The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-04-18
rrom the Western R1iai.
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

AGRICULTURAL 1TEMs.
It is easier to plant acorns than I.
transplant oaks
A pleasant kind Of husbandry-rc
moving a widows weeds.
A hundred and twenty Cashmer.
goats have been imported into Utah
The Knox Co, ILL.,, Board Of Super
visors are legislsting against the Tan
ada thistle.
Cattle, in Green Co, ILL.,, are dying
Of some strange ard uIlkIUwn fatal
disease.
The wheat crop Of north Georgia il
said to be immense. and very prom
ising.
A Maquon, ILL.,, writer says tina,
winter wheat in that section is spoiled
except on oat stubble.
A stock company in the fruit pre-
serving business is organizing at
Princeton, Lii.
Horse raisers say that few carrots
given daily to u horse will render his
coat sleek and glossy.
La Crosse, Wis, has an OK with a
horn, tel inches in length grown from
his breast between the fore legs.
Ofthc As million pounds OF tobacco
produced in Kentucky, Dasiess Co
alone raised nearly one sixth.
The seed cane in Louisiana is said
to be bad. Many Ct the planters feel
disheartencd at the prospect.
A man in Des Moines has contract
ed 10 deliver 1000 cars Of grain at
New York within the next sixty days.
A Farmers Club'' has decided that
\ bull should not be kept sunless he
can show all the points Of a good mich
cow"
Horse flesh continues to be in de-
mand in Paris. Twenty shops sell il
exclusively, and medical men recon-
mend it highly to consumptives.
The Abba, Mich, paper says s.last
year Michigan was shipping potatoes
to New York; this spring the thing is
reversed.
Lake county, ILL.,, claims the cham
pionship FIR the largest hog in the
northwest. 1t weighed after dressing
1872 pounds.
The Indiana State Board OF Agri-
culture, at its meeting recently,
resolved % sell the present State Fair
grounds and adopt the migratory
plan.
4 very convenient kindling wood
is made in France from corncobs, by
them in mixture Of sixty
parts Of melted resin and forty parts
Of tar. They are sold in bundles at
the rate Of three or four for. cent.
The total value OF all farm products
COR the year ending June lst, 1870, as
shown BY the census returns. for all
the States and Territories, foots up
50 .445, 900.
Chicago packers have handled
| 100000 hogs this season. Cincin
natl makes returns of 656 Sal. and St.
Louis sends in her number at III, O32.
The cattle plague is still causing
great loss to the farmers of France.
Germany and Russia. as well as in
many parts of Great Britain. Its
proper treatment is u plzzle to ve,er-
mary surgeons.
The Louisiana State Fair for 1872
will open at New Orleans on April
"a, and continue four DAYS. Over
$4,000 is offered in premiums and
is invited from every part
# the State.
4 Virginia millionaire who has
Just died and !cf. the bulk Of fortune
estimated at two millions to found an
agricultural college, was bora pau
per aud lived and died bachelor and
a misanthrope.
The Denver paper says the project
Of beet sugar mandatory and re!in-
-~s. ss.s.--. ssuassssv@rOrss
II will be in operation in time to
this years crop of beets
INTO sugar.
The following was ONE Of the rules
If good farmer Of the past genera
ion: Pay a poor hand all you promise
aim; if he is good one pay 4 little
more, it viii encourage him t. 10 yet
peter.
There are near four million head IF
,attle III Texas. Seven hundred and
fifty thousand calves are raised and
every year. All are raised
m the great Texan plains. which COW
# l52 1000, 600 acres.
On the farm of Cyrus G.. Smith.
# New Market, N. H., is white oak
fifty feet tall and hemlock ten feet
css. the butts of which seem to be
United one or two feet up. Further
lp, limb If tho oak grows through
he hem!ocls, and then the hemlock
trough the oak, beating the Samese
y odds.
IN Maple Grove, Barry Co. Mich,
a white oak tree .wentv-seven feet
n circumference. claimed to be the
irgest tree OF that particular species
. the world. This tree is three feet
irger than was the Charter Oak, aud
Eighteen inches larger than the big
oak.
The fishoil and guiana nlannfacto-
les of Long Island, during the past
ear used l50,ll4,0 900 tise. yielding
$3.50 gallons Of oil, and making
8 ,4O3 tons of guano. The value OF
lis business is estimated at $685., 49,.
lbout 2,0O0,00u fish were used rs
lanure
There are four great varieties ii
le peanut known to the dealers: the
.frican, which is small and black; the
Georgia, which is little better; the
,orth Carolina, still better, and the
lrgc Virginia peanut. which is best
all. The Tennessee peanut has 3
leats, but is i'll favored. About
DO 900 bushels were raised in the L.
. last year.
4 sI2rn,ynsv;lIe. Twas. uispatch
ates that two thousand cattle have
zen stolen from stock raiscrs since
10 middle OF February and driven
to Mexico by organized bands of
lieves on the Mexican side OF the