Agricultural Items.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 260, 10 March 1894, Page 4

Agricultural Items.

«. In proportion to the population, the United States produces more grain than any other nation. Germany annually sends out to tb9 markets of the world more than 100,000 canary birds. Since 1840 the world's production of meat has increased 57 per cent, that of grain 420 per centHen manure contains 174 per cent, nitrogen, 175 of phosphoric acid, and o*Bs per cent, of potash. Co-operative dairying is growing very rapidly in France, and there is more inclination to make butter than cheese. Talk about the longevity of a cow ! Mr W. Home says be once e&w a cow with her fourth generation standing beside her. She was 33 years old, still milking, and had a four-year old daughter. Mr P. Cuddily, of Longridge, has in his possession a foal which is pure white, excepting the mane and tail, these are jet black, and, to add to its rarity, the animal has pink ejes. The dam is a rusty black color, and the sire a bay. The owner has Already refused £20 ior this prodigy. The ciptain (who has just been giving a spin to his last purchase for his wife's inspection) : " Good goer, ain't he? And a fall 14-stone horse, you know 1 " Young wife (aa yet Bomewkat innocent in horsey matters): I'm rare fa«s more tban that, dear. Why, mamma weighs nearly as much ! " Recently, in a single week, the mills at Minneapolis made 233,000 barrels of flour, and in the week before 241,000 barrels, which was the largest output on record ; and the week before that 202,000 barrels. That, says the American Miller, is making flour and records with a vengeance, The Live Stock Journal remarks :— "To show the large extent to which sheep feeding for export is conducted on some of the New Zealand eßtates, it is stated by a colonial paper that on the Riversdale Estate of the New Zealand Agricultural Company, 30,000 sheep were recently feeding on turnips. In one field there were 18,000." There are still in the country districts ti South France many women who go barefooted, the same as in Scotland or in Ireland. They often carry their boots or shoes and stockings in their hands, and when approaching a brook they sit down and put them on. But naked feet do not necessarily mean empty purses. A case which was heard a few months ago at the Bloomsbury Court shows that Lord Ravleigh has a large milk business in London. His lordship was suin<? a plebian milkman named Sullivan for trespassing on his walk, and diverting the peer's customers. Lord Rayleiijh is a well-known mathematician.