New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-15
INDUSTRIAL BREy1TIEs.

A very deep well is being sunk at
White Plains, New, on what they call
the forty-m:..o desert, by the Central
Pacific Railway company as TEST
well, not alone for the satisfaction Oh
obtaining water for their own use, put
to determine the feasibility Of getting
it elsewhere on the line of their road,
as in other parts of the state. Inc
only good supply of water for the des-
ert is brought from the Truckee RIVER
thirty-five miles west of the new WE'LL
and is hauled in tank-cars for the sup
ply of engines and domestic purposes.
The well is now down over 2, 100 feet'
but no water has yet been found, asldet
from that which is hot or salt. IheS
work of sinking is, however, beng
continued, with the hope OF eventually
striking a flow of water.
The man who keeps an OK or con
until it pines with old age is double
loser by so doing. 1t invariably costs
more in food and care to maintain a
old animal than young one. As tic
vigor of life fails, digestion is less Pc
feet and assimilation slower and NOR
difficult, and the waste is greater. As
the decline goes on, more and more
food is required to produce milk or
meat. Old animals can be seldom tat
tened at profit where it requires 80
much more time and food to do 1t.
But their flesh is not equal to animals
in their prime, so there is loss, both
in quality and cost of producing.
The national interest awakened in
England by the recent ensilage exhlol-
ton at the Smithfeld club cattle show,
when samples from all parts OF the
kingdom were received, at the invita-
ton of Mr.. II. Kains-Jackson, has
prompted that gentleman to take
measures for the formation OF an en- I
Siege commission. It will meet early
in the spring to receive the voluntary
evidence of exhibitors and others, and,
by the courtesy Of the agricultural de-
partment of the privy council, will
sit at Al Parliament street. in room
placed at the disposal of Mr.. Kalns~
Jackson by Prof. Brown.
A remarkable occurrence is reported
from bennington park, England 1t
appears that herd of fifty cattle, be-
longing to Lord bennington, had been
turned into a pasture, where they
were we'll fed upon hay and oilcake..
On two sides of the pasture are woods
of which the underground is chiefly
yew, and one night the animals, break
ing through the fence, got among
these plants and ate them. Next,
morning large number of the herd
were found lying about under The trees
unable to move, while six were already
dead.
The expectation of oysters from
America to Europe is rapidly becom-
ing a business of Importance. The
figures have been steadily increasing
during the last six or seven years until
they have attained dimensions worthy
of being chronicled as feature OF our
growing trade with the old world
Good table oysters have been arriving
during the season at the rate OF several
Thousand barrels a week, and up to
the present time as many, probably,
as thirty thousand barrels have been
received,
The recipe for the government har-
ness dressing is as follows: one gallon;
ncats-foot oil. two pounds bayberry ia
low, two pounds beeswax, two pound
of tallow. Put the above in a pan over a
moderate fire. When thoroughly dis
solved add two quarts of caster-oil7
then, while on the fire, stir in one
ounce lamp black. Mix well and
strain through fine cloth to remove
sediment; let cool. and you have as.
fine dressing for harness or leather
of any kind as can be had.
By an order of the council at New
Zealand, dated Wellington, the 22nd
of November last, the Introduction of!
all dogs into the colony from Europe,
Asia, Africa, America, and the islands
of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian
oceans, except the Australasian colo
MES, is absolutely prohibited. The
order, however, will not apply to
animals shipped from the above named
countries before the LIST of June, 1885,
Statistics show that the wheat trade
of California, Oregon, and Washing
ton Territory with Europe give en-
p]oyment annually to more than four
hundred sailing vessels going round
Cape Horn. The average passage for
each vessel is about 10000 miles, in
an average time of little over four
months.
A farmer in northern Iowa finds
oats and peas cheaper than corn for
feeding pigs. He sows two bushel of
Canada peas and one of oats to the
acre, as early in the spring as the
ground will admit of seeding. he
begins to cut and feed them as soon as
the peas are of the size to use fol
cooking. The pigs eat the. vines as
well as the pods.
Every plant begins life like an ami.
mal-a consumer, not producer
Not until the young shoot rises above
the soil and unfolds itself to the light
of the sum-. at the touch Of whose rays
chlorophyl is created, does real con
structive vegetation begin. Then the
plants mode of life is reversed; car
bon is retained and oxygen is set free
A gentleman in Perry county. Hi
nOis. states that he finds fip GROWING