Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1883 — Agricultural Notes. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural Notes.

In Kansas farmers are plowing for oats. The New York Milk-Condensing Company has declared that ensilage gives to milk a disagreeable flavor. W. S. Elliott, tloward County, Ind., says that about 2-thirds of the sheep-kill-ing dogs in that part of the country are shepherd dogs, or cresses of that breed. A Chicago firm advises the Tribune that land plaster .in bulk, car-load lots, can be furnished at $3.60 per ton at Grand Rapids, Mich., and at $5 per ton in Chicago. About $20,000 will be required to pay the necessary running expenses of Purdue University, in Indiana; but by the failure of the general appropriation bill it was left with only about $2,000 annual income with which to pay its necessary expenses. The Germantown Telegraph says that a view of the interior of some of the Maryland canneries where uncleanly negroes are employed is sufficient to cure one of any desire for canned tomatoes and peach*, es for all time to come. Peacli-buds have seldom been so slighty developed at a oorree ponding date of the years as they are now. Tlieir backward condition is very favorable, and peachgrowers on the Atlantic coast predict an unusually heavy yield. Charles, Lyman has on the line of the Chester Valley Road a farm of 57 acres said to be the most productive of its size in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Nearly 40 Dushels of wheat per acre was the average yield last year, and other crops were proportionately heavy. In January last his 17 cows produced 4,000 quarts of rich milk. The new law in Indiana relating to oleomargarine is as follows: “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that whoever sells or has his possessic n with intent to, or exposes for sale, or whoever keeps on any table at any hotel, or any other public or private board-ing-house, any butter other than that made from pure milk without first labeling the same in lfrge letters ‘oleomargarine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on oonvictionthereof shall be finised not more than SSO nor less than $10.”

A farmer in Indiana, writing of the provisions which a dog law should have, says: “Allow every family to have a male dog free; compel every owner of a female dog to pay license or a tax of not less than S2O. But a few years would elapse before all the worthless dogs would be out of the State, and those who have no use for a dog would not be able to b~y one.” Another man says: Let theoounty be cleared of all dogs except the shepherd and the English bull. Then tax each person owning one male dog $2, and all additional dogs $5 each, and make it a penitentiary offense for any one to own or harbor a dog ne does not list for taxes.”-