Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-05
FARM NOTES.


Gently given to the differences between
the rain of the city and the country.
The country rain is neutral and is con-
sidered the best adapted for human con-
sumption of any found above the earth,
on the earth, or under the earth. The
rain that falls in the cities, on the 9TH
er hand, is acid, cOrrOding metals
stones and bricks and mortar crumble
before it It's evil effects are visible
on every side, in paint. in all decora-
tons. and, in fact, almost everything
erected by man. The purest rain is
that collected at the sea coast, more
especially at considerable heights, while
organic matter in the air usually cor.
responds with the density of popula-
ton.
Prof. Riley says: 1t has long been
known that the Hessian fly flOurishes
most when the chinch-bug hourishes
least in other words, that wet wealth
er favcrs the former Moisture seems
essential to the well-being of the Larvae
The prejudicial effect of drouth upon
the species has not hitherto been OBJ
served, that we are aware of, but was
very noticeable the present year in
parts OF Ohio. where the puparia liter
ally dried up.
or nearly 100000 acres embraced
IN the state of Nebraska, not over g.
5OO,OOO acres are cultivated in cereals.
OF live stock there are in the state
2O4, l44 horses, 620.363 oxen. 2S5, 935
sheep and 1,241.724 hogs. The COM
mercial establishments number 1877;
hands employed, 1881 capital invested,
A,348.7SO; wages paid $1,716,279;
products, $l6.670,090; and the asses
sed value of property is given at $780,
100000.
Sugar refners all over the world had
better look out for squalls. Mr.. F. A.
Bonnetin, of Mauritius, has invented a
method by the use of which sugar can
be refined with unskilled labor at the
place of production, and at very little
cost; in fact he claims that by extract
ing more of the juice than has hither-
to been obtained from the cane he can
make refined sugar more cheaply than
the raw article has formerly been pro-
duced.
Wheat is now sown in nine months
of the year in England: that is, from
August to April. October and Novem-
Der are the principal months, however,
for this work. The advocates of thin
seeding prefer early sowing, while it is
advantageous to SOW thicker as the
season advances
Cattle are now shipped from Pitts
burgh to Philadelphia in fast trains,
in order to comply with the law which
fOrbids the KEEPING of live stock in
cars over twenty-fOur hours without
unloading to feed.
Many invalids resorted to the hop
fields in central New York at the sea-
son of picking last fall and expressed
the opinion that they derived great ben
eft from the OdOr given off by the bios
SONS.
A patent has been granted for a
plan of making live hedges by cutting
the roots of the plants OH one side, and
tipping them over at an angle of forty
five degrees in the line of the hedge
If the owner of cow will realize the
fact that unless she pays him in clear
cash siisO yearly she is kept at loss,
he will soon become interested in the
subject of the improvement of cows.
One of the Injuries of the Troy
market at present is the Saratoga wa
tercress. The cultivation of thi plant
was begun ayear ago and it will prob
ably become quite an idustry.
1t is calculated that e5,00O,OOO, OOO
of gold and silver have been extracted
from the earth since the discovery of
gold mines in California.
A farm in Hancock, n. H., which
was assessed at $500, had an apple
crop, this year, for which the owner
received $500.
The young shoots of hops are used
for greens in Bavaria, and are Pref er.
red to asparagus.