The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1891-02-13

hogs: 1850 sheep, and $40 head OF
horses and mules.
There are aos miles OF tile laid in.
Story county. Iowa. There are also. IFS
windmills and from twenty to thirty
flowing wells in the county.
The Standard Cattle company OF
Dodge county is feeding 7,7oo head of
cattle this winter. r. NJ. Allen. the
manager, says it costs them ST., 900 a
day to feed the immense herd.
Isaac Ross, an Alabama dairyman,
has q grade Jersey heifer that dropped
q bull calf July 4, 1890, and a heifer
calf October 81, 1890, to full-grown.
calves within five months.
Henry Boswell, who was sentenced at
Fort Madison last week to four and
one-half years in the penitentiary for
stealing cattle, is said to nave done
time once before,
Last weeks shipments OF hogs from
Chicago, with one exception, were the
largest of any week since last March.
Over two-thirds of the number shipped
went to Boston and New York.
Tho wool industry probably repre-
sents 5000, 00O, 900 per annum, and the
native wool product is four times as
large as in 1860, while the average
fleece weighs as much as two of that
date.
II. c. Coburn, of Huron, S. D., has
samples of alfalfa, grown on the Day
Harrison farm southwest Of the city.
The roots are a foot or more in length
and the tops green and nice for foed.
There is a large acreage of alfalfa now
growing o. this farm and here it is past
the middle OF January.
The Russians who arrived at Man
dan recently are looking into the mat
ter of homestcads. They propose to put
part Of their Investment into stock.
Those who have talked with them say
they are we'll verscd In the principles
Of farming and that they will make
very desirable citizens.
A Denver paper says that all the beef
cattle in Utah and Idaho will in another
year go to Portland, Ore, and Puget
sound points. Utah cities are growing
SO rapidly that 1T now looks as if that
territory would consume all tho fat cat.
tie it will be able to turn off for some
years to come. Thus far the Utah win
ter has proven n pleasant one and all
kinds of stock are in fine COZ lition.
There arc certain counties on tho
frontier of Nebraska, which would be
better off today if they had attempted
TO do less farming and devoted their
r>ad acres more exclusive to cattle
growing. The time is near at hand
when the lines will be sharply drawn
between that Part OF the state where
agriculture is always profitable and that
part where frequent crop failures make
it an unreliable means OF subsistence.
In q late issue the Cincinnati Price
Current published the leading exhibits
OF the department of agriculture in re-
gard to the production of wheat, corn
and oats in 1~S90-showing the following
aggregates, compared with previous
years, in bushels:
1890. 3aa, ~, coo l.4s9,9.O,oo 52s ,,isl 900
l, s.. 4l5,s SITS, 900 1881, 10000 iOi, 49, O)
1887. /. AT, $3.50 0 1886, 1911. 900 6S9,6is,0uO
1856. -. 457, 2lS,0oO 1865, AL, 900 ga, "a, 900
1885. .a57, LIZ, 0oo 1895, l76, 0o9 G!9, 4O9,0 900
The receipts of cattle for January
shows a marvellous increase over the
corresponding period last year. During
the month just past there were received
at the Union Stock Yards 1874 cattle
against 1907 for January, 1890, an i'm
crease Of 6.467 head. Hogs show a
marked decrease. only 5a,9ls against
T4.034 in 1890, u decrease OF 21,l16 head.
There were 9, 4O4 sheep received. against
3i1 in 1880, an increase of 2.U63.
Chicago Drovers journal: January.
1891, brought moro hogs to Chicago
than any other January, 06s, go head.
but the average weight was only 333
pounds. Therefore the 996, $50 hogs
which arrived in January, 1879, avorag-
ing 273 pounds, made vastly more
, pounds of product. Considering the
lditfcren &c in weight and the average
weight of the past month as q basis.
there were $4,000 fewer hogs in Janu-
airy. 1891, than in 1871. This fact is ac-
counted for by the fact that the cause of
the big hog run in 1870 was the conjnnc-
tion OF a large pig crop and a large corn
crop. This season the large pig crop
was accompanied by a small corn crop.
The United States supreme court has
handed down an opinion affirming the
judgment OF the circuit court of the
United States for the eastern district OF
Virginia, directing that q writ of habeas
corpus be granted to William Rebman,
convicted in Norfolk of violation of the
state meat inspection law. This is one
of what are known as the dressed beei
= cases arising out of state legislation
having for its object restriction OF the
sale of meats by firms located outside
!. the state in which the meats are offered
! for sale. The statutes of Virginia mako
it al offense to offer for sale fresh meats
slaughtered more than 100 miles from
! the place of sale, unless first inspected,
q provisions for which are made in tho
petition OF not less than twenty persons,
the compensation of the inspectors tc
. be l cent a pound.
Senator Kearby has introduced a bill
| lessening tho punishment of horse
t thieves. or in other words putting the
man who steals q horse on an cqua
| footing with the thief Who steals other
articles OF tho same value. 1t provides
/ that the punishment shall depend on
, the value of tho horse. If tho valuo O!
the stolen beast is less than $50, then
: the crime is a misdemeanor, and the
punishment is made the same as in
other cases where the value OF tho
\ stolen article is under $50. Whore the
value of the stolen property is over $50.
then tho crime is a felony and punisha.
bic by confinement in the penitentiary
, for not less than two nor moro than
seven years. In case the beast is a COW
: or steer the punishment is from two &c
: five years.
!, Representative Samuel White, o
Stark county, Illinois, has introduced q
bin which is original in its provisions
/ and is especially directed al
the custom of docking pregnant
s sows and stays. The bin has
boon Endorsed by the association Q
!, farmer members and will be pressed as
one of the measures Of that oreaniza.
: ton. Tho tito is 40 Punish Fraudu.
lent Practices in Packing Pork" and
the bill is as follows:
That it shall be unlawful for any per,