Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-02-25
ITEMS OF INDUSTRY.

ange- grower speaks of thousands Of
oranges lying under the trees useless,
from new freak OF nature which
splits the fruit on the trees, thus spoil
ing them. This new difficulty is gen.
orally attributed to the summer drought.
The Dominion Temperance Coloniza.
ton society has applied to the govern
ment for a tract Of two million acres
of land in the northwest, which is to be
sold cheaply to actual settlers, with
pIoviso that all intoxicating liquors
shall be excluded from the settlement.
A gentleman who recently rode
through ex-senator DOrsey's cattle
ranch in New Mexico, says Of it.. ut
is 40 by 60 miles in size, and has on it
$4,000 head Of cattle and 1900 head of
Of horses. The income from this place
can not he less than $4,000 for the
present season."
A roan Jersey shOrt-horn COW, be-
longing to Gen. Howard, of Buffalo, N.
Y, is reported by Hark COmstock to
have given 1887 pounds Of milk in one
month last spring, and making 21a
pounds of butter in seven days. Her
feed was grass and four quarts of
ground corn and oats daily.
A telegram from Melbourne, dated
Jan. z. states that the total exports
from Melbourne. Adelaide, Sydney, and
Queensland to Great Britain for the
past month have been: Wool, 137, 900
bales; tallow, 4,100 casks copper, 1900
tons; copper ore, 2,l00 tons; wheat, 25.-
600 quarters; -four, $500 tons; tin, &c.
600 ingots.
At the recent Birmingham fat-stock
show a prize pen of three Shropshires
weighed $40 pounds; a pen of Oxfords,
under % months, weighed 81 pounds,
an astonishing weight for age. A
Shropshire eve weighed 374 pounds.
The heaviest pen Of three sheep weigh
ed 982 pounds, but the breed is not
stated in accounts at hand.
1t is claimed for the DurOc or red
Jersey swine that they possess large
amount Of vitality that they are very
prolific: that they endure extremes of
heat and cold with little injury or dis
comforture; that they eat grass and
4,
that they stand transportation well, and
that the proportion of lean meat in their
bodies is large.
Several persons desire seed of upland
rice. 1t is understood that the nation
al department Of agriculture have
small quantity of the Japan variety
for distribution. Hon. j. ID. Cation, of
Ottawa, ILL.,, has raised some on his
farm in La Sale county. A variety of
upland rice has long been raised in the
southern states, but it is not likely that
it woald do we'll this far north.
The coming raspberry for family use
appears to be Shafer's colossal. 1t is a
chance Seeding, and originated in Mon
roe county, New York. The bushes
grow eight or ten feet high, and the
berries are very large. Their color is
not attractive, and on this account it
is thought they will not sell well in
the market. They are admirable for
cooking and canning purposes.
The Atlanta, (Ga) Constitution thinks
that, under an ineXorable pressure that
is beyond the reach of influence or ar
gument, the plantations will split into
small farms and small farmers will
take the place of large planters. The
same causes that sliced nearly seventy
thousand farms from the Georgia
plantations in the ten years preceding
1880 will cut off as many more between
now and 1890.
A good yield of cranberries at Cape
Cod is hundred barrels per acre. Sin
gle rods have yielded over a barrel, at
the rate of nearly two hundred barrels
ner acre. Unfortunately, very few acres