Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1879 — AGRICULTURAL [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL

sSEStHS&Sr* «£ Of f s & fouls each year from sixty to one hundred cattle, the manure of which, together with SI,OOO worth yearly purchased, goes to enrich the land. Early fields of seed leaf tobacco are now reported as nearly ready to be cut in Wisconsin. Borne pieces of Spanish have already been cut. Tim 7 crop of 1878 is about alt sold out so that when the new crop comes in \t will have a dear field. On view of the late ravages by grasahoppers in the Pacific States, it is proposed to import and naturalise the migratory quail of Southern Europe there. From March 1 to August 8,1,291.000 hogs were slaughtered in Chicago. For a corresponding period in 1878 the number was 1,345,000, and 1,005,000 in 1877. About 4,000 bead of cattle were lately add in California for sl3 per head all around. When rebranded they are to be placed on a ranch at the bead of the American River, u

Mr. L. 8. Crosier, formerly of Marseilles, France, and the wealthy cultivator of mulberry trees and silkworms at SilkviUe, Kan., proposes, It isjsalkl, to introduce the industry in West Feliciana, La. At the Agricultural Congress held at Liego, France, to study into the best means to stimulate agricultural education, it was suggested that the teachers of the national school ought to visit with their bed pupils the superior formsteads in the vicinity. Another enemy to wheat-growing is reported in the shape of a weed somewhat resembling cockle. In some parts ot the East it has become so abundant as to cause serious alarm; especially so in North Carolina, where it springs up simultaneously with the grain, and nearly smothers it. Tt has a white blow, all bears numerous pods, in each of which are four seeds. The * people have given it the name of ‘‘Dutch ooikle.”

It is said that thick lime whitewash, thinned with strong tobacco juice, and applied to young fruit trees in the foil, is an effectual preventive against their being gnawed by rabbits. A pailful is sufficient to cover two hundred trees. We have seeu so many orchards ruined by these pests that it is with some emphasis that we say, don’t neglect some protection—eitherthis or something else—for your yoimg trees. If they have been unmolested thus for, so much the greater will be your loss if they are ruined hereafter. The State Agricultural College buildings of Mississippi at Starkville, are expected to be completed by New Year’s day next. It is said that leading practical educators and public spirited men of the State, among them Geueral George, W. B. Montgomery, Dr. D. L. Phares, and Governor Stone, have taken the matter in hand, and that a real practical, sensible working school, will be organized where “the industries will be taught without the aid of the dead languages, astronomy and a polished classical education.”