Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-07

during the recent ice jam in Chesa-
peake Bay millions Of ducks were
crowded into small open spaces Of Va.
ter, This afforded sportsman and bot.
hunters line opportunities for killing
them, and great numbers were slaugh.
tered. One man is reported TO have
killed thirty-two At single shot.
Prof. Henry ofthe Wisconsin Exper-
iment Station is satisfied that 100
pounds of skinned milk Il worth d half
bnshel of corn meal for feeding hogs,
provided that meal is fed with the milk
m proper proportions, which he esti-
mates ut two pounds of meal for three
and one-half pounds Of milk.
Paper Is used az substitute for wood
% the manufacturing of flooring. A
skating rink in Indianapolis is furnished
with q paper floor which is az smooth
as sheet of Ice, there being no seams
that can be seen or felt, and in addition
there is an adhesive quality which pre-
vents any slipping OF rollers.
The royal commissioners appointed
to inquire into the effects OF Chinese i'm.
migration into British Columbia found
that last year the Chinese paid 25 per
cent of the whole import duties, and
two-thirds Of the excise duties. In
Victoria they paid the municipal treas
ury about s., 500 in 1888.
4 A barometer is simply bent tube
filed with murcury, like q with one
long leg and one short one, The short
end is open to the air, the long end is
closed and is vacuum, that is, has no
air. The weight OF the air upon the
quicksilver in the short arm causes it
to rise in the long arm to height suffi-
cient to balance the weight OF the air.
Dry air is heavy, and the mercury
rises; wet air is light, SO the mercury
falls. This makes the barometer a
weather-glass.
Fishermen who supply the markets
in central and southern Illinois are said
to use nets with meshes so small that
the sonng fish are taken with the old.
On the stands in st. Louis fish not
much larger than pumpkin seeds and
selling for 10 cents dozen are display
ed. A number of the fishing clubs de-
mand repressive legislation against
these pot fishermen.
If Christ had -not-died- for thee thou
hadst- been-damned Dobbins was the
name of a man in England in the days
Of the Roundheads, but Dorchester
county, Nd, presents two names al
most as odd. The owner Of the names
still live near Cambridge, on the Chop.
tank. They are Julia Jane Augusta
Dominica Rastis Ro Bo Bnstis Jack
and John Henry Land Runner Runs
out-and Surveyor Bandana BeaverDam
Rendezvous God Bless Bustieue.'
In the United States there are II, 900
dentists who use ton Of gold and FIVE
tons Of other metals and make 1000,
600 artificial teeth annually. Only one
American in eighty is found to have
perfect teeth, and ono third of the pop.
ulation make more or less use Of the
artificial product.
Quails afe now SO abundant in Califor-
mia that they thrs,aag the roadways,
~n,le rewards are offered by farmers in
southern counties for killing this bird,
which destroys much grain, the Aleme-
da and Contra Costo farmers say the
quail is useful TO them Itattacks their
grain only as last resort Ind chiefly
subsists upon insects.
An entry in Washingtons diary, dated
February. TICS, shows the great nun
Der of visitors he entertained at that
time. Would any person believe" he
says, "that with 101 cows actually re.
ported at a late enumeration Of my cat.
tloI should still be obliged 10 buy but
teri"
The lumber World makes the astound-
ing assertion that the loss TO this coun-
try through forest fires il now not less
than $500, 600, 900 a year, simply through
the destruction Of available timber
without counting additional loss from
the annihilation Of the young growth
and the seeds scattered on the surface.
and the scorching Of the ground, which
often renders it sterile for generation.