Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1885-04-15
INDUSTRIAL BREYITIES

orally known, even by the WOrkmen
themselves, said mechanical engi.
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 corners where round mallet would
not 90. Stonc-masons use wooden
mallets because they are less likely
than iron hammers TO injure their
hands by missing the chisel. The
chisels are of iron throughout, and the
malet is made round SO that n 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 hole in it.
Mr.. l. ID. Reed, of Moran, Clinton
county Ind. writes to The Farmer,
published at Indianapolis: II see
that Mr.. Hill, of Randolph county,
describes large apple tree, and asks:
who can beat that?' 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 one that
measures 100 inches in circumference
two feet above the ground and is only
so years old. 1t is Vanderver and
bears good crop every year. The
limbs 80 feet high will support mans
weight. Then / have a yellow willow
80 years old that measures 10 feet and
8 inches, or 1873 inches in circumfer-
ence. Now go with me down along
the creek and see my sycamore that
measures 25 feet in circumference,
and, in the language of Mr.. Hill, we
say: who can beat thatP"
A Denver paper is authority for this
statement: Mr.. Pegram came to Col
orado from Des Moines, Iowa, at an
early day, before there were railroads
or telegraph lines or even a bridge
across the Missouri river. He drove
his family team. After arriving in
Denver and resting for day or two,
he turned his horses upon the prairie
adjoining the city to crop little grass.
Directly they skipped away. For
weeks he could not trace them, until
he received 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 tho Missouri
river, and had been but fifteen days in
doing it.
Robert Johnston gives an illustra-
tion of the value of q mellow and cul-
tivated soil for preserving moisture in
drought. A portion of his ground was
full of weed seeds, and to give the
Strawberries and vegetables fair
chance he had to keep up Il constant
/, cultivation. The season was very dry,
and so 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
8 to it.
9 The Wisconsin legislature has bill
. before it to establish an agricultural
q college separate from the State uni
= versity. The bill provides that a
!, board of regents, one member from
; each congressional district and two
3 from the state at large, for term of
= three years, be appointed and empow.
y cred to select site for the college.
;, rhe regents must be practical agricult-
:, urist The bill asks for an apprOpri-
. alton of $3.50, 600, to be paid in two
p, years. The farmers of the legislature
- have organized to secure legislation
: favorable to their interests.
4 Mr. McGeehon said at late meet
Il ing of the Iowa Horticultural society
Y that the Tyler appeared to be per.
d fectly hardy raspberry, at the same
time that it was vigorous grower, pro
f,,n Il ,.l,y la,.. IL