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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
a few acres than II great many.

few acres than u great many. So
you see small farms are best.
S. II you would live long and
enjoy life, work a little, then rest a
little. But if you have large
farm you must labor all the time.
Here again, small farms are best.
g. TO raise big corn, you must
keep small grass. To make small
grass you must cut often. So in
this, we find small farms the best.
7. lfyou have a good fence you
need fear no loss by stock. But
fences are costly. Thus once more
we find small farms are best.
8. Ifyou want good roads and
plenty of schools, churches and
mills, you must have a dense popu-
!ation. If farms are large, this is
impossible. Therefore, I declare
small farms to be best.
8. Farms should increase in
value year by year. 1t costs less to
improve few acres than q great
many. Here, as before, small farms
are best.-B. w H. IN Rural Curo.
Hniun.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

Happening to pass along where
my near neighbor was cutting up
some green corn for his horses, he
remarked that it was the best thing
one could feed to his horses at this
time of the year. The food being
sweet, when taken into the stomach
the bolts let go their hold on the
lining Of the stomach to feed on
the sweet food, and so pass on out.
He says he has many times seen the
dung alive with them, and the horse
felt better afterward. AS the CAD
fly deposits the eggs on the TANKS
and legs Of the horse, if you will
take the pains to grease those places
with any kind Of grease, say once a
week, those eggs will not hatch
even in the stomach, if they have
been CREASED before taken in. This
is OH the principle of an ounce OF
prevention is worth a pound ofcure
and oftentlmes more.-G. g., il,
minnesota F1uuey.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

For the majority Of farmers, husks
are the most available material for
mattresses. They may be prepared
by children, or, on q rainy day, all
hands can assist in the work. The
ruts and refuse should all be re-
jccted. a well-madc husk mattress
on an underbed of straw or laid on
springs makes 4 very cheap and
comfortable resting-place. In the
coolest weather it may be necessary
to lay on top thin hair or cotton
mattress, Tor warmth. Those living
on a sheep farm can have a first
class bed by saving the tags and
coarse wool and making it into a
mattress. Wool never wears out,
and for sottness, warmth, and elias
ITCHY, is preferable even to hair.
The only advantage the latter has
over it is in the fact that moths
never modest hair mattresses, but
if the ticking is good they cannot
infest the wool. Thirty-tive pounds
of hair or wool Will make a good
mattess, though forty-five pounds is
the allowance for those of greatest
thickness.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Keeling Trees in tho Fall.

The Gardeners Monthly, upon
the subject of covering the roots Of
trees in winter, truly says: owe
have no doubt that more trees are
lost by imperfect hceling-in than
from any other cause whatever.
This, every observing person who
has seen the way in which the roots
of trees are buried in masses, with
large intcrstices of air everywhere
among the roots, will assent to.
Trees badly hceled-in should not
remain so twenty-tour hours before
planting out. Clods and masses OF
earth are merely thrown on the top
OF the roots, and only shade them
from the suns rays. In a few days
the roots will become dry, because
they are not in contact with the
moist earth. If the heeling-in is
well performed, every crack and
crevicc will be compactly filed with
fin pulverized earth, and the trees
will keep a long time, as in the nur.
sery rows. If badly heeled-in in
autumn, and left until spring, trees
are nearly, if not wholly, ruined by
freezing and drying combined"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Durability OF Different Woods.

