The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-08
TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL AND FARM
NOTES, ETC.

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL AND FAzlm
NOTES, ETC.
Mr.. w. J. Fowler, Henrietta, n. ", real
lied last year from his ounce crop at the
rate of $500 per acre.
Asseven-year-old Marine ram was recently
soldin Tasmania for the high price OF 50, 02O,
and still people talk about high prices paid
for horses.
The number OF sheep in Kansas has in
creased 200 fold within the last TWO years,
and the wool clip this year will not fall
short of 100000 pounds.
Professor Beal, of the Michigan Agricul
tural College. has LOCO different grasses and
clovers growing, each in separate bed, in
in the garden at the College.
A Liverpool circular says that nearly 9O0,-
600 barrels Of American apples have been re
ceived there this winter, and that good fruit
is always saleable and the demand almost
without limit.
A veterinary writer condemns high man
gers for horses, as they irritate the throat
and create a tendency TO heaves. The man
ger should be nearly on level with the
feet as that is in accordance with nature.
Mr.. w. w. Durham. North Paris, Me-,
who has forty kinds of grapes under cultiya-
zion, mentions Eumelan, Salem, Delaware,
Brighton and Lady as among those to be
especially commended for superior quail
ty."
A trial was made last season in Scotland
| to test the feeding value of an acre of cab
bage compared with an acre of Swedish tur-
nips for fattening sheep, and 1t was found
| that the cabbages were worth very nearly
$50 the most.
Soda. which is now imported at a cost of
from S62 to S55, can be taken from the soda
lakes of Wyoming and placed in the East
ern markets at a cost not exceeding SO per
ton. The Wyoming soda is chemically
purer than the imported, and Of practical
| inexaustibility.
In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, last
season. one farmer sold mis- twO-acres yield
of tobacco for 81 I12; cost of lanOr, etc, S2l2;
net profit, 50 o. Another farmer realized
$3.50 an acre from three and half acres, and
another $3.50 an acre from one and a half
acres. They think it pays.
Late estimates indicate that nearly mill
ion acres OF French vineyards have been
turned to other uses, and that more than
tw0-thirds of the remainder are more or less
affected by the phylloxera. Everywhere il
the wine districts windlasses are at work
| tearing up the shrivelled ard blsckened
stalks Of the vines 10 be carried away for
lirewcod.
About 6,OOO,O coo pounds Of evaporated APP
pies are at present exported to Europe an
nually The fruit is sliced into pieces one
sixteenth of inch in thickness, and then
exposed 10 the fumes of sulphur instead OF
| drying in the sun After drying, it is nearly
As white as when first cut. The eyaporated
| apples now sell for fifteen cents per pound
in European markets.
| Out of 157. 5Ss. SGT, the number of cattle
estimated TO be in the world, 30, 907, 79l, in
GLIDING all kinds, were in this country at
1 IA sol ,,,ff I'm Of =
| 7S3. 0l5 sheep We had 81, 1888, 003 head. Out
OF 81. 800, $50 hogs we had 43 6SS I'll. which
| would place the United States as the fore
most hog countr in the world, with more
shan one-half of the grand total.
Statistics show that the annual cOnsump-
| ton of eggs in the United States is about
10000 coo barrels. The poultry marketed
or consumed is estimated at 6S0,O00,00O
pounds, at S65 100000. and yet there are
| anyhow. If this is SO, some one must BE-
losing money in disposing of the vast
amount of chickens and eggs consumed in
The United States.
The Importance and value that a good
orchard attaches to the farm can scarcely be
over estimated; not only in n moral and re
filming influence, making the farmer and his
sons proud of their calling, but behind this
a continual and increasing cash income
better and more reliable than life inSur-
ance policy; besides, the satisfaction OF
plucking fruit direct from trees, ali our
own, ripe, clean and healthy, is pleasure not
| easily over estimated.
1t seems by the figures of the New York
produce Exchange that 5000 barrels 81 eggs
are sold weekly in that city, OrabOut $4,000,
600 worth in a year. Say 100000 900 eggs
every one of which represents days worK
for some industrious hen. When the value
Of the chickens, ducks and game used IN
market is added to this the majestic dimen-
sions of the poultry interests just begin 10
appear. The poultry and dairy business are
most protitably carried on together, and in
the Northwestern States the poultry product
! is valued at about One-third the dairy pro-
duct According to the estimates before the
Northwestern Dairymen's Association the
value of dairy products in Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Minnesota last year was over
$50 00O 900, and the chickens produced $780,
900, 600
Swine, as well as the finer animals, do far
better il wisely and regularly fed than ii
served in the usual careless and wholesale
| way. In illustration of this, note the fol-
lowing experiment in feeling, made by a
| California farmer: On the 1st of December,
! 1850, he penned fourteen shOats having a
| combined weight of /, 100 pounds. During
| the three months following he fed them / 497
pounds of barly, boiled whole. In addition
To this he gave them the SKINNED milk
from four cows and The house slOps; aud in
connection with the feed about four pounds
of charcoal week. At the end of three
months there was u gain of ] 200 pounds.
The tact is not stated. but the natural infer
ence is that the iced was judiciously admin
istered, as we'll as carefully prepared, or so
satisfactory results could hardly have been
accomplished.
II we are To believe the California papers.
raisin culture in that State is inferior only
10 orange-growing in Florida, IN profitable
ness. The industry is a new one, and is YET
in its infancy, but if the grape-grOwers of
Southern California shall conclude to turn
their surplus grapes into raisins instead OF
the excessively sweet wine they have been
making, they may in time furnish this coun-
/ try with its whole supply of raisins One
grower in san Bernardino realized in 1879
ninety cents on every vine, which is about
$500 per acre, and another seventy cents "a
vine, which is $464 per scre--with the vines
four years old. One vineyard of six acres
yielded 81 500 net on its raisin crop last year.
and il is asserted that well-managed vine
yard can be depended on. when seven wears
old, to yield net profit of $500 to 5000 per
acre every year.
News comes from Colombo of new silver
I mi q fabulous rio l..