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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14
Potatoes Mixing in the Hill.

1t must not be supposed that be-
cause some vegetables originate
from what is technically called a
"sport," that this method of crea-
ton is not as natural and permanent
as that Of reproduction by seed. We
are so accustomed to this latter mode
of origination in new varieties that
we are liable to imagine it natures
only mode; but the history of many
things shows that good permanent
varieties originate in this way some
times. we have heard, for instance,
Of potatoes mixing in the hill. Some
one plants piece of white potatoes.
lie knows they were all white, yet
on digging he finds tuber or set of
tubers all red Therefore he fancies
that bees have brought the pollen
of a red variety from some distance
to the white flower, and that in this
way the pollen of the red became
infused with the white, and that this
infusion of pollen affected the sap
20 as to infuse the whole plant, even
down to the tubers, and this is what
is called "mixing in the hill"
1t is clear from one circumstance
that mixing cannot occur in that
way, for if our observations are cor
rect, as we believe they are, bees do
not exhibit much partiality for the
potato blossom. The chance, there
fore, that pollen is carried backward
and forward, and thus mixed by
them, is small. But there is no oc-
casion for inventing any such round
about explanation. The sweet po
tato ''mixes' in just the same way
as the other potato. That is to say,
the plant will occasionally produce
a red tuber from a white stock, or a
white one from red stock, and yet
the sweet potato in this part of the
world produces no flower at all. 1t
is believed that all the varieties of
the sweet potato under culture were
raised in this way, that is, that
tuber was found varying from the
rest, and this one saved or "selcct-
ed" originated new variety or
race.
The fact is there is an innate pow
er in plants to change sometimes,
without the invention of seed or the
seed organs, and there would, there
fore, seem to be no reason why va
rieties may not sometimes originate
in this way, and be permanent as if
raised by what seems to us to be
the more natural mode Of seed.
In regard to the sweet potato,
which never seem to flower with us,
it takes this privilege in the South
and thus produces seed. No attempt |
seems to have been made to raise
these seeds until recently, when
some one near New Orleans has TAX
en- the matter IN hand, and report
has it that he has raised many new
and improved sorts, which are SUI
perior in some respects to the old |
ones. Now that attempts are found
to succeed in this line of business,
there will probably be no end to the
new varieties of sweet potatoes
Germantown 2eleqroDh.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14
Draining Fields.

A correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer gives these directions for
draining fields without the use of
the spade: First stake out the line
for the ditch, then pillow three, four
or five burrows, depending upon the
size of the plow and the depth Of
the ditch wanted, taking the last
furrow from where you want the
center of the ditch, then with team
H>d s. rapcr "a good road scraper
answers very welD scrape the earth
each way, carrying it back one, two
or even three rods, if there is any
low place to be filed up, sloping the
banks so that you can drive a team
and wagon or pillow through without
any difficulty; then if the land is flat
or level pillow at right angles from
the ditch in lands fourteen or sixteen
PAGES wide, opening the last or dead
turrow into the ditch. Plow in the
same manner two or three times if
necessary, bring the last or dead
furrow in the same place until your
land is dry, and in rolling beds four
teen or sixteen PAGES wide. You
can then cross the lands or beds and
your land will remain rolling and
dry.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14
Rules for tho Care OF Sheep.

The general agent of the Ameri-
can Emigrant Company gives the
following:
/. Keep sheep dry under foot with
litter. This is even more necessary
than roofing them. Never let them
stand or lie in mud or snow.
2. Take up lamb rams early in the
summer, and keep them up until
December LIST, following, when they
may be turned out.
3. Drop or take out the lowest
bars, thus saying broken limbs.
4. Count every day.
5. Begin granting with the great
est care, and use the smallest guam
tity at first.
6. If eve lose her lamb, milk
her daily, for few days, and mix a
little alum with her salt.
7. Let no hogs eat with the sheep
in the spring.
8. Give the lambs a little mill feed
in time of weaving.
9. Never brighten sheep if posi-
Bile to avoid it.
10. Sow rye for weak ones in cold
weather if you can.
IL. Separate all weak, or thin, or
sick, from those strong, in the fall,
and give them special care.
-. If any sheep is hurt, catch it
at once and wash the wound; and if
it is fly time, apply spirits of tur-
pentine daily, and always wash with
something healing. Ii limb is
broken bind it up with splinters
tightly, loosehing as the limb swells.
10. Keep a number of good bells
on the sheep.
IA. DO not let sheep spoil their
wool with chaff or burs.
Is. Cut tag-locks in early spring.
l6. For scours give pulverized
alum in wheat bran; prevent by tax
ing great care in changing dry for
green food.
II. If one is lame, examine the
foot, clean out between the hoofs,
pare the hoof if uhsound, and apply
tobacco with blue vitriol, boiled i'll
a little water.
Is. Shear at once any sheep COM
mencing to shed its wool, unless the
weather is too severe, and save care
fully the pelt of any sheep that dies.
10. Have at least one good work
by YOU for reference. This will be
money in your pocket.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14
Ashes and Salt for Growing Wheat.

