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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-02-25

In the evening session Of the Senate,
the bill recognizing police jrries
throughout the State was passed. One of
the prominent provisions of the bill is
to make the president Of each jury cleo
tive by the members thereof from their
own body, instead Of the parish Judge be-
ING as heretofore ex-oficio president.
Alta late hour the Senate was engaged
in a bill relating to the Chattanooga Rail
road Company, which vas made the
special order Of the day at one o'clock
to-day.
In the House a considerable time was
occupied with House bill No. 1916, intro
duced by IIr. Iorke, Of Carroll, toincorpor-
ate the Louisiana Steamship Company, of
New Orleans. It creates q corporation to
exist Coz twenty five years, with the usual
corporate powers, the object of which
shall be TO foster and develop commerce
| bv providing means Of transportation
| for freight and passengers. The company
is to have a capital Of two millions Of dol
lars, divided into twenty thousand shares
of one hundred each, with power to
increase the capital TO the extent
of five millions. It will be the
duty of the company to have
agents at whatever ports they may estab-
lish lines, to give information to imni-
grants, or take other measures to promote
emigration. They are compelled to
establish line within two years from the
passage of the bill, and thereafter must
not let three consecutive months elapse
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

CUTTING TREEs.-The best time
for cutting timber has been debated
us long as we can remember, with
out coming to any general conclu-
sion. There were many theories
advanced and reasons offered as
facts, when this or that time was the
best time. A correspondent Of the
Carthage Journal, in discussing the
question and referring to the cutting
Of hickory only, says that his great
est success, no farther south than
the 4oth parallel, was with that cut
after the middle of November; at
points farther south, the first of De-
cember; while farther north, say
northern Pennsylvania, New York,
Michigan, etc., from the first of No
vember to the middle of January.
Care, however, must be taken not to
commence cutting until the leaves
are all fallen and the sap has be-
come stagnant. Hence, in late falls,
the period should be deferred. This
looks reasonable and may prove val
uable.-Erchange.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
Pears in the West,

At the recent meeting Of the H.
linois Horticultural Society, Mr..
Parker Earle sad he had visited
seventy-tive pear orchards during
the season, and has found a general
feeling of discouragement among
pear growers. Blight had been
very destructive. This he attributes
to the severe cold of the last two
winters, the thermometer having
sunk ten degrees below zero. Be-
sides this, we had the October cold
in 1869, and the April freeze in 1870.
All these extremes he regarded as
causes of blight. He said: ga
healthy tree will not blight of itself,
but will yield to blight when the air
is full of contagion. Late growth
tends to blight; therefore late cult
walton, or too much cultivation, at
any time, is Objectionable. Varie-
ties should be chosen that hold their
foliage late in the season."
The editor of the Gar7ener's
M7thv advocates keeping pear
orchards in grass. All the old pear
trees in the West are in grass.
Root pruning has done well in
many places. The trees become
fruitful, and make My moderate
growth. The blight in a young
orchard was stopped by root prun-
ing. Mr.. Hyde has a large orchard
near Alton, which, seven years ago,
was blighting very badly. 1t was
first root pruned at that time, and
the operation has been repeated
twice since. Here root pruning has
been entirely successful. Duchess
and Seckel are most
exempt from the blight in this Or
chard. Mr.. II. has practiced high
cultivation until lately, but now has
his orchard in grass. In another
orchard part Of the trees were
root pruned, and a part not. The
blight stopped in the part root
pruned, but continued in the rest of
the orchard.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17


