The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-08-24


of as fine land as can be found in the
State.
The acreage. devoted to sugar cane
this year IL, the Southern States is re-
ported rs considerably in excess Of that
in 1870.
John l.. Proctor, of Romeo, Mich, cut
with one pair of mules and reaper, this
season, "a acres Of heavy wheat i'm 20
hours.
Hyde Throop threshed for Daniel
Smith, of Washington, Macomb Coun-
ty, Michigan, $40 bushels of Treadweil
wheat in four hours and forty minutes.
The Monroe Mich Commercial says
that Alderman {. F. Beck, of that city,
has harvested 2O5 bushels of wheat from
i've and half acres of land.
A late number of the Eigine {Ill.) Ad-
rocnte says IS. S. Mann took Il check
| last week Of 81 ,OSG q for his wool.
! That was nice full Of wool over the
eyes,
James II. Graham, of Mason, Mich,
has just threshed the wheat grown upon
i've acres of ground, and has a good
yield of thirty five bushels and peck
per acre.
II is stated that one COW in ten years
in Texas, with ordinary attention, will
produce from fifteen to twenty head Of
cattle. Multiply that by ten COWS, and
see the profit.
Mr.. T.. T. Bryan, of Marriage, Mich,
sold his long wool this season at fifty
seven cents. 1t was very soft, white,
and silky, and the length of fiber from
six to fourteen inches.
According to an English correspond
ent of the Country Gentleman store
stock of all kinds is high this season.
Farmers who both breed and feed are
making money rapidly.
The Michigan wheat cropis represen.
ted as exceedingly good, and a little
above the average in point of yield per
acre. There was larger breadth in
wheat than ever before known in the
State.
The Doniphan tKan.) Democrat says:
"A farmer in Jackson County, Mis-
souri,, after cutting his wheat broke the
ground and planted it in corn; and his
prospects are good for fair crop of the
latter"
A serious eye disease among the cat
tie is reported as prevailing in Kansas
City, Mo-, and is spreading. The sup
posed cause of the trouble is gnats get.
ding into the eyes of cattle that drink at
stagnant ponds.
Horse flesh is too costly at some parts
of Kentucky to become popular as an
article diet. Mr.. John Harper, of that
State, has refused $4,000 for his horse
ongfel!ow-nearly $ for every ounce
the bruit weighs.
A farmer living near Martinsvil!e
Ind, cut, bound, and threshed his
wheat, took eight bushels of il to the
mill, had it ground, and ate some of the
| -four made into biscuits, for supper-all
of which was done on Friday.
! A'S> III Ao"" " do SAttIiSlst
during the last Spring. In ten years,
at the same rate that it has been going
on for some years past, Iowa will have
very many fine young forests, and even
| tually become wooded State.
! Chas. NJ. Underwood of Niles, Mich,
informs the President of the Berrin Co.,
Mich, Agricultural Society, that he
will offer as Il premium at the County
Fair in that county, No. Cook Stove,
full trimmed for use, as a premium to
unmarried ladies for the best skill in
cooking, the Society to decide what the
test shall be.
The Utica Ucrn'd reports that N
! Smith, of Herkimer County, n. Y, has
made II POO pounds Of Cheese, shipping
weight, from herd of twenty cows in
one year. He makes the cheese at
home and sells often, thus saving
! shrinkage. This is a remarkably large
yield-7l0 pounds of cheese per year for
each COW.
California proposes to try still another
product. Having succeeded with near
/ everything else, the Italian suntiower
is to be the next experiment 1t is rails
ed for its root, which is a bulb, and il
represented as nutritious as The potato
Its top is equally as good as corn fodder.
A good crop yields 800 bushels to the
acre.
The state Register has reports from
the threshng fields all over Iowa
which show that the general average of
the new wheat crop will be about thir-
teen bushels to the acre. In some
! places the average will be as high as
| twenty-five; in others as low as eight or
ten. The quality is generally first rate
( An exchange, wanting to compliment
Lire Stock Journal, says it is edited by
man whose head is chuck full of live
stock. Doubtful compliment.
A foreigner who heard of the Yankee
propensity for Dragging, thought he
would beat tho natives at their own
game. Seeing some very large water
melons on a mark ct woman's stand, he
exclaimed: "What! don't you raise
larger apples than those in Americaon
The quick .witted woman Immediately
replied, ANY body might know you're
foreigner; them's currant's."
An attendant at Mount Vernon. not
long since, found lady weeping most
bitterly aud audibly, with her handker-
chief at her eyes. He stepped up 10 her
and SAID to her, Are you in any troub-
le madam op ono cir chm z,LLol