Morris tribune., 1881-10-13
HOUSE AND FARM.
Brief Notes on Various Subjects.


Common white potatoes are wholesaling
in st. Louis at 81 .40per bushehla-decid-
ed luxury.
Mr.. A. S. johnson, Boston, Mass, ex-
hibited at recent fair 100 varieties of po-
tatoes and similar products.
It is said that, Notwithstanding the frosts
of the past season, Florida will send 5O,
600, 600 oranges to market this year.
Holding for higher prices is character
ICED by ex- Governor Seymour as the spirit
of gambling, and he declares that. for ex.
ample, more hop growers have been ruined
by waiting for 80 cents per pound than havo
been hurt by selling THEN crops in season,
even when the market ruled at only 10
cents.
Wine growing is being successfully pur-
sued in Virginia, and Is rapidly assuming
large dimensions. it was first introduced
by Germans, but others are now taking a
hand in it. One firm, with thirty seven
acres Of land, has produced $500 gallons
of wine in season. 1t is reported that
the yield of two counties this year will be
So 900 to 10000 gallons. There is ready
market for all that can be produced.
The Rev. j. G.. Wood, the eminent En-
glish naturalist, in an article on THE horse
and its Owner" says, in reference to bear
ing reins: People see the horse champing
its bit, tinging foam flakes right and left.
tossing its head. rafting its harness. and
assume that the horse is acting in the pride
of its strength and fullness of spirit, where
as it is suffering agol.ies Of pain, and is try
ing to gain by these movements momen-
tary relief"
A mistaken notion in regard to the size of
male breeding animals is prevalent. 1t is
| supposed that large animal must produce
large and finely developed progeny. But,
on the contrary. it is the small and finely
| formed and evenly balanced sire that is
most valuable for breeding. Some of the
most successful sires have been small ami
mails, and, in general, size is of very in
fe,ior Importance in selecting males for
breeding purposes.
The finest wheat district in the United
States appears to be Stark county, Ohio,
which has yielded 27.7 bushels per acre.
Portage county, Ohio comes next with ~
l 2 bushels. The largest aggregate yield
in any one county in the Union was that
of Colusa county, Col, which produced in
1879 about 4, 500, 900 bushels, an average of
about II IA bushels an acre. Michigan
has seventeen counties that in 1880 yielded
over million Of bushels each. Illinois has
| elSNSu oulo ScfSn
| four,
The use of Shorthorn and Hereford bulls
in the great western pastures has more than
doubled the value of the herds for beef
o, when farmer is inclined to scorn q
Short horn COW because she is no mixer
he must remember that her business in the
world is to produce beef. And SO the lean
bony, cat manned Jerseys bust
ness is to mako the best of butter, and thai
of the bulls to cross on our common COWS
and double the value of every heifer calf.
Two of our large industries are troubled
by the high price of corn. The glucose
factories all over the country are either di'
minishing or, more commonly, altogether
suspenGing operations. With corn at 25 tc
3Oc., per bushel, they could make very
satisfactory profit by converting it intt
sugar." but with corn at 60c. to 70c., PEI
bushel, they could probably make prof
by reversing the transmutation. were sucl
n feat possible. The Kentucky distiller!
are also worried by the advance in price Of
that cereal. and are said to be debating
whether, in view Of the low plice of whisk.
anu hlsh price of corn, it would not be ad
vis;ible to make no more whisky at present
Few are the unmiyed evils of the world