Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-15
Industrial Breritfes.
MONTHLY CHARGES FOR PAsTuRING-
AN INCREASED DrNarn RON rrapsrs

MONTHLY CHARGES FOR PASTURNG-
AN INCREASED DEMAND FOR HORSES
AS TO sEED coRN-soMETHING ABOUT
FowLs-FERTIIITY OF THE sssoUDAN',
SOME BIG WOOL CLIPs-THE CON-
SUMPTION OF CHEESE NEAT
TRADE SONS BEES NOT TO BE DIsPIsED
AND A GREAT MANY OTHER INDUSTRIAL.
NOTES aHAT ARE ENcELLENT READING.
In mos. portions of northern Illin>
ols the charge for pSsturing cattle is
% cents per month and for horses
from 81 to $3.50.
There is demand for horses to use
In the suppression of the rebellion in
western Canada, and it is difficult To
supply it as the animals are all want.
ed on farms st this season or the year.
The legislature of Texas has passed
a law requiring all the railway COM
panles in that state to provide double
decked cars for persons desiring to
transport sheep and hogs.
A Massachusetts, farmer during two
years planted seed-cora from the seed
end and stem~end separately. Both
years the seed-end gave him a crop
from twelve to fourteen days earlier
than that from the stem-end.
In several counties in this state ten.
ants are ready TO give half of all they
raise on q slace for the use of it. In
some places landowners can obtain
almost any rent they choose to ask,
as the number of tenants is very large.
All fowls that feather slowly are
usually hardy. For instance, the
Brahmas. Ii is owing TO the fact that
the drain upon the system occasioned
by the quick feathering does not
weaken them. Slow feathering while
growing is indicative of hardness.
An officer in the English army In
the Soudan writes: There are Run-
dreds of thousands of acres that will
grow anything in the world-sugar,
maize, cotton. There is no limit to
the produce that may be taken from
the soil without any manuring or
costly cultivation.
A little charcoal fed two or three
times 8 week TO the pigs is beneficial
in correcting acidity OF the stomach,
to which hogs are liable when fed
upon corn and confined in a pen.
They will eat it greedily and fatten
much more readily with charcoal
than without.
Statistics show that the people OF
this country consume about four and
one half pounds of cheese per capita,
while the people of England consume
about fourteen pounds per capita ans
nually. The argument that cheese
is not a wholesome article of food, it
would seem, would not hold good in
the light of this fact, as the agricul-
tural classes of England, who are
large consumers of cheese, are among
the most robust and healthy people Of
the world.
At the annual sheep shearing fes-
tlval of the Vermont Merino Sheep.
Shearing Association. held in Middle
bury, Mr.. ]. L Buttolph's ram,
Burr" sheared thirty eight pounds
and thirteen ounces, two ounces more
than there is any authentic record of
any previous shearing. The heaviest
we fleece taken weighed twenty one
pounds and nine ounces, and was
sheared from eve owned by Mr.. III.
Q. Burwell, of Brldport.
To place tin-foil on Japan tin with
a mucilege or cement so that it will
dry and cleave to the Japan so firmly
that water and weather will not re-
move it, make a dilute solution of
white gelatine or isinglass; he proper
are one to twenty. add
little potassium bichromate,, and APP
ply 1t by means of pencil or sponge
Ii does not adhere at once, but will do
so in short while.
j. M. Smith. of Green Bay, Wis, is
to have raised some years
ago 3,741 quarts of Wilson's straw
berries on fourth of an acre, or at
the rate of 446 bushels per acre. He
cultivated in matted rows two feet
wide, with space of two feet between.
The plants were mulched for winter
and early spring. A good covering of
well rotted manure-15 or 20 bushels
an acre or 70 bushels of unleached
applied early IN the sea.
son. All weeds were destroyed at
whatever cost. As for watering when
dry, one thorough wetting was found
better than three sprinklings.
A correspondent of an Indiana pa
per writes: There is an apple tree on
the farm of William Critics, in Greene
county, some two miles east OF the
town of Worthington, which meas
ures eleven feet in circumference and
has top of sixty feet across. This
tree is a seeding. 1t was planted
about the year 1919, by Isaac Stalcup,
and has borne fruit every year since
1926. The tree is healthy and flour
lshing. We .have the largest syca
more in the state-47 feet inches in
So far as | am in
it is the largest in the United
States.
The frozen meat trade to England
has acquired enormous proportions in
the last few years According to the
medical officer of health of the port of
London, the imports of frozen meat
into that port, during 1884, amounted
to GIG, 324 sheep and 49, ,377 quarters
of beef. Most of these supplies arriv-
ed Gin magnificent condition." but in
some cases, much damage occurred
during the voyage, involving heavy
loss to the importers. On one ship
which arrived in August, 2,279 quar-
ters of beef were destroyed out OF
total of 2,289. but such proportion
was exceptional.
Bees in Tunis are dark-even dark
er than our common black bees-but,
strange to say, they possess nearly the
qualities of Syrian bees, and show,
except in color. very little resem>
bIance to the black or German bees.
Like Cyprians and Syrians, they are
somewhat smaller bodied than are
the common bees, and they There
very well to the combs when well
handled, butcan be shaken off readily.
They are also active and energetic
workers; but, unlike the CyprIans
and Syrians, they are liable at times