The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-09-21
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] lcmand. A ton of hay of the best
uality will purchase good COW.
, "A Mr.. Humphrey, of Boone Co.,
/, H., recently sold two yearling heifers
, n $500. 1t pays to raise good stock.
The farmers of Delaware Co, Iowa,
al fine harvest-home celebration at
alleys Ford recently.
In the region of Randolph, VT,
he grasshoppers are very thick, doing
'ore damage than during any season
II fourteen years.
There arc ten agricultural schools
/ Belgium, six in Baden, and one or
rore in Sweden, Denmark, Italy Spain
nd Portugal.
1t is said that the number of man
factures of beet sugar in Central
uropc is on the increase. There are
,w one thousand six hundred in opc-
, ltion.
! Dat straw, cut before ripe, is very
: God to keep horses in good working
! ,ndition, but is not as beneficial as
! God hay. When the latter is scarce
!, he former is good substitute.
j On the 18th ult., the people of
linneapolis, MIMI, were much elated
y the arrival i'll that city Of the first
agon load of Minnesota raised apples
, hich had ever been brought to that
lace.
! The farm of Gen. Bidwcll, near
hico, Cal, contains $4,000 acres.
lis year there were 10000 acres of
heat, 92O of barley, $50 of oats, and
90 in meadow. There were also 200
orscs, 1000 cattle, 5000 sheep, and
!, 90 hogs.
!. For the fiscal year ending June 80,
ST., the value of wheat and flour ex-
orted from the United States was
!, 5.,42O,S9O. OF this amount the Pa
fic coast furnished over one sixth, the
alue of shipments therefrom being
!, o,99S,92s.
i According to the TnJ, Field and
i ';um there are only eleven million
: orses in the United States. Illinois
ontains the largest number, 1,346,32O,
nd Ohio comes next. New York has
O3,12O, and stands fifth on the list, be-
'g exceeded by Illinois, Ohio, Penn
h ,'lvania and Indiana. Rhode Island
,ntains the smallest number, 9,12O.
The failure of the hay crop in
Iaine is not the only grievance. The
ortland papers say that the potato
OPP will be very light, and only heavy
Tins can save it from failure; corn is
! similar condition; there are but
! apples; the grasshoppers nearly
estroyed what wheat the drouth had
Jared; and, altogether, farming for
oft amt known in Maine this year.
The Canadians are favored with
'untiful harvest this year. From all
! ctions of the country the same reports
e given, that yield SO large and
lality so uniformly good, have not
zen realized in Canada for many years.
I ld settlers affirm that they never saw
tier crops of fall wheat and barley,
which Spring wheat is fully equal,
/, I'll seems likely to be as we'll gath
! ed.
"A correspondent of the Country
, rntirmon, writing from Hamilton Co.,
, hio, says the system of all good hog
isers in that region is to pasture their
! ,gs on clover during the summer. He
esents, as the advantage of his plan,
e statement that an acre of ground in
!, over will pasture five hogs four
onths, and that it will take the corn
| ON half an acre to feed them at the
! me time. The cultivation of the corn
!, counts equal to the rent of the other
tlf acre. He further claims that hogs
!, lsturcd on clover are in far better
s ndition than if fed on corn, as they
c larger framed, healthier, and eat
. tier; and also states that the land is
! 'richcd by the clover pasturing.
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