Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-24
FARM NOTES.

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fore they are planted.
A large portion of the corn raised in
the eastern states is harvested by pick
ing the ears from the stalks, and tax
ing them to the barn or other buildings
to be husked.
A Maine woman has invented a
comfortable beehive. If she would
only discover a breed of comfortable
bees a large number of persons would
go into the honey business.
With a population of 25,OOO,0OO,
England annually consumes 100000
600 pounds of cheese, while the United
States, with a population of $4,000.
600 consumes only 275,000,000 pounds
sf cheese annually.
Two hundred thousand bushels of
beets raised in Saratoga and Science
tady counties, New York, are being
shipped from Schenectady to Whining
ton, Del, for manufacture into sugar.
Twenty-Five canal boats will be requir-
ed.
Hereafter in Great Britain there
Will be a certain course of training for
veterinary surgeons. After 1888 the
farrier and the cattle doctor will be
superseded by men who must pass a
lawful examination in regard to the
diseases of horses, COWS, sheep and
hogs.
In Scotland the short-horn bull is
beinglargely used upon Ayrshire COWS
TO produce dairy animals, and the re-
suit is said to be very encouraging.
The flow of milk not lessened while
the calves are of much better quality
and bring more from both the butcher
and feeder.
The French minister of marine will.
it is stated, be present at the end of
the month at some experiments which
Will be tried with the electric rudder
which aims at doing away altogether
with the imam at the wheel" BY this
continuance the helm or rudder is
wor.k ed automatically direct from the
compass.
There are in America about three
million colonies of bees, but there are
reports from less than a quarter Of a
million, or one-twelfth of the whole
If the one-twelfth that are reported are
fair average of the whole, the crol
of American honey for 1881 amounts
to l2O,OOO,000 of pounds. If we cal
it only 100000 it is worth $4,000,
600.
y tobacco barn should stand in g
sheltered location, or where it is moi
exposed to driving storms. The usua
shape of these buildings being long
narrow and high, they are more liable
to injury from heavy gales of vino
than most other outbuildings. 1t j:
also preferable that they extend nortf
and south rather than east and west
This applies to localities where the pre-
valling winds are northerly.
Mr.. Buckle, of Canada, calls attention
to the fact that the raspberry may bt
transplanted at any time during the
year, whether in full leaf or otherwise
if a good spadeful of earth is raised
with the plant, the hole in which it i:
to be deposited having been previously
made. He usually fills up gaps in the
row with present years young plants
during the month of August, and finds
they succeed better when they have
time to take hold with their roots be
fore the seasons growth had fully
ended.
Among the latest uses to which il
is proposed TO put the electric light /:
the illumination of rivers to permit
the rafting of logs at night. The
MuskegOn Boom company will be the
pioneers in this direction. In Balti-
more, experiments have been made
with view of illuminating water al
night to depth of two hundred feet
Such a means of illumination, it is be.
lieved, would be of great service in
searching for lost treasure and drowned
persons, in raising wrecks, removing
torpedOes and other subaqueous la.
bors.
In the towns of Clayton, Alexandria,
and Orleans, y. Y, all the Yankee
cheese factories are manufacturing
Limburger cheese. The patrons have
sold their milk all the way from 101 to
Is cents per gallon. There are also
many factories in the adjoining towns
sold out to Limburger men, and it is
fair to state that by the end of this
week the very few who are manufacture
ing Yankee cheese will cease. The
change from Yankee to Limburger
cheese has materially curtailed the pro-
duction of the former in jefferson
county this fall.
Henry Clark, of Plattsburg, n. Y,
married against his fathers wishes,
and was shown the door. He there
upon leased thirty acres of good land,
which he put to potatoes, doing all his
work himself. The thirty acres have
yielded him four thousand bushels,
eight hundred bushels of which he
sold for $500, the balance of the crop
bringing him so cents per bushel, or a
total sum of 1880, with net profit,
alter deducting all expenses, of 81, zoo
more than his father had made in
two seasons off four times the amount
of ground cultivated.