Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-11-07

The State Of Tennessee contains
about 29,000,000 acres, of which only
100000 are improved.
An AIlegan, Mich, farmer has
plowcd up and killed thirty large
rattle snakes II 9 single nest
Among the attractions of the fair
at Denver, was a collection OF all the
ANIMALS native to Colorado.
1T should always be remembered
tha, one good ioal viii bring more
money and perform more service
than two indifferent ones.
Mr. Martin Walker, of Albion.
Michigan, sold the wool from two
sheep and three lambs the other day
for s39o5.
Col. SAKE, an enterprising flock
master of California, has recently
purchased AS fine sheep near Paris,
Ky, for use upon his rancho
a farmer III Iowa tells the Home
steaa that he shcared fifty eight head
of Mprino sheep this season, and re-
ccived 592 pounds of wool-l0i lbs
per head.
Peter Richards living near De
Kalb, Illinois, pocketea S2,S0l.24
this season, the proceeds OF wool
shorn from $50 sheep. His flock has
also been increased by 525 lambs.
Paris pays $4,000 year for the
agricultural commodity snails. The
tashionables eat them. The national
vegetable of the Americans is the po
tato: Of the Chinese, cabbage.
Over 100000 will be paid out IN
Berlin. Wis, and vicinity, Tor cram
| berry picking this season. On two
prime pal marshes there have been
employed an average of 200 pick
ers daily.
Il am 40 alarmist," says Mr..
| Mechi, summing up the results Of
the English harvest, "but | believe
that we shall have to pay for foreign
corn, in quantity and price, fifteen to
twenty millions sterling more than
in a good wheat season."
The harvest in Franco for this
year is estimated at .o23 900 bush
els, exceeding the average OF the last
ten years Gy one third. This atfords
an illustration OF the wonderful rccu
peratiye powers of France, and the
real source OF her future power, il her
people can but sec it.
The journal of the New York
State Agricultural Society gives a
list of the officers Of three agricultu
raj societies among the Indians OF
that Statc-the Cattaraugas, Onon-
dago and Tonawanda Reservations;
the names of the presidents beng
Peray Joen, B. Tallolief, and Jacob
| Doctor
The vote Of the American Pomo-
logical Society on blackGcrrics stood
ter klttaunny, twenty two votes;
for Wilson's EARLY, eighteen; Law
ton ana Dorchester, thirteen This
accords with the views OF many
| uIackDeffy growers.
The Secretary Of the Iowa Board
0! Agriculture states that within a
few months, ohe man alone has cor.
,racted 10 furnish the British govern.
ment with 5000, geo cubic feet OF
white oak, which will be cut from
forests within fifty miles OF Caro-, Lii.
The progress Of m operator in the
recent wheat corner is summed up
thus:
First stag, plenty money, no wheat;
Sceoas, stage. plenty wheat, no money
Third stage, no wheat, nc money.
The silkworm was discovered in
China, and its utility first developed
more than two thousand years prior
to the Christian era. by the reigning
empress, who, TO tins day, is regard
cd by the Chinese as the .itular di.
vinity and proteclless OF the silk in
dustry.
The Neosha, Kan, Citizeu learns
that over Que hundred head Of! cattle
died in the vicinity Of New Chicago
Of Spanish fever. It's supposed that
/ the disease was communicated to the
cattle in that vicinity 10y the transfer
of Texas cattle from one railroad to
another.
Laws to prevent tho Importation
of cattle into Australia, from coun-
tries where disease is known 70 exist,
have LATELY passed tic several legis-
lalurcs. Fines OF $1,000 and impris
onncnt Tor not more than six
months are the penalties. a good
law for Western States to follow.
The very poetry Of farming must
be reached in cuitivating the rose
farms OF Bulgaria. They cover hun
dreds Of thousands OF acres, and the
PARIS perinmers reap a rich harvest
oi fragrance, which finds it's way over
tho seas, and scatters itself in every
direction.
At an agricultural meeting at
Eeenc, n. H., tour years ago. lion.
John prentiss, then over ninety years
old, advocated the planting OF peach
tees i'll that vicinity, and told the
meeting that he should yet live to
eat peaches from trees he was intend
ing TO plant. The next year. accord
inglY, thu old gentleman set out
peach trees, and this year, when he Is
ninety five years old, his trees are
bearing him II fine crop of fruit.
Symptomatlc.
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