Experiments have been lately
made by driving sticks, made Of
different woods, each two feet long
and one and one-half inch square,
into the ground, only one-half inch
projecting outward. 1t was found
that in five years all those made Of
oak, elm, ash, fir, soft mahogany,
and nearly every species of pine,
were totally rotten. Larch, hard
pine, and lakewood were dccayed
on the outside only; while acacia,
with the exception Of being also
slightly attacked on the exterior,
was otherwise sound. Hard ma
hogany and cedar of Lebanon were
in tolerably good condition; but
only Virginia cedar was found as
good as when put in the ground.
This is of some Importance TO bull
ders, showing what woods should
be avoided, and what others used
by preference in underground work.
Manufacturer and Builder.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

stitched around the other half. At
the point where the two tails Il will
SO call them) of calico met, / scwcd
them together in direction away
from the wire. | then had an ap-
paratus that somewhat rcsembled a
sunbonnet, with the crown made OF
wire gauzc, which, by putting on
the head in Il reversed position from
a snnbonnet, made just what l de-
sired. | could either tie the tails
of it around my neck, securing safe
ty, or put on my coat over the parts
that hung over my shoulders. l
perfected this arrangement by at
taching a rubber band, which may
be passed around the back of the
head, thus holding the device Sc
curely in its place. l have never
had occasion to use different de-
vice since.- Bee Journal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

Our American farmers talk a good
deal about WORKOUT soils, just as
though land would not remain fer
tile forever if as much plant food
was returned to it as is taken. In
the agricultural districts of France
a farmer is expected to constantly
increase the fertility of his land in
stead Of wearing it out.
Mr.. Lewis, Of England, made ex-
periments with soil owned in one
family thousand years. He sowed
piece continuously to wheat tor
twenty-seven years, with an aver
age crop of l5s bushels per acre.
A piece in barley nineteen years
gave 20 bushels per acre; and a
piece in grass fourteen years gave
$500 pounds year. This soil con-
sequently represented the condition
of the soil with the ordinary cult
walton and rotation as practiced !;
but similar land Of the same farm,
to which fourteen tons of manure
had been applied, yielded SO bush
els of wheat and SO bushels of bar
ley; and with 200 pounds of sui
phate of ammonia and 800 pounds
of phosphate, it yielded 4s bushels
of barley. This, again, shows the
value of manure in England, and
the increased fertility Of its soil
through the application Of manure;
and any farmer, knowing the cost of
manure in his locality, may easily
estimate whether it will pay him to
use it or not--bearing in mind al
ways that it is much cheaper and
easier to keep up the fertility of the
soil than to bring it back when once
it is impoverished.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Small Farm Maxims.

l. Small farms are cheaper and
easier to manage than large ones,
and pay better for capital invested.
Therefore, small farms are best.
2. lfyou want to make your
farm pay, you must give it your
daily personal attention. But if
your farm is too large you cannot
do this; hence, AS said above,
small farms arc best.
8. If You don't want your farm
to run away, yon must stop the
little leaks. We may expect fewer
leaks on a small place than on big
one; hence again, small farms are
best.
4. Feed your land well, and it
will feed you. 1t takes less to feed
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Farming and Half Farming.

We have known people ambitious
to make money, who would spare
no labor to increase their income,
and when they had secured it, wo'd
spend it to no purpose-waste it;
get rid OF it they :carcely knew
ho~-and they have nothing to
show for it. They were good to
make money, but could not keep or
use it well. The only good they
could get of their money was the
doubtful good of having it pass
through their hands. There are
many people of this stamp; they
can get business and do it; can earn
great wages; drive and push with
any amount of toll; make long and
close calculations; talk largely and
well enough about business, but
cannot increase their own capital.
Their pu,sc will not hold money
it leaks; it seems like the tabled pit
without bottom, or like the mil
ler's dam, whether it rained much
or little, would hold no water. The
money burns their pockets and
hands; they have it spent before it
is got, or plans on hand for it's dis
pOsal.
Much like this class Of people are
many farmcrs-they can raise good
crops, but cannot make them pay.
They neglect their fences, and the
cattle break in just before harvest,
or if they get a good crop they have
no place to secure it. Fine fields
of hay or grain are gathered, but
there are no barns or granarics to
to keep them. The fruit trees yield
well, but there are no means for
preserving the fruit, and it goes to
waste. The root crops are good,
but the frost and winter DESTROY
them, because they cannot bear ev-
erything. The farming implements
rot more than they ever wear, be-
cause the rain and sun are ever
pelting and scorching them The
cows give good milk, but the want
of dairy appliances makes the milk
Of but little value. The pigs are in
the corn-crib, the sheep are in the
garden, the kitchen has no wood,
but lives from hand to mouth, the
house has no cellar, and water is far
away. Everything works the hard
way; there is much done, but little
saved. When spring comes, every
thing is gone. Seeds of all kinds
must be bought; the rotten utensils
replaced by new the broken down
fences made over, the peeled and
browsed fruit trees replaced by new
and young ones, and a world of la
Dor spent to get the farm into work
ing order.
So it goes year after ycar-much
is done, but little Improvement is
made, and all the difficulty lies in
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Bee ArmOr.

