Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-15
Agricultural Items.

for the establishment of school OF
forestry" in western Kansas.
The farmers'oi Holland are prepar-
ing to come to the United States by
thousands. They have sent an agent
to Dakota, and if reports are favorable,
as they are likely TO be, 10000 Hoi-
landers, all farmers with considerable
money, VIII come over.
Victoria swine is the latest new
breed. Otherwise than being white,
they are not unlike the Berkshires,
from which breed they derive many of
their best qualities. This breed is the
result of skillful crossing of four of the
best breeds known, viz: Berkshire,
Poland China, Chester White and Suf-
folk.
Fruit-growing in Georgia has devel-
oped into an important industry, and
the supply of fruit in Chicago will be
considerably augmented this year from
that source. 1t is estimated that about
100000 bushels of peaches, apples,
pears and grapes will be raised In
Georgia, and arrangements are already
on foot for large shipments to Chicago
in refrigerator cars.
c. Beck, in the Massachusetts
P0u9hman, tells of an asparagus bed
which he says controverts the theory
that the beds will run out unless re-
newed every twenty-five or thirty
years. The bed in question is at
Quincy, Mass, is over eighty years
old, and is still rs good as ever, both as
regards quality and productiveness.
A correspondent of the Rteral Ne,o
Yorker writes: "Tell your readers TO
put one pint OF salt and one pint of
soft soap lit ought to be farmers soap)
to ten gallons of water, and use it on
currants and gooseberries. III war
rant them full crop. Put plenty of
ashes-coal or wood-around The roots
to increase the size of the berries"
The bills in the New York legislature
prohibiting the coloring of oleomarga-
rine, butterine, and adulterated cheese,
and regulating the manufacture and
sale of these articles, have become
laws. Whether they will produce the
intended effect, or whether they will
not be evaded by some new device for
preventing the unsuspicious customer
from knowing that he is eating OK fat
instead of butter and lard instead o.
cheese, remains to be seen.
Any farmer can do most OF his own
painting, buying the paint at wholesale
and putting it on with his own hands
1t may not be 30 artistically done as Il
he employed man at % or 81 day
to do 1T, but it will answer all practica
purposes, and will look well enough fol-
anybody to see. A coat of good pain,
will last and appear we'll for number
of years, and it will afford some pro
lection even after it has ceased to be
ornamental.
The demand for the Polled Scots thus
far this year has been far beyond the
supply There is evidently wide
spread determination among the cattle
breeders to give these cattle full, fail
trial, hence the active demand that has
been kept up for them during tn,
spring. 1t is firmly believed in gooC
many quarters that they are an exceed
ingly hardy kind of cattle, and Others
believe that the cows, under proper
conditions, will make the best kind o
mixers. There is plenty of room fol
this kind of cattle alongside of the 9th
er fine breeds that are being kept il
The country, and we certainly hope te
see full trial made in their production
here.
The patent Office is referred to by
plain-spoken Father Clarkson of Iowa
az "a hotbed of fraud, which sows The
seeds of atrocities practiced on suf
fering people," G. II. Mccormick j.
characterized rs "the millionaire who
has (attened off the public on other
mems inventions"-this in reference tc
the impending war against all users OF
twine-bnders. Before a farmer Can
buy safely harvester, he has got to
know more than the interior depart
ment, the supreme court, and all OF
the patent right lawyers, just for the
reason that congress will not protect
innocent purchasers of patent right
machinery"
A sale Of Jersey cattle was made in
ANtW lOIh SlCJ OuS doy ldot WCCh, nv
which the highest prices ever realized
for such stock were paid. Sixty one
were sold for $27 ,435; average $3.50
The highest price was paid by S. M.
Shoemaker, of Baltimore, for Princess
%, 8,046, Is years old, a 500; VIM.
Simpson, Of New York, paid 81 1888 for
Leah Darlington. 2 years old; n. G.
Brad ford paid 81 800 for Sally Waters,
2 years old and w. II wilkinson paid
81 OPS for Anecdote. another 2-year-
old. The balance ranged from 1886
down to $50 each.
The "fast horse" rage is subsiding
among farmers, and they are sensibly
turning their attention to the breeding
of heavy, durable, reliable farm horses,
and horses for all work. We indorse
the following advice from Wallace
Monthly; We say to farmers who de-
sire to raise farm horses, look carefully
to the walking gait of their sires. And
further accustom your young horses
that are raised for draft purpose to
walk, and to this end, if there is any
walk in them, never allow them To
strike trot. 1t is astonishing how
rapid gait can he developed with
proper training.
Speaking Of the heredity of diseases
opd tho i'm portapca of soiIn nd bread inc