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The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-09-02

in all cases of the hillary system. Hooland's
German Bitters stand without an equal, acting
promptly and vigorously uponathe LIVER they
Tfmoye We IS biIt Itt"eThereby supplying the stomach
TN s'ao IN nroper propositions. Thcy1siso
&-s3sa l.. Iha stomach etiinulating its functions,
.tnd enabling it TO perform IT'D duties nature
designed it should do! They impart vigor
and strength to the entire system, causing the
patient TO feel like another being in fact, Civ
| ine him anew lease Of life.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
:3655

For vat and fixtures, $500 making in all,
800 for rough, and $1,000 for finished
building. Stock companies are formed by
those interested taking one or more shares,
which may be $50 or 800 each. A commit
tee is chosen by the shareholders, who SUI
perntend the building of the factory, hiring
help, etc. A dairy of 100 cows can be man
aged by II man of experience with additional
help, which could be hired Mt from two to
three dollars and board. For two hundred
cows he would want an additional hand,
which might be woman and inexperienced.
The question is often asked, how many cows
must n factory number to payP For an in
dvidual to build factory to work up milk
for others at two dollars hundred, which is
the common price of making up and furnish
ing the cheese, all boxed and ready for mar
ket, he would want three hundred cows or
more to make paying business.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
COST OF A SMALL CHEESE FACTORY.

AS many farmers are making inquiries
about butter and cheese factories, they will
be interested in reading the following esti-
mate of the cost of small cheese factory,
which we clip from the Manufacturer a''d
Builder:-"For 100 cows, building sixty
by twenty-siX feet with sixteen feet posts,
making it two-stories, would be required
Take twonty-four feet from the lower story
for make-room, leaving the remainder and
the upper story for curing-rooms. The upper
story should be partitioned the same us the
lower. The twenty-four foot room over the
make-room should be plastered and furnish
ed with stoves, suitable for curing early and
late cheese. The cost depends on the price
of lumber and labor, which differs in locali-
ties. A rough, substantial building, which
will answer in every respect in most locali-
ties, would cost $1,000. If finished with
paint, etc., $1,000. 1t could be furnished
with vat tank, hoops, scales, etc., for $500,
making in all 81, 300 for the rough building,
and $1,000 for the finished one. For 200
cows the same sized building would answer.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
BUTTER, CHEESE, AND MILK.

1t requires about sixteen quarts Of good
quarts to make one pound of cheese.
1t is often question with farmers, how
they can best dispose of their dairy products
If we consider that the pork produced from
the buttermilk or whey pays for the extra
trouble involved in the care of butter and
cheese, the account will stand about us fol-
lows when butter is selling mt forty cents II
pound, cheese at eleven cents and milk ut
three cents per quartz
One pound of butter - Is quarts of milk
IL 40 cents or % cents per quart for milk
One pound of cheese - 10 quarts of milk
~ IL cents, or Ill cents per quart for milk.
In order to pay three cents per quart for
the milk consumed, the pound of cheese
would have to be sold ut thirty cents, or one
pound of butter at fifty cents.
In the neighborhood of large cities milk
will command even better prices than the
above, rs 1t is frequently worth five cents per
quart; this would bring the value of the
pound of butter up to eighty cents and the
cheeset to fifty cents.
A farmer can easily judge from these
figures which is the most profitable business
for him, the prices being in all cases those
which can be obtained on the farm. If the
articles are to be delivered, the ratios may
be somewhat changed.
For Il person living long distance from
market, or where the means of communica-
ton are slow and uncertain, cheese will
most likely be the only available means of
reaching II market. For those living nearer
to market, with good facilities for reaching
it, butter is the best paying product.
In order to make milk pay, the market
must not be over two or three hours distance
from the farm. Many railroads, however,
equalize the rates of freight on milk, charg-
ing all their customers the same price, wheth-
er they live ten OF thirty miles from the city.
boston Journal Of Chemistry.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
Gbe 4airp.
MILKING IN SILENCE.

