The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-09-14
NOTES.
The leading fairs of the West are to
receive for exhibition seventy head of
Oxford-down sheep from England.


The leading fairs of the West are to
receive for exhibition seventy head of
Oxford-down sheep from England.
Sheep give two crops u year, one in
the fleece and one in the lambs: some
times three, for in California and Texas
they shear twice year.
The Western farmers are beginning
TO save all the female calves, sending
only the bulls 10 market This is step
in the right direction.
A Maine farmer fattened a COW chief
ly on turnips. and the result surpassed
expectation. The beef was OF fine quail
ity, and the tallow unusually abundant
Fifteen thousand acres of land in
southern Missouri are devoted to melon
growing. The crop this year is not up
TO the average, but will reach 1000 car
loads.
Herbs for winter use should be gath
cred when the plants are in flower:
just as the flowers begin TO fade is con-
sidered to be the best time TO harvest
them
An Englishman is credited with hay
ing sheared twenty-six sheep in four
hours and twenty-five minutes. The
quickest time made was five and one
half minutes per sheep.
The Grand Haven Union says: at is
now well understood by the intelligent
and practical peach grower that culti-
waiting among peach trees after mid
summer must be stopped
The Lansing (NIichigan) refrigerator
has now on hand 100000 pounds. or so
tons, of extra-qualily butter. This is
said TO be the largest pile of butter ever
seen in the State at one time.
Last year Holland shipped 10 England
1900 tons of butter, $50 tons of cheese. |
and 1850 tons of meat, from the port |
of Rotterdam alone, and yet Holland is
a small country as we view territory.
Australia has adopted stringent meas
ures for preventing the spread of scab
in sheep. Officers are appointed over
the districts, whose duties are TO in
spect farms and brand every sheep in
spected.
An anonymous authority prescribes
kerosene oil as a protection against
squash bugs and similar pests, to be APP
piled by soaking rags in the oil and
pegging them down TO the ground in
the hills.
The chemist of the National Depart
ment of Agriculture is credited with
saying that the fertility of the soil Of
the Western prairies will be exhausted
sooner than that of the rocky land in
the Eastern States.
The Boston Journal IF Chemistry
thinks glucose will be the sugar of the
future. 1t can be made from corn and
potatoes in climate. where sugar cane
will not grow nor the sugar beet be cul-
tivated with profit.
Nature quickly covers the soil and
protects il from the extremes of heat
and cold, and hence weeds fulfil an i'm
portant office; for so great is the vari-
ETY. that they are adapted TO every eli
mate and under all conditions.
a bushel of potatoes is worth 80 TO
40 cents for the starch it contains. On
an average potatoes contain IS to II
per cent. of starch: some kinds-those
that are well grown. thoroughly ripen-
ed, heavy and free from disease-con-
tain 20 to % per cent.
The London Lire Stock journal saws
that in selecting a Jersey COW be sure
that her udder is large and not fieshy
The milk veins must be large and swell
ing, and inside her ears should be a
deep orange color; the deeper the color
the richer the milk.
II is better to set tree in the fall
than in the spring, says correspond
ent of the Country Gentleman, because
then the active circulation Of the sap
has ceased, and the conditions Of soil
and atmosphere are favorable 10 rest, j
or TO root growth rather than top
growth.
The Pekin duck is nearly Is large as
a goose, is entirely white, and can be 6
kept within small enclosures with only
a trough to battle in. They grow rap
idly, furnish fine feathers. and are ex-
cellent for the table. They are also :,
good layers, good sitters and careful =
J
The Gdrdcaer,y Monthly says: Let
he laundry folks on every wash day
Dour the boiling hot soap suds about
he roots of peach trees. This viii de-
troy the insidious little fungus which
PRODUCES the yellow and other dis
,ases, and finish the Larvae of insects
Which are injurious TO the trees"