The Osceola times., 1883-06-02

The indications are that an increased
area will be devoted TO sorghum culture
this year.
The cranberry crop in 1889, for the
whole country, was estimated at 22,000
bushels.
The incubator which Mrs Fanny Field
has used successfully for two years cost
S75.
The land claims in Huron District. Da-
kota. during the last quarter of 1882
amounted 10 IA SS3 acres.
A bee-keeper at lIillsboro, Illinois, so.
cured from lO4 stands of hCea last f;tll
over 1000 pounds of strained honey.
At an elevator in Philadelphia, Pa,
10000 bushels of corn were put into an
ocean steamer in one hour lately.
The manufacture Of barhcd wine has
increased from enough in 1874 to build
ten miles of fence to enough in 1852 t.
build 100000 miles.
If experiments are not directed by
theory, they are blind if theory IS not
sustained by practice it is deceiving and
uncertain.
The Massachusetts, peach crop, which
last year was almost total fallnre, bids
fair to be a good one this year.
Flax Is cultivated as a field crop in
California for the seed only,
Bradstreet's thinks It high time that
pee pie found ont that sorghum syrup is
sweeter than glucose, and it predicts
prosper MS year for the now industry.
Mr.. Harris Lewis says strong COW
may be safely milked down Close to the
time of coming IN, bat a weaker one
should have two months rest.
President Samuel Campbell of the
Central New York Farmers Club, saws
the Virgalieu pear has come around all
right with him after period of bad
years"
Foot root may now becured with COM
parative ease by cutting away all the
loose and diseased parts of the hoof, and
then placing the foot in a solution of
blue vitrol.
Geese nests should be under cover and
sheltered from the told winds, the expo
sure toward the sunny south, and the
place retired.
1t is found by experiment that barley
terminates at lower temperature of
ground and air than oats. Hence, tar
ley should be sown as the first soiling
crop after the fall sowing of We has been
exhausted.
Olives can be successfully grown in
many places in the Southern States. An
entcrprising California farmer has an
acre which, plart ted eight years ago, bore
600 gallons of olives, equivalent TO $50
gallons Of oil, worth s. per gallon,
The increased appreciation Of the feed
ing value of cottonseed adds fully 25
per cent TO the industry of the cotton
states.
Mr.. Amos Flint, Waterford, Nc. has
found it more profitable to plant sweet
corn, pick the ears and ensilaue the fod-
der.
Texas wool growers arc complaining
of the scarcity of good shearers. Large
llocks of sheep are herded by one man,
and at shearing time the work requires
many expert hands if the shearing be
lone IN season.
The Now York State Dairymen's As
socation has petitioned congress to APP
propriatc $1,000 to stamp out the lung
plague among cattle in the United States.
A pasture of 529, 900 acres near Mobee-
tie, Texas, is to be stocked with native
cattle, mixed with somc fine breeding
stock from the blue grass region of Ken
lucky.
Prices for short horns arc ranging
higher thus far this season, and we pre-
dict very successful year and higher
prices for 1883 than for several years
previous.
In Italy wheat can be ripencd by the
end Of June, but in Europe it does not,
as a general thing ripen before the
month of August, and in some parts not
before September.
There are 10000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests in North Caro-
lima, which is estimated will be worth
in ten years time, more than the total
valuation of all of the property in the
state, including land