At Farmers Club in West Cornwall, Ct,
GU. ST. a farmer said that no talking should
be allowed while milking was going on. lie
said he discharged one of his servants who
persisted in talking during milking time, and
that in days the increase of milk was equal
to the mans weekly wages. We fear an in
crease to such an extent must have been due
to other causes besides the one assigned. IF
the enlarged yield followed solely from the
dismissal of the man, we suspect his presence
affected the supply of milk in some way
apart from his Ioquacity. We have frequent
ly found n change of servants prove benefi-
cial. 1t may be that talking prevents hens
from laying also We know we have often
experienced vast increase in the number of
nj Of too oflicious individual from our en-
ploy Besides, our cows have sometimes
improved in produce by the same means, but
we generally attributed it to cleaner milking
by fresh and more industrious hands 1t is,
however, well known that cows are peculiar
ly sensitive to sights and sounds during the
time they arc MIXED. Unless they are ut
pciltNJ citSc, lHty VIII uol SlNt ticil
freely. They should be daily MIXED under
the same conditions. Cows that are fed ut
milking time require their usual meal, or
they become restless and dissatisfied, and put
n stop to their bounty. Many of them will
only allow some special favorite to milk
them. In those parts of the country where
women are solely employed to milk, we fire.
quently find one or two tuneful lassies sing
ing mt their work, and many cows become so
pleased with the rustic harmony as to show
evident signs of their approval of the loud
sweet voice, by giving their milk only by be-
ing sung to. Everything that abstracts the
attention of the COW and ruffles her placidity
should be avoided when she is called upon
to yield her milk. Her nervous system
should not he excited by strange noises, I'M
welcome objects or rough treatment, OF the
effect will be apparent in diminished sup
ply in the milk pail. 1t would no doubt be
good advice, on the whole, to tell those who
milk that they should hold their tongues and
keep their tcmpers. The Ct. farmer appears
to have sufficient reason indeed to say, that
speech is silver, but silence is golden.-Lon-
don M,lk Journal.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
A SUGGESTION TO BUTTER MAKERs.-We

A SUGGESTION TO BUTTER MAKERs.-We
still feed our cows cooked corn-meal, say
three quarts of meal per day to each cow. l
am satisfied that it pays. We have made
just as nice yellow butter all winter as | wish
to eat-better butter than we make during
the hot summer weather. l am inclined to
think that the hest time to have cows come
in, where nothing but butter is made, would
be in September, and let them 60 dry during
the hot weather of July and August. We
should then have plenty of skim-milk, just
when we most want it, for young pigs. And
the cows would run in the pasture, and re-
qure no milking during the best season of
harvest.-J. Harris, IN american Agrtcultu-
Yist.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-10-21
General Stems.

Fijians, who speak highly of their tender
ness and gamey flavor
There were LOO samples of milk inspect
ed in Boston last year, of which 6l0 were
more or less adulteratcd.
Young ladies in New Haven are learning
to play the violin. The idea of having four
strings to their bow is fascinating.
A "cotton state fair" is soon to be held in
Georgia with purses for competitive piano
playing by ladies as one of the features.
An indignant German officer has written
to n London paper to deny Lord Shaftesbury's
statement that piety prevails in the Prussian
army.
The mayor of Macon, Ga, has offered II
silver service worth $50 to the prettiest girl
in the state under II years old, who appears
ut the coming state fair in a home-spun dress.
The medical society of Washington is still
cursed with colorphobia and recently reject
ed DR.. c. b. Purvis, n gentleman of thor
ough medical education, for no other reason
than because he was black.
A man is now peddling in Winconsin with
pair of dogs, hitched to light wagon. For
several years he has carried the mail with
this team from Red River to st. Paul, being
able in winter to make 90 miles day.
Two sailors recently engaged in fight on
the steamer Congress on its return voyage
from Greenland, and as punishment had to
hug one another for four hours with sentry
tbar,, fo that II affa.tinpn tal u.
done.
The Banner Of Light learns from the late
Henry j. Raymond that he is editing paper
in the other world, and finds free platform
where Christian and heather can come
alike. Whether he finds any Tammany
rings to fight is not stated.
James Polk one of Gen. Jackson's count
less colored servants, died recently in New
Orleans, at the age of go. He was the gen.
erals valet as long ago us 1914. The num-
Der of domestics our prominent Americans
have had is almost beyond enumeration.
The largest trout taken in the Androscog-
gin waters this season was captured by G. S.
Martin of New York, on the 3lst ult., and
weighed eight and quarter pounds. The
fish was forwarded to New York for the edi-
fication of the lovers of the sport residing in
that city.
1t is an effectual remedy for fighting dogs
to throw them into the water. j. b. Moore
and Levi Apologize, who engaged in row
on the river near Louisville, Ky, the other
day, tumbled out of their skiff and were
drowned, showing the cure to work equally
well with men.
A ghost that has been haunting house in
Peoria, ILL.,, was lately watched for by the in
mates and half pint of bird shot put into his
legs. The test proved the specter to be real
flesh and blood by the earthly name of
McGraw. The success of the gunner offers
good suggestion to all similarly troubled.
While Greeley was at Des Moines, Ia,
Mr.. j. d. Grinnell picked up the philoso-
piers old white overcoat and said: "Wo are
going to stop your wearing this. We want
you to wear a coat made of Iowa wool, from
the loom of our Davenport Shields" 81
guess not" said Mr. Greeley; 1.-THE old coat
has lasted me twenty years, and am pretty
sure il will last rs LONG Or longer than
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23
900 CORDS OF WOOD FOR SAlF.

