The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-04-01


mediate use, take can of concentrated
I've in six gallons of water, p"ur into
the barrel close the bung. rinse thor
oughly by frequent shakings, allowing
the liquid to remain one day in The
barrel then rinse the barrel thorough
ly with boiling water.
If you have a steam engine it can
be cleaned rapidly by boring hole
in the head and admitting steam
through the buDg for half an hour.
THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Should congress determine, in its
wisdom, to reduce or To abolish the
duties On imported sugars, it should
Most certainly provide bounty ON
sugars and syrups of home production.
These infant and struggling industries
are worthy Of protection. y large
sugar production within our own
boundaries would also he a source OF
independence in case of foreign war
Under large government bounty in
Germany, both beet culture and beet
sugar factories have increased rapidly.
Notwithstanding an apparent Owe =
production in beet-sugar in Germany.
vet ninety new factories are under
construction. What pity our
American farmers do not attempt to
raise, either from beets or sorghum,
the $1,000, 600. 900 worth Of sugar
consumed annually in this country.
MINOR MENTION.
Silo building for ensilage is growing
very popular.
Leghorn chickens are said to be
the best layers.
The fruit crop in Missouri is said to
be injured % per cent. by the severe
winter.
The yield and quality of wool is
greatly increased by the proper hous-
ing of sheep during winter.
Green following Is the best manure,
any green crop turned well under Is
good. Dut clover Il the best.
Poultry should have green feed all
+ the year. For winter Use turnip bits.
Carrots, onions and cabbage NAV be
used. Late cured hay and fiddler
leaves are also good. ANY ofthe above
should be chopped fine Tor use.
VALUE OF UNITED STATES FARMS.
/ The farms OF the Uuifed Stats are
worth sl0,lS7 ,O0O, 900, while ali
other real estate. Including the dwell
I ingS aud warehouses OF the city. the
capital employed in the business, AMI
the water-power besides, IL but So
/ SSl 900, 600; railroads and their
equipments are worth but 81, $50, 600;
and mines, including petroleum wells.
gold and silver bOnanzas, and stone
and other quarrIes, are worth but
100000. 900. To the $1,000, 600
invested in farming lands, New jersey
contributes the most valuable land
for while the average acre ut the
United States i worth but s19. OF the
New Jersey acre is worth 500 -.
FRANCE AGRICULTURE
About one-half of the population of
France lives by agriculture, wards
% 5000, 600 OF which people own and
cultivate their land, while 3,0O0,000
of these proprietors possess lots too
small to furnish living, hence work
occasionally as labOrers on the land of
Others. There are 500,00 farm ser
vaults.
COMPETITION AND FREIGHT TARIFF.
Excessive railway competition is
giving the gram shippers from Chic
ago 10 the seabOard the extraordinari.
ly low winter rate of twenty cents a
hundred pounds OH grain. There are
eight roads fighting for the business
which five carried in 1880. In busy
wears the railroads have heretofore
demanded thirty To thirty-fve cents
per 100 pounds Oh gram, winter de-
livery. Such reduction should help |
our export trade.
THE GERMAN HOP CROP.
The hop crop of the German en-
pire in 1883 vas a middle one, eSti-
mated at about ~ 600. 600 pounds or !
I'm average of Az pounds to the acre /
All Europe produced 4.04l ,77S,O00 !
gallons of ueer III 1883. OF which Ger /
many and England, nearly equal Sin |
manufactured nearly one
half. In Germany the average an
nual consumption of beer per head of
population is l34, 40 quarts in En-
gland, l25. 10 quarts in Belgium
1925 quarts in all Europe about
twenty quarts per head. In 1888 this
country produced 376.775 gallons of