1t is not every one that can han
die bees with impunity, though he
may follow ever so closely the adj
vice of the fathers in Bookkeeping.
This | found out to my sorrow upon
several occasions. My first efforts
toward protecting myself from the
industrious insect when angry was
in wearing 4 veil over a stiff-brin-
med hat, having the ends of it tuck
cd in well under my collar. The
device worked well until one Sun.
day, while examining q swarm Of
bees, they became jostled by the
wind, and some Of them, thinking
such conduct should be resented, lit
upon my veil where it passed over
my nnshayen chin, and proceeded
forthwith to deposit their stings, to
my great discomfort. Right then
and there l learned something, and
that was that it would not do under
all circumstances to trust to any
kind of armor made Of such mate
rial as would cling too closely to
the person, for bees will search
deeply for resting place for their
stings. Having seen in DR.. Dru-
ny Alleys life of John Hunter, Eng
lands NEST celebrated surgeon, that
he used wire mask when expert
menting with his bees, l concluded
to do likewise, if l could get the
mask.
The mystery of getting wire
mask readily and cheaply was solv-
ed in few days by my noticing
some flies lowering over wire dish
cover. l Immediately procured one
Of these covers, large enough to go
over my face, then unscrewed the
knob of the top Of it, got two yards
of cheap calico, doubled it, stitched
the cloth to the edge OF the cover,
commencing at the center, where
the cloth was folded then com
menced at the same place and
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

SHERIFF'S SALE.

STATE or IOWA,
Buchanan County. -
NOTICE is hereby given that on the 26th day o
~ october, A. d. 1872 at2 O'Clock, p. NJ, at the
Court House, in the City of Independence, and
ntytafOresaid. will he sold ut Public Auction
to the highest bidder, for cash, the following de
tue Of Il General Execution, issued from the Of
flee of the Clerk Of the District Court within and
for the county of Buchanan, State of Iowa. In ia
vor of j. $. Waterman, for the use OF Samuel
Hussey and against the property of G. Aborn,
to-wit:
The cai of lot No. q In block No, in Indcpcn-
dence, Buchanan county. Iowa, to satisfy said
writ Of execution and all accruin., costs
Sheriff 3 Office. Independence, IAN
$3.50 Sept. 94th, 1872. 1awa
GEO. .. FAIR, Sheriff.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

HoLLowAY's OINTMENT AND
PILLs.-The progress Of scroiu!a is
arrested by the Ointment. 1t clears
the skin Of all disfigurements. The
Pills are Astonishing whole districts
by their cures Of chills and fever,
etc. Sold IS Maiden Lane, N. Y.
Price, IS cents per pot or box. Ask
for new style; the old is counter
fcited. "a
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Sheep Eating their Wool.

