The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-03-02
FARMING IN FOREIGN LANDS.

American AgTlCulturlsJ lol mal0"'J
Tasmania is thinking about grow
ing sugar beets.
Experiments are being made IN
Scotland toward cultivating the
sugar beet.
Experiments in artificial rain max
ing have been pretty successful IN
Oamaru, New Zealand.
The phylloxera board reports that
the disease has been entirely eradi-
Gated throughout Victoria.
The chief exports from Fiji are
sugar, cocoanuts, copra, fruit, cot
ton, molasses, peanuts, maize, coffee
and fiber.
In South Africa there are 100000
square miles of good farming land
that can be occupied by white
farming population.
A man in England was sentenced to
three months Imprisonment for steal.
ing hay of the value of four cents
In India it is claimed that the cot
ton seed from the United States has
been used perpetually without change
since 1861 or 1862.
In New South Wales they advo-
cate boiling down 100000 sheep
so as to decrease stocks and be bet
ter prepared against the next drouth.
The soil of Malta is highly produc-
tive, growing two and sometimes
three crops year. Its chief pro-
ducts are cotton, corn, oranges,
melons and potatoes.
Great crops of grain are grown on
the Elephant river, Cape Colony,
which overtlows its banks in the
rainy season and deposits a rich
earthly sediment.
AT the cheese school in Frome,
Scotland, three tons of cheese were
made in exactly three months. 1t
was all sold at an average price of
fourteen cents per pound.
Butter factories are increasing in
New South Wales. Four factories
in one month sold III, 1872 gallons of
milk at seven cents, per gallon net,
and 62,6S7 pounds of butter.
England begins to believe that
swine fever can only be stamped out
by slaughter and strict quarantine,
in the same way as pleuro-pneumonia
and foo and mouth disease.
New Zealand fruit growers are now
using new fruit boxes for carrying
their fruit to market. They are
frames with five or six drawers, to
prevent fruit from touching.
In South Africa, Jersey cattle par
ships are said to turn out from eight
to fourteen tons per acre on deep,
rich, loamy land highly MANFRED.
Mangels will do two or three times
better.
The area under cotton cultivation
in India is IA, 500,0 900 acres, and in
America about 20,O0O,000 acres.
midas approximate annual yield is
100000 bales, and Americas T.
100000 bales.
Professor Shelton, instructor in
agriculture at Queensland, reports
that "ladybirds" wage a destructive
warfare upon scales and other in
sects that do immense damage to
orchards.
New Zealand butter is arriving in
England short weight. A package
marked fifty-six pounds was found to
contain but fifty-three pounds, and
the trade are being advised to weigh
all butter.
The South Australian Ostrich Com
pany report net balance of $3.50
as the result of six months work at
their farm. The price of feathers
had dropped, else profits would have
been larger.
The New South Wales Agricultural
Department recommends, as new
crops, the cultivation of hops, cult
walton and manufacture of tea, and
cultivation of black or green waffle
(dcdcia) for its bark.
The Adelaide (Australia) Coop
erative Creamery made in the half
year 3,4S2 pounds of butter from
lO9 COWS. The receipts from butter
and milk show an average of ST.. 80
for each cow for the six months.
The white population of the Aus
tralian colonies is as follows: Vic
uOria, LAO, 4O5; New South Wales,
l,l34, 2O7; Queensland, 393,7l8;
South Australia, 800, ADJ; West Aus
tralla, 1912; Tasmania, JAG, 667
New Zealand, 626, $3.50.
A new cement, made of two ounces
of clear gum arabic, one and hall
ounces OF fine starch, and one-hali
ounce of white sugar, powdered and
mixed together in pint of water,
boiled till clear, is said to stick all
kinds of substances.
In Edinburgh bullock died from
anthrax, hut the carcase was bled
and sent to be dressed for shipment