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Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2826, 23 August 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)

Paul B. 1)u Chaillu, the famous African explorer, is in poor health in London. A JJi'sinkss Sensation.— A report is current in America, on the authority of the Chicago Times, that a contract has been signed for the sale of the Chicago stockyards to an English syndicate for thirty millions of dollars, The terms are said to be a cash payment of fifteen dollars, bonds in the new company for ten million of dollars, and the issue of tlm preferred stock to tlie present, stockholders to tho value of live million of dollars. Tho development of tho slaughtering business at Chicago has been something extraordinary. Thirty-five years ago less than 200,000 animals of all kinds were slaughtered for food annually. Last year there were slaughtered at Chicago 1,703,310 cattle, 87,3512 calves, 4,211,567 hogs, and 1,121,101 sheep, making a total of 7,15-3,71 -I animals slaughtered in the yards during the year. Ae tho journal quoted remarks —" The sale of the yards will bo the business sensation of the year on the American continent."

Sn.AiiK is" Germany.—Some recent experiments in Germany havo further demonstrated the value of silage as feeding material. The most important, perhaps, are those by Consul Brockman, who, at the session of the Landwirthshaftlichen Association in Biiitenstein, Kust, Prussia, gave in much detail tho result of his experience. The silage, or pressed food, which ho prepared consisted of hay of the second crop, mustard, ;:ed clover, vetch seradella, anil lupines. He considered that the failures which attended the making of silago were due

generally to want ot rur in making and pressing fir- stacks. Though he does not •r,t so far as to --ay, tike some silage makers, that, it is immaterial how wet tho herbage is, ho cautions tanners against stacking it. too dry, in which ease it should bo watered,