Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-02
INDUSTRIAL.
The cattle plague has appeared in
several parts of Silesia, Germany.

several parts of Silesia, Germany.
The duke of Argyll is trying to do
mesticate American wild turkeys in
Scotland.
Flowing matches are still kept up
in Great Britain, and great interest is
taken in them.
According to the census report 40,
100000 gallons of wine were made in
this country last year.
The bullion assys at the Charlotte
(N. C.) mint during the month of jan
uary amounted to $7.766.57.
Russia claims to have phosphate de-
posits large enough to fertilize all
Europe for an indefinite period.
Farmers in France and Germany are
now raising mutton sheep with view
of supplying the English market.
More small grain has been and will
be sOwn in southwestern Georgia the
present season than at any former Pc
riod.
The commercial value of all lands in
Italy is estimated at e96,000,000, upon
which there are f16,0o0,000 mort
gagged.
Frequently after squashes begin to
blossom they dry up and die. For this
disaster no one has yet been able to
give a satisfactory cause.
One of the first things a farmers
wife should learn, if she has not already
learned it as farmers daughter, is to
drive and harness a horse
An unprecedented amount of grain
will be sown in Wasco county, Oregon
this year. The winter has been so mild
that farmers have been able to pillow
during every month.
A Kansas shipper states that cal
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.
Strawberries are much more prolific
when four or five different varietie:
are planted together, although eacf
variety may be perfect one, than il
but one perfect variety were planted
alone.
Every person who keeps chickens
should raise garden peppers. A tie;
made by boiling them in water anC
{. added to boiled potatoes or corn-mea
, dough is stated to be a sure preventiv,
OF cholera in fowls.
Nevada has about 100000 acres o
salt land, and could supply the who'll
earth if necessary. Besides this sh
, has about 100000 acres of soda ant
birthstone deposits, sufficient to rul
; hades for the next 100000 years.
{ That the live stock interests of Kau
sas are rapidly gaining ground may b
seen by the increase of 100000 il
: the value of farm animals from 1873
to 1881; and this, too, in spite of tn,
slaughter of animals worth 16,250,00t
: more.
PulveriZed sulphur is an excellen
substance to apply to fowls and cattl
, for the purpose of destroying or keep
!. ing away vermin, fer the reason tina
the heat of the body causes it to becom
|, volatile, in which form it suffocate
: insects.
The opinion has generally prevaile,
. that a little bran mixed with mea
, would produce more pork than clea
Q meal, but in some experiments latel
} tried it was found that clear mea
, made more pork than mixture O
\ bran and meal.
J. About 100000 is paid every yea
in this country for foreign sumac TO
tanning. This it is claimed, a needles
expenditure, as plant grows freely il
this country, and requires but littl
. skill in cultivation, and so might a
: we'll be utilized.
' Canada has become more emphatic
: ally dairy country than the Unite
: States. With population of 100000
y they manufacture annually 100000
e pounds of cheese, equal to II pound
5 per capita, while we, with 50000,00(
{ make 300,000,000, or pounds pc
n capita. With population not exceed
O ing one-tenth of ours, their exports Q
4 butter are about Ore-half as great a
q ours.
a A mill-pick maker advises that i
e grinding picks the pressure be not to
Q great, and that sufficient water be use
l. so that heating, which always injure
y the temper, be prevented. 1t shoul
/, be borne in mind that cracking pick
/, should not be used in furrowing, an
d no pit should be used after its edge
s are worn too blunt. When picks al
e blunt grind them to a straight leve
e one-eighth or three-eighths long.
f The value of he butter product {
tho ana1nf v-xy 10 about Gxra hnf r
n cheese, but only 3 per cent of it is q
= yet shipped abroad, while 80 per Ger
t of the cheese goes there. America
S dairymen have unquestionably succeed
:, ed remarkably in pleasing the palate
of the English with their cheese, an
/ in continental countries, even in note
a dairy districts like Holland and BE
b GUM, American cheese is offered tn
o traveller. No packing of butter has a
n yet been able to bring the America
T maker into really serious competitio
t with the French and other continents
}! makers. The English like fresh but
e ter. The shipments from New Yorl
: mainly to ports in Great Britain, fror
5 May l, 1881, to Jan. IL. 1882, were 10
5 1913, 482 pounds, to 23,906,205 for tn
corresponding period last year.
! Samuel Murphy, the head butche
for Roger & Chapman, at Loncsln
Neb., slaughtered on Tuesday of las
week the largest cow on the record o
Nebraska bovine history. She was
|, native of Colorado, about z years old
pure white in color, and stood six fee
four inches high, being well proper
!, TONED. She weighed 2,450 pound
: alive, and Melted 1.400 pounds of fin
beef. Her hide weighed 160 pounds
: and was the largest bought in Nebras
! ka by the firm to which it was sold
1t was twelve feet seven inches Ion,
and eight feet six inches wide, the Gov
measuring eight feet in actual girtl
when alive When Rarnum's circu