The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-18
Farm and Agricultural Notes,

A million pounds Of buffalo meat were
shipped from the plains last year.
Nearly 700 bushels Of onions per acre
were raised last year by Mr.. George o.
Mason, of Beverly, Mass.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
estimates the coming wheat crop of that
State ut 35,6l2.l9 bushels, against ST.
5Sl.O94 for last year.
The total exports of this country
amounted last year to 1888, 925, 947, the
proportion produced by agriculture be-
ing 1923, G20,0l6, or very nearly SO per
cent
The dairy interests of Iowa, Illinois
and Wisconsin have increased &C per
cent. during the last ten years, while
the increase in New York State was but
6 per cent.
The most important study of cult
vator of the soil is to plan for such crops
as will always be in demand and always
pay; crops that will be in demand year
after year.
Gather no seed from forest tree that
is not clean and straight and rapid
grower. Scrub trees beget their like.
The law of hercdity holds good in trees
rs well as in the lower animals and men.
An Australian wine-grower has formed
company which promises to produce
excellent champagne nj so pei. dozen.
Australia already exports wine to France
for mixing with the product of the lat
ter country.
While the Southern floods have been
damaging to great degree, yet it is
l.;. h.t L.. tnI 4
very valuable, and the cotton lands will
be worth from 81 to Sc more per acre
than formerly.
Very recent reports to interested par
ties i'm New York from the States of
Delaware and Maryland, whence the
peaches are to come this year, show that
the crop promises atprcsent from 4.5O0-
600 to 5, $50, 900 baskets.
Ii you have hens of the right breed
and "sss, warm and sunny quarters for
them To stay in, and hoop them oupplicd
with everything thoy need, you will
have eggs, simply because hens can no
more help laying than they can help
breathing.
The value of all farms in the United
States is estimated at $40, 1876, 800, 645;
value of farm implements at 1856, SIG,
902. live stock, 81 500. 4S7, 1S9; fertiliz-
ers purchased and used in 1879, $27,-
sos, 500; fences, cost of building and re-
pairing in 1870, S77,765, 723.
The South does not grow enough pro-
visions for home use, despite the adj
vance made in that direction. So far
this season she has drawn on the North
for wheat to the value of $55, 900, 900;
corn, 500, 100000. and provisions, $72,.
100000. Total, $l77,000,000.
A successful Boston florist says that
he seldom fails to root slips of the most
tender and rare plants. He credits his
success to layer of oats placed under
the usual layer of sand in which the
slips are planted. When moistened they
act Is a stimulant and feeder to the ten.
| der roots of the slip.
Hundreds of farmers in Pennsylvania
have turned their attention to fish cul.
turc. Many Eave stocked ponds and
streams. and in most eases they have
been successful, especially with carp,
and in a few years they will depend up
on fish for subsistence as much as up.
on any other farm product.
An English mechanic has invented q
horseshoe composed of three thickness.
es of cowhide compressed into q steel
mold and subjected to chemical prep.
aration. 1t will last longer than the
common shoe, weighs only .one-fourth
as much, does not split the hoofs, re-
quircs no calks, and is very elastic.