Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-16
EXCHANGE GLEANINGS.

month OF June-Dlne-tenJnS OF WnlCn
goes to those who were "enlisted men"
Walter Mcfarland, a young man
about twenty years of age, was acci
dentally drowned, while bathing in a
pond near Beckwlth, Sunday. -Leba-
non Herald.
Gov-elect Hale, of New Hampshire,
has purchased for $4,000 a forty-acre
tract of land at Point Shirley, and will
spend 100000 in building a summer
residence there.
The only real information now at
hand upon our grain crop is the proof
which the fiscal year offers that the
demand in this country has increased
so much faster than the supply, that
available margin Of export has been
much diminished. Philadelphia Press.
Chattanooga's fruit trade has been
built up in four years. The first ship
ment of strawberries was made April
49,. Since then total has been reach
ed stated at 495,602 pounds, making
the total receipts $40, 800; expense of
packing and shipping, $1,000, leaving
$4,000, Out of this $1,000 was paid
pickers, leaving net gain to shippers
of $26, 900, an increase in amount of
300 per cent over that of last year.
The South has now almost ready for
market the largest crop of Irish pota.
toes she has ever produced, A portion
Of the crop is already figuring among
the spectators, as they are selling
freely for June delivery,at prices rang
ing at 50 to S2.75 per barrel, accord
ing to location, etc. Procuring pack
ages proves to be tedious and expensive
work, as cooper shops are exceedingly
scarce throughout the South. E.
Farmer.
Gallatin Tennessean: This week
has been occupied by the closing exer-
cises Of Prof. Burney's school, and has
been one of much interest to the peo-
!
pie Of Gallatin. The teachers may
justly feel proud of the result of their
ten months labors as indexed by the
exhibition during the past few days;
for it is clearly shown that under the
management of Prof. Burney, aided
by his worthy, estimable and talented
assistants, the school made rapid strides
in the acquisition of knowledge.
New England Farmer: A Lansing
burg, N. Y. firm has almost completed
4 a paper boat for Pittsburg
L company. Its length is twenty
a feet. 1t has seating capacity for q
, persons and carrying capacity o
t three tons. The sheathing is soli'
d body of paper, three-eighths of an incl
+ thick. bullet from a revolver, fire,
+ at the sheathing from a distance of onl
four feet, neither penetrated nor mad
h an abrasion in it.
. With all the discouraging reports c
u crops in the North, it is agreeable t
" read of wheat and oats, such as ar
J found near Chattanooga: "The wheg
$ was the finest specimen of the kind W
have ever seen at this time of the yeal
Il The heads were thickley crowded wit
s. gram, and meshes well filed. Til
> grain was almost perfect, requirin
Is only few days to complete its growth
0 The oats were certainly fine. I'll
stalks were six feet high, and Ii
heads full and perfect. "-Cincinna
News. p
Secretary Fishe, of the Illinois D,
s. partment of Agriculture, lately recei
IS ed from Colonel John Lynch, of Olne,
| ILL.,, several stools of wheat damage
l. by the new wheat insect, the whei
ID bulb worm. On the samples wei
found specimens of this insect in val
D Gus stages Of development, some ha
st ing as many as five active little fellow
e, at work sapping the life from the plan
L. The egg is brown, and looks much liE
Of that of the Hessian fly. The pest a
" pears first as small pale green grul
lg which burrows in the base of the whe,
e. stalk, scrapping away their substan'
>, and cutting them down. 1t is no
q changing into the chrysalis state, fro
ID which it will emerge later in the seast
d, a minute fy.-Cincinnati News.