Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-02-09
RURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Never ride near an open window
Of a vehicle for single half minute,
especially if it has been preceded by
a walk !; valuable lives have thus
been lost or good health permanently
destroyed.
A Gentleman purchased a guam
tity of supposed milk at Boston
restaurant, few days ago, and, a
few hours afterward, found his pur-
chase had settled the top being
clear water, and the bottom a poor
quantity of flour.
\ single brewery at the Boston
Highlands consumes 100000 bush
cls of barley per year, and between
400 and 500 bales OF hops, in the
manufacture Of lager beer, and the
aggregate amount Of barley used by
all the principal establishments is
not less than | 100000 bushels, and
Of hops about 5000 bushels.
For the improvement of pastures
the Ohio Farmer recommends that
they be divided onc-half stocked
with sheep, and the other half with
cows, and alternate changes made
every spring or by an entire change
from COWS to sheep and from sheep
to COWS every few years, always re-
tainln; COW or two for family use.
The two, however. never to run to-
sether.
The New England Homestead says
that the present season has witness
ed the Inauguration of a new trade
in garden vegetables between Chica-
90 and Boston. Hubbard and Mar
row squashcs are shipped from the
latter to the former city, and the
price paid is SIS per ton. Early
squasl,cs sold in Boston for 50 per
dozen !; but later, the price paid rca,-
ixed to grower about $50 per acre.
A farmer in Massachusetts cut an
acre Of red-top and clover, June
10Th, 1869 and stored the hay by It
SELF On the first Of March follow
ing, the commenced feeding this hay
to ten COWS, which had been KEPT
previously on lay of the same var
iety Gu. after the middle of July
The early cut hay spent quite a:
we'll as the latter cut, and the i'm
mediate increase in flow Of mill
arising, from the use of the former
amounting to a daily average Of on,
quart per COW.
A meeting of the General Corr
Association of Montreal has resolv
ed to petition the Dominion Parlia
ment for a repeal OF the duties OF
flour and grain. Mr.. Ryan, membe
Of Parliament for Montreal. who pre-
sided, said that the millers Of Uppe
Canada were obliged to import grail
from Chicago and Milwaukee to keel
their mills in operation, and pay du
ties upon it. 1t was stated also tina
the imports of flour from the Unitet
States were in the proportion Of 35C
600 barrels last year against LAC, OO'
in 1896.
4 correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says that he has used sui
phur for more than twenty years
with benefit, to prevent rot in grapes
Rot is not caused by a fungus a
some suppose, but by an insect
which panctures the grapes proba
bly, for the purpose Of depositing it
eggs. Upon this discovery is base'
the sulphur remedy for the rot, q
sulphur is distasteful to all the in
sect tribe. Fumiyation with sulphu
in the evening is better than dust
as the insects work at night.
A correspondent Of the Countr,
Gentleman says that the principa
point in the successful culture Of til,
Lima bean, is to get the seed vel
started. The best way OF doing this
is, to plant in hill Of light earth
made 50 by sitting the soil, if it car
be had in no other way, A shove
full Of well rotted manure should &C
into each hill. He mixes sand and
muck, and after placing each seed
bean with the germ downward in the
hill, he Sits the covering over il
through awillow sieve. Corn plant.
ing time is about the right time to
plant Lima beans. The after cult
walton is the same as for the com