The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Indiana farmers are feeding their {
wheat to hogs and selling their corn,
reversing the usual process. Wheat
sells for only 43 cents per bushel, while
corn goes quickly at As to AZ cents.
Moreover, wheat is said to contain al
most twice as much fat-producing nu-
triment as corn. Hogs are high, so
there is economy in selling corn and
feeding wheat, but it never was so be.
fore.
The rage for new breeds of poultry is
dying out. New breeds are all right
for those who want to experiment, but
for the practical breeder there are older
breeds, whose usefulness have been
proven by long trial, that can compete
successfully with any of the newer ones
for either eggs or flesh. The Light
Brahma as flesh producer, and Brown
Leghorn for eggs are pretty hard to
beat.-Farm News.
One of the leading crops of the island
of Formosa is the oil bean. Two kinds
are cultivated, both being related to
the sofa bean. To extract the oil the
beans are first crushed under great
stone wheel ten feet in diameter, which
is drawn around by mules in concen-
trio channel containing the beans. The
crushed beans are made into cake
with straw, and the oil is expressed by
very primitive appliances.
Parties in New York, Hartford and
Meriden are interested in plan to con-
vey the sewage of Hartford, New Brit
ain, Berlin, Meriden and Wallingford
to the Wallingford sand flats, there to
be converted into fertilizers. The
ground has been surveyed and it is
found that a five-foot iron pipe can be
laid under ground from Hartford to the
flats, through the cities, for 1925, 900.
A company is to be formed, with cap
ital of $500, 900, and an income is ex-
pected from converting the sand flats
into fertile soil.-Country Gentleman.
The fact is not generally known that
by spaying a new mich COW. she never
shows the least inclination to get in
heat, says an exchange, but is a con-
slant mixer ever afterward, shrinking
but little from the quantity of milk she
was giving at the time of the operation
for two or three years. By this method
nearly twice as much milk can be had
from the same COW as she will give if
she comes in fresh once year; besides,
the milk will be healthier and richer,
making more and better butter from
the same quantity of milk. National
Dai1yman.
Artificial poultry growing will soor
have great future. The business is
yet in its infancy. The time will come
when it will gradually supersede many
, of the regular farm crops on the sterile
soil of New England, when every far
J mer will have his proper complement
of poultry appliances. Whenever yol
: can prove to the average farmer tina
, the capital necessary to run a poultr.
s plant (Which, with his labor insure
l him greater income than from hi
! whole farm, is less than one-fourth o
$ that required for any other farm invest
Q ment, you will begin to see him scratcl
his head to evolve ideas. Ran
Q kin, at the Rhode Island Poultry Show
: The Swedish Government is very liz
eral in encouraging the dairy industr
. and promoting dairy education. l
J. Sweden there are no fewer than fifty
e two girls being educated at public e1
S pense for dairy work Of these fort
+ are boarded at cooperative dairy fa'
tories under Government inspection
If the others being maintained at dali
e schools as free pupils. One hundre
IS dollars yearly are allowed each pup
for board lodging and instruction, b
t, sides which the pupil receives $2l
II year for clothes. The course of i
to struction extends over a, period OF tv
n years.
The eminent Professor Mccall
e. Scotland, in recent lecture on bowl
~ tuberculosis, strongly urged increas
9d vigilance in guarding against lnfect
3 of the disease. Much more risk to
k. man life, he stated, is entailed by t
OF use of milk and meat of animals
al fected with tuberculosis than fire
ny those affected by p(euro-pneumon
PIT He expressed the belief, however. IL
MS thorough cooking destroyed the bac
IL lus of tuberculosis. He emphatica
nd denounced the sale of milk from atfec
Ee, COWS as means of spreading the G
use ease, especially among infants.
'n' According to conclusions reached
the agents of the United States Depf
ment of Pathology, bees. instead of
stroying fruit, as they are someti1
q accused, are the only agents throl
oil which certain orchards ever bear fr1
nst Pears are given special attention
= recent bulletin, and among others
Bartlett is pointed out as non-fecun'
4ho ing and must be fertilized by pc
VIZ carried from other trees by insects.
u, w. !" remedy suggested for non-bearing
= 80 " chards is grating other varieties
lns occasional trees. There are few E
I'LL lett pear orchards in this valley, q
isolated from other trees Of any k
you and vet they bear full crops every
10 : Richard Grid is making arrangem
! for the speedy disposal of the beet-l
uhu from the sugar factory this sum-
i q, He will build a double track of
u W Chino Valley road to the factory
the Southern Pacific has consentt
was build a switch to the east side o
Mrs. building for the purpose of hauling
lie OF pulp out without transfer. The r
IN. side dairymen have already contrs
En- for 1900 tons of the pulp, and it
were pected that a large quantity will be
the posed of to Los Angeles diaries. A
use of beet-pulp is becoming bette
,ct it ,.l - Il, o,;n;po in favor