The Opelousas courier., 1884-03-01
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Complaints are coming from Colo
IN that pasturage Is actually becom-
= scarce on the great plains. The
ssehers have entered homesteads Of
ss9 acres each, and also pre-empted
.nather I66 acres along the few water
s.Isss aad around the springs. Oc-
m4gsing these they practically control
saasands of acres of government
s-sss lands on either side, which, with.
mt water, are absolutely useless for
as purpose, and for which the gov
srsfnent receives no compensation. 1t
vauId seem, says the Boston CultioG-
Is d IL some legislation should be
IA offering these g~rass-lands on the
MARKET 1T a price which would justify
sstlebreeders in purchasing them.
Il il estimated that the grass of TWEEN
aeres Is required fer the support of
single animal, andso the price should
s@essarily be much below that of ara
Sc lands.
IL summary of the work of the
tinted States fish commissioner for
se past year has been published. It
nnpears that owe As, 000 900 white-fsh
IL we're placed in the great lakes,
at carp were spread quite thorough
pTef The Union. and that samples
Sahing from five to seven pounds
lie already being caught in southern
ssters. The only kind of fish propa-
Is the gold fish. Shad to the
agulaer of 100000 were planted
Il the Sacramento river eight
ars age, and now they are sold at
Faget Sound at twenty-five cents per
hundred. They are produced by the
ammission at a cost of sixty dollars
pg million. During the past year
$1,000 shad fry were planted in the
illinois river at Peoria and the same
number at Havana. $4,000 herring
we're put into that river at Peoria.
These young shad and herring are still
d hi heard from.
Boston paper having asserted
Hat the Americans do not understand
BE art of eating, and that, with few
RECEPTIONS, they do not know what
gQHd food is, and that these exceptions
III mostly people who have been
a1Epad. Philadelphia Progress dis
vents, and says: Sin their homes Amer
lsans do not often have good eating
ngt because they do not know what it
but because they cannot induce the
A5sae authorities to give that import
Nee to the table it deserves. It is in
America, as everywhere else-the Wom-
folks will not take the necessary
toable for good eating. The best
Sbiy eating is in those houses where
men do the marketing and are not
eFe p~ottering around the kitchen.
Iaa American man would like to be a
Riyant, but the American woman
not let him. 1t is not through ig-
NTance that the majority Of family ta-
ms are what they are, or even through
anomy but through carelessness and
illness. 1t is quite a task to order q
kdod dinner. but nine American men
of ten can do it, and do it when
e are at the clubs or at a frstrclass
aurant and their pocket-books are
espulmodating."
AR English journal, In publishing
sties rs to the immense quantities
lind held by English noblemen and
ers ii the United States, reports
Iat Mi y. j. Reed. NJ. n, owns no less
Ban 100000 acres Of ranch land; the
Daka If Sutherland, 100000 ditto; the
of Dunmore, 100000 ditto; andt the
of Dunrayen, GOO, 900 acres ditto;
N6ssrs. Phillips. Marshall 81 Co own
$4,000 ditto; the heirs of Col. MUIR
100000 acres ditto: III. Diston
100000 acres Florida swamp
d and the Standard Oil Company,
g49g.N00 acres. II appears that nine
own d territory equal to that Of
Hampshire, Massachusetts and
o1s Island combined. Then there
a great railroad corporations,
Nastse free gifts Of land from lavish
Congresses amount to upwards Of ZOO
900 acres. Eleven of these corpo-
aaa ppiy have received 120,000sO00
The Northern Pacific road had
amounting to 10000 900 acres,
other grants made have ranged
100000 acre apwards. Nearly
fhis land except the p stonswamp-
Grant ID Florida is situated on
great plains in what is called the
uarisan Desert and is used for
grazing.
saas Dit Spsst1ssrsa C~sgEfoSsM5as
3ha orange groves. orchards and