The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-06
FIELD FOR HORSE
BREEDERS IN INDIA
Odds and Ends of Agricultural
News Cleaned From Con-
sular Reports

Horses such as are bred in Wash
ington, oregon, 'yoming and Texas
are wanted and wanted badly in In
dia according to word from the Amer
lean consul at Calcutta. who says
that the question of the supply of
horses and mules for India, both for
government and private use, is Sc
rious one. For some time, following
the Boer war. a lot of horses were
thrown on the market, which helped
matters out for a time, but for the
past FIVE years the supply has not been
equal to the demand. India used to
depend on Australia for its horses, but
Australian horses, especially the
thoroughbreds are more valuable now
in Australia than in India. OF late
the attention of India has been turned
to Argentina United States breeders
of horses. says the consul, might as
well avail themselves of cheap freights
in filling short cargoes of vessels re-
turning direct to India from New
York, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
For a sound ordinary hack $3.50 is
asked in the Calcutta market and for
lanything out of the ordinary, $3.50 to
$500 is considered reasonable
Growing Sugar Bccts
England and New Zealand are both
agitating the production of the sugar
beet on a large scale and the estab-
lishment of sugar beet factories.
At a recent London electrical exhi-
bition a device for sterilizing water
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microbes and their poisons are de-
stroyed by exposure to ultra violet
rays. The action upon the water Is
physical, not chemical, and the water
is said to retain all it's gases and fla
vors. heterogeneous which are I'M
affected by either boiling or freezing,
are said to be destroyed by the ultra
violet rays. The apparatus is made
in small sizes for household use. ply
sicians and smaller industrial appica-
tions, and in large sizes for steriizing
town water supply
Apples in Seryia
It has become the habit of the per-
son of average information to think
of apples as growing in this country
and Canada, but not much of any
where else in quantities. 1t will be
a surprise to many to know that Ser
via cutivates apples and pears ex-
Itensively, though the principal fruit
| is the plum, of which the total area
under cultivation in 1910 was $780,
600 acres. The average annual apple
yield for the past ten years was SO,
600 tons, valued at $1,0S5, 900.
Thousands of acres of peanuts were
planted in Mississippi this year for the
markets, something never attempted
before. except on small scale. In
the boil weavil section, where diversi-
| fication was tried, peanuts We're in
some districts the principal crop.
Women Work Cheap
Differences between the cost of la
Dor in this and in European coun-
tries is shown in figures on the orange
business of Valencia. The cost of
marketing 100 cases of oranges, in
Guiding material for boxing and
wrapping, pickers, packers and trans
portation charges. is about $70.65.
Both grading and papering of oranges
| is done by hand by women and girls
| who work for 16 and Is cents a day
South Africa is going in for lrriga-
| ton. In one province no fewer than
sc private irrigation projects are in
progress or under consideration. IN
the Orange river district one concern
has acquired 10000 acres with about
IL miles of frontage on the river
Mealies, soy beans and lucerne, the
latter being alfalfa, are being expe-
rimented with and next year it is
hoped that some of the property viii
be under the steam plow