Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-10-31
Agricultural Items.


piowed up.
A Russian farmer owns 100000
Merino sheep.
The sowing OF wheat In Indiana is
nearly furn shed.
Ohio produced 9,o71,603 pounds
OF cheese last year.
A. New London OK 10 developing
horn from his back.
Milk, at current rates, is the cheap
est animal food that can be used.
II is stated that 5000 grains of
oats have been produced from sin
Gle oat.
George Olicar. OF Morgan Co,
H.. received Sl3,920 for 100 head of
cattle.
W. II. lfendrickson, of Morgan
Co, Ill, has a hog that weighs lao
pounds.
Over $4,000 bushels OF onions
have been marketed at Davenport,
Iowa, this Fall.
A Michigan farm of so acres is
surrounded by gigantic hedge OF
black walnut trees.
A Michigan mans thirty plum
trees n"tted him sixty bushels OF
plums this season,
I The value OF the wheat exports OF
San Francisco for tho past seven
| .,o,,tho - 80 oOS 500
Irlsh potatoes arc reported 50
plentiful in some parts OF Kansas as
to be drug in the market.
In the Southern States msny cat
tie have recently died from ! disease
resembling bloody murrsin.
A Calhoun, Ga, planter, who has
1000 acres OF cotton, will take 100
bales tor his chances.
Ohio has sl6,S27 acres Of orchard,
and the sppls crop Of tha. State, this
year, 10 enormous.
The New England Fair, which
closed II Lowell, Mass, on the 9th
alt, was success III every way.
TIE cattle fever has not yet APP
pea,ed at East ST. Louis. although
mary Texas cattle have arrived
there.
The Pekin, H., fair was not so
successful as usual, aud the blame is
/ laid on the horse-racing department.
The hog and cattle diseases had
something to do with the partial at
tendance at the Madison, ILL.,, county
fair.
The policemen OF Yeddo are even
more valuable than ours. They some
times kill whole families for little
plumber.
The valley OF the Republican, in
Nebraska, is attracting large mum.
bers OF farmers 10 make permanent
homes there.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad has
made arrangements To ship eighty
Thousand head Of cattle from Ellis
worth this season.
Some African goats at Richmond,
Va, can propel a 2OO pound man
about nineteen rods, when they get a
lair chance at him.
In recent lecture, Prof George
II. Cook, asserted that he found
abroad, one dairy which contained
500 COVE, all in milk.
The farmers Of British Columbia
were prosecuted Last summer by the
combined efforts OF grasshoppere,
forest fires and drouth.
Recently there was An ex,raordin
ary fall OF rain in the north of Scot
land, which damaged tho crops to a
very considerable extent.
Tie amount of wheat piled up on
the wharf at Stockton, Nevada,
would make row ten sacks deep
and five highs over mile in length.
According to the report of the Az.
rlcul;ural Department, the cotton
crop OF the present year promises q
small increase over that of 1871.
Tho Abba, Iowa, Spirit mentions
with pride that the cheese made at
the Bluff Greek factory, in that coun.
~, took the first premium At the late
State Fair.
A number OF Kansas farmers arc
raising small areas Of cotton IN the
southern part Of the State. One
man in Montgomery county raised
800 pounds on one acre.
Switzerland has 268 head OF cattle
TO every l 900 acrea, and 557 to every
1000 lnhabitan,an,s. In Span, there
are only thirty nine head OF cattle to
every 1000 sores.
A few days since large lot of
California grapes arrived in New
York, the freight upon which was
$l56, but the fruit was found to be
so bally damaged that the conslgnee
willingly disposed OF the entire lot
for twenty five dollars.
A model bill, made out by an old
farmer against his neighbor, reads as
follows : Neighbor A. DR.. to 3 to
horse and waggion, goin' to mill,
once since and twice before, one dol
lar.n
The harvest in Russia has turned
out much better than was expected.
The yield of corn was quite up to
the average, tho tobacco harvest is
very good, and there is abundance OF
fruit.
England, with an area Of cultivated
land not greater than Pennsylvania.
yearly consumes 10000 tons Of
commercial fertilizer, which is a lar
Ger amount than il used in the whole
United States.
A Young man hunting turkeys a,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, thought he |
saw one in the grass, but coroner's |
jury decided tina. it was the head Of |
,he farmer who owned the premises,