This secret order of agriculturists
and the patrons of agriculture,
started but a few months ago, has
attained formidable proportions,
and is rapidly extending itself in
every direction. Last year, at this
time, it had scarcely been heard Of
in Iowa. Now, without any special
efforts having been made, or the
farmers really given general and
satisfactory information concerning
it, there are in operation probably
some forty local Oranges, and repre-
tatives from these, and so many
other farmers as may choose to at
tend, are to meet at Dcs Moines the
18th of January, coming to organize
State Grange. So we are inform
ed by Gen. Wilson, of the Home
stead, who will be the authorized
agent of the National Grange to
form the organization. This will
give head to the system in Iowa,
and energize, by concentration and
intelligent concert of action, the eff
forts to establish the Order in every
farming neighborhood of the State.
As we have before frequently ex-
planned, and as we would repeat for
those who have as yet had no light
concerning it, this is a society de-
signed to protect, by mutuality of
understanding, the business of ag-
riculturists, and to promote among
them greater and freer sociality of
intercourse and acquaintance. The
meetings Of the lodges are made not
only occasions for business consul
tation and conference, but also for
social interchangeable wives and
daughters being admitted to mem
bership, and elevated to office the
same as the fathers and sons. The
writer of this being among the ini-
tiated, feels assured that the bust
ness of the society is founded on
correct principles, and will be great
~ beneficial to all belonging, while
he knows that in social sense it is
all that could be desired. A freer,
better friendship is needed among
our farming people, and here is the
best medium we know of for such
improvement to be obtained.
At the State meeting in January,
we are informed, authority will be
given to any reliable gentlemen, who
may attend, to organize local Grang-
es in their own communities after
they shall have returned home. Be-
ing instructed in the forms and
rituals here, they can then the more
intelligently inaugurate and perfect
the work of local organization.
The State Grange assembling at the
same time with the State Agricul-
tural and Horticultural Societies, will
give delegates from all parts of the
State to be admitted to membership,
and commissioned for active service
in its interests. 1t is to be hoped
that this triple action Of these State
all in the interests of ag-
riculture, meeting at an accessible
point at one time, in season of the
year when farmers are most at leis-
ure, will induce many to pay visit
to Des MONIES at the date named in
January. Every farming communi-
ty. in Iowa should have an intelligent
here on that occa-
Sion.-1Nute Re0ister.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
Economical Value of Seasoned Wood.

Jonathan Periam, Esq, in a late
number of the Interior, gives some
suggestions upon the above topic,
which are pertinent at this time:
"There is probably not one in ten
of those farmers who use wood for
fuel, who prepare it in the most
economical way; nor, after prepar-
ing it, burn it economically. 1t is
usually drawn home in sled lengths,
placed in large pile, and chopped
up from day to day as wanted, by
the larger class of consumers. An
other class draw it in sled lengths
and chop it into suitable sticks for
firing, and throw it into a large pile
for consumption, as wanted. An
other and smaller class haul and
pile it in four feet lengths for sea
soning, or after working it sufficient
ly small for burning, pile it in tight
sheds. The first class always have
sodden or green wood for burning,
one half of the value of which is
consumed by the fire in drying it
sufficiently to burn. The second
class have partially dried wood, it
is true, but the seasoning process
goes on but slowly, and only for a
short distance within the outside
layers. The third class, who pile
it solidly in tight sheds, derive but
little more benefit from their exer-
tions than the second class, because
without free circulation of air, and
under cover, timber and firewood
will not season properly, and no free
circulation of air can exist in
wood-house with tight sides 1t is
only better than seasoning it under
snow drifts in the Winter, and in
the rains of Spring and Summer,
and Autumn. If the average cost
of firewood to the farmer is four
dollars per cord, and he consumes
twenty-five cords q year, his actual
loss between burning well seasoned
wood, or green, will be not far from
$50, to say nothing about the pleas
ure of sitting in comfortably heat
ed room, without the smoke and
fumes attending the burning of
green wood. If wood is to be work
ed into tire-wood entirely with the
ax-and many farmers will prefer
to do so-it should always be work
ell while green, but if corded in suit
able lengths for saving, it is as eco
nomically worked when it is partial
ly dry.
A wood-shed for storing sawed
and split wood should be well Gov
cred as to the roof, but the sides
should be entirely open. Ventila-
tors may be made through it at con-
vcnient distances, by piling lengths
of wood loosely over stringers laid
along the bottom of the shed. The
wood should be piled carefully up,
the sides inclining slightly outward,
other wood being thrown behind it
as filling, just as it happens to fall.
BY continuing this plan to the caves
no rain can enter. and the ventila-
tors will give free access of air to
every part, and when seasoned
say at the end of six to nine months
it will ring like metal and be
nearly as hard as flint. The first
season prepare twice the quantity
you want for the years consump-
ton, and thereafter what you may
need for the succeeding years use.
There is no labor about the farm
that pays better than the thorough
seasoning and storing of fuel"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

