The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-03-08
industrial Notes,

The duke of Argyll Is trying 10 do
mesticate American wild turkeys in
Scotland.
Flowing matches are still kept up in
Great Britain. and grcatintercst is taken
in them.
According 20 the census report 10000,
600 gallons of wine were made in this
country last year.
Russia claims to have phosphate de-
posts large enough to fertilize all Eu-
rope for an indefinite period
Farmers in France and Germany are
now raising mutton sleep with view
of supplying the English market
The commercial value Of al lands in
italy is estimated OF E96, 10000, upon
which there are El6.oOO,O00 mortgaged.
A Kansas shipper, states that car
will hold two more head OF steers ii
they are destitute Of horns. He thinks
this strong argument in favor Of pollcd
Angus cattle.
Mr.. Harris Lewis gives 1t as his opin.
ion that grazing for milk may be made
To pay till land reaches 800 al acre.
On land Of greater value, grazing cows
for profit is questionable.
Every person who keeps chickens
should raise garden peppers A tea
made by boiling them in water and adj
died 10 boiled potatoes or corn-meal
dough is stated to Ike Assure preventive OF
cholera in fowls.
That the livestock interests Of Kansas
are rapidly gaining gruund may be seen
by the iucreaSe Of S7,00O,O0 in the
value of farm animals from 1880 TO
1881: and this. TOO, in spite of the
slaughter of animals worth SIC, 100000
more,
New York poultry dealers are very
much opposed to the proposed ordinance
compelling the dressing OF fowl. before
they are exposed for sale. and viii fight
any such measure vigorously. A COM
mittee has been appointed to endeavor
TO stop the passage Of any such ordi-
nance.
At Sonoma, Cal. farmer has raised
five cork trees, which are now twenty
five to thirty feet in height and from ten
10 twelve inches in diameter. One coat
Of cork, one and a quarter inch thick,
has been stripped off. The tree rcsem-
bIes the live oak in foliage. The seeds
were brought from Spain twenty years
ago.
Judge McCrary. Of the United States
court, has decided that a suit for in
frngemcnt Of tho Cooley creamer pat
cut can not be maintained, as the alleg-
ed invention .'is void for want of novel
" aud by prior USE A similar decis-
ion has been rendered in New York in
relation TO drive wells. An appeal has
been taken in both eases 10 the United
States supreme court.
Canada has become more emphatical-
~ = dairy country than the United
States. With population of $1,000
0J0, they manufacture annually G0,000,-
00o pounds of cheese. equal to II
pounds per capita. while we, with sJ0,-
100000 make 500, 100000, or 6 pounds
per capita. With population not ex-
cccding ono-tcnih Of ours, their exports
of butter are about one-half as great as
ours.
A millpcS maker advises that in
TrlnulnT PICKS the pressure DC not TOO
great, and that sufficient water be used
80 that heating, which always Injuries
the temper, be prevented, Ii should be
borne in mind that cracking picks
should not he used for furrowing, and
no pick should be used after its edges are
worn too blunt. When picks are blunt
rrind them to straight level, one
eighth or lhree-cighths long
The Society Of Public Analysis Of
Great Britain has adopted standard
Tor the poorest milk Of 9 per cent. of
solids and - per cent. Of fats. Prof.
Cameron states that examinations of
the milk Of forty-two short-horn cows,
during the winter Of 1880, gave $40
per cent Of solids and j. 90 per cent. OF
fats in the poorest milk, the COWS being
housed and well fed. The average
Yield per day was 1T quarts per COW.
| In every instance more milk was given
in the morning than in the evening.
The quantity Of milk improved in each
ease as the time for calving drew near.
The older COWS were found to give both
more and better milk than the younger
once.