Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-30
FARM NOTES.

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the operation two or three times if the
insects appear at different periods.
The worms fill themselves, the bran
expands. and they burst. They are de-
stroyed In short time, and the dam
age done to the cabbage-heads is slight.
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.
ana yielded at the rate of two ounces
or gold to the ton, and that the reef had
been traced about mile, bearing north
and south. Some prospectors have
pegged the claim.
Among the many unexpected devel-
opments of electrical science is an ap-
plication to the hiving of bees when
they swarm, successfully tried by Ger
man experimenters. By Introducing
the ends OF two connecting wires into
a fully occupied honey comb, and turn
ing on the cuIr,nt, the bees were
rendered inactive for about thirty min
ute5, which admitted of their being
safely handled, while no bad results
appeared to follow their awakening.
Efforts are being made by sportsmen
of western Massachusetts, to increase
and multiply feathered game in that
section. A year ago wild rice was
planted with success and a small stock
OF quails was imported and let loose.
This year the sportsmen of Springfield
are planting wild celery on the rivers
and ponds for the quails to feed upon,
and it is intended to restock the neigh
borhood of Springfield further by the
addition of five hundred quail, the first
lot of fifty having already been received
for that purpose.
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, joint stock concern, in
which the members and owners re-
ceive wages for their work, and then
the profits in shape of the dividends.
Each member takes one share of stock
and IS given an acre of land upon
which he builds with his own money.
The families are entirely separate, and
there is no religious test of member
ship. The business will be farming,
horticulture, and various kinds Of
wood manufacturing.
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 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 twenty
six inches, and was at least twenty
inches from the ground. The leg on
the left side measured sixteen inches
and was about thirty inches from the
lground and evidently undeveloped
Looking from the tail of the animal
toward the head the spine assumed a
zigzag line, and the buttocks were
? widely separated, while the hips were
unusually prominent.
The cultivation of the cassava root
. is attracting the attention of California
+ farmers. 1t is said to be more profita
q BILE to grow cassava than corn. Casa
va flourishes in moist bottom land. II
Z is grown for the purpose Of furnishing
o glucose, substance now extensively
, used in the manufacture of beer and
, as a substance for honey and sugar
The figures given are as follows: Corn
yields thirty pounds Of glucose to the
! bushel; cassava yields about the same
/ mr. huchol Rnt norm ornr
. ranges from thirty to sixty bushels to
. the acre, while a cassava crop is Otter
o twenty tons. So the yield of glucose
! from an acre of cassava would be near.
. ly ten time, greater than from an acre
! of corn. The quality is superior.
! The Pottery Gazette hears that 6
b portion of the English pottery t, AIDE
b has been lately transferred to Alsace
. owing to the excessive cost of the
n crates used for packing. The pack
s ages in Alsace cost about one-fourtt
! the sum charged in this country. The
a same journal states that efforts are be
a ing made to utilize Scotch clay for the
manufacture of stone ware. Every
+ ounce hitherto used in the manufacture
e of stone bottles, jars, etc, is brought
from South Devon, where the fields are
in few hands and high prices have tc
be paid. Should the movement in
Scotland be successful the Scotch
trade. Of course, will be greatly bene-
D fitted. The experiments conducted in
a this district are said to have already
{ proved highly satisfactory.
o The packing business in Maine has
: reached immense proportions. There
Q are sixty-one corn-canning establish
s ments. with an annual production of
j about II, $4,000 cans. The packing OF
d fish is roughly estimated at 800, 00O
f cans of lobster, 10000 cans of mack.
a erel, and 100000 cans of CLANS annual
: ly. The sardine business, which had
T its origin four or five years ago in a
}, small shop at Eastport, has attained
3 vast proportions, there now being fif.
s teen or more factories in operation, al
:, different points in the state, and other: