The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1882-01-05
rAR1AHp KoRKSuoP NOTES.


Florida expects to market fifty mill
ION oranges next season.
From 100 trees Sylvester Bartlett, of
Etna, Me-, got $50 barrels OF Baldwins.
Look out for morals Is well as mus
Gle in hiring hands. They may ruin the
boys by their vicious examples.
John McRobert, Of vevay, Michigan,
harvested sixty-six bushels ofclover seed
from eighteen acres-a profitable crop.
Albert Cobb, of East Dccring, Maine,
imported from Canada drove of $40
live turkeys. They we're divided into
three parties, and driven like sheep un-
der the charge of a collie dog.
As floors TO poultry houses boards
arc not good, especially if chickens are
to DO brought up ON them. Nothing is
90 good as deep, well pulverized, dry
soil, which Is really the least expensive
ofanything.
A COW with three rings on her horns
Il six years old; with four, she is seven.
No new rings are formed after the
tenth year. The deeper rings, however,
and the worn appearance of the horns,
are pretty sure indications Of old age.
There il . kind Of glass millstonss,
now used In Germany, which are rep
-rescnied,to be much superior TO the
French burr-stone, since they grind
more readily and heat the -four less than
the birthstone. They can be made
cheaply and easily.
Every year in Thuringia there is con-
sumed thousand tons of beet leaves,
transformed into tobacco. The same
leaves, as well Is those Of chiccory and
Of the cabbage, undergo the same meta
morphosis at Magdcburg and in the Pal
atinate. Vevay cigars are Of the same.
A German manufacturer has figured
out. fundamentally, that in wind mills
the most scrviceable wind is the one
that blows at velocity Of twenty-three
feet second. The lowest number of
days in the year that the wind is ser
viceable is 1870, and the greatest number
is $50.
Poor shelter, care and feed will. in q
few generations, make scrubs of the
finest thoroughbred stock. Thorough
bred scrubs are little better than native
scrubs, and the farmer who raises either
viii always be poor. Breeding the best
stock and keeping it in the best posi-
bic mannerpays the largest profits.
In nature we never deal with pure
water, but with water holding in solu-
and in most cases enhance the SOL
ton various matters either derived from
the air or from the soil or generally
from both. These substances modify,
vent power of water, and through this
power vegetation is supplied with the
elements of its growth.
Something for breeders to remember
that from the male parent are mainly
derived the external structure, config-
uration and outward characteristics,
the locomotive peculiarities inclusive.
From the female parent are derived the
internal structure, the vital organs, and
in much greater proportion than from
the male, the constitution, temper and
and habits.
A California man has made an in
veution that attaches stout spring TO
the end of cross-cut saw. On one side
Of the tree trunk staples are driven,
and into these is inserted one end of the
spring, the other end being connected
with the saw. The arrangement is
such that one man is enabled to use
long and heavy saw that otherwise
would require man at each end.
There is no ivory waste. Even the
powder is sold for making jelly. 1t is
said that one leading cutlery firm in
Sheffield made calculation that to sup
ply themselves with ivory needed for
their business they needed 1880 ele-
phantsevery year, and that even with
this number the tusks were each esti-
nsted TO weigh 2S "a pounds.
An inventor proposes to make ma
chine gear wheels of raw buffalo hide
BY cenlenting and pressing together rs
many layers rs are required for the
breadth of the wheel. The blanks thus
prepared are cut to form the teeth in
the usual manner with suitable tools.
The advantages claimed are smooth and
noiseless action at very high speed and
greater durability without fabrication.
Stockmcn who have raised the horn
less Angus cattle on the Western plains
say that they can be reared and mar
keted there for from ten 10 twenty per
cent less than horned beasts. Add TO
this the greater economy in transporta-
ion and the high price for the beef in
che English market, and the breeder
has some pretty strong motives for pre-
ferring them above the pugnacious
horned animals.
In New England horses are advsnc-
ing from fifteen to thirty per cent in
price. Horse-car companies in Boston
- yeasx ago bought good service
- 1jrss6 = from eighty to one hun
- doaos.sach, while they now pay
- tlss4 as'ooe hundred and thirty dol |
lars for equally good animals. Heavy
draft teams are worth from four hum
dred and twenty-five dollars. to five
hundred and fifty dollars, while stylish,
1sll-matched and well-bred carriage
pais bring oil the way from five hun
Ared dollars to one thousand dollars. |
Dark colors are fashionable here.-7he
Americaa Cultirator.
Considerable attention has been re-
Gently given to the differences between
the rain-of the city and Of the country.
Thecountry rain is neutral and is con-
sidered the best adapted for human con-
sumptien Of any found above the earth,
or .upder the earth. The rain that falls
hcities, on the other hand, is acid. cor
eodisg metals; stones and brick, and
mortar crumble before il. Its evil ef-
eects are visible on every side-in paint,
lnysn decorations, and, in fact, almost
everything erected by man. The purest
salx is 'ihst collected at the sea coast,
more especially 1t considerable heights,
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