The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-23
Industrial Breyities.

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The cultivation of the cassava root is
attracting the attention of California
farmers. It is said to be more profita
bic 30 grow cassava than corn. Cassaya
fiourishes in moist bottom land. 1t is
grown for the purpose of furnishing
glucose, a substance now extensively
used in the manufacture of beer and as
substitute for honey and sugar. The
figures given are as follows: Corn yields
30 pounds of glucose to the bushel; cas-
sava yields about the same amount per
bushel. But a corn crop ranges from 80
to 60 bushels to the acre, while cassa-
va crop is often 20 tons. So the yield
of glucose from an acre of cassava would
be nearly, ten times greater than from an
acre of corn. The quality is superior.
A cow with two extra and useless legs
was shown in Washington market, New
York, the other day. She came from
Colorado, where she was found in a herd
of cattle on the plains. The extra legs
grew from the shoulders and were
shaped like hind legs. The leg on the
right side, terminating in an elongated
hoof, measured rs inches, and as at
least 20 inches from the ground. The
leg on the left side measured Is inches,
and was about so inches from the
ground and evidently undeyeloped.
Looking from the tail of the animal to-
ward the head the spine assumed zig
gag line, and the buttocks were widely
separated, while the hips were unusually
PROMINENT.
The Cooperative Colonization Socie-
ty Teutonic, just getting under way at
Kings Mountain, N. c., presents some
new features of business cooperation.
1t is in fact, q joint-stock concern, in
which the members and owners receive
wages for their work, and then the prof
its in the shape of dividends. Each
member takes one share of stock, and is
given an acre of land upon which he
builds with his own money. The fami-
lies are entHely separate, and there is
no religious test of membership. The
business will be farming, horticulture,
and various kinds of wood manufacture
ing.
Efforts are being made by sportsmen
of western Massachusetts to increase
and multiply feathered game in thatsec-
ton. "a year ago wild rice was planted
with success, and small stock of quails
was imported and let loose. This year
the sportsmen of Springfield are plant
ing wild celery on the rivers and ponds
for the quails to feed upon, and it is in
tended to restock the neighborhood of
Springfield further by the addition of
five hundred quail, the first lot of fifty
having already been received for that
purpose. sa
Among the many unexpected develop
ments of electrical science is an appli-
cation to the hiving of bees when they
swarm, successfully tried by German
experimenters- By Introducing the ends
of two connecting wires into a fully-oc-
cupied honeycomb. and turning on the
current, the bees We're rendered inactive
for about thirty minutes, which admit
ted of their being safely handled, while
no bad results appeared to follow their
awakening.
A discovery of gold-bearing quartz
reef was made recently in the county of
Dudley, parish of Warrel, New South
Wales. The department of mines have
received telegram from the warden at
West Kempsey to the effect that. some of
the stone has been assayed, and yielded
at the rate of two ounces of gold to the
ton, and that the reef had been traced
about mile, bearing north and south.
Some prospectors have pegged the
claim.
A correspondent at Oregon. H., sends
the following directions for killing cab
bage-worms: Sprinkle the cabbage lib
orally with wheat bran, repeating the
operation two or three times if the in
sects appear at different periods. The
worms I'LL themselves, the bran expands,
and they burst They are destroyed in
a short time, and the damage done to
the cabbage-heads is slight.
The government of New South Wales
has prohibited the introduction of horned
cattle and sheep. fodder. and fittings in
to that colony from any place otherthan
the Australian and New Zealand colon
les, cattle or sheep shipped prior to this
notification excepted.