The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-08-03

1teD the W0essn 1ssei.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
A malignant inhamation Of the syss,
has broken out among the COWS ct Bal
timoYe Nd.
The reports from the English hop
growing districts Of the growing crop
are not very favorable.
Donald @. Mitchell ("Iks Marvsl")
doesn't like New Haven and wants to
sell his famous farm 1t Edgewood.
The annual address at the Washing.
ton Co., w., Fair, to be held At Mont
pelisr, In September, will bs delivered
BY Senator Morrill,.
The wheat and rye crop Of Iroquois
Co., ILL.,, Ia represented - 6ne, the
yield good, aud tina quality excellent.
Late reports Of crops in Virginia and
South Carolina are more favorable than
those earlier In tho season.
The drouth IL so severe In some parts
Of the gra zing sections Of California, that
flock masters are offering to sell their
sheep ut so cents per head.
It is estimated that the wheat crop in
Jersey Co.. Ill.,, for 1871, will yield ,OOo-
600 bushels; and IL is undoubtedly the
best crop since 1864.
1t Is stated that Hon. J. n. English,
Of JerseyviIle. Ill.,, raised this season
sixty acres of wheat which averaged
twenty four and half bushels to the
acre.
An exchange paper states that J. G.
Purviance. Of Mclean County, Ill.,, has
sold 1000 bushels of corn, to he deliver.
ed in the Fall at twenty Eight cents .
bushel.
Florida planters complain Of very wet
weather, which has already unfavors-
bly, affected the cotton crop, and II con.
,inued much longer, threatens serious
injury.
The estimates Of cattle from Texas a.
likely to he driven North this season IL
put ut 100000. Over 80. 900 have already
been received BY the Kansas Pacific
Railroad.
A few days since farmer by the
name Of Seeley residing near White
Hall Illinois, lost 700 bushels Of wheat
by fire. The wheat was in stack, aud
caught fire from burning stubble.
A Nebraska railroad 10 said to have
carried sixteen thousand trees over iss
rails In = single day. recently, for plant
ing which IL an agreeable reflection
With progressive Western farmers.
The disease which has been making
terrible ravages among the horses In
New York and Brooklyn has nearly
disappeared in those large cities, but
has broken out In in Suffolk Co., Long
Island.
Horace Greeley and Col. Taggart have
been invited by the Oregon Agriculture
al Society to tell the visitors to the
Agricultural fair, to be held next Au-
tuinn, what they both know about farm.
ing.
The harvest about Atchisop, Kansas.
10 earlier than ever known, and prolif-
nc. All small grains show a very large
yield, aud the quantity very fine. Corn
promises well, and the fruit crop will be
abundant.
Mr.. William Berry, living eight miles
from Pleasant Hill. Mo-, has |, 300 acres
OF corn in one enclosure. He cultivates
II with seventeen hands, seventeen cul.
tivators and twenty four mules. These
get over one hundred acres day. Mr..
Berry expects to gather fifty bushels per
acre, which will make his crop nearly
100, 600 bushels.
The Farmers Gazette of Richmond,
Va, has an article in It's July number
highly recommending the locust tree
for timber purposes, and advocating Its
cultivation. While tn. value Of the To-
Gust may be conceded, its cultivation
has been almost entirely suspended and
the tree discarded In this country, ~
reason of the ravages Of the borer.
My. Brown, ofSangamon county, al d
President Of the Illinois State Agricul-
tural Society, informs the Jacksonville
correspondent Of the Missouri Democrat.
that his wheat harvest DC. urred ~ early
this year that. after it Was over, and tho
wheat had been removed from the fleld
where it grew, he At once plowed under
the stubbis aud planted the ground In
corn. which is now up and some six
inches high, and he 10 hopeful Of gath.
ering bountiful crop uf corn therefrom
this Fall. This is certainly extraordi.
nary-a crop Of wheat aud a crop Of
corn from *hs same ground III QUO SEA,
ION.
The Springfield Republican, speak ing
Of the new Commissioner of Agricul.
ture, says: "The Pennsylvania friends
Of Frederick Watts, the new Commits.
si"ner Of Agriculture. gave him u very
good reputation. He is the son Of an
eminent lawyer at Carlisle, Pa, and n
graduate OF Dickinson college. He
studied law. and practiced for while
with marked ability and success, but
some years ago retired from the bar, and
has since devoted himself to agriculture.
He is now President Of the Pennsylva.
mia Agricultural Society, and IL one of
the most scientific aud Intelligent agri.
c"l;urists in the country"
800
Ink Lings by Josh Billings.
The mos. valuable thing in this world