Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-25
ITEMS OF INDUSTRY.

and better results are obtained by pre-
pairing fresh piece Of land, setting
Jew plants, and cultivating them the
entire GUNNER. then by producing them
from an old bed.
The yield of wheat and barley last
year I'm Morocco was fair in quantity
and good in quality. But az usual
none was allowed to be shipped, and
In order To prevent seizure 10y the local
sheikhs the farmers have been obliged
TO hide great quantity of this grain
underground, the amount thus stored
throughout the country being calcu-
lated at something enormous.
The interest Of sheep husbandry in
Kansas has in the last two years in
creased rapidly. The boundless ranges
OF pasture land in the west are just
receiving recognition, and sheep are
being brought IN in large numbers.
The increase since March, 1880, has
been rapid. In that year the assessors
returns gave as the total number Of
sheep In the state, 426, 1872; in 1881,
SO6,323; while tho estimates of reli-
able sheep-men place the number,
NAoaNA - AOO-f az AsCNOfVNOs
Speaking of the heredity Of diseases
and the importance of sound breeding
stock, Manly Miles gives the following
case In illustration: A mare affected
with ring-bone, that untitled her for
farm work, was kept as a breeder for
several years. Her colts were quiet
uniform In folm and color, and, as
they showed no indications of the
disease when two or three years old, they
found ready buyers at good prices. At
the age OF i've or six years, however,
they all had ring. bone to greater OF
less extent, and several were entirely
disabled.
The prevalence Of pleuro-p pneumonia
among cows on the north side of
Queens county. New York, has caused
considerable alarm among the farmers
and stock-raisers of Long Island. In
the vicinity of Westbury, Glenhead,
Mineola, and Glen Cove, a number of
valuable milch-cows have died of the
disease. New cases are reported daily,
and a number of the largest stables
have been quarautined. Cows found
Immediately killed. The manner in
which pleuro-pneumonia was intro.
duced on Long island remains mys.
terry.
The salary expenses of the depart
ment OF agriculture amount to $32,-
500, divided as follows: Pay of com
missioner, 1000; chief clerk, chemist,
entomologist, statistican, and superin
tendent Of the experimental garden,
$4,000 each; microscopic, botanist,
disbursing clerk, superintendent of seed
room, and librarian, $500 each; as
sistant chemist, $500; engineer, 81
400; assistant superintendent OF the
experimental garden, assistant superin-
tendent OF the see6-room. and superin-
tendent of seed bags, 81. 200 each; two
museum attendants, $1,000 each; a
carpenter, 1860. Hire of help and in.
cidental expenses run up the total an
nual outlay to about $4,000.
Attention has lately been called In
Germany to an art that used to bs
secretly practiced in Germany and En-.
gland by skilled carp-breeders, but
which seems to have been lost durins
the present century. 1t was claimed
by experts a hundred years or 30 age
that castrated fish were as much super
Tor in flesh to the uncut as the capor
is To the ordinary cock. or an OK to th'
bull. For such experiments young
but full-grown, fish should be selected
perhaps or 3 year old trout, who's,
generative matter has not yet beer
fully developed (the time for trou
would, therefore, be April and May
None should engage in such expert
ments but those who possess the neces
sary leisure and knowledge.
A speechrecorder called glosso
graph has been invented by A. Gentilli
of Vienna 1t is described as a com
bination of delicate levers and blades
which, being placed upon the tongue
and lips and under the nostrils OF 8
speaker, are vibrated by the move
ments Of the former and the breath
flowing from the latter. This vibra
ton is transmitted to pencils. These
transcribe the several signs produced
by the action of the tongue and lips
and the breath from the nostrils upor
a strip of paper moved by mechani
cal arrangement, and thus special
system of writing, which may bt
termed glossography, is produced. Thi;
Is based upon the principle Of syllable
construction and combination of conso
nants.
a novel apparatus for separating
gold from sand without the use OF
water was recently completed and test
ed in New York. 1t is intended fol
use in the placer regions of the west
Mexico. and Central America where
gold-bearing sand is found at dis
lance from water sufficient for hydrau.
lie mining. The machine is about five
feet in diameter, and is arranged t.
throw tho sand in centrifugal fore,
against "wall" OF mercury, maintain
ed IN position by centrifugal action
In this way, IL is claimed, every par
ticle of gold Is brought in contact with