The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-14
Agricultural and Scientific.

"HA'' exclaimed Mr.. John Thomas.
standing with his coat-tails drawn forward
and his back to the kitchen fire, GIVE
herd good deal about the cattle complaint,
out am Apply to say it assent yet attacked
my calves"
A PREACHER in Manchester, N. H., few
Sundays ago, thanked God that the apple
crop was a failure last year. He ought to
pray for the loss of the wheat crop, for bad
bread has caused more deaths than good
cider.
The. Boston Traveller states that E. NJ.
| Stephens has Did his patent rubber heel
stifening to company now organized un-
der the laws Of Massachusetts, for the man.
ufacture and sale Of them, for the large sum
Of three hundred thousand dollars.
| IT is said that small quantity of sassa-
fras bark mixed with dried fruit will keep
it free from worms for years. The remedy
is easily obtained in many localities, and is
well worth an experiment, as it will not in
jure the fruit in any manner, if it does not
| prevent the nuisance.
| THEODORE GENNERT, Superintendent of
the Germania Sugar Company, established
in 1868 at Chatsworth, Livingston county,
| ILL.,, has just returned from Germany, hav-
ing completed his purchase Of the machinery
necessary to increase the capacity of the
factory SO as to work fifty tons Of beets per
| day.
THE Atchison Champion says: "a friend
of ours recently observing an advertisement
in New York paper, promising on the re-
ceipt of twenty-five cents to send recipe
to keep water in wells and cisterns from
freezing in cold weather, sent on the above
named sum, and received by return mail the
following answer: Take in your well and
cistern on cold nights and keep them by the
fire."
Bay, Lake Erie, from vineyard of five
acres sold, as his crop for last year $500
pounds of grapes and made 5000 gallons of
wine. The price of grapes averaged seven
and one-half cents per pound and the wine
is worth new ninety cents per gpllon.
This gives 1887 80 for a single grape crop
on five acres OF Island soil, or 81 ,597 so
per acre.
Mr.. HENRY J. Potter, Of Bridgewater,
Mass, has constructed q steam engine,
which he has built for driving watch
makers lathe. This steam engine is seven
stroke, and has horizontal cylinder. 1t
has an oval boiler, thirteen inches greatest
diameter by eight inches high, which is
armed by two kerosene burners. The en-
CINE makes about 500 revolutions per min
ute, works with great ease, and is desira-
BILE and practical thing for small purposes.
1t carries ten pounds Of steam.
GRABBING SHEEp.-Daily do we see sheep
grabbed by the wool and pulled about. Will
people never learn better? Let some one
take them by the hair, and they would prob
ably learn lesson. Could they look under
the skin, they would be surprised how much
suffering they inflicted-for the sheep is
dumb and does not tell its pain. Take by
the neck-any place rather than the wool
any place but the hair. So it is where sheep
are hooked or knocked or thumped about.
They are tender, it must be remembered
more so than any stock on the farm.
THE late heavy snow storm in England
was the most destructive Of any for the last
forty years amongst the frs and other ever
green trees. It's estimated that the weight
Of snow on the trees was an average of
three pounds to the square foot. Hundreds
Of fine trees have been either totally
wrecked or sadly mangled; and in the gar
UeuS OF rHtldlH dtdCcs Suc pcautituk cNcE.
green oak, planted by Bishop Compton near
" two centuries ago, the pride of the gar
dens, has been more than half destroyed,
and Bishop Porten's Cedar Of Lebanon con-
siderably damaged
The Montgomery County Press says that
the disease prevalent among the cattle in
Montgomery county. Pa. during the last
two or three years has been called Pleuro
Pneumonia DR.. Corson has expressed the
opinion that this and the foreign disease
had the same symptoms, and were similar,
if not identical in character. If this be SO,
the cattle plague is not confined to Mont
egomery. Pleuro Pneumonia prevailed
throughout the New England States few
years ago, and cases Of it have occurred all
over the country. It is only here and there,
however, that it has prevailed IS an cpl
dcmic. In New England its progress was
checked and stopped BY the isolation Of in
fected cattle, and the destruction Of those
deemed insurahle.