Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1880-12-25
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FARM EOTF4.

The demand for young mule colts
was never SO great as at the present.
The estimated crop of flaxseed raised
in this country this year is 100000
bushels.
The prospect in France is more favor
able for a better quality and quantity of
root in the beet crop.
Seventy different species of vegeta-
bles, with over 400 varieties, are grown
In the United States.
A simple way to cleanse old pork bar
rels Is to fill with fresh earth and let it
stand two or three days, then repeat
fumigate with sulphur.
Pigs that have been raised on milk,
grass, clover, tubers and roots till they
weigh $50 or 200 pounds are generally
healthy. They are then in good con
dition to fatten.
An English stock company has Sc
cured about 100000 acres of land in the
Province Of Quebec, where it is pro-
posed to ~colonize a large number Of
English and Scotch farmers.
The beet sugar companyo of Portland,
Me-, is working day and night with Il
force Of 1875 men, working up $50 tons
of beets daily, and expecting to use TO-
ONO tons this season.
The barley crop Of Canada is esti-
mated at from 9,OOO,OO Q to 100000
bushels, which, after allowing about
1000 ,OOd bushels for home requirements
will leave a surplus Of 1000, 600 to 5000.
600 bushels.
As a slight evidence Of what Texas
is doing in the way of raising fruit
trees it is stated that a hurseryman in
Washington county has twenty-seven
men travelling, and holds orders for
10000 peach trees.
Hartford county, Conn, and Lancas-
ter county, Pa, produce tobacco
than any other two seed-leaf tobacco
growing counties in the country. The
former produces the finest light col
bred leaf and the latter the darkest
seed leaf grown.
1t is reported that sorghum cane
raisers about Oconomowoc, Wis, get
this year ondgallon of syrup from each
square rod Of ground. This gallon
costs % cents and Sc Is for so. AT that
price the profit is alb out one-third more
than from a good wheat crop.
An international exhibition of sheep,
rams and muttOns is to be held at
Newbrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Stre-
litz, Germany, on the cath and 25th of
May, 1881, under the protection of the
Grand Duke Of M~ecklenburg. Strelitz,
who expresses the desire that the sheep
raisers of America may be induced to
to take part in TIE exhibition.
BONANZA FARMING IN DAKOTA
TERRIToRy.-The Fargo Argus sup
plies some interesting particulars of the
result Of this years operations on the
now celebrated Grandin farm in Da-
kota During the season of 1880 the
management cultivated 1921 acres OF
wheat the total yield of which amount
ca to 1877, 237 bushels, or an average OF
% bushels and 10 pounds to the acre,
In addition to this there were 3O4 acres
Of oats, which produced 1925 bushels
and l4l acres of barley, the crop OF
which was $500 bushels. The Grand.
ms will break new land for the mex
crop to the extent of 1850 acres, giving
a total area for seeding next spring o.
S,OO1 acres. This splendid estate con.
sists of the River wheat farm, of 40,
600 acres, on the Red River Of the
North, and the stock farm at Mayvillt
covering $4,000 acres. Total, & 9,OO(
acres. AS II slight commentary upo
the question, Does bonanza farming
pay" 1t may be mentioned that 81,
600 bushels of wheat will pay all tn,
expenses of the institution for the year
the other prOductions-oats and barle,
will feed the stock, and the proceed
of 100000 bushels of North Dakota No
| hard wheat will represent the ne
profit Of the Grandin crop for lssO.
INTERNATIONAL POTATO SOCIETY,"
The exhibition of this society was hel,
a lew WEEKS Slice aJ the ITNStll la
ace, London and was SO extensive tina
$500 dishes Of nine tubers each wer
shown by 100 exhibitors. Many prize
were awarded, aud those for new va
~rieties the first was given for a Ion
Round Kidney krossed by ::the Earl
Rose; the second to a Seeding of tn
EARLY Rose crossed with PENIS Earl
Market, and the third to a rount
white variety, not crossed. A write
i'll the Garden says that, although som
collections embraced hundreds of sort.
yet only thirty included about all ths
are commonly cultivated. OF reco
nized sorts America furnished abo,
fifty, and II exhibitor, who had
very fine lot of twenty-four sorts, il
Guided among them no less than Sc,
enteen that are American. EnClis
c~ultivators find q great advantage i
employing the American vorieties
cross with their own.