The true northerner., 1882-04-14

secondary consideration. Good results
in wool are quite certain to follow good
breeding for mutton, yet our Eastern
farmers can make more money in raising
fine mutton than in competing with
Western ranchmen In producing wool.
The farmers of other countries have their
eyes on the English market for mutton.
It is reported that France and Germany,
as we'll as some other Continental coun-
tries, are bestirring themselves to secure
the English market for fine mutton by
improving the quality Of their mutton
sheep. The French are resorting more
generally to English Southdown rams to
cross on their Merino ewes for this pur-
pose, while the Germans are favoring
the Cotswold and Lincoln. america
CultivatOr.
The remarkable development of the
California wheat crop is among the Won
ders of American agriculture. Nothing
excepting the richness Of the yield in
the early gold mining compares with the
development of the wheat-growing in
terest. The valley soil, in the early
days, was deemed to be SO unpromising
as to be ranked as practically worthless.
and inspired the belief that dependence
would have to be placed on foreign
countries for supply. Upon this same
hard adobe land, however, there has
been developed a really marvellous wheat
field. The statistics show a ninefold
increase during quarter of century
from 1855 to 1880. In little more than
decade, between 1869 and 1881 alone,
there was a threefold increase. The
tolo
in 1880 to 81, 100000 centals in 1851.
There are in the State at the present
time $4,000, 900 acres of wheat lands,
80, 900, 900 of which are ranked as first
class, and are being rapidly brought
under cultivation. Half a million acres
have been brought into a cultivated con-
dition in the present year alone, and it
is anticipated that, even should the
whole of the crop of the San Joaquin
Valley fail, there would still be enough
left TO equal the unprecedented crop of
1880. There is prospect that it will be
much larger than that yield. During
lSS1-'S2 the crop was 27, 900, 900 centals.
MANY an article has been written in
this country concerning the injustice
both to the producer as well as the con-
sumer, in the sale of eggs by the dozen,
irrespective of size or weight. Nothing
practical has ever been suggested in this
connection, or rather nothing which
would induce dealers and the public to
depart from the old-time custom of sell
ing eggs by the dozen. 1t seems this
discussion is not confined to America
alone. Shall eggs be sold by the num-
Der or by the pound, is the momentous
question that is said to be agitating
several Partisan scientists. It has been
learned that the average weight of
twenty eggs laid by fowls of different
h>eeds is two and one-eighth pounds.
The breeds that lay the largest eggs,
averaging seven to a pound, are Black
Spanish, Houdans, La Fleches and
ve-Ceurs. Eggs of medium size and
weight, averaging eight or nine to the
pound, are laid by cochins, Brahmas,
Polands, Dorkings, Games and Sultans.
Hamburgs lay about ten eggs to the
pound. Thus there is a difference OF
three eggs in one pound weight. Hence
it is claimed that IN justice to the con-
sumner eggs should be sold by weight
No one disputes this theory, but who will
suggest remedy