Induce them to take an interest
in the farm, in the implements, in
the stock; tell them all your plans,
your successes and your failures;
give them history Of your own life
and what you did and how you lived
when a boy; but do not harp too
much on the degenerate character
of young men of the present age;
praise them when you can, and en-
courage them to do still better. Let
them dress up in the evening, in
stead Of sitting down in their dirty
clothes in dingy room. Provide
plenty of light. Thanks to kerosene,
our country homes can be as bril-
liantly lighted as the gas-lit houses
in the city. Encourage the neigh
bors to drop in evenings. Talk ag-
riculture rather than politics; speak
of the Importance of large crops, of
good stock, of liberal feeding, and
Of the advantage Of making animals
comfortable, rather than Of the hard
time, low prices and high wages.
Above all, encourage the boys to
read good agricultural books. Pa
pers are well enough, but an intelli-
gent boy wants something more:
Get him some good agricultural
book to study. Read it with him,
and give him the benefit of your ex-
perience and criticism. When he
has mastered this, buy him another.
In our own case, we owe our love
for farming principally to the fact
that our father talked to us of every
thing that was doing on the farm;
answering all our questions, and en-
couraging, rather than refusing, our
childlike desire Of helping him to
pillow, to chop, to let off water, and
fire the brush heap.-4m. AgricuI-
turaiist.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
Aqrirnltnral Column.


The monthly report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture for January,
contains some interesting statistics
in regard to the yield and average
home prices Of farm products, from
which we make the following ex-
tracts:
Corn Yeld.-The most noticea-
BILE feature in the returns is the uni
formly high rate of yield of corn, as
compared with that of 1869, as also
with the average of a series of years.
The increase over 1869 in the north
ern half of New England appears to
have been at least five bushels per
acre, while the southern half, in CON
sequence of severe drought, shows
a small decrease. The Middle States
present an increase of nearly five
bushels per acre. Virginia and the
Carolinas suffered severely from
drought, and report reduced yield.
The Gulf States have better crop
than last year, the advance ranging
from one to six bushels per acre.
The States of the Mississippi and
Ohio valleys, with the exception of
Iowa, present higher figures than
last year. The, increase is marked
in Illinois, the yield having advan-
ced from 1872 to 35.2, difference
of II bushels per acre, or fully 49,
100000 bushels; yet the difference
is due less to the liberal yield of
1870 than to the poor crop Of 1869.
Kansas shows reduction from the
remarkable yield of the previous
seasons. The production Of the Pa
citic Coast is larger than that of
1869. The yield of the principal
corn States is stated as follows:
Ohio, 80 bushels; Indiana, 39.5;
Michigan, 81; Wisconsin, 3s; Min
nesota, 33; Iowa, 80; Illinois, 35.2;
Missouri, 3l.4; Kansas, %; Nebras-
ka, 800; Arkansas, 3l.s; Tennessee,
25.s; Kentucky, 1921. The largest
reported yield is that of Vermont,
1915 bushels. New York is placed
at "a bushels, New Jersey s3, and
Pennsylvania 35.s. The range in
the cotton States is from SO in South
Carolina, 26.5 in Texas, to 3l.s in
Arkansas. ........
Wheat Yield.-The yield ofwheat
is uniformly less than that of the
previous crop. The reduction is
bushel in Ohio, As in Indiana, "a
in Illinois, 80 in Missouri, % in
Iowa, 90 in Minnesota, 10 in Wis
consin. The average yield as re-
ported for 1870 is 10 bushels in Ken
lucky, Is in Missouri, II in Illinois,
IL in Indiana, 1873 in Ohio, IA in
Michigan, 1874 in Wisconsin, 1872
in Minnesota, 1915 in Iowa, Is in
Kansas, IA in Nebraska, 10 in Cal
ifornia, and 1915 in Oregon. The
New England States range from 1913
to l7.s; New York, 1873; and New
Jersey, 1913; Pennsylvania, l2. The
Southern States, from in South Car
Dina, to III in Texas.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

