The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-05
FARMING IN FOREIGN LANDS.

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Farmers near Montreal have been
reaping good profits from their hay,
cheese and butter.
The currant crop of Greece was
greatly damaged this year by heavy
rains at the time the fruit was drying.
The Orpington breed of fowls seems
likely to achieve permanent success.
1t has been introduced into australia,
where it has become quite popular.
Arbor day has become an established
institution in Australia, and has re.
ceived the official recognition of the
government of some of the colonies.
A company has been organized in
Capetown, South Africa, with a CAPT
tai of 5000, 900 for making beet root
sugar. The factory is to be at Wor-
| cester.
Cooperative dairying is increasing
largely In New Zealand. New cream
cries and factories are reported at
frequent intervals in various parts of
the islands.
New South Wales, which is the larg-
est wool-producing colony of Australia,
is introducing Lincoln and other long
wooded rams with a view to develop
ing a trade in frozen mutton.
Coffee culture is being encouraged in
Mexico, Central America and the
United States of Columbia, but new
plantations have not yet reached a
point where they r able to sell ex-
ports equal to Brazil.
Foreign papers speak highly of a
new French variety of potato, the
Giant Sans PareiIle. 1t is of great size
the tubers sometimes weighing two
and a half p~ounds-very productive
and Of excellent flavor.
The viceregal government of India,
aided by the local government, is seri-
ously considering means for the i'm
provement of Indian agriculture. a
conference on this subject was recently
held in Simla.
A farmer of County Wexford, Ire
land, recently died from the effects of
contact with animals suffering from
anthrax on his farm. A man in his
employ was, at last accounts, hopeless
ly ill from the same cause, malignant
pustule.
The business of exporting frozen
mutton from New Zealand to Great
Britain has not proved very profitable
this. year. The prices of sheep in the
colony have been too high to permit of
a profit upon the export of mutton.
Efforts have been made recently,
with some success, to acclimate horses
in the new Belgian settlements on the
Congo, in Africa. Belgian and Spanish
mares taken there have dropped foals
which are vigorous and healthy.
At a sale of the Queens surplus Jer-
seys from the famous herd on the
Prince Consort's farm in Windsor
Park, fifteen head were sold. The
prices were low, the highest being
seventeen and a half guineas for a two.
year old heifer.
Butter making in Finland, under the
fostering care of the government, has
increased to such an extent as to bring
about oVerproduction. 1t is now pro-
posed to restrict the production of but
ter, and make a portion of the milk
into cheese.
While England and Australia have
been parched with drouths, some parts
If India have been flooded by exces-
,ive rains. In the district north of Cal
the tea plantations were greatly
damaged, roads rendered impossible
md bridges carried away.
All parts of Great Britain, but more
specially t2e south and southeast of
England, suffered from heavy and long
continued drouth. Pastures, meadows
md root crops have proved almost a
and all farm crops were great
reduced by the want of rain.
The Royal Institute for fruit and
vine culture at Geisenheim, Germany.
las made very successful use of cop-
as a stimulant for plants that
ack proper green color in their leaves.
he sulphate is dissolved in water and
near the roots, preferably in {
arly spring.
4 party thas has full control of the