Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-04-12
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layers, j. rs three or four to one. IN
favorable instances individual hens
have been known to produce 200 eggs
per year. Yet 200 is reached so seldom
as TO be called a remarkable yield. The
graateet average yield that wc have
ever mad ourselves, in a Il Jck of twelve
hens. was la eggs per aunum, while
the greatest average III twelve hOcks,
numbering in all ZOO layers of various
breeds, was 1O2 eggs. In the latter
Gags there were eight different breeds,
and some were old hens and Utuer~
were pulets, and many of the number
were employed part of the time
Matching and rearing chickens.
Crop reports received from every
section Of Walla Walla, COlumU Uia, Gar
field, and Whitman counties, in Wash
ington territory, and Umatilia county,
Oregon, place the average fall-,own
wheat ut 36 per cent greater than last
year, not | percent OF which was
damaged by cold. The conditions for
spring sowing were never b, tier. In
the Willamette valley nearly all the
fields affected by the freeze have been
resown. This state of affairs was pos
. sibe, on account of the extraordinary
fine weather for the past twcnty-four
days. In that time the highest ther-
mometer has been 6S, and the lowest
81 The greatest velocity OF wind was
twelve miles per hour, and not "A drop
of rain.
Nj. Barrel, of the National Agri-
cultural society of france, anticipates
that within thirty years as great II
revolution will have been affected by
electricity as has been affected by
steam in the last thirty. Among uses
to which it has already been pat for
agricultural purposes he mentioned
Defoy's curb bit for breaking horses,
the electric sieve used in mills. expert
ments of the use of the electric light ON
plants, the Felix electric plow and saws
one a circular saw, which cuts up
whole trunks of trees into planks, the
other vertical saw, which does the
finest kind of work. Electricity is also
employed successfully for artificial in
cubation and for trying" eggs.
Boracic acid is a white, crystalline,
non-volatile substance, quite bland, un.
irritating in solution, aud not poison
Gus. 1t is odorleSS, almost tasteless
and gives colorless solutions 1t is
OlttH Oulbihtd W hCtOLI tut
biborate of soda with surphuric acid.
The supply is therefore abundant and
its manufacture inexpensive. 1t is
peculiar rs to solubility Cold water
and alcohol di>solves and holds in solu-
ton only eighteen grains TO the fluid
ounce of water. Hot glycerine, however,
dissolves $50 grams To fluid the ounce,
and holds it perfectly on cooliRg. l. is
not soluble in vaseline, parat1ine way,
oil, or spermaccu.
There were 1870 patents granted in
Germany between May and October.
for inventions connected with electric
ity. TIE phones are being adopted on
Il scale f increasing Importance in
thai coun ry, there being now-accord-
ing 10 ,ne statements made at a recent
meeting of the Berlin Electr0technical
society-telephCn arrangements in
eighteen German cities, comprising
3,7SS different stations. The total
length of the telegraphic liues used in
the above telephone service is $40 miles,
these lines comprising single wires
4,0l7 miles in length.
M. Regnard, French savant. has
been lately trying the effect of "blood
diet on lambs. Three lambs, which
for some unexplained cause had been
abar doned by their mothers, were fed
on powdered blood" with the most
crafty inc results. Thelambs increased
in size IN the most marvellous fashion,
and attained unusual proportions for
their age. The coats of wool also be-
came double in thickness. Encouraged
by his success with the lambs, NJ. Reg
nard is now feeding some calves on