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Gleanings

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
October
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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This is the fifth successive 'bad year" in British agriculture. Mangel wurzel beets have been grown at the rate of ninety-four tons per acre. Trom the report of the Secretary of btate, of Wisconsin, it is shown that the total number of cows in the state is 389,380. Careful experiment has shown that the amount of sugar in beet roots is in direct ratio to the superficial área of theirleaves. Mr. Geo. Parmelee, of Old Mission sent forty barrels of pears to Chicago by the steamer, City of Traverse, on a recent trip. Porcelain millstones are coming into quite general use in Trance and Germany, and are pronounced superior to the best Frenen burr milistones. ín the Island of Jersey the practice is to skim milk when it is twenty-four hours old ; in Guernsey, a few miles distant, the milk is churned whole pahgnt being skimmed, after it has oecome mi... „■ ■, -,.,,, . A meeting of the leading Fish Breeders of the West will be held in Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 1, for the purpose of f orming an association to promote the interest of Fish breeding in the WVdtern states and territories. "W. H."writesto the Coitwirj Gentleman, "Pet your horse, pet your dog, be very kind to your cows, but never jpe a buil." "W. H." petted one which ran at him while he was feeding him, an( but for a tirnely pitchfork, would hav put a horn through him. Mr. Fred J. Dunks last Saturda; shipped two car loads of extra fine cal tle trom this station. They were very fat, averaging over 1400 pounds pe head, sucli cattle are worth about fou cents in this maiket, but they ar scarce around here. - Üoldwater Repub licaw Thirty years ago the common shee of Germany had only 5,000 or 5,50( wool hairs to the square inch of sur face;now, through improvement i breeds, the common grades of shee have 27,000 to the square inch, and th pure-bred Merinos have from 40,000 t 48,000 wool hairs to the square inch The most curious instance of change of instinct is mentioned b Darwin. The bees carried to Barba does and the AVestern Islands cease to lay up honey after the flrst yea They found the weather so fine, an the materials for honey so plentif u that they quitted their grave, mercan tile character, becoming exceedingl proflígate and debauched. Last Friday and Saturday 40,00 bushels of wheat were contracted fo by Grass Lake dealers, of whic amount 8,000 bushels were delivere during the two days mentioned. Mol day morning teams began to arrive a 1 o'clock and by 0 o'clock scores o wheat laden wagons blocked th streets in the vicinity of the place o: delivery. awaiting their turn to tin load.-

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Old News
Michigan Argus