to each pint
If starch.
The best fertilizer for raspberries is
manure--With 200 or 400
pounds of murate or sulphate of
potash per acre.
Mr.. Parker Earle, of Golden, ILL.,,
writes that of all the varieties of straw
berries lie has tried, finds that the old
Wilson's Albany is the best market
variety and for bearing long transport
alton, he says owe have planted
more Wilson's than of any variety |
his year, wish now, that the proper
ion had been larger"
New Orleans shipped, during the
,ast season, to Italy, 100000 gallons
# cotton seed oil, and 100000 to
france. 1t would be much better if
he planters would enrich their old
fields with their cotton
eed, than to send it to Europe, to be
ent back to us again.
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