The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-12-07
News From Other states.

culture at CoIumhl3, Will complete
100000 worth OF new buildings this
fall.
Minneapolis is now the greatest
primary barley market in the world
and prices governing every important
market are fxed there. The receipts
at Minneapolis this year Will be about
25, 00O, 600 bushels
The last years hay crop was the
largest on record. 1t amounted to
67,743, 600 tons.
A ranchman in New Mexico bought
$50 common ewes one fall at S1.25
per head. He bred them to South
down rams for March lambing. The
next August he took $50 lambs to
market, which brought about s4 a
head. w months later the ewes and
twenty more lambs were sold. bringing
WOO each The wool sold for 90
cents. From an investment of $500
he realized over $1.100 in less tina a
year.
The United States produced 23,00o,-
600 hushe of rice in 1908. which was
worth about s1S,O00,O 900. The farm
ers sell their rice at about 80 cents q
bushel. while the retailers get about
St for the same amount Is there
something wrong in this method Of
doing business?
A proposition is on foot in Henne-
pin county, Minnesota. TO bond the
county for from 81, 900, 900 to $3,OOO,-
600 with which to build highways.
In Belgium there are only 1 Lilo
acres to each person, or 5 Il acres to
each family of five.
In the United States there is enough
land to supply every citizen IS IL
acres, OF 142 acres for every family
Of five.
1t is 0 learned hat while Luther
Burbank has been successful in elm
i'm fin t1n min frnr1 hn 6acnrf %
tuS and turning it into a valuable stock
food, the spinelesS plant no longer has
any protection against rabbits and
other desert animals. and now the
problem is to save it from these ma
RAIDERS.
City Health Commissioner Evans OF
Chicago, has at last found a milk
dealer who will conduct a model dairy
under the supervision of the health
department. Only the most ad-
vanced and sanitary methods Of hand
ling the COWS will be used. The milk
will be delivered direct to the con
sumerS in one of the most contested
districts and the babies will have it
within twelve hours from the time
1T is MIXED.
Michigan now raises all the sugar
she uses and has some to sell besides.
The product last year amounted to
$4,000, eco, although the industry is
pdGeiy Ten years Ola.
l.. Horton. one Of the biggest retail
ers of milk in New York State, is
charging 90 cents a Quart for some Of
the milk he sells. This milk is pro-
duced by the owner OF g farm at New
burgh, n. Y. and cleanliness is insisted
on to an extent almost unbelievable.
The COWS are washed and wiped with
spotless linen. and when the milk is
obtained it is handled as though it
ykoro cha T1n3o The milk &c sold 10
the ''Silded rich" in New York city.
Kansas is to have a forest preserve
and has lately received from the gen
eral government nearly 5000 in rent
ais therefrom. The trees have to be
planted and cared for now, as they do
not originally grow in that State. but
the time Will como when they will be
a great source OF revenue
Texas has enough land so that ii all
the people in the United States were
located there each person would have
something over two acres, or eleven
acres to every family Of FIVE.
Secretary Ellsworth of the assa-
chusetts board of agriculture declares
according to statistics in his office tina
farming conditions in that State are
showing a steady and continued i'm
provement. Boys are going back to
the farm. Farmers are leaving the
hills for the valleys, where they ara
able to DT&ct1ce more extensive farm
ing. and the hill farms are going back
to forestry and paSturage.
At Iiaze1hurst, Mass, there was
buried with appropriate ceremonies by
Mrs. Miles Cannon and her children
their favorite hen Polly, Il years old.
She is believed to be the oldest hen in
the world. According to Polly's owner
she has laid more than 5000 eggs and
raised t~hirIy-five broOdS of chickens.
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