Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-16
FARM NOTES.


AS compared with 1880 the present
decrease in hogs is $4,000, and as com
pared with 1879 it is $4,000.
Sugar beets are the only saccharine
plants that permit of preservation with
out appreciable less of sugar. Hence
their Importance for sugar manufac-
| lures
Dairymen know if they sell their
butter without coloring, they must take
i've cents per pound less than if pro-
perly colored with L. E. Ransom But
ter Color.
Upon nearly every Canadian farm a
certain lot of land is devoted to roots
sugar beets, carrots. mangel-wurzel
eCc.l These are as essential to cattle
as the potato is to man.
Newfoundland is the Oldest of the
british colonies. 1t is nearly as large
as England. Agriculture is much neg
lecUed, and her f1o1r, oatmeal, meat,
peas, potatoes, hay and straw have to
be imported.
several large importations of Clydes-
dale horses have recently been made.
Inc ocean steamship Galatia brought
over on her last voyage over seventy
head, all from the traditional Clydes.
dale districts.
One of the hardest woods in exist
ence is that of the desert ironwocd trca.
which grows in the dry washes along
the line of the Southern Pacific rdil-
way. Its specific gravity is neal " the
same as that OF lignum-vite, end It has
black heart so hard, when well
seasoned, that it will turn the eage of
an axe and can scarcely be cut by a
well-tempered saw. In burning it
gives out an intense heat, and charcoal
made from it is of unequaled quality.
After an investigation, based upon
actual results obtained by several per
sons, The San Francisco Chronicle ex-
presses the belief that well selected
and well-tended vineyard of raisin
grapes Tin California; after the seventh
year. is good for net annual profit of
$49O to $500 an acre. "Five acres of
this sort of property" it adds, ':would
be worth more to the owner than 100
acres of the best wheat land in the
state in the course of five years cult
vation."
On the farm of Cornell university. a
double Ioomed silo was built Of mason
ny last summer, and one outside of it
partly filed with fodder corn, which
has been sovn in rows, cut in fine
pieces. The whole was put under
high pressure. 1t was lately opened.
The contents Prof. Roberts regards as
well preserved. and will soon begin
feeding it to his stabbed cattle. 1t is
semi-dIy and has the tart smell, from
the partial fermentation which seems
| inevitable.
Emigration to Cape Colony from
Great Britain is fast increasing. For
1879 the returns show only 1882 emi-
grants; for 1880 the number was 1907;
for 1881 it was 4,163. These 4.163
consisted of 324 men for the govern
ment railways. 26l3 artisans and do
nestle servants, 758 agriculturists, and
46S recruits for the Cape mounted
rifleman. The agriculturists took out
with them in money alone an aggregate
of $77,325 or little over 800 for each
man, woman, and child.
It will be news to most people that
ostrich farming is attended with dan
gers to human life, although men en-
gagged in the business are not always
free from assault from some vicious
bird. In the district Of Victoria West,
Cape Colony. some weeks ago, a man
was actually kicked to death by an
ostrich on the public highway. Some
dispute arose between them as to the
right of way, and before they had set
tied it the bird had kicked and tram
pied on him until he was dead.
In Reimann's process for rendering
cloth waterproof the fabric is passed
slowly by machinery through tank
divided into three compartments, the
first containing warm solution of
alum, the second warm solution of
lead acetate, and the third pure water,
which is constantly renewed. The
cloth on passing from the latter is
brushed and beaten to remove the salt
adhearing TO the surface, and finally
hot-pressed and brushed. In this case
lead sulphate is deposited on the fi0ers
It is generally believed that a Mr..
Richardson, of New jersey, first intro
duced lung plague from England, in a
shipment Of short horns, and discover
ing the true nature of the disease,
stamped it out by the slaughter of his
whole heard. valued at $4,000. A
seGual to this is that some of the
neighbors had their stock infected by
using the hay taken from barn
where the diseased cattle had been.
There are, however, no recorded facts
by which this story can be corroborat-
ed.
| While opening up gravel pit near
Bellefontaine, O., last week, the work
men unearthed human skeleton that
had evidently been there many years
With it was fife, parts OF it, with the
metal mouthpiece, being in a good
state of preservation. Near the re-
mains Was n I1rUa oannop hofJ Tho