Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1879 — AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

—Farmer Clarkson, of thefoaoa Slate .Register, is responsible for the following: Early-cut wheat makes the whitest flour, but it Is white because it lacks in gluten, and will lack in quality. —The horse-shoe magnet is a success in extracting wire from wheat, and thus millers and farmers are reconciled. —We shipped more wheat to the foreign markets the past year than the entire product of the tlnited States in 1850. —Farmers, this year, should make a determined eflort to raise the mortgage on their farms, whatever else they may attempt to raise. —One cold rain will produce more disorders, catarrh and coughs in a flock of sheep than a whole winter of after care will cure.— Clarkton. —Let every one recollect, who has a few sugar trees, that maple sugar is better on buckwheat cakes than New Orleans molasses with rat hairs in it —The generic name of our common wheat is trilican vulgare. The two important parts of wheat are, starch 60 percent., and gluten 10 per cent But gluten is more nutritious than starch. —“Talks on Farm Crops” says: “My good crop was on a field that 1 thoroughly uuderdrained, and which I manured this spring. And the extra yield of potatoes win pay for all the draining, for the manure, for cultivation, and for the land itself.” —I urge farmers to associate that they may have their inspiration kindled. Farm life develops steadiness of character; but isolation not only dries up human sympathies, but the intellect becomes moldy, unless a spirit of inquiry is awakened at some time of life. —Bon. James Wilson.

—For a light dessert there is nothing more generally wholesome than some form of fruit. People with vigorous digestion may eat it in a raw stale, but for those with feeble stomachs it is better cooked, and no fruit is so well adapted to cooking as the apple, no other can take so many forms, each better than the last.— From Dr. Foote's Health Monthly for March. —The Chicago Stockman of Feb. 28 has encouraging words for cattle feeders: “The market is growing steadily stronger day by day for good export cattle, even while we have prohibition orders from England to contend with. What, then, would it have been had the men who intended to go into the business of exporting cattle this spring not found their plans upset by the order of the Privy Council? Even under the present difficulties there is a strong tendency toward high prices, and reports from all parts of the country tributary to this market—and nearly all the good cattle of the West come here—show that there are very few choice cattle feeding. Under these circumstances feeders may reasonably hope for a season which shall present a marked contrast to the disastrous ones we have seen in the last two or three years.”

—Henry Clews, the New York banker, was recently swindled out of $2,500 by a plausible youth, who bought four-per-cent, bonds to that amount, giving in payment a check drawn by the Commercial National Rank, of Chicago, on the Bank of New York, which he had raised from $250 to $2,500. He had it certified before he increased its value, and subsequently when Clews' clerk handed it to the paying teller of the Bank of New York he pronounced it all right, and the forger got his bonds. “Train wrecker!” she hissed, as he blunderingly stumbled upon the long expanse of dress in the crowded ballroom.