The Osceola times., 1883-12-15

Several Connecticut farmers have
changed from rye to wheat as winter
grain crop.
The next term of the dairymen's As
sociation will be held at Rochester next |
February.
Texas, with its millions worth of cattle |
starves for beefhalf the year, If not more.
The average annual consumption of
bread in the United States is $50 pounds |
per head.
The number of hogs in Texas is insult. |
ficient TO make enough lard for home
use.
In some districts of Ontario the hops
will not be picked as the crop has been
complete failure.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
Short-horn breeders Association will be
held at Detroit Dec. 8.
The fish commission is preparing TO
send out several hundred thousand baby
carp to all parts of the country.
Eighteen Georgia counties have abol-
ished fences. The problem is what lovers
will do for gates to swing on.
All fruit should be carefully assorted
before packing, as inferior fruit not only
rots quickly but spoils what is good.
Leather that has become hardened by
water may be made as soft and pliable as
when new by the use of kerosene.
So general a failure as that of this sea-
son OF the grass seed crop Of Germany
has not occurred for years previous.
At the Royal Agricultural Society Cat
tie Show in England two Short-horn
cows took the first and second prises.
The area devoted to spring wheat in
Kansas steadily decreases since 1873,
this year TO the extent of over $4,000
acres.
Keep your butter jars looking nice. 1t
helps the sale of butter to have clean,
weIl-kept jar Decorate" it Angelinel |:
Russia is losing her preeminenoe as
the granary of Europe, in the face of the
intense competition of America and In
dia.
The murrain prevails among the cattle
Of several counties in Tennessee, and
many valuable animals have been lost.
Europe has taken nearly 100000
bushels more American corn for first
nine months of 1883 than for the same
time in 1882
The next meeting of the American
Pathological Society will be held in
Michigan. Time and place not decided
upon.
Only twelve to fifteen per cent. of bran
at the highest is extracted from the
grain used to TO make flour for the Aus
trian military bread.
This years California wine crop, it is
said, will be 40 per cent less than sup
posed, the total yield not exceeding 10,-
100000 gallons.
The chair Of agricultural chemistry has
been established in the Ohio State Uni
versity, but nobody has yet been found
to sit in the chair.
Mr.. st. John, of Newton, Iowa, trains
his grape vines on elm trees, and claims
that he secures fine fruit every year and
free from rot.
A little farm well titled and little
wife well willed, is better than big farm
which is mal-treated and big wife who
will maul-treat-you.
The English Breeders of Berkshire
swine have recently organized to publish
herd book to record the pure Berk-
shires on that side of the water.
The export of cattle to Great Britain
for the four months ending September
30th is greater in value than for the
twelve months of the previous year.
There is a strong western demand for
young cattle to feed the coming winter,
and young feeders have been relatively
higher than beeves.
Before you begin to store your fruits
and vegetables in the cellar, give it a
thorough cleaning out and airing ending
up with a good whitewashing.
The state of New York claims one and
a half million cows, the annual products
of which are worth one hundred million
dollars. Does the dairy business pay?
Much depends upon the care which
colts receive during their first winter.
Oats are excellent for them; if corn is
used, il should be feed with wheat bran
Since the first appropriation for the
purpose made eighty years ago, the gov
ernment has expended $l05 100000 for
the improvement of harbors and rivers.
The product of the dairy is commend.
ed as a crop" The most hourishing
branch of British agriculture, during the
last year or two, has been dairy farming.
Several slaughter houses are operating
in Texas exclusively on beeves for ship
ment East and North in refrigerator cars
and the business is growing enormously.
A gigantic land steal, involving sever
al million acres of the best redwood tim
Der in California, has been discovered,
and will be investigated by the grand
jury.
The present years wheat yield in CAL
ifornia, is estimated by the California
Grain Exchange Committee at 53,OOO,OO
bushels, and the yield of barley sat 15,-
100000 bushels.
The London Fisheries Exhibition
awarded l47 prizes to the United States.
The United States Fish Commission gets
Is gold and silver medals, besides two
diplomas.