Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-09-19
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

toba this year is 10000, 900 bushels
representing an average yield of fifteen
OF sixteen bushels to the acre.
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 40 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 five-foot iron pipe can be
laid under ground from Hartford to the
/ flats, through the cities, for $425,000
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 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
DaiIyman.
Artificial poultry growing will soon
have a 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
mer will have his proper complement
of poultry appliances. Whenever you
can prove to the average farmer that
the capital necessary to run a poultry
plant (Which, with his labor insures
him greater income than from his
whole FARM, is less than one-fourth Of
that required for any other farm invest
ment, you will begin to see him scratch
his head to evolve ideas. james Ran
kin, at the Rhode Island Poultry Show.
The Swedish Government is very lib
eral in encouraging the dairy industry
and promoting dairy education. In
Sweden there are no fewer than fifty
two girls being educated at public ex-
pense for dairy work. OF these forty
are boarded at cooperative dairy fac
tories under Government inspection,
the others being maintained at dairy
schools as free pupils. One hundred
dollars yearly are allowed each pupil
for board, lodging and instruction, be-
sides which the pupil receives $21
year for clothes. The course of in
struction extends over period of two
years.
The eminent Professor Mccall of
Scotland, in recent lecture ON bovine
tuberculosis, strongly urged increased
vigilance in guarding against infection
of the disease. Much more risk to hui
man life, he stated, is entailed by the
use of milk and meat of animals in
fected with tuberculosis than from
those affected by pleuro-pneumonia.
He expressed the belief, however. that
thorough cooking destroyed the bacil-
lus of tuberculosis. He emphatically
denounced the sale of milk from affected
cows as means of spreading the dis
ease, especially among infants.
According to conclusions reached by
the agents of the United States Depart
ment of Pathology bees. instead of de-
stroying fruit, as they are sometimes
accused. are the only agents through
which certain orchards ever bear fruit.
Pears are given special attention in
recent bulletin, and amorg others the
Bartlett is pointed out as non fecundat-
ing and must be fertilized by pollen
carried from other trees by insects. The
remedy suggested for non-bearing or
chards is grating other varieties into