OAA Cords of Hard and Soft Wood for sale.
sOVJV Also large quantity of Sawed and Split
Posts, In lots to suit purchasers ut the wood ward
on Canovia St., I'd street East of the Court House
~ JupSON J. TRAVIS.
n. B.-Faruncrs supplied with Fence Pnsts ut
reasonable rates. lOtf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23
Destruction of Weeds.

\ cultivated crop of any kind can
not be successfully grown on land
unless it is perfectly free from
weeds, for the latter absorb the in
gradients from the soil and atmos-
phere, which are required to bring
the former to perfection. When
several cereal crops are grown on
land without the intervention of
grown crop, the weeds that are pc
culiar to the cereals spring up, ripen
their seed, and take possession of
the soil by disseminating them.
The seeds of some weeds are pro-
vided with wings, and are carried
by the wind for many miles. The
Canada thistle and dandelion are
scattered far and wide in this way.
The seeds Of others are covered
with burrs, which adhere to the hair
or wool of animals, and are dis
tributed in this way. In preparing
for spring crops, the Importance of
banishing weeds should be borne in
mind; after being deeply plowed
the soil should be- well pulverized
with the harrow and roller. The
harrow will bring up weeds and
roots to the surface where they will
be killed by exposure to the sun.
The compression of the soil by the
roller will cause the seeds of weeds
to vegetate, and when the plants APP
pear above ground they may be
easily destroyed by stirring the
ground with the harrow. Canada
thistles may be easily pulled out of
grain crops by using wedding tongs
while the ground is moist after
showers. Burdock should be extir-
pated from pastures, yellow dock
from grass land as well as from til
lage crops Western Rmol.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23
The Farm in June.

"Delays are dangerous. This is
an axiom to be kept i'll constant re-
membrance now. The hours of day
light are burdened with labor from
which there is no safe way Of escape
June, though lovely, and as full of
charms as the goddess for which it
was named, is month of work for
the farmer. The cultivation of corn
and potatoes, the care of the dairy,
haying, WHICH has now, the 10th, al
> ready been commenced, the sowing
of turnips, and the blowing of sum
mer fallows, make business lively
outdoors and within.
II is not every one who grows
turnips, or realizes the advantages
of having them to feed with dry hay
or straw in the winter. We urge
those who have not tried the expert
ment to do so now, even on a small
scale. 4 half dollar will buy seed
enough for quarter acre or more,
and if you get it into the ground be-
tween the 10th and Goth, YOU NAV
rely on a fair crop if the land is in
tolerable condition. Follow out
this suggestion now to satisfy your
self as to the profits of root-culture.
Sow broadcast, or in drills, and
keep the ground clean and mellow.
AS to the time of cutting hay,
there is diversity ofopinion which
will remain diverse; and while some
farmers will cut their grass early
and have bright soft hay, others
will insist in letting it stand until
all the sugar is turned into woody
fibre, and the hay is hard, stiff and
stalky. From experience, we are
very clear that early mown hay is
worth a third more for milk or flesh
farming than late cut. This is es-
pecially true on sandy soils. If
woody fibre is all that is wanted,
the shavings from the planning mill
might answer every purpose. 1t
would make flesh and blood and
milk as well as the woody fibre of
the stalks Of hay.
A farmer who raises good crops,
said that he could grow five bushels
more wheat to the acre by blowing
his summer fallow deep and then
keeping it clean and mellow with a
two-horse cultivator, than by plow-
ing twice. Between the plowings
the grass and weeds would get
start, and the sun and air could not
get into the soil. No matter how
dry the season, by keeping the fallow
clean and loose it would be album
dainty moist to cause the seed to
terminate and grow rapidly. No
rule is better established than that
frequent stirring the soil will keep
it moist.
The garden calls also for special
attention this month. A great vari-
ETY. of vegetables is not only condu-
Give to health and strength Of mus
Gle, but it cheapens living wonder
fully. Most farmers are apt to over
look the money in garden. A meat
diet is expensive. Some meat is
necessary, but what we need is more
variety Of vegetable dishes.-De-
troit Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