Instances Of sheep eating their
own wool are quite common, espec-
tally during the latter part of win.
ter and early spring. Some have
thought the cause resulted from the
presence Of small parasites-as mi.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
AnrirnltMgal UolmNln

The reading columns on this page will be devo.
ted mainly to topics pertaining to the FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the BuLLE-
TIN are cordially invited to write for 1t.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
Halls Patent HuSkin6


q - - - ~ - = 80
The very best thing ever invented for huskin-
corn. They Give Universal Satisfaction.
man hlsk from ono-third to one half faster
with them. They absolutely prevent sore and
cold hands. The HALF GLOVES cover the
parts of the hands which usually become sore
Price Si.23. The FULL GLOVES are
made of the best tanned calf and buck-skin.
Price $3.50. Both styles have claws attached
and are made i'll three sizes. large, medium and
small, for both right and left handed persons.
Sent, prepaid, on receipt of price. For sale by
dealers generally. Address HALL HUSkING
GLOVE Co L. South Clinton ST Chicamn LII
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

AGENTS Wnatcd.-A@ents make more money
n at work for rs than At anything else. Business
light and permanent. Particulars free. G. STIN-
son y Co, FINE ART PUBLISHERS, Portland, Nc.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18
ASTHM

The subscribers are manufacture RS accents for Il.
w. Reads celebrated ASTHMA RELIEF, the Test
remedy for Asthma yet discovered. Instant relief
guaranteed or purchase money refunded The
medicine is put up m three sizes, which retail at
25c,. zoe, and 81. Persons remittinr price VIII
haye tnc medicine sent free by mail or expresr
Also samples sent free any who desire. ETH
RIDGE. FULLER Il co, Rome. y. Y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-18

No Person cnn take these Bifters accord
ing TO directions and remain long unwel, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or
oiher means. and vital organs wasted beyond the
point Of repair.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache Pain
in the Shoulders, Coughs, Hghtness of the Chest,
Dizziness. Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad
Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, PaptatOn of
the Heart, Inflammation OF the Lungs, Pain in the
region OF the Kidneys, and hundred other painful
symptoms, are the OfSprings Of Dyspepsia. One
bottle will prove better guarantee OF Its merits
than lengthy advertisement.
For Female Complaints, In young or old,
married or single, at the dawn OF womanhood, or
the turn Of life. these Tonic Bitters display SO
decided an influence that Improvement Is soon
perceptible
For InflaMmntOry and Chronic Rhou.
mntisM and Govt, Bilious, Remittent and Inter-
mittent Feyers Diseases Of the Blood, Liver, Kid
neys and Bladder these Bitters have no equal
Such Diseases are caused by Initiated Blood.
u Tonic, possessing the merit OF acting as q
powerful agent In relieving Congestion or lnnanl-
nation OF the Liver and Visceral Organs and in
Bilious Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter, Salt
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustulea Boils,
Carbuncles, Ring worms, Scald- Head, Sore Eyes,
ErysipeaS Itch, Scurfs, Dsoolorations OF the Skim
HumOrs and Diseases Of the Skin OF whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out
Bitters.
Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR BIT
TIERS the most wonderful Inyigorant that ever
sustained the sinking system.
H. HI. MCDONALD q CO.
Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, CAL, &
cor. OF Washington and Charlton SITS, NY.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS l. DEALERS
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FEVER AND AGuE

tcl:ows' Eonp0nma Syrup Of Hvpops,os-
ahifcs. so celebrated in nervous and other acbi
itatng diseases, is now being lscu with complete
success, carin" Chill Fever after the failure of
well-knowh remedies. quinne. &c. One dose
containing two scr'iules of soda and rhuharh
teqnal parts miScdl, in Il wine-.lass iull of cold
water, should precede the use of the syrup FrL-
IER Il FULLER. Chicago.
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WANTED Elperienced Book 1genfs ana GIN
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LNARMEHS, * PLANTEnS, NURSERY
L Apple Trees. Grape Vines, Cnrmnts, Ever
greens. Nc Retail Catalogue, with directions
for planting. cnltivatinS. selecting varieties and
location for % cts. Address ISAAC CLIFFORD.
Des Moincs, Iowa
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or day to Agents, selling Campaign Badges,
44O for Ladies' IL Gents as breast and scarf pins,
gold plated with photog's President'l Candidates.
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DUTY OFF TEAS !

