The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-16
Farm Notes.

Polled cattle are having ''boom" in
Scotland and England, owing to the
unprecedented demand from this coun-
try.
The Cologne Gazette points out that
the system of using tar for roofing pur--
poses is at the same time economical and
suitable for agricultural buildings.
Rams of choice breed fetch from
81, 900 to 1000 in Australia, while first
class mutton sells in Adelaide and Sid
ney for 81 cents the stone - fourteen
pounds.
Mr.. Charles Kelso, of the Kelso farm
on the Manitoba Railroad. Minnesota,
had 5000 acres in wheat this year, and
realized profit of $4,000 from his
crop.
The most successful breeders of sheep
in England find that good-yes even
rather high-feed keeps their sheep in
much better health than when they are
not so well cared for.
The pawpaw tree is hardy and pro-
duces well in many parts of Canada. 1t
is likely that it could be cultivated to
advantage in all Western States and
Territories. Most persons prefer paw
paws to bananas.
Three cheeses are being made at DIR.
Nights factory at Whitesborough, N.
Y, which weigh "long ton," 1900
pounds each. They are to be shipped
to Glasgow, Scotland, and will be put
on the market in time for the Christmas
HOLIDAYS.
The Indiana Farmer boasts of n sweet
potato which weighs five pounds. 1t
says it is evidently formed by the grow
inc together of several smaller ones, held
together by the compact clay soil in
which they grew till they united.
The system of cooperation in France
is r"pidly extending among farmers for
the purchase of seeds, manures, and
implements of the first quality. The
members of the society bind themselves
Individually to guarantee the payment
of all orders given.
The apple crop of Missouri was I'M
usually large this season, and will do
much toward supplying the scarcity pro-
duced by the partial failure in New
York and other large apple-producing
States. Large quantities of apples are
being shipped from Missouri to Texas
and Western Territories.
By all odds the cheapest and best way
to eradicate common hard wood stumps,
SAYS the Practical Farmer, is to work
the ground with a shovel pillow, sow
buckwheat or plant corn until seeded to
timothy, orchard grass and clover, and
pasture until the stumps so far decay
that they can be pulled out by hitching
a chain around thetop when the ground
is wet in the Winter or Spring.
The northcrnmost place in the world
where rye and oats mature is at kengis,
In the Swedish province of Norrobotten,
forty-nine miles to the north of the Polar
circle, whereas the northernmost spot
where corn is grown is at Muoniovara,
ninety-eight miles to the north of the
circle.
The total quantity of land in Great
Britain returned in 1881, as under all
kinds of crops, bare fallow and grass,
amounts to 81, 1880 acres, as COM
pared with 31,2l1,0 900 acres in 1881, or
an increase of 1000 acres. A great
part of this increase is ascribed by the
collectors to the reclamation of the
moor or mountain land. The whole of
this increase is in England and Wales.
Scotland shows smaller cultivated area
than last year, there being several in
stances of decrease caused by the con-
version of sheep runs into deer forestsin
the counties of Caitnness, Ross and
Sutherland.
A Nebraska paper says Ed. Blewett.
of Fremont, is bringing into that State
$4,000 Oregon sheep that in their pres
ent condition will average ll5 pounds
in weight A part of the number he
proposes To make fat on Nebraska corn.
Last year he put forty pounds per head
on a lot of weiberS, and thinks he can
do equally as well again. The magni-
tudc of his operations is calculated to
make our Eastern shepherds start. 1t
has not been many years since Mr..
Bewelt was penniiess boy, wander
ing through Nebraska in search OF
something - DO. and he evidently found