The Osceola times., 1883-12-29

NJ ules bring more than horses IN TEX
as.
Denmark makes the best butter ex-
tant.
English sparrows makes delicious pot
pie. -'s''s''--' ''--''-''''''''''
Chamber lye cures yellows in peach
trees. tt
Englishmen like black.fAced mutton
sheep.
Berkshire hogs, being lean, make good
bacon.
Best strawberry for Minnesota-th
Wilson. -.
Illinois has 400 cheese factories and
creameries.
Corn meal produces more milk than
sorghum meal does. ft ,
Cut hack sage plants in the fall to pre-
vent freezing out.
Strawberry plants should be packed
and set in damp moss.
Northern Maine is already buried un-
der six inches of snow.
Be careful how you give up the Wilson
strawberry for any other variety.
We the people annually eat $75, 100000
worth of eggs in this country.
One hundred bushels of shelled. corn
will shrink to ninety in the bin.
This years wool clip exceeds that oflast
year by 2O,0O0,OO0 pounds.
America has 10000, 900 head of cattle,
and has the range to supply ten times
that number.
Smut, rain in the shock and early
frost have greatly damaged the Dakota
wheat crop. .t st'i.tt tt s~
Another huge farm, 10000 acres, has
been opened on the Canadian Pacific
Railroad.
Eastern wool dealers say that. supply
is decreasing much more rapidly than
dema nd. ~ e et y
In whitewashing your hennery put
some kerosene oil into the mixture for
the hen lice. rysnt VI gEEay =
A New jersey farm has 1000 acres in
sorghum, and turns out now 1000 of
sugar daily. ~ A
st. Louis produce sdealers estimate
that tie supply Of quails this season will
be the largest ever known.
The increase in, the cotton-yield IN
Georgia for the past ten years Is nearly
100 per cent. or %l AL bales ~,
Il has been found that cream il more
easily churned when cows have been fed
on ensilage than on corn meal.
Get your buildings insured. If you
neglect TO do 1t you will rank well among
the nineteenth century fools.
Many costly fowl houses fail to keep
healthy the inmates principally because
of the absence of thorough ventilation.
The visible supply of wheat, corn and
oats in this country is now more than
twice what it was this time last year.
Manure applied to a?ple-trces little
after midsummer helps the fruit instead
of increasing the wood production.
II is now thought that the wheat sur
plus in Oregon and Washington Territory
will be 100000 tons less than we estima-
ted.
The Iowa State Agricultural Society
offers double the amount of premiums
to Holsteins and Jerseys that it does to
Shorthorns.
In the far west man advertises for a
woman "to wash, iron and milk one or
! two cows" What does he want his
cows washed and ironed for?
English papers say that the ran on
Hereford cattle by American buyers at
this is phenomenal, and the like was
nc ~-. '--,o'--- ,-.eso'
When you give an animal dose of
sulphur be careful to keep II warm after.
take cold easily. tt
An Ontario COW, Mary Anne of st.
I.amberts, has made l0s pounds of butter
in one month and 3l2 pounds in ninety
three consecutive days.
Ten million dollars are invested in the
dairy interests of the United States. The
products from this capital reach the
magnificent sum of $26,005,0OO.
The valuation of the taxable property
in the Southern States has increased, in
the aggregate, at the rate Of $l6O,176,757
annually, during the past four years. =
The Bronze turkey is the smallest de-
parture from the wild turkey in respect
to color, and a decided improvement
upon it both in size and luster of color.
A Baltimore firm has introduced the
fruit called Japanese persimmon into
this country, having planted 100000
trees. The fruit is said to be delicioua
The highest tree in the world, being
$50 feet in height, was found in Austria.
liza, and trees are frequently seen there
now which are more than 400 feet in
height. gIH.e. Nn.0. .L.tI
There is talk of converting the glucose
factory at Topeka, Kan, into sorghum
sugar works. This would b prsctieals
reform of an encouraging chalActse 7
California vineyards are rivaling her
mines as source Of pIoft. Her choicest
grapes sell st $40 per ton, and an acre
will produce six tons, while much larger
crops are often raised. rso uuEp
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A Hear Hunt In Indiana County.
Indiana Dernocraf