Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-09-13
raeuDe, farm ana Garden.
If yoa would have your daughter.
husband pleased with his breakfast

~ Nv"iu uasS y0M daughicfS
husband pleased with his breakfast,
teach her to set q breakfast.
There is an Isabella grape vine a,
Indiana, Pa, which has produced this
nmmrr ZOO punches Of perfect
grapes.
Bfeak steers while young, If von
would have them gentle. aud Won can
- many small jobs with them that
woald Otherwise require a team.
1t is q difficult matter to obtain a
steel which retains it's sharpening
qualities for any length Of time. X
common round file answers the pur-
pose admirably. Fasten it in an old
k~nife-handlc, aud i, is ready Tor use.
Two hours r. ading of a good ews
paper, il as profitable as six hours
work oat of twelve. The farmer aud
the produce dealer equally should I'M
derstand the markets. Sometimes 10
know a thing is the same a. to earn
600.
LIVE stock increase il numbers far
more rapidly in Australia than the
population, aud the grea, question
now is how to get rid Of them. Ii is
proposed in n place to erect a Joint
stock establishment capable of boil,
ing down 10000 sheep a week"
A FARMEI in Missouri, on b., ing
asked the number Of his children,
besitstel, and referred the matter 10
his wife, and she replied. "tcn," bu,
when, in the course OF conversation
'he farmer was asked as to the nun
her Of hogs he possessed. be replied
promptly, "seyeuty-one.,
a statement was made at a late
meeting q the New York Farmers
Club, of complete success in raising
plans on trees planted on the edge
OF pond; not \ plum being stung
that would fall into the water, while
All OF those hanging over dry ground
bore the rescent mark OF the eursu-
lio.
II is conceded that those localities
which are suited to the cultivation Of
white clover aud buckwhest are also
suited 10 the production Of honey, and
that where a poppy will prosper, a bee
VIII prosper also: consequently there
are few situations where ~bee-heeninC
might not be successfully prosecuted.
The oil Of pennyroyal will keep
musqui.oes ont OF . room, II scattered
about il small quantities. Reaches
are exterminatel by scattering a hand
tul OF fresh cucumber parings about
the house. No fly will light on the
window which has been washed With
water in which a little garlic has been
boiled.
The California Farmer saws that a
little while since a lot of wheat wa.
sent from California to France it
was then shipped to Liverpool. thence
to New York, thence to Chicago, the
great, grand wheat depot of the Uni
ted States and yet after all these
long voyages and repeated shipments,
with added costs, it paid 4 profit all
around.
SAJK county. Wisconsin, had, in
1865 8e8 acres Of land devoted to the
cultivation Of the hop vine, the Weld
being l,o22, 782 pounds. This year
s,543 acres are to be picked. and it is
estimated that in 1863, 5,56S acres
will be devoted to the cultivation Of
this plant. This attempt to diversity
the agriculture of a portion of tie
great west, therefore, appears to have
been remarkably successful.
IS = caution to those canning fruit
in glass or using the same, / would
Ike To state through your paper what
may already be known by many, that
particles of glass are liarle 10 fake IF
tAeinside of the can ana mix with the
fruit. which renders obvious the pro-
Frieiy Of earthly removing all such
particles before asing the can. as
much as possible, and examining the
fruit before eating.-C Cor. Rurdl Ne1
lorkes.