The Advocate and news., 1899-03-01
SOME NEWS NOTEs FOR BUsN
FARMERS.

.
7,461 men, for a population Of 2,S4S,S2O
people,
In the twenty-elght train rObberies II
the United States in 1898 Ave trainmeI
and passengers and five robbers lost thei
lives.
The exports Of cotton, provisions ant
mineral oils from the United States fol
the month Of January, 1898 amounted t
$74,000,000.
The Jews in the great goose market O
Warsaw handle 5000, 900 geese during the
months of September, October and No
vember each year.
All Of the railways in the world placed
in one continuous line would be more
than II times the circumference Of the
earth at the Equator.
The efficiency Of our steamship lines
in handling live stock Is shown by the
fact that one steamer carried IL 1863 cattle
from New York to Liverpool without the
loss Of single head.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has
decided in favor Of the Northern Pacific
Railway Company, awarding to that com
pany 100000 acres Of land in Minnesota
and Northern Wisconsin.
According to Andrew d. White, the
American Ambassador to Germany, the
law governing meat inspection soon to be
passed in that country will help, rather
than hinder American trade in that coun-
try.
The heart at normal action beats about
sixty-nine times a minute, the blood
travels 207 yards in sixty seconds or
seven miles an hour. This would be
about 1863 miles day, and $500 miles in
year.
The Minnesota Supreme court has rem
dered decision uphOlding Sunday con-
tracts and making them legal in that
State. This is contrary to the almost
universal law in every other State and
country.
Mcpherson County seems to have ta-
ken the blue ribbon, in Kansas for broom
corn production. In 1898 there was raised
in that county over 2,5O0,O00 tons which
was more than was produced in any other
county in any State.
The Puerto Rico division of the Cli-
mate and crop service has submitted its
first report to the United States depart
ment of agriculture. Thus agriculture Is
in the van as it should be in our newly
adopted possessions.
The orange is said to have been 1000
years in perfecting its development. In
its original state it was supposed to be
a berry and by slow but constant pro-
cess of development has reached its pres
ent degree of perfection.
Colonel Roosevelt claims that some Of
the prepared beef furnished for the troops
in Cuba was so foul that 1t had to be
thrown overheard from the transports
while being shipped from this country
to our soldiers in the Spanish war.
The Catholic Mission at Fort PrOvi-
dence, on the Mackenzie river raised a
fine field of wheat last year, which pro-
duced good crop. This place is 200
miles north OF Sitka, and Is the farthest
north that wheat has ever been raised.
Oscar Werink of Chicago, had an expe-
rience that but few people ever survive.
He touched a steam coil that grounded
an electric current at South Bend. Indi-
ana, receiving 4,50O volts Of electricity
through his body and still continues to
live.
The San Jose, California, farmers club
contemplate creating an association to
control the output of dried prunes ON the
coast. The association will be along the
lines of the Wine Growers association
and the Raisin combine of Fresno, Cali
fOrnia.
The farmers of the northwest are using |
the elevator waste for feeding cattle and |
sheep. The price of this feed has adj
vanced to 81 per ton. 1t consists OF |
chaff and screenings taken from the
grain in running 1t throught the ele-
vators.
Our wheat and -four exports since July
|, 1898, have assumed the vast amount of
l44, ,2S2,291 bushels, and were 146,494,-
'89 bushels for the same period last year.
Exports of corn for the same time have