The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-07-27
From the Western Rural.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

| From the Western Rural.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
Ants are said to be destroying the
corn in some portions of Stewart county,
| Tenn.
It is said that Col. Thompson, a Min
nssota farmer. has steam pillow which
breaks up easy forty acres Of prairie per
day.
A flock. Of over 10000 sheep were
driven through Grass Valley, Califor.
mia, May 3lst, in search Of mountain
pasturage.
An exchange says: "The chinch bug
has done great iamaget to wheat in Rock
Island Co., III. tits estimated that
only one field in fifteen will be worth
cutting.
The cultivation Of tobacco in Missouri
is falling off every year; not more than
one>third as much is raised there now
as ten years ago.
An exchange says that if tree plan
ting continues in Iowa for ten years, at
this years rate, 1865 will find the State
beautified with great forests.
A farmer in Van Buren, Co., Iowa
saved a pen of hog. which had been eat
ing Paris green by administering sweet
milk As An antido:e.
The importance OF carding cows is be.
coming more and more generally recog-
nized, as its value is learned by actual
experience. Cows are greatly benefit
ted 10y it.
The Fulton, Ill.) il urndl says that
the locusts have done much damage to
apple trees in that vicinity by piercing
the limbs and dcpoSiting their eggs.
The leaves then wither, and all the
fruit on those limbs is killed.
The Lawrence Journal estimates that
there will tie nearly twice the amount
of wheat raised in Kansas this year that
there was last. The prospect for othsr
crops is unusually good. 6easonable
rains have prevailed all over the State,
The Cedar Falls Iown) Gazette Gays ::
eve have contlictive reports relative to
thewheat crop, from which we conclude
that portion Of the wheat in this vicn-
ity is quite seriously injured, first by
the hot weather, and next by some in.
sect or worm, but by far the largest por-
ton of the grain is doing nicely. The
straw is not large, out the stand is nice
and the prospect fair if not good. The
most favorable reports are from Wash
ington and Mt. Vernon"
The squirrels have been raiding on
the wheat fields in Virginia. A Lynch,
burg paper says that but few weeks
since there was hardly Il squirrel to be
seen in days journey, for they were
rusticating in the eli ifs and huIiows of
the Blue Ridge, and living on the buds
of the poplar tree. But no sooner does
the wheat get ril e enough to eat, than
they come down from tho mountains
like the locusts in the days or Pharaoh,
and threaten to give the farm. ~ serious
trouble. This is more especially the
case in the mountain districts Of Bed.
ford, Botetourt and Amherst.
The Belgium Moniteur gives some de-
tails of the prospect of tine approaching
harvest in the corn growing countries
of Europe.
In Prussia the prospects are unfavor.
able !; much Of the Autumn sowings
persisted; and these of the Spring are
suffering for want of warm sun; in Sax
ony the appearance is better as the crops
are thick and healthy in Russia the
yield is expected to be good average,
and very Large quantity of last year.
stock remains unsupported at Odessa in
Roumania, bulgaria and Bessarabla,
the aspect is most favorable, and in
Hungary an abundant harvest is ex-
pected; in France large portion of
Winter corn is lost, and the fields have
had to he re-sown.