Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — AGRICULTURAL NEWS. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL NEWS.

There were 51,150 horses exported by this country last year, bringing un average of $l2O each. The States of Misottri and Kansas have sown the largest crops of fall wheat ever planted in those States. The Utah experiment station asserts that separated milk fed to calves is worth 22 cent* a hundred, counting live weight of calves at 4 cents. A Western ranchman and stockman has ini|K>rted a number of ItusHiau wolf* hounds to drive away coyotes and wolves that threaten to destroy his herds. The experiment has Itecn quite u success so far. The State of Missouri still has niurly half a million news of land subject to hotnesrtead entry. The State Labor Commissioner is making an effort to have a portion of the luml settled. The packers of Chicago,. Omaha, Nt. Louis and Kansas City killed 1,175.000 sheep in 18K7 and 4,054,000. In IMI7. It does not necessarily follow that the consumption of mutton has increased 400 per cent In teu years, ns the puckers are supplying hundreds of retailers now where they supplied only dozens ten years ago. There has been un increase in the consumption of mutton, however.