The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-09-06
cultural Items.

are nicer II small.
Agr. cultural Items.
TOBACCO is said to be injured in quail
ty by strong animal manures.
W. TArUN, of New Jersey, fed his
steers twelve quarts of corn and cob
meal each day, and thought it better
than pure corn-Meal.
Now Is the time to destroy weeds.
Burdocks, milkweed, thistles, and
every other rank growing plant should
be cut down and burned before the seeds
ripen.
CHARLES B. LEONARD. of Woodbury.,
N. j., has twelve COWS which last year
averaged 23S pounds OF butter each.
They were fed corn-meal and bran all
the year round.
In Washington Territory there were
raised last year, and exhibited in New
Cork, a turnip weighing "a pounds,
which measured nearly four feet in cir.
conference q ruta baga which weighed
80 pounds, and carrots Is inches long.
The Sacramento (Cal.) Beet-Sugar
Company last season raised 5000 tons of
beets, which they are now proftsbly
working up, at the rate of 30 tons per
day. Some of their beets are said TO
contain Is per cent. of sugar.
A New YORK farmer saved a calf
which was choking with a potato in its
throat, by bending a fence wire, putting
it down the calf's throat, and working
it behind the potato, which he was thus
enabled to draw out.
A cows age may be determined by
the teeth, but the horns is the surest
method. Count the rings around the
horn and add to this number three
years, which is the lapse of time before
any rings make their appearance.
CALIFORNIA has another new indus.
try. 1t has just been found that the
opium poppy fourishes there to per
lection. A field of them is growing
near San Jose: they are about five feet
high, with seed balls of the size Of an
ordinary teacup.
LoTs of fun has been made of New
Hampshire land. At one place, they
say. the seed is forced in between the
stones by being discharged from a gun
upon another tract of land a mullen
stalk and two b~ull-thistles make a
grove and somewhere else the soil is so
poor that you can't raise a disturbance
on il. But Mr.. Goodale, of Lancaster,
has u field which has been moved up
ward Of sixty-tive years i'll succession,
and has never borne less than two tons
of hay to the acre. This year it will
Weld two and a half.
A New EPocH IN MEDICAL HIsToRY.-
" Reason and chance says Pliny, :" led
10 the discovery Of the virtues of me
dlcinai herbs" In these modern days
research and experiment have perfected
the work that reason and accident began
| Da. WALKER's VINEGAR BITrERs are the
latest result Of botanical investigation
and pharmaceutical science. This ex
trnordlnary medicine, composed entirely
of vegetable ingredients culled from the
soil of our Pacific Territory, is pro
nounced n remedy for every disclsc-
not organic-of the stomach, the liver
the bowels the respiratory system, the
kidneys. the muscles, aud the other
organs which make up the machinery of Iiia,
All who have Witnessed lts effects are i'm fayo,
OF its universal adoption ~ the safest and
most reliable tonic known. Free from the
faint of alcohol, II Is nevertheless n stimulant
though not a dangerous e~xcitaut. Ono thinl
IL certain-uo curative heretofore introduced
t. tine public through the press has ever ob.
tanned. IN ~ short a time. the celebrity of DR
WALKER's CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITrERs. oi
been supported by such unimpeachable test.
rnpny From that Testimony ~ il .y,1a,, ,h.,
this preparation IL a specific for Dyspepsia,
Nervous Debility, Intermittent aud Bilious
Remlttent Fevers. Diarrhea, Dysentnrv, Rher.
matism, Gout, and all disturbances OF the
secretire and c1cretiye functions. ICON.
The chief exporter of the California
fruit to the East lost $1,000 the first
year he went into business. Last veal
he cleared $4,000, and this year expects
to clear double that amount. The most
profitable shipment of fruit made last
year was to Liverpool-6,0OO miles by
steamer and rail. After paying all com.
mission AMI freight the fruit yielded a
net profit larger than the value IN
Sacramento.
ONE thousand dollars reward is offered
by the proprietor of DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery for a medicine that
will equal it in the cure of Bronchitis,
severe Coughs, and the early stages of
Consumption. 6l2
IT is rumored that the "heathen
Chinee' has secured a fondness for
canned potato bugs that will eventually
result in the thinning out of the pest.
The OLDEST AND THE BEsT.-" Bur-
nett's Superior ~Flavoring Extracts"
Lemon, Vanilla, Almonds, Rose, Nee
tarine, etc, are strictly Standard"
A GREAT many people have asked us
of late. How do you keep Your horse looking
40 sleek and Slossy?" We tell them it's the
easiest thing in the world give Shfridan's
CdUairy Condition Founders two or three times
a week.-ICom.
AMERICAN green corn is sent during
the season in quantities to Liverpool by
Atlantic steamers.
j. +. RATHEoNE Il Co.. Chicago, ILL.,,
Wholesale stoves, have just removed to 80 and
40 Lake street, a new store 52x1D feet, where
the Albany stoves, such favOrites with house.
keepers, are sold by the carload or ship-load.
CHRISTIAN SHARPE, inventor of the
rifle that bears his name, is EN-.
gagged in the peaceful business of breed
ing trout, az Vernon. Conn.
A GENTLEMAN in the eastern part of
the State, who was about having his leg ampu-
lated on account of its being bent at light
and stiff at the knee, heard of John
sons iuOdmie IiuiWpBf. After usinp IL n