The Osceola times., 1884-03-01
RURAL BREVlTlES,


\ sp9n is ten and one half inches.
Repairing tools is now in order.
Soon you must say Come, Boys
Buckwheat, 81 pounds per bushel
4 tub of butter weighs 81 pounds.
A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A barrel Of flour weighs 1876 pounds
Oats, thirty three pounds per bushel.
Winter waning-spring approaching,
Our silk industry is still advancing.
\ firkin of butter weighs 50 pounds.
Timothy seed, 81 pounds per bushcl.
Improve the mind as wol as the soil
Barley, forty eight pounds per bushel.
Get good implements for spring work
Bran weighs twenty pounds per bush-
el
Manitoba received $1,000 immigrants
last year
The knack of foretelling the weather
The almanac.
Manure pear trees in the !all. Fresh
manure in the spring may cause blight.
The coal industry in Illinois yields
over l0,O00,000 tons year. and employs
$4,000 men.
The agricultural returns of Great Brit.
ain for 1883 gave the country 100000
cows and he'fers in calf
II is estimated that the dairy region OF
which Elgin, Illinois, is the center, pro
duccs 20,0OO,0OO gallons Of milk year
During 1855, about 100000 pounds
| of lead ore were mined in the vicinity OF
GAlcna,. III, and the industry daily in.
| CrcaSes.
The work of hauling logs is going on
vigorously IN the pineries of Michigan
where the snow is from five totem inches
deep.
Vile, stale butter, packed up at cuun-
try trading stores, where it has lain all
fall, is sold in some markets as good IA
Bile oleomargarine.
The oil belt of Wyoming is said To be
twice "a large as that of PENNSYLVANIA.
and railroad is soon TO be constructed
through the district
Corn is selling in Central Illnui, at
ten cents per bushel, il being so worthless
and immature that il will not keep and
is of little yalut for feed
During the year ending October li.-
! 7S0,iS5 salmon, weighing over 100000
pounds were taken from the Sacramento
river and tributaries.
There were shipped from Pittshurg on
Christmas day more than 100000 BUSH
els of coal The most Of it went 70 Gin.
cinnati and the South
Agents of a numberof Minnesota -four
mills are in Montreal soliciting orders
for American -four in view Of a short
wheat crop in Canada this year.
There is strong talk of supplying Lon.
don England with milk from Amster-
dam, Holland, in swift steamers, making
the passage in about twenty hours.
1t is believed that at least 5000 mile,
of wire fence have been destroyed il
Texas by the small herds, Coleman and
| Brown counties suffering the mCst
Mr. O. Mo1ct. O,tumwa, Iowa, raise.
carrots this year at the rate of 65S bush
| els per acre, some Of them two feet lon.
in the solid clay, and weighing fou
pounds each.
\ California editor describes q mon
ster Muscat grape, which, he says, bl
exact measurement, is -four and-hal
inches in diameter.
Nr. Jonathan Decker, RidgoWay y. Y
/ il nonorably mentioned as a neat an,
| practical farmer. His COrntield j. Mor
free of weeds and scattered huSke than
any ether in town
The Southern cotton factories rouslm
ed last year S3l 600 bales. being an in
crease yer the previous wear OF 5000
bales. They have double the consgmr
ton in The last four year,.
Admirers Of Hereford cattle claim fol
them strong constitutions. thick hide.
aud 80 q, VAIN coats of hair. and that
they tfcre'ore make excellent ranrh
ca'I" ~ 'h. Western plains
A. an Illustration Gthr Growth of th,
frozen uval business IN Australia. u.ls
be m ntiInCd in fact th3fa siuglc steam.
or the last week in N1ycmbrc took ort
/ 1900 ear"assc7 20 Great "tipi1.
Prof Nanbon, Of the Missouri A,r
/ cultural College, cl inns 20 have proven
| by a long practice that corn fodder h,- a
| Practical feeding yalr- ot tNo-,hirJ ia
/ three-quartcis tnat of good hay.
Az the latest Crystal Palace Pou..r,
/ Show in London there were so Eani. u.
fwls--cveral priced at Sly1 TO -.
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