The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-07-19
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ALTHOUGH the greatest cOtton-growcr,
Texas plants about 10000 acres more corn
thnrlsotton.
Cantaleup planting Is the craze among the
farmers around Austin, Texas.
The recent forest fires In Georgia have
eUuSed loss Of $4,000 To the State.
The production of rasins In California now
reaches 10000 boxes annually.
the hay crop In New Hampshire. Farmers
are catching them AT the rate of ten bushels
psr day and burning them.
The official estimate OF the wheat crop of
South Australia Is now only bushels per
acre. The first estimates were ~ bushels per
acre, then fell 10 10, and afterward TO o, and
now officially TOT.
The latest advices from India state that the
zrain business Is far from showing the ac-
AVity which marked the summer OF 1883, and
~ long as India wheat remains nj Its present
low prices In European markets the native
growers will sell with extreme reluctance.
There has been an analysis OF tin discovered
NJ Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and II
Is said 10 be 50 satisfactory Ia the compal IS
owning the mine that preparations for sink
ing two tunnels have already commenced
Henry Froohling, achemist, reports that hi,
assay OF specimens of ore yield 6S.0S per cent
ufmctallic tin.
Mr. John \ Bohrcr, OF Southmayd, Texas
writes: ~ have II heifor calf seven month,
old which weighs so pounds. II is seven
eighthS shorthOrn, but bred and raised here. :
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the Maxwell Land Grant 4 Railway com
pany, involving the title Of about jO0,OOO acre
N land In what Is known rs the Maxwell
grant, In New Mexico, which has been In lit
cation for many years, has been finally de
dided 10y the supreme court OF the TERRITORY
In favor OF Mr. Thompson.
A six-legged calf was found by the Judith
Montana Territory, roundup recently.
The nature OF glucose Is 10 make n close
sticky sugar; II does not produce grains, lllS,
cane. Tile poariscope readily exposes an
adulteraiton NJ sugar, but there Is need q
Hlne ready household test by which house
keepers who can not afford q pOariscopc cal
tell whether they are buying cane sugar %
glucose The glucose Is not harmful ms food
but Its sweetcnlng properties are limited
The official test OF cut loaf sugar Is 100 = cent
other refined sugars In humps do not Away
reach that test, Al present the precise form
NJ the genuine cut-loaf sugar has not beef
oOuntprfeited.
IL Is said tina, Green county, Wisconsin. 4
the American lamburg. In that count,
there nre Is llmburgcr cheese factories
using nearly 2O,DOO lbs of milk daily the pro
duce OF $50 cows, and making AlSl ibs a
cheese cach day. Sixty thousand lbs OF mill
aro also used daily in - Swiss cheese hlcto
ries, which make 800 lhs OF cheese. Their
are also American factories, using 2,8l
COWS, and 1000 lbs of milk, and making dali
700 TBS Of cheese Other localities In th
State and other parts ofthe United States ar
beginning TO compete In this fancy chocs
The Wyoming Hereford association has 70
oently sold two pure-bred Hereford yearlln
bulls TO West Meyer at 500 piece; to th
Horse Creek Land and Cattle company olgh
tsen head for 5000
For mutton, Prof Brown. OF the GuelpI
Agricultural College, says In his exporlenc
Deicestefs are ahead OF all others In putin
on hesh In the shortest time. In early ma
turing he gives the following MS the result q
personal observations: Ielcesters. South
down, Southdown cross, Leicester crOsy OK
ford down cross, Cotswold being tho sloweai
Considerable pressure Is being brought I,
hoor upon Western fair managers TO secure
separate class for Guernsey cattlc.