The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-04-21

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The duke of Argyll is trying to do
mesticate American wild turkeys in
Scotland.
Flowing matches are still kept up in
Great Britain, and greatinterest is taken
in them.
According 10 the census report 40, 900.
OC0 gallons of wine were made in this
country last year.
Russia claims to have phosphate de.
posts large enough to f~ertilize all Eu.
rope for an indefinite period.
Farmers in France and Germany arc
now raising mutton sheep with q view
OF supplying the English market.
The commercial value OF all lands in
Italy is estimated at f96, 900. 900, upon
which there are f16, 00O. 900 mortgaged-
A Kansas shipper states that a car
will hold two more head of steers IL
they are destitute of horns. He thinks
this a strong argument in favor Of polled
Angus cattle.
Mr.. Harris Lewis gives it as his opin-
ion that grazing for milk may be made
to pay till land reaches 500 an acre.
On land of greater value. grazing COWS
for profit is Questionable.
Every person who keeps chickens
should raise garden peppers. A tea
made by boiling them in water and ad-
ded to boiled potatoes or corn-mear
dough is stated to be a sure preventive of
cholera in fowls.
That the livestock Interests of Kansas
are rapidly gaining ground may be seer
by the increase OF ST. 900, 900 in the
value of farm animals from 1880 to.
1887; and this, too, in spite OF the
slaughter Of animals worth SIG, $50, 600
more.
New York poultry dealers are very
much opposed to the proposed ordinance
compelling the dressing of fowls before
they are exposed for sale, and will fight
any such measure vigorously. A com
mittee has been appointed to endeavor
to stop the passage of any such ordi-
nance.
At Sonoma, Cal, a farmer has raised
hive cork trees, which are now twenty
five to thirty feet in height and from ten
to twelve inches in diameter. One coat
of cork, one and a quarter inch thick,
has been stripped off. The tree resem-
bles the live oak in foliage. The seeds
were brought from Spain twenty years
ago. D..
Judge McCrary, of the United States
court, has decided that a suit for in
%fringement of the Cooley creamer pat
ent can not be maintained, as the allep-
ed invention lis void for want of novel
ty and by prior use." A similar decis-
ion has been rendered in New York in
relation to drive wells. An appeal has
been taken in both cases to the United
States supreme court
Canada has become more emphatical-
ly a dairy country than the United
States. With a population of SIS, ooo,-
600, they manufacture annually 60, o0o,-
600 pounds of cheese, equal to IL
pounds per capita, while we, with $780,
DOC, 900 make 800, DOC, 900, or 6 pounds
per capita With q population not ex-
ceedinx one-tenth of ours, their exports
OF butter are about one-half as great as
ours. .,
A min-pick maker advises that In
grinding picks the pressure be not too
great, and that sufficient water be used
SO that heating. which always injuries
the temper, be prevented. 1t should be
borne In mind that cracking picks
should not be used for furrowing, and
no pick should be used after its edges are
worn too blunt. When picks are blunt
grind them to q straight level, one
or three-eighths long.
The Society Of Public ANALYSIS Of
Great Britain has adopted a standard
for the poorest milk Of 9 per cent of
solids and IS per cent. of fats. Prof.
states that examinations of
tho milk Of forty-two short-horn COWS,
the winter Of 1880, gave go
per cent. Of solids and 4.2o per cent. Of
fats in tho poorest milk, the COWS being
housed and well fed. The average
yield per day was III quarts per COW.
every instance moro milk was given
in the morning than in the evening.
The quantity of milk improved in each
case as tho time for calving drew neal.
older cows were found to give both
more and better the younger