The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-03-23
FARM NOTES.

1t may seem curious to us to know
that tobacco was sold by the yard in
Maine in 1897.
At the present time there are over
100000 acres of land under irrigation
in the United States
The pineapple growers in the Bahama
Islands use large quantities of American
fertilizers for their farms.
Peach-stones are used as fuel in Cali
fornia. They are supplied by canning
factories, and bring SIS per ton.
During the past season 10000 cans of
apples and 100000 cans of corn were
turned out by one packing factory in
Maine
The wholesale liquor dealers of Iowa,
which is a prohibition State, sold 1885
gallons of whisky in january, which is a
pretty good record considering.
Admirable results have attended the
artesan borings in the Sahara, and this
has led to a demand being made by the
inhabitants in other portions Of the des-
ert.
In the United States there are more
than half million bearing banana
trees, 1000 bearing lemon trees, 4,000,-
| coo orange trees, and 100000 pine
apples.
Several farmers of Cohutta, Ga, con-
Guided to plant from one to two acres
in tobacco, and there is no doubt but
what double this number will be planted
in the near future.
1t is given out that farmers in Lincoln
County, Mo-, are subscribing 81 per
acre for better roads. Thus, if one
man has farm of 100 acres he signs
his name for $50.
The Missouri State Board of Agri-
culture offers cash prizes Of So, $50,
and S25 TO the local papers making the
best reports of the farmers institutes in
their respective localities
An Anselmo (Neb.) butcher has been
forced to leave town because a rival
meat peddler discovered the head of
lumpy.jawed steer in his slaughter house
and exhibited it to his patrons.
Last year we exported 42,149,48
bushels of wheat to France This is
three times the amount of the year
previous, when the total shipments did
not exceed 13,S43, 054 bushels.
One of the young industries which it
is thought will seriously compete with
the agriculturist is the manufacture of
sugar from coal tar, which is claimed to
be 300 times sweeter than sugar.
The change Of Riverside, Cal, from
sheep ranch assessed at 80 cents an
acre to community of orange growers,
with an assessment Of nearly S6,O00,000,
illustrates the advantages Of irrigation.
South Carolina shows a marked i'm
provement in agriculture. There was
a very large supply Of oats and corn
raised. Tobacco culture has been ex-
tended and almost universally profitable.
The entire living population of the
globe, /, 4O0,000,000 souls, divided into
families of five persons each, could be
located in Texas, each family with
house on half-acre lot, and there
would still remain 50,000,000 vacant
family lots
Farmers in the vicinity of Oakland,
I'LL, say the sleet has so injured wheat
that there will hardly be half a crop in
all eastern Illinois. Many of them say
the crop was entirely ruined, and not
bushel of wheat will be raised in some
sections this year.
Michael Magma, well digger, was
digging well to supply water for cattle
on the ranch Of John j. Forshea,
Rutherford, Tenn, when the bottom
dropped out, and the unfortunate man
plunged headlong in an underground
river and was drowned. The waters
below acted like a suction and the wind
lass and digging apparatus were drawn
in.
A petition was introduced in the
Massachusetts, Legislature, requiring four
wheeled draft vehicles, without springs,
carrying 1,S00 pounds, to have felloes
two inches wide; those carrying over
5000 pounds, three inches; those carry
ing over 5000 pounds, four inches.
Vehicles with springs, carrying over
5000 pounds, TO have wheels with rims
not less than three inches in width, and
two-wheeled vehicles carrying 1000
pounds or less, rims three and nalf
inches wide, and if over 1000 pounds,
five inches wide.
By the statement made by Prof. Hunt