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Show H NUBBINS OP ARM NEWS. - B Orange County, California, raised H something more than 1.000 carloads H ot celery this season, valued a't $320,- H 7c look England 200 years to in- H crease her yield of wheat from 12 to M 1 1 bushels per aero, to an averageof 42 bushels. This was accomplished lrrgcly by tho uso of animal manure. H Tho United Kingdom has 1-I-t farm M animals per mile, whilo our best; agrl- H i c ltural states havo less than SO. H ' An old Japanese farmer .told an H i American visitor that he owned 2 H acres of land and that beside his team H - cow and small donkey lja sup- H ported his family and usually fed two H p gs. Japan supports many agrlcul- H Miral Experiment Stations and hc H equipment in some of them for soil H . investigation Is superior to anything H ' in this country. H A half section of land near Hast- H lngs, Nebr., was recently sold for H $40,000 cash. The land is devoted to H f pardoning and la a money-maker even H at tho price paid for It. H A company has been formed in H I Oklahoma for the purpose of raising B mules. A largo farm has been bought H near' Nowata and no other animal but H ' mules v.'lll be raised on the lurid, H Last year Germany lost 5,000,000 M I tons of potatoes by decay and disease, H ) jind tho government has now offered H a largo mohey prize for a mothod of I preserving potatoes during tho win- H I ter, large prizes to prevent loss by H d"cay and from disease. Two young people who moved on a H farm near Wapalcorieta,' O., were glvon H a hen shower by friends. They ro- H ccived 240' laving hens for tho star , i |