The Advocate and news., 1897-12-22


worse for living interment, and have
even been known to seek shelter In o
snow bank, diving into It while In full
flight. IL is when fall OF snow ls
heavily crusted that bob white" Is In
danger. Escape from beneath his snowy
covering Is then impossible, and whole
flocks have been found frozen where
they had roasted"
A Philadelphia dispatch tells OF
grasshopper raid in Argentina. IL re-
minds one of Kansas In 1S74-5. The
hoppers rise like dark clouds and sweep
before the winds from one section to
another, bringing ruin to all vegetation.
Railroad traffic just outside of Buenos
Ayres was suspended for o time, as
the trains could not move through the
dense clouds of insects, which for q time
hoVered about that particular locality.
The tracks became so thick with insects
that the wheels skipped as though rum
ming on an oily substance, and 1t was
owing to this, coupled with the fact that
the engineers could not detect danger
signals, that traffic was suspended.
Illinois farmers will be ON hand with
their corn at the Paris exposition in
1900. They will exhibit q picture made
entirely OF corn and 40x60 feet in dimen-
sions. The central figure will be two
huge American flags overshadowing
large eagle. Above these will be the
statement Of the annual corn product
of this country, and the amount for
export, given in the various languages.
Below, in the left-hand corner, will be
representation Of a. large cannon in
the midst of field of corn, surrounded
by piles of grain in the ear: The can
non is belching forth hundreds Of ears
of corn, which are represented as fall
ing gently on a scene in the right-hand
corner, which lis map of Europe.
A new wooHen mill has been erected
at Topeka-a real, sure-enough mill,
with machinery and everything neces-
sary to make cloth, whereupon the Kan
sas Farmer is moved to address a few
words of council to wool growers Of
Kansas. We quote: ut may be asked
why more sheep are not raised In Kan
sas. Two words must answer: Dogs,
coyotes" When this State shall have
advanced in knowledge 80 far as to
recognize the superiority Of sheep and
wool over dogs and coyotes, and when
this knowledge shall have so burned
into our selfshness as to make us feel
what we are sacrificing to these can
mines, maybe we will take up arms
against these despollers and by opposing
end them.
A copy of the st. Louis Price Current
OF date April 26, 1845, was exhibited on
change few days ago. The sheet was
nine by eleven inches--a pigmy beside
the great papers of to-day. But 1t gives
the price list of that day, all the same,
and this Is the way it reads; Wheat:
Strictly prime, 6S@70c; fair, 65Q67c;
mixed, 62@64c; spring, 52@58c; corn,
290S0c, sacks included; barley, 871A0
9Oc; common, S0@82c; rye, 40@45c, all
in sacks and on the levee. Flax seed,
$1.15 per bushel; beeswax, 2615c per
pound; tallOw, 51&c per pound; dry
hides, S15c. Whisky, 2O@22c per gallon;
butter, 10000; cheese, 5071sc. Mess
pork S@1Oc; lard, 7@819c; -four, 1925
0375 per 100 pounds; lead, $3.05@3.O8
per 100 pounds; leaf tobacco, 11S@41sc;
coffee, Java, 13@15c; Rio, 715@8hc;
mani, rope, 11@121Sc per pound.
White sheeting, 701Oc per yard; bed
ticking, 11@18c; Kentucky jeans, 80
@6Oc. Cider, S6@7 per barrel; ginseng,
22@25C per pound; saleratus, SC; quin-
inc, $3.50 per ounce. Geese feathers, "
@26C per pound; lard oil, 60c; castor oil,
6Oc per gallon. Wool, 2O@35c per pound
Beef cattle, $3@3.5O per 100 pounds
Sheep, 81. dressed hogs, $2.50@3 per
100 pounds. The little paper shows
that 5S4,131 pigs were received In 1843,
and 621,9OO pigs in 1874, and 175,724
pigs for the first four months in 1S45.