Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-03-20
INDUSTRIAL BREvTTIES.

something OF novelty ls found in
an advertisement in the English Agrt-
cultural Gazette which offers twin
bred rams" These rams were got by
twin rams, with additional twin blood
further back. They are offered for
sale in the belief that fecundity is
transmissible, and that they have in
herited n tendency to produce twins.
A correspondent of the same paper
says he turned 4-year-old ram in
with flock Of two hundred ewes, re-
moving the ewes AS they were dis
covered marked from service, and that
he had 212 lambs from the flock, the
ram remaining with the ewes only
four or five weeks.
A person who has just seen the ac-
count of the death of boy through
swallowing glass which was IN rome
marmalade he was eating, writes to n
London paper to say that he and
member of his family narrowly es-
saped swallowing glass under sin liar
circumstances at separate times and
in different houses, and in both in
stances the glass was found in plum
tarts, the fruit having been preserved
in glass bottles. In each case il was
ascertained that the cook, finding q
difficulty in getting the preserved
fruit out of the neck of the bottle, had
knocked off the top Of the bottle with
knife.
The agricultural returns for Great
Britain, taken on June 4 last, show
that there were gall 127 cattle, 26,
O37, ,217 sheep and lambs, and 1882, 1928
pigs. Compared with the numbers
two years since, there has been an in
crease of "a per cent in cattle, over z
per cent in sheep, and nearly per
cent in pigs. There has also been an
increase in the acreage of grain crops.
In ireland there has been decrease
in acreage under tillage, but n slight
increase in number of cattle, sheep,
and horses, piggs showing slight de-
crease.
| Prof Meehan recommends for ever
green hedges, for ornamental bOun-
daries. Norway spruce, Scotch pine,
hemlOck, and Chinese and American
arbOr vite; and for dwarf dividing
lines, the golden RetinispOra, and
dwarf forms of arbOr vitG. Almost
any thick growing shrubs make hand
some deciduOus hedges. Dwarf hedges
are also made of hOrnbeams, dog
woods, fly honey -suckles, barberries,
and Japan snOwballs.
HerefOrds are being exported to
New Zealand. At a late public sale
held at Brisbane bull brought $4,000
third prise Hereford bulls at Shrews-
bury, in class for pair of bulls ca'ved
in 1888, has been sold by Mr. John
Hill, of FelhamptOn Court, to 60 to
BuenOs Ayres. The youngest is % son
of the famous Merry Monarch.
OF the wheat imported into Great
Britain for seven months in 1884 the
United States furnished 13,773, $50, a
little over half, India less than one
sixth, Russia about One-tenth, Aus
: tralia less than one-tenth; 876, ,057 600
pounds of -four were imported in the
} seven months; of this the United
} States sent 599, SOB, 800 pounds.
A new enemy to the beet-root plan
tatioDs has app cared in Scania, Swe-
den, in the shape of the spinach fly
(.4hthOmyia Sptndcte). 1t has previ-
ously been known as an enemy to
spinach, but this year it has also at
tackled the beet-rOOt plants. DIR.
Iolmgren believes that its appearance
is only periodical. ..., .., ,-'~-
From July to Aug. 81 the ship
mCnts of wheat from San San Fran
cisco amounted to 1896. COZ centals-
,425, OLA for Great Britain, 263, 030 foI
Belgium, 1868 for Central America
and 995 miscellaneous. For the same
period in 1883 the total shipment was
1909, 904 centals, and in 1882 2,1S7,'
11c enntalo