III n o5 ESE STKEET,
p. O. Box 55l3 Nan yorE IN,
, 1872-04-13

10 take up, IN "a short time, all the other materials or
their constitutions, which exist but in SCanty proper
ton in the soil. Agreeably with this theoretical view
of the matter, we find in a Report by the Doncaster
Agricultural Society, the result Of experiments made
by thirteen farmers, all acting without any concert,
proving the advantages ofa compost of bones and farm
yard manure over either Singly. "Such q cOinGidcnUc,"
adds the Report, sis too regular and marked to allow
us to attribute it to any accidental circumstances and
the force of the concurrent testimony is so great, as 10
leave no room or favourable place for doubt We
of the farm-yard manure and Of the crops, or it could
easily be made apparent that the Improvement in result
is owing to the manure yielding 10 the crop various
materials, which, although individually and collectively
less in quantity than the ph0sphates Of the bones and
of the crops, are, nevertheless, essentially necessary TO
the due growth Of the latter. But whilst pursuing one
object, our attention is frequently attracted by another,
and SO here we learn from Mr.. Trimmer, whose treat
Use on Guano is before me, that although bones afford
by no means an inexpensive dressing, many farmers
are in the habit of using fifty bushels to the acre,
whereas, 1t can be shown that fifteen bushels of them
contain quite as much phosphOric acid as is necessary
for the healthy growth of the crops between dressing
and dressing! Such must always be the result of blind
ny instances, bat attended often by disappointment and
much unnecessary expense. No wonder that notwith-
standing all his most laudable efforts at Improvement,
the agriculturist should often find himself barely able
to keep his position In the world; and that, in the main,
agriculture should have made so little and such uncer-
tain progress until within the last few years and that
solid improvement is even now found only In those
countries where science has been pressed into the ser
yice-I should rather say, has been allowed to enter it,
for she needs no pressing.
Cultivation" says Liebig, sis the economy Offorce.
, 1872-04-13

Science teaches US the simplest means of obtaining the
greatest effect with the smallest expenditure, and with
given means to produce a maximum of effect. The
Improbable eXertion of power physical or pecuniary),
the waste of force in agriculture, or in other branches
of science, is characteristic of the want of knowledge"
In our own country, 1t must be confessed that to
whatever excellence the practical man has attained, it
has been slngle-handed; Science has had little or no
share in the matter; nay, she has been but too often re-
pulsed and repudiated, and what is the consequence of
this Has agriculture, as q science, made any great add
vance amongst us2 | fear every impartial man must
answer in the negative; | fear that it must be acknow-
lodged that whatever excellence exists, it must be
traced to individual talent and industry-to laborious,
tedious, and expensive empiricism, rather than to any
Well-tOunded principles. AS an individual of this genera
ton, would not ultimate that we are behind those of
the last; bat are we, In good honesty and faith, as much
in advance OF them as we ought TO be2 Nay, let us
look the matter in the face and say, are we at all in ad-
vance of them? | do not speak of individuals, but of
the generauon-are our crops larger now than they
were thirty, forty, or fifty years ago, all due allowance
beng made for any difference which may have occur
red in the weather of any given series of years p? |
really do not profess to be able to answer such ques-
tons myself, bat l have a very strong idea that the au-
swer would not be quite as satisfactory as we could
wish. In point of fact, I believe it will not be denied,
that formerly estates made quite as large if not larger
crops from fifty acres of canes as they now do from a
hundred; and | presume that in these days the expense
of cultivation must be increased in proportion 10 the
extent ofland cultivated. Granting. for argument sake,
that the answer TO my questions shall be, that the ag-
gregate of our crops is as large [ would ask, is it at
all commensurate with the additional expense bestowed
on cultivation, putting out of consideration, of course,
such additional expense as is necessarily entailed by
the altered state of our society3 l know the answer