Morning journal and courier., 1884-03-07

sharp turn at right angles in narrow chan
 nel to enter the canal, while under the route
 asked for straight course will be had past
 Rocky Point to the canal. It is feared by
 sailing masters that the present route with
 the sudden turn at right angles in the course
 of vessels, with strong wind, would en.
 danger running ashore, and the change in
 course is asked for by the canal people, al-
 though it will lengthsn the canal by about a
 half mile and increase the cost of it's con-
 struction about $250, GOO. The length of the canal will be about 74 miles; nature has
 already dug the valley the entire distance so
 that there is comparatively little digging to
 be done. From the Sandwich side channel
 200 feet wide and 33 feet deep has been cut
 for several hundred feet from the oceans
 bed with dredging machine and some 50
 workmen are now engaged on the projsct.
 The Rev. Dr. J. E. CIouRh, who has been
 for twenty years missionary in India, is I now in this country, and has recently given ] some interesting facts concerning the intelh 1 gence of the people in that country. The masses, he says, are extremely ignorant, but ~-~S@S
 There is hardly town in which there are not 1 some men who have received the degree of
 Bachelor of Arts in the Madras University. They are well educated in every respect, and l speak English. They are mostly Brahmins, ] though there are some Mahometans among | the number. The Madras University is con
 ducted on plan similar to that of the Ger. man universities, where examinations are
 held every year and degrees are conferred. The university is conducted by the Cover.
 nors, and the examiners are twenty-five men
 of the highest education. The standard is very high. 'In passing the Memorial Hall
 in Madras, the day before I left, saw
 large crowd assembled, and stopped to in-
 quire what was going on. I was told that six
 hundred candidates were being examined
 among the middle-class students. There are two other classes. and each candidate is re- quired to pay the government, on presenting himself for examination, from to 10 rupees. rupee is about 50 cents, but money in India is worth about ten times as much as it is here, so you see how much is being spent by these young men. There is a perfect mania for education among the young men in India, and especially for the English branches and the sciences.''
 The dairy business of this country is s'a big thing" It requires 15,0OO.OOo COWS to supply the demand for milk and it's products in this country and the capital invested in the dairy ing business is over $2, GOO, GOO, 900. It requires the cultivation of over GO, 900, 900 acres of land to furnish food for the above number of COWS. More than $20o, ,OOo, ,OoO are invested in dairy machinery and imple- ments alone, The men employ ed number 7oO,- 900, and 1000, 900 horses are ne csssary The COWS and horses consume annually 30, 900, 900 tons of hay, 90, 900. .OO0 bushels of cornmsal and tho same amount of oatmeal, PTS, OeO, GOO bushels of oats, 2.00O, 900 bushels of bran and 30. GOO, 900 bushels of corn, to say noth- l ing of the brewery grains and questionable feed of various kinds that is used all ov>r the | country. It costs $16s, ,OOO. 900, or an average of $2O month per capita. Ths annual ! yield of the average COW is placed at 45O gal ! Ions, making the total milk product 6, 75o,- Ooo,0o gallons a year. The farmers receipts for this milk, averaging 1t at 12 cents a gallon. amount to $s1O, ,OOO, 900. Cheese ! and butter use up 50 per cent. of the milk ! yield. To make pound of cheese ten pounds of milk are required, and twenty seven pounds of milk make enc of butter. The comparative nutritive qualities of milk is as three and one-half pounds of prime 1 beef A fat steer furnishes 50 per cent of ! boneless beef, but it would require about l 24, ,000,o 900 steers, weighing 1,500 pounds 1 each, to produce the same amount of nutri- tion as the 15.000, 900 cows supply with their 1 annual yield of milk