The Osceola times., 1884-03-15

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Though inventions abound, property
in patents continues ~ uncertain rs ever
The thermometer dropped 10 ~ de-
grees below zero at st. Johns, y. b., re-
Gently.
Feeding carrots, turnips or other roots
un nwashed Is both sloyenly and danger
Gus.
Forty-three millions of dollars is the
sum required to complete the improve
ments Of the Mississippi,
st. Louis produce dealers esti mate that
the supply Of quails will he the largest
ever known
The Alyarado, Cal, Beet Sugar Compa.
ny purpose establishing dairy of one
hundred and fifty cows.
A correspondent asks if there aIe any
Black Faced Scotch sheep in America .
None that we know Of
Advices from Alabama and Florida
state that the late cold snap caused i'm
mense damage to the orange groves
1t is now said by competent authorities
llldt lllt norm Ol II NltfI OF ltlltI II no
indication of the age of the animal
Hen manure is good for onions. There
is some dispute as to the value, of the ad-
dition of ashes 10 that fertilizer.
general national exhibition will be
held at Budapest, Hungary, in 1885, open
ing in May and closing in October.
In herds of cattle where all are with
cut horns, thpIp is no more evidence Of
fear than IN hotks ofshccp or pigs
Maine reports about fifty cheese factJ-
ries, the number Of cows to each ranging
from 60 to 800, about 100 being the aver
age.
Florida growers aid the heading OF
cabbages by sprinkling little salt into
the heart and tyin. up the leaves with
twine.
DIR. Pratt feeds his Holstcln cows cut
corn, with corn in, bu; mostly soft cusil-
age, good hay and little oil meal and
bran.
The highest priced ram at the Austria
lian sale in September last, supposed TO
be pure Merino, is said to have a Lincoln
cross.
Now is the time that the horse will
show care. 4 horse well kept in winter
is better able 10 endure the hard work Of
summer.
MANY farmers who secure for them
selves all the labor-saving improvements
are slow in arranging similar helpa for
their wives,
At its last animal meeting the Indiana
State Board of Agriculture decided to
hold a fat-stock show in addition to the
general fair.
Mr.. l.. ID. Mason, South Tamworth \.
H.. thinks that cured corn fodder gives
better results than the sgme crop preserv-
ed in silo.
An extraordinary case of late breeding
is that of the English mare pony, thirty
four years old, whose first foal appeared
last April
The value of the exports of petroleum
products last year was more than hree
millions ofdollars in excess ofthe amount
the year before.
The sales of thoroughbred Aberdeen.
Angus and ShOrt-horn cattle in Scotland
last year footed up $40 head, for which
sll3,OO0 was paid.
The New York Tribune suggests that
We know hext to nothing Yet OF milk,
and wants some expert to devote his life
TO its Investigation.
The seed stock Of a new pea, that
grows bushy and has to stand six inches
apart in the row, is said I, have been
.old for 8 900 bushel.
At the late English Fat Stock Show at
Birmingham three Lincolnshire wcthcrS
aggregated sos pounds, at the age of
twenty-one months.
II is said that the annual value of the
dairy products of Illinois, more than 400
creameries aud cheese factories, is nearly
sixteen million dollars.
of Boston's weekly beet supply 500
0O0 pounds, or three fourths of all, zones,
| il is said from Chicago, as dresse quar-
ters in refrigerator cars.
Some retail grocers OF New York have
the name of buying butterine for eight
cen cents per pound and selling IT from
thirty to forty cents.
The Mennonites in Nebraska fbuild
dams across the ravines on their farms,
and in this simple way store up all the
water needed for their stock.
The country S suffering from a tre-
mendous over-stock of dog supply. Five
per cent. Of the CANNES in the United
States could do all the business.
Tue sheep returns for 1883 show an in
crease more than sufficient to Offset the
| loss in 1882 IN England and a satisiacto-
~ gain in Scotland and Wales also.
When your Liolting fowls seem to lag
and suffer, and the new plumage is long
in coming, a. il the fowls had lost
strength, then if the hest time tor iron
and tonic.