D. A. Compton, of Hawley, Penn,
says that tomatoes on heavy soil
may be obtained from four to five
weeks earlier than usual, by setting
the plants on the tops of sharp hills.
The hills should be about fifteen
inches high, and three feet in diam
etcr at the base. Water the plants
only when first set, and dust the
plants and the whole hills frequent
~ with plaster. The tomato, com
ing from hot country, will endure
a drouth that would prove fatal to
less hardy plant. What it needs
most is heat, and this is secured by
planting on steep hills on which the
suns rays strike less obliqucly than
on flat surfaces.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

A USEFUL TABLE.-To aid farm
ers IN arriving at accuracy in ascer-
tanning the amount Of land in differ
cnt fields under cultivation, the fol-
lowing table is given by an agricu.-
tural contemporary: Six yards wide
by 26s yards long contains one acre;
10 yards wide by 4s4 long contains
one acre; 20 yards wide by 242
yards long contains one acre; 100
yards wide by so4 yards long con
talns one acre, 200 feet wide by l6s
feet long contains one acre; 10
feet wide by 39G feet long contains
one acre; 90 feet wide by 1876 feet
long contains one acre.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23
Vegetable Manures.

Much of the productive capacity
of our farm lands is dependent upon
the vegetable deposit that has been
going on for ages. Our timbered
lands have received the annual coat
ing Of leaves, and the prairies are
rendered rich, in a great measure,
from the annual decay Of grass and
weeds.
The known benefits that have
come from the sources named, afford
evidences Of the advantages to be
derived III the future from cultivat-
ing green crops for manure. When
we seed down to clover, looking to
this crop as means of enriching
our land, we simply initiate nature,
except that she deposits the annual
accumulations Of vegetable matter
upon the surface, we expect to pillow
the green crop under. Clover is
undoubtedly the best crop grown
for using in the form OF vegetable
fertilizer. Its roots penetrate deep,
and the product of vegetable growth
above the surface is rapid and
heavy. Poor soils can, with the
aid of plaster, be made to yield an
enormous growth.
Even when an early crop of
clover is taken off the land, sec
ond growth will come on, yielding
quite heavy crop to be turned be-
fore frost. The abundant roots at-
ford no mean aid i'll the process of
enriching the soil, and in compact
clays prepare the land for the more
complete pulverization Of the soil
by the pillow, as well as to open the
way for the easier and deeper down
ward growth of the roots of farm
crops Of all kinds.
Many farmers owning rich prai-
ric farms, do not now see any ne
cessity for the use of clover,
although many of these farms have
been in cultivation for fifteen or
twenty years, with no effort during
the time to replace the waste. All
such land will be found benefited
by the use Of clover, and the abso-
Lutte necessity Of its use is only
question of time, if other means of
staying the progress of exhaustion
be neglected. To seed down to any
kind OF grass suited for meadow or
pasture, has its advantages, but for
speedily furnishing a large amount
OF vegetable matter to the soil, in
shape to give an immediate return
through cereal crop, clover, as be-
fore stated, will be found perhaps
superior to any other crop that can
be grown.-G. s., ~ Ioro Home
stead.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

General Capron, Commissioner of
Agriculture, reports that tea culture
is fast becoming recognized indus
try in the Western and Southern
States, and tha in few years
enough tea will be grown Oh native
soil to meet the home consumption.
He states that the transplanting of
tea to these sections has been Il
great success, and that the prospects
for its rapidly becoming an impor-
tant feature are encouraging. Some
10000 plants have been distributed
South and West, and so well have
they thriven that the department is
in turn distributing the seed from
those raised in North Carolina.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