Benjamin Ellershaw, Of Milwau-
kee, Wis, having stated that Gin
some parts of Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin, it is difficult to grow
anything but Siberian Crabs" Mr.
John Scott, of Nevada, Iowa, re-
plies, "Let Benjamin speak for Mil
waukee if he pleases, but as for
Iowa, | say without hesitation that
the following apples will grow in
any part of the State, as certainly
as corn, with equal chance: Red
AS rachan, Sops Of Wine, Duchess
Of Oldcnburg, Saxton or Fall Stripe,
St. Lawrence, Fameuse, Plumb's
Cider, Perry Russell, Blue Pear
main, Ben. Davis, and Rawls Jen-
net. Ten more might be added
with equal certainty"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

The Western Farmer gives an ac-
count of a farmer who bought field
which had been plowed for twenty
successive years, with soil only
four or five inches deep. He ap-
Piled a subsoil pillow, running it
fourteen inches deep, then run it
the other way and then narrowed
it twice, with an interval of few
days, and had his ground broken up
without the aid Of the ordinary
pillow. At one time he marked
ground for corn by running sub
soil pillow fourteen inches deep, both
ways at the proper distance, and
planting at the crossings. He had
good crop Notwithstanding Sc
we're drouth.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
WIN Il OF LIFE.

The great Blood Purifier and Delicious Drink
Warmers Vinum Vita or Wine Of Life. is
free from any poisonous drugs or impurities, being
prepared for those who require a stmuant. 1t is
a splendid appetizer and tonic and the finest thing
in the world for purifying the blood. 1t is the
most pleasant and delicious article ever offered 10
the public, far superior to brandy, whisky, wine,
btters or any other article. It IL more healthy,
and cheaper Both male and female, young or
old can take the Wine Of Life. II H. in fact life
preseryer. Those who wish to enjoy good health
and free flow of lively spirits, will do well to
thing ever before in use It il sold by druggists;
also at all respectable saloons Price One Dollar,
quart bottles.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
Theory Of F seding Cattle.

A farmer has three things to con-
slider, with three distinct objects to
attain in feeding his cattle, to-wit:
lst, to make bone; End, to make
flesh; 3rd, to make fat; without the
first he can have no flesh, and with
out flesh he can have no fat. This
being so, it is absolutely necessary
in feeding cattle that their food
shall contain all the elements of
bone, flesh, and fat; the former
should be plentifully furnished the
growing animal, and the latter when
fattening for the shambles. Bone
has for its elements phosphoric acid
and lime; flesh has gluten, fibrine,
ETC., and fat has carbon. 1t is nee
essary, therefore, that cattle feed
should contain all these in due pro-
portion to their wants with refer
ence to the purposes in view; in the
young, bone and flesh consti uuents
are required; and these are found
in swedes, cabbages, potatoes, with
good hay or grass, according to the
season Of the year; flesh, with a
view to fattening, grain, oil, meal,
with hay and grass, must be fur
nished.
The kinds of feed being known
for the accomplishment of certain
ends, the next thing to be consider
ed is, the quantity required, best
adapted to promote the ends in view.
he it growing or fattening. An
English writer says an OK requires
two per cent. Of his live weight of
hay day; if he work, two and a
half per cent; a milch COW, three
per cent; an OK, fattening, five per
cent. first, four and a half per
cent. when half fattened, and four
when fat. Grown up sheep require
three and half per cent. to keep
them in good condition.-Boston
Cuiticator.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

John J. Thomas says the true way
to Kill weeds in manure is to get out
the manure in September and
spread and pulverize as fine as pos
sible, and plow the land the next
Spring before the, 10th Of Nav
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-17

The country produced 100000
900 bushels of corn in 1870, at the
rate Of % bushels per acre, against
% bushels in 1869.
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