The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-11-20

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in the peanut market. The yield in
Virginia alone is set at 1000, COO bushels,
and equally enormous returns are COM
ing in from other regions where the
nut is grown.
The following quotations on American
apples are reported from Liverpool:
Baldwins, 19s.@23s. Cd; russets, oo33s.
3d.; Kings, 3ls. Cd. @33,. Cd; Hsryeys,
as. 3D.; G%ravensteins, 1S@22s. Choice
quality is in strong demand, and sells
readily at top figures, which look like
being maintained.
Cincinnati uses $500 900 cabbsces
every year for its sauerkraut manufac.
tories. It's supply is drawn from Michi.
gan, Of which Detroit is headquarters,
and also Illinois, where Chicago is the
distributing point. The cabbages are
generally sold by the ton, the price
ranging from $40 to S25 per ton.
The pig will thrive on a greater varie.
ty Of rations in which the nutritiye ratio
is more variable than will any other do.
nestle animal, but experiments show
that the best results are obtained by
feeding a ration having q narrow nutri.
tive ratio at the beginning and gradual.
ly widening the ratio is the animal
grows older. The animal must have
food at the first that will make bone and
muscle to be able to carry the meat
made from the rich carbohydrates fed
at the last.
In no business perhaps does Ignorance
have to be paid for more promptly than
in d~airying. When we churn, il we
don't know the right degree OF tempera.
ture Tor the cream we may either waste
many hours at the crank or else have
the butter come too soon, with flavor
and texture ruined. II We don't know
how to feed our COWS We may be wasting
iced every day; We may be dairying
with the wrong breed, and 80 on through
the whole business, il we do not have
the knowledge we are always in the way
OF making heavy losses. In the present
state OF dairy science it is inexcusable
tor any to 80 biindiy about his work
when he, by a little reading and study,
can be as fully informed on every dairy
subject as the most expert.-Ndtional
Sockman.
The american Shrp Breeder says that
in nearly all tho lands weet OF The one
hundrehth meridian the pasture is much
deprecated in value below it's condition
thirty.iive years ago, when it was over.
run by millions oil buffalo. The seeds
OF the grasses and forage plants, it ia
true, are trampled in by stock, aud es.
pecially by sheep, and in coils not too
sandy they are thus defended from the
dying and freezingthey would otherwise
suffer, and the finely distributed sheen
manure enriches the land; but, on the
other hand, cloae hcrding and cropping
do undoubtedly tear out very condsid.
cradle amounts OF grass by tho roots.
In Colorado, perhaps, more than in any
other State except California, irrigation
and cultivation 81 forage crops, chiefly
alfalfa, have been prosecuted to supple
ment the failing natural resources. Sal
falfa mutton" has n local reputation al
most as distinOtiyR as the turnip.fed
chops Of Dorset. The first chapter in
the great mid.continental sheep histor,
was bunch grass, and that is forever
ended; the second chapter will be al
falia.
Some one has asked, where do niel
60 in the winter? This is a question o
some interest, for q house fly is borr
fully grown and OF mature size, ant
there arc 20 little flies OF the SAINT
species, the small ones occasionally oh
served being different in kind from til,
large ones. The house fly does no
bite or pierce the skin, but gathers il
food by n comb or rake or brush.lik,
tongue, with which it ID able to scrap
, tho yarnish from covers OF books, and !
thus tickles tho skin Of persons upol
whom it alights 10 feed upon the per
spirstion. A fly is a seanenger, sndis
vehicle by which contagious disease
are spread. It poisons wounds, an,
many carry deadly virus from decayin,
, organic matter into food. It retires from
the sight at the beginning OF winter, By
where it goes few persons know. II
search OF the house be made they vii
, be found In great numbers secreted IL
warm places in the roof, or between til
partitions OF floors. Last winter We In
n occusion to examine the roof, and fotu,
around the chimney myriads OF iieI
. . alternating comfortably, mud sufIicien
ly lively to fly when disturbed sin owe
: powering Clouds" No doubt this is