The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1883-02-15
NOTES.

Some idea of the service which the
hen renders to humanity may be OBJ
tanned from the statement that New
York city consumes $lS,000,000 worth
of eggs annually, and the consumption
of the entire country is estimated at
about $75 900, 900 worth.
A noted dairyman says: "Of the $40
per year which the milk of a COW draws
from the fertility of farm seven
eighths is contained in the skim milk
which is fed to the hogs. Nearly all
the other eighth is in the buttermilk.
Not more than cents of the $40 is in
the butter"
All kinds of roots in the cellar will
keep better if little fresh dirt is
thrown over them. For beets and tur-
nips this is very important, these roots
drying up or becoming tough and taste
less if exposed TO the air. IL is not too
late 10 get some sods in The cellar dur
ing mild days in winter.
Experiments made in tho Neither
lands. in the inspection of American
salted pork, bacon and hams, revealed
50 samples infested with trichina out
of 1890 samples examined; yet no tri-
chinosis has ever been reported from
that country as result of eating pork.
The examiners say that the salt kills the
parasites.
The London Gorden recommends a
weak solution of corrosive sublimate
applied to lawns which are disf2ured
by the depredations of worms. Half a
pound of the corrosive sublimate is dis
solved in four gallons Of water, and TO
each half pint of this is added four gal
Ions more of water. The lawns are
then showered with it.
A Texas paper describes an 5000
acre ranch in that State entirely devot-
ed to the breeding of ponies for chill
dren. The breeding stock consists of
seven Shetland stations and forty-five
mares, all thoroughbreds, and 200
small spotted pony mares. These little
ponies range over the prairies like
sheep, and are described as very gentle.
England exported 900 horses in the
first eleven months of 1882, against s.
726 in 1881 and 4,S45 in 18S0-and all
this in the face of the fact that that
country is a constant purchaser of
horses for general purpose use. The
exports of 1882 were valued at 81 ,S62,-
1920, or about $3O6.S5 each. France is
the heaviest customer, taking ,942 head.
Russia leads the world in the number
of its horses, possessing a total of &c.
414,OOO head. The United States comes
second with about 10, 155, 600 head, and
the present fine outlook in horse-breed
ing indicates that we will eventually
stand at the head. In the matter of
quality England should, perhaps, be
accorded the leading position.
The Ais street railways in this coun-
try and Canada run 1900 cars, and
more than 100000 horses are in daily
use. Calculating that the average life
of horse in street railway service is
four years, it makes the consumption
ofhorses $4,000 per year. To feed this
vast number of horses requires annually
10000 tons of hay and II, O0O, 600 bush
els of grain.
A medical journal cites Instances
where milk that has stood short time
in the presence of persons sick with
typhoid fever, or been handled by par
ties before fully recovering from the
smallpox, spread these diseases as eff
fectually as if the persons themselves
had been present. Scarletina, measles
and other contagious diseases have
been spread in the same way.