Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-26
FARM NOTES.

A farmer near Memphis, Tenn, clear
cd $500 on three acres of watermelons.
At the Mission, San Jose, Cal, a far
mer now has about twenty plows at
work.
The yield of hops throughout the
country is fully Is per cent below the
average.
The climate of California is said to
be prominently suited to the healthy
growth of silk-worms.
The largest vineyard in California
will be planted this winter. 1t will
contain 100000 vines.
The sum of $3,64S was realized from
crop of sugar cane on a farm of 100
acres near Cape May city.
From seventeen acres of vines, a
Californian made $4,000 gallons of
wine, at IA net profit of $4,000.
Warmer pens would be a comfort to
pigs and a source of profit to farmers,
who would save corn in feeding.
The slopes forming the base of the
Sierra Nevada range are said to be
adapted to the growing of the finest
fruit in the union.
at Santa Barbara, Cal, wild roses
are now blossoming along the high
ways, the pink tinted -glories
festooning the fences.
The demand for water is SO great in
some portions of California that the
price of water in the bitches has re-
Gently doubled in value.
Experiments are in progress in En-
gland for testing the adaptability of
that country for the growth of Ameri-
can varieties of apples.
A New York farmer says that Cana
da thistles may be killed by blowing
them under about the 1st of July, or
when the stalks are hollow.
The worst forms of malaria have
their origin in close bedrooms, filthy
backyards, stables, sinks and drains.
Habits produce more disease than so
called malaria.
Te have potato retain all of its
good qualities it should be dug on a
dry day, and at once stored in a dark
cellar. 1t is mistake to suppose that
a potato is improved, or will keep bet
ter by drying in the open air.
More summer-fallow than ever before
has been sown in Suffer county, Cali
fornia. and young grain never looked
better than now. The only drawbacks
are possible floods and slickens. Wild
geese are numerous and troublesome.
The crops of Pennsylvania for the
year 1881 are estimated by the state
board of agriculture as follows: Corn
81, 780,000 bushels; wheat, l9,47O.OOC
bushels; oats, 81, $50, 1000 bushels: buck
wheat, 1867. 900 bushels; potatoes, g..
O3l,25O bushels; tobacco, 22,025,0OC
pounds.
The potato starch market is affected
by the high price of potatoes. The
production of potato-starch for the
whole country last year was $500 tons
The amount carried over from the pre-
vious year was 400 tons, making
900 tons with which to begin the
new year. During the year 5000 tons
were consumed, leaving 1000 tons tC
add to this years production. The
manufacture of potatO-starch this yeal
amounts to 1000 tons, and with 1900
tons left over from last year, makes
5000 tons for this years supply, which
is 5000 tons short of last years con
sumption. Starch makers in Maine
are hindered by the high price ant
scarcity of potatoes, of which it is es
timated a bushel yields nine pounds o.
starch.
A southern states paper gives some
facts which show that those who pirate
continually about the imminent ex
haustion of forests leave a most i'm
portant forest country out of account
The states Of Tennessee, Alabama
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Car
DINA and West Virginia contain in tn,
order named from SO to &c per cent o.
forest land, whereas Maine and Mich
gan, which now produce one-half tn,
lumber used, contain only AZ and Il
per cent of forest land. North Caro-
lima, Louisiana and Mississippi hav,
an even greater extent of forest lane
still untouched than the states Jus
named. Neither is the world general
ly aware of the good quality of TIT
timber in the south. All the troubl,
is that, owing to the absence of snow
the wood is not won so cheoply as il
the north. But with railways pene
tIating the country in all directions
this state of affairs will soon be al
tered. and it is useless not to recogniz,
the facts.