Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-15

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Wales and Queensland, in order tc
keep the jack rabbits out of the latter
country. Australia is paying not less
than $125,000 per year to keep the
pests down in what is known as Crown
lands. The offer is still kept up oi
$l0O,0 900 to any man who will produce
something that will exterminate the
pests.
1t is certainly much to be regretted
that so few farmers keep. accurate re-
cords of their operations. A double
loss results to themselves and to the
public. It is all absolute loss to any
man to have no actual knowledge of
his business affairs, based upon re-
corded facts. And it is public loss
to have no accurate record of the re-
suits of the most important industry
of !he country, being that upon which
the prosperity of all others is found
to depend.
The annual product OF honey in
America is 2S,OOO,00O pounds, or half
a pound apiece to the population. In
1880 Tennessee made 2,131 900; New
York, 2,0S9,000; Ohio, 1927 900
North Carolina, l,501 600; Kentucky,
1900, O,565; and seven other States
Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia
produced more than 100000
pounds each; altogether in the States
named more than half the entire pro-
duct of the country.
An apple should never at any time,
while being handled or stored, become
cooler than the surrounding atmos-
phere. If it does not 1t will never
"sweat," for this ''sweat" is simply at
mosphe1ic moisture. precipitated up
on the cool apple, precisely as it is
precipitated on the outside of pitch
er of ice water in summer. An ap-
pie can not be made to "sweat" in any
true sense. The skin of all sound,
smooth apples is nearly as air and
water tight as India rubber.
Although iIslTnense quantities of
Chicago dressed beef are daily shipped
to Eastern points for consumption,
and sold at prices paying heavy pro-
fits to the dressed-beef magnates of
The West, yet the trade in dressed
mutton has not been so successfully
conducted. The principal reason
seems to be that almost Immediately
the mutton is removed from the re-
frigerator car, and hung in the provis-
ion store, it turns black, its unsightly
appearance checking its sale.
On recent morning every can of
milk coming into New York was ex-
amined by the State dairy inspectors.
The total number of cans inspected
was 5,728, and of this number only
fifteen of a doubtful character were
found. Samples of these were taken
for analysis, They showed light per-
centage OF cream, indicating that the
milk had been SKINNED. The result
of the inspection shows that the milk
row coming to the city over the rail
roads named is of better quality than
ever before.
AS a general rule the following con-
stitutes carload: 10000 pounds or
70 barrels of salt, 20 of lime, 80 Of
flour, go of whisky, 200 sacks of flour,
cords of hardwood, cords Of soft
wood, IS to 20 head of cattle, 80 to 60
head OF hogs, so to 100 head of sheep,
$40 bushels of wheat, $50 of corp,
$50 of oats, 400 of barley, $50 of ap-
pies, $50 of Irish potatoes, 356 OF
sweet potatoes, 1000 bushels of bran.
Stronger cars are now built to carry
much heavier loads.
No farmer is a good feeder who does
not study the individual peculiarities
of his animals. Some require more
than others, and to give too much is
as bad as to feed too sparingly. In
the same litter of pigs some will be
(larger than others. Some will fatten
readily, while others just as thrifty
will grow long and large in frame,
with less fat. These last, whether
male or female, should be reserved for
breeding. Food has something to do
with this, but individual peculiarities
of different animals has quite as
much.
A man. living near Santa Cruz has
been catching quail in peculiar way.
For three weeks he has been spread
ing grain in the road near his place,
where the quail abound. On the day
the law was out he put wheat in the
place as usual, but had previously
soaked the wheat in whisky. Watch
ing the place, he saw the quail come
out, eat, get drunk, and in short
time lie down stupified. He then
went to them and gathered about one
hundred in a sack that he carried with
him. A few that were not fully drunk
were caught by his dog. He has
practiced the same method since sue
cessfully.
A Tompkins. County correspondent
of the New York Tribune writes: "It
is profitable business raising winter
lambs, but, like any other, success is
the reward OF close attention. Lambs
last winter sold for $12 in January,
and then along down to Sc in the last
of April. The extra feed and care for
the ewes is nearly paid for in their SUI
perior condition for mutton in early
spring, when mutton is scarce. A
shepherd can care for herd of one
hundred and fifty ewes, and have an
easy time doing it. If this is not bet
ter than selling lambs in the fall at
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