Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-12
FARM NOTES.


and other articles used for pickles is
very short in all portions of the coun.
try.
Five hundred bags of italian beans.
the first importation from Italy in the
history Of the bean business of the
country, were received at New York
last week.
The venerable Arthur Bryant, of
Princeton, states that the general de-
struction of evergreen in the West is
due to the prevalence of coal smoke in
the air. He says that this smoke has
destroyed them not only in lows but
along the railroads where coal is used
as fuel.
One San Francisco firm has shipped.
this year, 4,240,000 pounds of green
fruit and paid in railroad charges on il
$llS,OOO, being at the rate of "a cents
pound. or $55 ton, or $3.50 a car
load. The bulk rate of 81, 075 per car
load, and it is estimated that the total
amount paid in freight charges this
season is 100000.
According to all accounts the chinch
Dug Is becoming better traveller every
year. at one time it was considered
sa1e TO plant a field of corn within
twenty rods of field of spring wheat.
as the bugs would not walk from one
10 the other. But during the present
season they have been known to foot
1t at least half mile.
The prospect of an open winter will
prevent in a great measure the usual
marketing of cattle from the western
ranges. The cattle men who lost
heavily by the severe weather of last
winter, are inclined to sell as few as
possible this year and to trust to the
natural increase to make up for former
losses. This policy limits to a consid-
cradle extent the hide supply from this
source.
A sheep-breeder residing near Glen
Cove, L. l., has lost over one hundred
head of sheep during the past three
weeks, and more than one thousand
sheep have been killed during the past
year. The town has had to indemni-
~ the owners, and for that purpose a
dog-ta is levied, only small portion
of which is ever collected. The losses
this year would entail tax of S. on
every dog in the town.
Potato culture is reviving in every
part of the United Kingdom. In Ire
land the acreage has risen since 1880
from $3.50 to 854, 900, notwithstand
ing the increase in beans, rye, oats and
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increase, though not large. In England
$4,000 additional acres were put under
this crop. Wales, last summer, had
42,4OO acres devoted to the potato,
against $4,000 acres in the preceding
year. The total increase is put down
by some agricultural statisticians at
10000 acres.
The total area of the public domain
Of the United States, surveyed and un-
surveyed, is estimated by the land
Office at 1.163, 946,488 acres. This in.
cludes 1863, $4,000 acres of Alaska. and
all the hundreds of millions of worth
less acres in New Mexico and the other
territories. Of course it is hard to say
how many of these UNEMPLOYED acres
will be found fit for agriculture. but
the chances are that not one in thous-
and of them will possess any attrac-
tons for farmers used to temperate
climates. Practically, the Is, $40, $50
acres represents the whole of the free
farming land in the United States, and
as before said the year 1883 will see
the last acre of it that is worth having
entered upon. All the other cheap
land in the states is owned by corpora
tons and individuals who will not sell.
except at the highest price the land is
worth, whether in money or in some
other form of service.
The famous Dalrymple farm of 75.-
600 acres, in Dakota, is really made M
OF smaller farms, with separate owner
ships; but all is under the management
of Oliver Dalrymple, who owns 1000
acres outright, and is likely to soon be-
come half owner of the rest. When
he assumed charge, the proprietors of
the various tracts put in the land at a
fair valuation, and money enough to
improve it, charging eight per cent ON
the whole investment. The important
provision was that, whenever the
profits reached over aud above the 8
per cent year, sum sufficient to re-
pay the entire outlay, half the land
should be his. At the time it was not
supposed that much, if any more than
the promised per centage could be de.
rived from the farm. But the crops
have been heavy, and nothing but a
serious mishap will prevent Dalrymple
from realizing his hopes within two or
three years.