Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-01
INDUSTRIAL BREYITIEs

White Plains. New, on what they call
the forty-mile desert, by the Central
Pacific Railway company as q test
well, not alone for tho satisfaction of
obtaining water for their own use, but
to determine the feasibility of getting
it elsewhere on the line of their road,
as in other parts of the state. The
only good supply of water for the des-
ert is brought from the Truckee river,
thirty-ive miles west of the new well,
and is hauled in tank-cars for the sup.
ply Of engines and domestic purposes.
The we'll is now down over 2,lOO feet,
but no water has yet been found, aside
from that which is hot or salt. The
work of sinking is, however, being
continued, with the hope of eventually
striking How of water.
The man who keeps an OK or COW
until it pines with old age is double
loser by so doing. 1t invariably costs
more in food and care to maintain an
old animal than young one. As the
vigor of life fails, digestion is less per-
feet and assimilation slower and more
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 fat
tened at profit where it requires so
much more time and food to do it.
But their flesh is not equal to animals
IN their prime, so there is a loss, both
in quality and cost of producing.
The national interest awakened in
England by the recent ensilage exhibi-
ton at the SmithtieId 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-
Siege commission. 1t 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 A Parliament street, in room
placed at the disposal of Mr.. Kains-
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 a 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 d 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 a 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
ueats-foot oil. two pounds i,ayberry tai
low, two pounds beeswaX, two pounds
OF tallow Put the above in pan over q
moderate fire. When thoroughly dis
solved add two quarts of caster-oi};
then, while on the fire, stir in one
ounce lamp-black. Mix we'll and
strain through a tine cloth to remove
sediment; let cool, and you have SIS
fine dressing for harness or leather
Of any kind as can be had.
By an order Of the council at New
Zea land. 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, aud Indian
oceans, except the AustEalasian colo
MES, is absolutely prohibited. The
order, however, viii 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 10 more tnan four
hundred sailing vessels goinr round
Cape Horn. The average passage for
each vessel is about 10000 miles, in
an average time OF q little ever 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 rs soon as
the peas are of the size to use for
cooking. The pigs eat the vines as
well as the pods.
Every plant begins life like an ami
mal-a consumer, not a producer.
Not until the young shoot rises above
the soil and unfolds itself to the light
of the sun, at the touch Of whose rays
chlorophyl is creatcd, does real con-
structive vegetation begin. linen the
plants mode Of life is reversed; car
bon is retained and oxygen is set free.
Sir Thomas Brassoy proposes to
make an extensive experiment Ill CO.
operative agriculture. He is making
arrangements with 4 large number of
tenant farmers and farm lahorcrs to
work one OF MS estates auU oii'tlt !ltc
profits.
A gentleman in Perry county, Hi
nois, states that he finds fg growing
very profita bic. He has raised tfem
during the past ten years and bats cX-
peyienced very little trouble i'll pro-
tecting the trees. They produce three
crops a year
The loss of many cattle from eating
corn fodder containing smut is report
ed in various iowa papers. In nearly
every instance the cattle had been de-
prived of water for several days at
time. ss%
, An eastern poultry raiser recon-
mends feeding fresh and dried blood
to fowls. He states that it IS not only
the best, but the cheapest, f~o,l for