- = No'S'S'Ns
Vinegar Bistcrs are not vile Fancy Drink.
Made OF Poor Rum, Whiskcy, Proof Spirits
and Refuse Liquors. doctorcd, spiced and sweet
cned TO please the taste called Tonics Appc,izers
RESTORES, &c that lead the tippler on to drunken
ness and ruin, but are true Medicine, made from the
Native Roots and Herbs of California, free from nil
Alcoholic Stimnlnnts. They are the GREAT
BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIFE GIVING
PRINCIPLE, perfect Renovator and Inyigora,cr
OF the System. carrying off all poisonous matter and
restoring the blood to healthy condition No person
take these Btters according to directions and re-
main long unwell, provided their bones are not des
troyed by mineral poison other MEANS and the vital
organs wasted beyond the point Of repair.
They are n Gentle Pmrgntivc Ms well A.
Tonic possessing also. the peculiar merit ofactin:
powerful aren't in relieving Congestion or Inaamma
ton Of the Liver, and all the visceral Organs
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether in
young old married or single at the dawn Of woman.
hood at the turn of life these Tonic Btters have no
equal.
For InnammafOry or Chronic Rheu nm tisu,
and cOut, Dyspepsia or lndig estiOm. Bill.
tOus. Kcmittent and Intermittent Fevers,
Diseases Of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and
Blndder. these Bitters have been most successful.
Such Diseases are caused by Initiated Blood,
which is generally produced by arrangement OF the
Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Head
ache Pain IN the Shoulders Coughs. Ti.hness Of tho
Chest Dizziness Sour Fluctuations the Stomach BAD
Taste in the Mouth Bilious Attacks Papitation of tho
Heart Inflammation Of the Lungs. Pain In the regions
Of the Kidneys. and hundred other painful symptoms
are the offsprinss of Dyspepsia.
They nvigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid
Liver and Bowels. which render them Of unequaled
efficacy in cleansing the blood Of all impurities and i'm
parting new life and visor to the whole system
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptons. letter.
Salt Rheum, Blotches, Spots Pimples Pastulcs Boils
Carbuncles, Ring Worms. Scald Head, Sore Eyes.
Erisipelas. Itch Scurfs Dscolorations Of the Skim
Humors and Diseases Of the Skin, Of whatever name
or nature are literally dug up and carried out Of tho
system in short time by the Of these Bitter Ono
bottle in such will convince the most increduous
OF their curative effect.
Cleanse the Initiated Blood whenever you And Its Inn
purIfies bursting through the skin in Erupton
or Sores cleanse il when find it INSTRUCTED and
sluggish IN the veins: cleanse il when 1t Is foul ana
and the h alth Of the system will follow.
PIN. TAPE, and other WORMS, lurking IN
the system OF so many thousands eftectnay as
the circular around each bottlc,- printed N iou1
lanSuages-English. German, French and Spanish
J. WALKER Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD CO..
Druggists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco. CAL AM
20 and 81 Commerce Street. New YORK.
~ SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DGAhsH-'
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

A farmer in Indiana recently cut
down an oak tree which measured
eight feet and nine inches in diam
eter across the stump, and produced
fourteen and half cords of wood
400 fencing posts, and six two horse
loads of chips. He sold the wood
at 81 cord, 400 fencing posts at SO
cents apiece, and the chips at $3.50
per load: total, 1878.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

FAST TINE and SPECIAL FAST TRAIN
ONLY 50 HOURS TO VIEW YORK!
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

M. j. Carter writes the Rmul
Ne,c Yorker that if those who have
crib-biting horses will nail sheep
skin. wool side up, wherever there
is chance for the horse to bite, he
will not do much cribbing in the
stable. His father has tried it sue
cessfully.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23

The New England Homestead
says many farmers in Litchield Co.,
Ct, have, until the present year,
been largely engaged in fattening
cattle, but as Western beef now
comes into competition, it has be-
come Improbable, and attention is
now given to keeping cows for the
manufacture Of butter and cheese
and to raising tobacco.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-06-23
Aarirnltnyal Column

THE reading columns on this page will he devot-
81 mainly to topics pertaining to the FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the BULLETIN
Are cordially invited to write for it.