Agricultural Notes

It is reported that sixty-four out of seventy-five counties in the Texas grain belt show a total increased acreage over last year for wheat, corn and oats of between 75 and 100 per cent. The consnmption of canned goods in the United States is increasing inuch faster than is the demand for these goods abroad, according to Bradstreet's. Cattle pastured in swampy or mud Jy gronnds are especially liable to "foul in the foot." The quickest way to get the rust off ■ a spade or shovel is to coat it with coal oil and scour it with a brick. It is said that nine-tenths of the swine erop of the United States is put into market undw a year old.