The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-07-13
From the Western Rural.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

Two New Workers have purchase
} 5000 acres Of land on Verdigris, Kan
for farming purposes.
The total rice crop for the U. s. 70
the season just closing 10 $1,000 fierce
less than last year.
The wheat harvest has commenced il
the vicinity Of Leavenwortb, Kan. TIL
crop was never better.
Chinese cucumbers are said to grow
to feet in length, and from 6 to inch
es In diameter.
Twenty eight thousand head % 70 o'' ,,'s
belonging to two dealers .Ts ~" w Wv
road from Texas b~sdsd 'o"aso lea'e'
worth, Kan.
rr,;,.~o bacon Is being sold in Tuluse
c.., Cal. A paper there calls it "a sa,
commentary on the thriftlessness;ofCa Cal
ifornia.".
Mr.. Case, tho well known manufac.
trrer of threshing machines at Racine,
Wis, has engaged in oeet sugar enter
prise at Freeport, Ill.
The harvest in Southern Illinois il
two weeks in advance of ordinary sea
sons. In st. Clair Co. farmers are pay
ing 3 dollars and half day for harvest
hands.
Mr.. s. +. Lane, Raymond, n. H., in
forms the Mirror anl Farmer that he
has cut acres of bushes in the longest
days in June, say about the middle, and
finds that it Is the best season to pre-
vent sprouting.
The farmers about Virginia City, Mon
tana, complain that they will be unable
to save all their crops this season on &c .
count of the scarcity of help; this, too,
when thousands of able bodied men are
out of employment in all of our large
cities.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve
que has decided that the dust produced
by the tobacco manufactures, which
cannot be made into snuff nor put into
any other form absorbable by human
systems, may be sold to farmers for fer.
tiIizing.
DR.. George Sprague, the prominent
breeder of stock, at Des Moiues, says
that for every animal that has been in
jured by over feeding, 10000 have ieel.
injured in growth and for breeding pur
poses by scanty nourishment and insult
ficient feed.
Asa Baldwin, Of Chataqua Co., n. y ;.
writes the RurN New Yorker that fifty
years ago lousy COW Of his ate ten or /;
dozen onions, and fifteen hours after
ward the lice had disappeared. He has
tried the same remedy very many times
since, with the same result in every
case.
The New England Farmer says Hen.
Noble, of Pittsfield Mass, has one OF
the most peri 'ct dairy barns in the
world. The barn is So feet long by 45
wide, consisting of four stories and base
ment; holds 80 tons of hay. will accom-
modate forty four COWS, and has modern
improvements for steaming their food
and supplying them with water. \
novel invention of Mr. Mobiles puts The
COWS under the necessity of hitchiuu
themselves a. soon as they are dr;ven
into their stalls.
1t is stated ihat there are now no less
than 2iO varieties OF weeds which have
been introduced into the United State.
from foreign countries, and principal!
from England. A. proof of the rapidits
with which useless plants are acclden,
tally brought over the seas, it is said H.
1897 there were only l37 foreign we.ls j
known in this country. AS far back a. +
1872 curious little volume called New F.,
England rarties," gave list Of twenty
two plants which the author considered
had sprung up since the English KEEP,
attic in New England.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher does
Iot take exactly IL rosy view Of farming
In writing to the .Ncw io,k Lcdyer lie
ays:
IF one has money and leisure he may
AIRY on farm in the Eastern States
With great enjoyment. 1t is as pleas
mt way to spend money as can wei
re devised-not eve, the managem pnt
# fast horses and fast yachts-for botl
t these deteriurate in the using, an,
o under, while the farm steadil,
Uses in price and value. The farm i.
u institution ca,t,IataI to pro;n Il,
ea!th and comfort in the expenditure
t money. Money is the one manur.
mar the farm greelly covets." Mr..
'onner appends a note to the effect that
If. Beecher is right, The best way to
lake money out of a farm is to stN il;
5 to The fast horses, let them 90 We
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