The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
Farm Notes.

The potato crop of the United States in
1887 aggregated 134, coo bushels on an
acreage OF 100000, which was a yield per
acre Of ffty.fve bushels. In the last
eight years 1888 was the banner" potato
wear. In that season the yield was POS, 1884,
425 bushels, raised from 2,27S, 275 acres,
which was a yield of ninety-one bushels
per acre.
IN many parts of France fuel and food
for stock are so scarce that shepherds cut
off the small branches of oak trees, tie
them in bundles, and place them in the
sheep pens. After the sheep have eaten
the leaves, the brush is used for building
fires.
At Toronto, O.. James Williamson cap
tured live crow in his corn-held. On the
way home with it hundreds OF other crows
came to the rescue and attacked him. He
first tried to run away, and then to de-
fend himself with club, and was finally
compelled to seek shelter in a shed, where
the besieging crows kept him prison er
for more than an hour.
On account of the agricultural depres-
sion in Great Britain farm laborers are
not generally employed during the winter
as they formerly were. AS a consequence
large numbers of them come to cities to
obtain something to do. As the cities are
crowded few of them succeed in obtaining
distressing.
DR.. Pritchard, the State Veterinarian, of
Indiana, has returned from Warren county,
where he went to investigate the alleged
case of CHAMBERS. He reports that it is not
| CHAMBERS but.the prevalent influenza that
the herses are suffering from. The man
who died from like symptoms, DR.. Pritch-
ard thinks, had blood-poisoning, not CLAN
| deTs.
The statistics from the Michigan Labor
| Bureau show many million dollars in
mortgages on the farms of that State. In
| one county nearly half the farms are
mortgaged, the total reaching nearly one
fifth Of the assessed value of ali the farms
in the county. 1t is said that other coun-
ties are in much worse condition.
An English paper says: 1t appears that
| parents in this country who are sending
their sons to the United States or Canada
| have not yet been sufficiently warned
sgsiDst the folly of paying premiums to
English agents who offer to place the
| young men with respectable farmers. An
Iowa farmer writes to The Field to point
out that the majority of his class will have
nothing to do with the sytem referred to,
and that it is only the less scrupulous Of
the farmers whose names are on the agents
books.
in every country there is some special
drawback to the sheep industry. Here We
have dogs and wolves. In Australia rab-
bits eat nearly all the grass, and leave the
pastures as bare as Old Mother HubbarPs
| cupboard. In New Zealand the great enc
my of sheep is a large green parrot. II
lights or a sheep and devours its LIVING
flesh. After il has eaten its fill it flies away
But, as rule, the wounds it makes never
heal.
OF California fruits and vegetables there
were packed during tbe,past eleven months
1,221 500 cans. This is a considerably
larger quantity than was packed in 1886
The interstate commerce law, which wen
into force last April, had the effect o
Gle airing the market OF all surplus stock
and left local Gamers In good shape 4
handle the new crop. Plenty of fruit
cheap sugar, and short crops in the Allan
!. tic States helped out materially. All loca
Gamers have done we'll 1t is probabl
that the profits last year were as large q
for the previous three years. Shipment
, have been free from the very start, an
generally good prices have besn realized
. The wheat crop in Spain in 1886 wa
T | $1,000, 126 bushels, and the maximum GRO
: OF wheat in Spain for the five years ended
+ with 1886 was 94,S96, S34 bushels. Th
! | population of Spain December 1, 1887, Wa
16. ga, 345. The Spanish estimate of il
wheat crop has not been made on an acct
rate basis. Crop reporting for that cour
try is comparatively new. Spain has bee
, an importer rather than an exporter sine
1891, and for the past five years the in
ports have been quite prominent. Th
9 wheat crop of 1887 is reported to be mol
5 largely deficient than for many year
: Spain's required net imports in 1878 wi
l pIC baby exceed 1000. coo bushels.
Col. B. f. Johnson, of Campaign est
mates that the farmers of Illinois lost $50
I 100000 by the drought during the past yea
i, Besides the direct lose, their condition hi
4 been injured by the necessity of disposir
q of many young animals. Preparation
have been made or planting peach tire,
L near the Illinois Centred railway, all I'll
b way from Illinois TO Louisiana, inclusiv