Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-09-02
InIrstr:al PrAvities


 Two ladies in Burlington, Iowa, are engaged in silk culture, and are meet ing with good success.
 A gentleman who has travelled extens- ive.y thrcUgh the western states says that the best corn is in Indiana.
 According to an English poultry au- thority, MT. Tegetmeier, yolks of large and small eggs are generally of the same size.
 A Shetland mare belonging at Mauch Chunk, Pn., has colt that weighs 12 pounds and measures nineteen inches in height.
 Wolves are very troublesome in Key holds county. Missouri where they have not only attacked sheep, but have killed two colts.
 Cuba is chiefly supplied with beef cattle raised in southern Florida. The quality of the meat is poor, but the an- imals are raised at very small cost.
 A young farmer in southern Illinois has noticed that the common swallow dcyours more chinchbugs than any bird common to the grain-Srowing re- zion.
 It was reported at the nurserymen's convention recently held at Rochester, N. Y, that nearly all the pear trees set out in the western states are raised in i New York.
 Griffin, Ga, has the largest peach orchard in the south, containing 50,00U trees and covering most of 600 acres.- On the same farm are 1000 grafted ap- 1 pie trees and 5000 pear trees.
 A farmerin England raises 1,200 ducks each year for the Loudon market Many of them are matched III the winter, and are kept under cover till the approach of cold weather.
 The far-famed Duke of Connaught, the highest-p priced bull ever sold, is in cluded in Lord Fitzharding's sale. A reserved bid of S25, 900 will, however, probably retain him at Berkeley castle.
 A new use for glass has recently been developed in its substitution for marble tops of tables and dressing cases. A Pittsburgh firm has turned out slabs of glass that are said to be perfect imi- tation of the latter material, while they admit of decorations of various designs, both in form and color.
 The agricultural department will in future make special efforts to collection publication crop and market reports of
  Loring has just appointed Edward J. Motfat, of New York, agent for the de- paNment for this purpose. He will be made deputy at the London consul gen. eralship.
 Torgrow strawberry plants in pots, sink small tiower-pots filled with ricE soil under the ends of the runners, and hold them there with a stone or weight of any kind. A wire in the shape of 6 hair-pin is as good as anything to pir them down. In three weeks the little pots will be filled with roots, and the plants may be set new beds, by thump ing them out of the pots.
 Jerusalem artichokes have long beer known as a most valuable addition tC the rations of hogs, but the fact tha they are even more valuable as an ad dition to the diet of cattle seems to bt less generally recognized. They ar, hardy, yield fair crops on poor andverI , large ones or rich soil; are more nutri tious than the potato. and once planted ' there will be no need for replanting, a they are not easily got cut of a piece o land after they have become establish J ed.
 l It is thought that the demand for cheap insulating material has been me by q discovery of method by whicl : wood, sawdust, cotton waste, pape pulp, and other tibrous substances cal be converted into a material perfectl. } impervious to moisture and acids, easi ly nodded under pressure into any shape l and capable of being worked or cut in , to any form. This material is an excel 5 lent non-conduc;or Of electricity, an l can be used for all forms of batter cells, telegraph insulators. supports to electric-lght leads, and telephone work X It affords the means of securing perfeo i insulation at very much less cost tha I ebonite or gutta percha.