The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-15

INDUSTRIAL BREvITIES.

themselves, Sdlu u m0CudulCdl cHSl
neer. The handles of carpenters CHS
els are made of wood, and if they
should strike them with a metal ham
mer the handles would crack. This
necessitates the use of wooden mallets,
and they must be large in order to
have the proper weight. They are
made square SO that they may be used
in corner where a round mallet would
not go. Stone-masons use wooden
mallets because they are less likely
than iron hammers to injure their
hands by missing the chisel. The
ichisels are of iron throughout, and the
mallet is made round so that a differ
ent part may strike on the chisel at
each blow. The mason turns his ham
mer as he works, otherwise the iron
tool would soon bore a hole in it.
Mr.. l. d. Reed, of Moran, Clinton
county, Ind, writes to The Farmer.
published at Indianapolis: 81 sec
that Mr.. Hill, of Randolph county,.
describes u large apple tree, and asks:
Who a beat thatP' His tree meas
ures 81 inches and is about 20 years
old. l have on my farm, eight miles
north of Frankfort. Clinton county,
several of that size, and n that
measures 100 inches in circumference
two feet above the ground and is only
90 years old. 1t is a Vanderver and
bears a good crop every year. The
limbs 80 feet high will support Il mans
weight. Then I have n yellow willow
80 years old that measures Is feet and
ence. Now go with me down along
I fhn nrnnL n~( M M /, ~, Avn fhof
measures rs feet in circumference.
and, in the language of Mr.. Hill. we
say: who a beat that?'"
A Denver paper is authority for this
statement: MI. Fsgram came to Col
orado from Des Moines, Iowa, at an
early day, before there were railroads
or telegraph lines OF eve a bridge
across the Missouri river. He drove
his family team. After arriving in
Denver and resting for a day or two,
he turned his horses upon the prairie
adjoining the city to crop a little grass.
Directly they skipped away. For
weeks he could not trace them, until
he received a letter from his home in
Iowa, informing him that they had ar
rived there safe and sound, but a little
down in flesh. They had travelled six
hundred miles, swan the Missouri
river. and had been but fifteen days in
doing it.
Returns of the comparative number
of farm animals to the department of
agriculture show an increase of 4 per
cent in horses, 3 in mules and 8 in cat
tie, 2 per cent in swine, with II small
decrease of sheep. There has been a
decline in values of 2per cent in horses
and mules. 5 Ter cen in cows, 2 in.
other cattle, and 10in sheep and swine.
The average values are: Horses,
$3.50; mules, 1872. 3S; cows, S29. 70;
other cattle, $23.O2; sheep, S2.14;
swine, 1902. The value of cattle ag-
gregates 81, 10Y, 900, 600; all domestic
animals IN farm and ranch, 80, 1885,
00O, 900.
Robert Johnston gives an illustra-
ton OF the value of a mellow and cul-
tivated soil for preserving moisture in
drought. A portion of ms ground was
full of weed seeds, and to give the
Strawberries and vegetables a fair
chance he had to keep up Il constant
cultivation. The season was very dry,
and Sc great was the contrast between
this portion of his garden and the rest
that persons who stopped and saw the
difference would hardly believe that
it was not in consequence of the mel
low and cultivated portion being
watered, although no water was given
to it..
The Wisconsin legislature has a bill
before it to establish an agricultural
college separate from the State uni
versity. The bill provides that a
board of regents, n member from
each congressional district and two
from the state at large, for a term OF
three years, be appointed and empow-
cred to select a site for the college.
The regents must be practical agricult-
urist. The bill asks for an appropri-
alton OF Sl5O,OOO. to be paid in two
years. The farmers of the legislature
have organized to secure legislation
favorable to their interests.
MIR. McGeehon said at a late meet
ing of the Iowa horticultural society
that the Tyler appeared to be a per-
fectly hardy raspberry, at the same
time that 1t was a vigorous grower, pro-
tusely productive, early, and large. He
began picking for market June q,
and the Gregg July 5. He regarded
the Shattcr as one of the best sorts,
enduring severe winters and bearing
good crops. 1t exceeds other sorts in
large growth and size of berries, It
is too soft for long carriage if fully
ripe.
The famous Holstein COW Echo,
owned by E. G.. Stevens, proprietor of
the Maplewood stock farm. Utica, N.
| dioI Eafr,yJnr Nf,,ol I.
the most valuable Holstein COW ever
known, her owner having recently re-
fused an offer of 1925. 900 for her. She
had the largest milk record of any
COW OF any breed in the world. A few
days before her death she had given
birth to three male calves, all of Which
were well-formed and healthy animals.
A Vermont paper describing the
manner by which hickory nuts which
had been drying all winter were made
to grow. Under ordinary treatment
the young sprouts would never reach
the outside of the dried, and hardened
shell. Each nut was placed in a wise.
aud the screw cautiously turned till
the shell was heard to crack-but not
broken open-then dropped into water
three or four days, and planted in mel
low soil; and most of them grew.
A correspondent of a Galveston
paper declares that Texas offers better
inducements to the f%ruit-raisers than
any state in the union. He says that
the climate is equal to that of Califor-
mia and the soil much better. The dc.
mand for fruit of all kinds is very large
and prices are higher than in any part
of the country.
Hon. Thomas Sturgis, of Cheyenne,
| who is reparded as Gnnd anthnritu o.