Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — FARM INTERESTS. [ARTICLE]

FARM INTERESTS.

Sleet damaged the wheat crop in the section about Fostoria, Ohio. The Minnesota dairymen are holding their annual convention at Faribault. Hog cholera prevails so extensively to Jersey County, Illinois, that a rendering establishment has become a necessity. IxjslieCross lost ninety’head.in one week. Reports of the condition of winter wheat, in Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Michigan,. Missouri, and Ohio are given in the ChicagoTimes. The acreage seems to be al out as usual; the crop has been well protected bysnow, and there seem to be no uutavorableindications as to the yie'd. The packing record of Chicago for last month fell behind that of January, 1883, tothe extent or about 314,000 hogs; and those killed averaged twenty p4>unds less, in weight than the hogs of a year ago. It is now thought that the packing of tbo West for thewhole winter will be equal U> fully 1,000,006 hogs less than for last winter, making allowance for decrease in weight as well as to numbers. Gen. Hancock, if a man of any conceit* must feel hurt. While be was traveling in the West a rural genius innocently asked hint where he was during the lato war. Jay Gould says that Mr. Vanderbilt cannot tell a Meissonnier from a tea-store chromo*