Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-05-10
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INDUSTRIAL BREVITIES.

some hope that at last the cattle
plague is abating in those districts of
| the Russian interior where for more
than year it has been raging in every
village In the Petrovski district, l.
926 head of cattle were attacked by
the disease during the first half of last
year, the deaths for the whole year
amounting to 1,72l head. The average
loss in each village is sixty head of
cattle. At the beginning of the pres
ent year an insurance company was
started, in which cattle can be insured
This shows that the Russian villagers
are ut last learning by experience. Not
long ago their superstition would not
allow them to insure either themselves
or their goods and chattles. Insurance
was held to be Il challenge to the gods,
and evil consequences were held tn be
sure to follow.
An American who visited France
said the gardeners are very careful
about the manner of gathering their
asparagus. They say that the neat as
paragus knives advertised in the cata-
logues are intended for delicate people
who are afraid of soiling their fingers,
and the only proper way is to pick the
quite important to break them off at
the point where they are united to the
root, rather than i'm the ground above
this point, as we usually do. They re-
move little earth about the shoot
with the hand, then work the fore and
middle fingers into the soil near the
point of attachment, when Slight
pressure of the finger under the base
e - Ln Iat fn
clean off at the root.
There are now 314 cotton-mills in
tho southern states, having 1875, ,432
spindles and 24,S73 looms, while at the
time the census was taken in 1890 the
south had only lS0 mills, 1888 spin
dies and 222 looms. The largest
increase in the number of mills was
made in North Carolina, where II gain
of i3 mills and 1889 spindlcs is eX-
hibited. while Georgia made an in
crease Of 1863, 1876 spindles and 2mills.
In 1880 the value of the manufactured
> cotton produced at the south was Il
:, little over S2l 600 900, while in 1888
4 the value had risen to between $50
q 600, 900 and $40, ,000, 600. During three
:, wears and a half about $40, 600, 600 has
/ been invested by new and old southern
n cotton-mills in machinery.
= Mr.. T. Nj. Augur, of MiddletOwn,
e Conn, the efficient pomologist, claims
q that twenty pounds of Concord grapes
+, can be grown as easily as ten pounds
q of Delawarcs, but as the latter variety
st usually bring two or more times as
If high price as the former, there is no
n great difference in the net profits OF
If the two sorts. Six tons is n good yield
IS of Concords per acre, and there are
n single vineyards on the banks OF the
it Hudson river from which ninety tons
1T are annually shipped to market. A
e. popular method of training is upon 4
= twine-wire trellis, with new canes
ty grown every yearfor next years fruit
| ing.
=" Edwin +. Smith, secretary Of the
~ California state agricultural bureau
-, says the reports from his correspond
u. ents shows that unless some disaster
w OvertakeS it, the Pacific coast will hay,
an unprecedented wheat yielo tina
will exceed the crop of 1880, if it es
capes the hot north winds Of May anC
June, which usually come about th'
IS time the grain is in dough. The Sacra
ne mento and San joaquin valleys viii
ch profit greatly by the bountful rain
e. which fell in March. The yield il
W these valleys may safely be placed Il
inn 60 per cent in excess Of last year
as crop, if the effect Of the hot winds b
passed.
cu Several eastern pOultry-raisers AZ
Us employing turkeys for Matching egg
We In some cases the same bird ha