The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-10
Industrial. 3tfms.

There are $50 butter and cream
factories in Iowa. ''-a'
A cherry tree at Chico, Cal, is
said to have yielded 1900 pounds of
fruit.
Maine s potato crop last year was
worth $4,000, 900. The potato crop
of the State is worth six times as
much as it's apple crop.
Experiments at the Michigan Ag-
ricultural College have shown that
wheat sown later than September
Goth, escapedinjury fromthe Hessian
I1y. -,ls
France has agricultural schools
for girls. One of the chief is near
Rouen, and has 300 girls from six to
eighteen years of age. The farm is
over 400 acres,
California is Dragging Of raising
Bartlett pears which weigh Il
pounds each, at an altitude OF $500
feet above the sea level, but these
monstrouspears have nomore flavor
than a turnip. a.. ...a ,sl.D..
A willow farm in Macon, GA, pro-
duces about a ton of switches to the
acre, commanding, when dried, 5000,
and as the leaves and bark sell at
twenty-five cents a pound baled, the
enterprise pays better than cotton.
The wonderful increase of the
dairy business in Wisconsin is
shown from the following figures:
The value of the product in 1872
WIS e-sihsa+ed~a t~~s4,GS19a lie
yearly value of the butter and
cheese product is now estimated at
500, 200, 600.
During the last year bees in Ohio
gathered 1,731,O95 pounds of honey,
estimated to be worth $276,975,
while the fowls produced 2,602,3 21-
dozen of eggs, valued at sf,,S90,34S.
The value of the eggs was nearly
equal to chat of the wool produced
in the State.
A "chicken ranch" has been es-
tablished on Long Island, with Il
capital of 100000. Eggs are to be
Matched by incubators, and the a
ayers Of the company expect to keep
about 100000 fowls of different ages,
and to furnish a thousand "broilers"
a day for the New York market.
In considering the power availa-
bic for industries in steam and water,
we find the United States takes
prominent rank, with 600
horse power in steam, and 81, $780,
OO0-horse power in it's rivers. The
United Kingdom has 7,7SO, OOO-horse
power in steam, and but 4,52O,00O-
horse power in its rivers Germany,
4,325,O0O steam, and 6,04O 900 rivers;
France, 3,573,O00 steam, and $780,
900 rivers; Russia, 1865, 900 steam,
and 36, 115,0 900 rivers; Austria, l.
100000 and 5,s30,OOO; Italy, $780,
900, and $4,000 90; Belgium, 595,-
900 and 100000; Holland 216, 900
steam horse power, with GAG, 600
rivers horse power. All Europe
represents 2O,917,OO0 steam horse
PO"oi: oiIu =, river morse
power. The steam power above rep
resented may be considered in ac-
tive use, but In the case of the rivers.
less than onetenth of the power is
turned to practical account.
There is probably no section of
the country in which more progress
has been made in farming than in
the South. The old large planta-
too unwieldy for careful man
agement, are being broken up, and
instead of the one staple, cotton, a
diversified agriculture is taking its
place. By growing his own pork,
corn and other food products, the
is becoming more indepen-
dent OF the grocery, and his crop is
longer martgaged d a4l it viii
bring before Il il pady for market.
tosthis . yariety of manufac.
it1dhstrids Aave been started.
tfesepr01niseto hive tho South
hfllfel 4 gIHofaef mmarket for, his
ertk hspe long IA msziaar 6G
$1,000. M4sss5s II