All farmers who have growing
wheat should avail themselves of
the opportunity offered in the leisure
days of winter to top dress the wheat
land with these substances. Ashes,
from the contained potash, afford q
most valuable fertilizer, not only as
direct TODD for the wheat plant, but
also for their solvent effect upon
some constituents in the soil. They
are also effectual in destroying the
germ of smut that was sown with
the grain; for smut is but u fungus
growth, of diminutivc form, that
adhercs to the grain Of wheat, and
its growth is analogous to that of
other vegetable forms more apparent
to the eye. We take it for granted
that no good farmer has sown his
wheat without soaking the seed in
blue stone or strong brine, both of
which are efec,ual in destroying
the germ of smut; but if this were
neglected by any, the top dressing
with ashes will supply the place Of
those preventives. Eight to ten
bushels of unleached ashes should
be applied per acre, and more would
be still better. This home fertilizer
is generally accommodating rapidly
on every farm during the winter,
and is too often left to wastcful ex-
posure to the rains of winter. Leach
ed ashes are also Of much impor-
lance, as they contain salts highly
conducive to plant growth.
The agricultural world has never
yet settled the question as to the
value of common salt as fertilizer;
but any farmer who will apply it to
his growing wheat at the rate of tif-
~ pounds and not over one hundred
pounds per acre, can determine the
question for himself when, toward
the time of harvest, he perceives the
thrittiness, of the straw, the plump
ness Of the grain, and the greatly
increased yield over that of any ror-
ton of the field that was not treated
with salt. There is danger in the
use of salt in excessive quantities
as fertilizer, and therefore we fix
the precautionary limit of not over
one hundred pounds per acre. The
price of salt does not place it beyond
economical use as a fertilizer, as, in
almost all sections Of the older
States the quantity iudiciously APP
piled to an acre can be purchased at
from sixty cents to a dollar and a
quarter. Salt is not only stimulat-
ing to the growth and effective in
the yield of wheat, but produces ear
lier maturity of the crop, thus at
fording an avenue of escape from
that other malady of the wheat plant,
rust on the stem and blade, from
which our wheat crops in the South
are in greater peril than from smut.
Rust is generally an almost complete
blight, while smut is usually but
to the quality of the crop
produced,-N. Y. World.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14

No Person can take these Bitfers Accord
ing TO directions. and remain long uawe provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or
other means. and vital organs wasted beynpi the
point Of repair.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache. Pain
In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness OF the Chest,
Dizziness. Sour Eructations Of the Stomach Bad
Taste In the Mouth, Bilious Attacks Palpitation OF
the Heart, Inflammation OF the Lungs. Pain in the
region OF the Kidneys and hundred other painful
symptoms, are the oG-springs OF Dyspepsia. Ono
bottle will prove q better guarantee OF It's 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 Infla tory and Chronic Rhcu.
matisnl and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Inter-
mittent Fevers. Diseases Of the Blood, Liver, KID!
neys and Bladder, these Btfers have no equal.
Such Diseases arc caused by Initiated Blood.
They arc a gentle Purgntivc as we'll A.
q Tonic, possessing the merit OF acting
powerful agent In relieving Congestion or lnnam-
nation OF the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in
Bilious Diseases.
For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, letter, Salt
Rheum, BOtches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils.
Carbuncles Ring worms, Scald- Heal Sore Eyes
Erysipelas Iteh Scurfs, Discoorations OF the Skin
Humors and Diseases OF the Skin OF whatever name
or nature, are literally dug up and carried out
OF the system In . short time By the use Of these
Bitters.
TIERS the most wonderful Invigorant that ever
sustained the sinking system.
II. II. MCDONALD & CO.
Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco, CAL,
cor. OF Washington and Charlton Sts., NY.
SOLD BY ALI. DRUGGISTS 4 DEALERS.
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14

Painting single roofs is strongly
advocated by the Industrial MONTH";
~. The following suggestions with
regard to the kind of paint to be
used, and the mode Of applying it
are very sensible: The true way
to paint q roof is to apply paint of
some kind to both sides of the
shingles. 1t is quite as important
that the under side of every shingle
be covered with paint as the sur
face, to prevent the water being
drawn up between the courses by
capillary attraction. If good shin
giles are painted on both sides, and
good paint be applied to the roof
once in ten years, it will continue
leak-tight for more shan one hum
dred years. When roofs are not
painted, moss is liable to collect at
the butts of every course of shingles,
which promotes their decay more
rapidly than alternate rain and sun
shine When oil paint is used for
painting shingles, it is always bet
ter to employ some light color
rather than black, as the apartments
of the attic story, beneath a black
roof, are liable to be uncomfortahly
hot IN the summer; and, more than
this, as black paint absorbs more
heat than any other color, neither
the paint nor the shingles will en-
dure as long as if the roof had been
covered with some light-colored
paint. A metallic roof covered
with light-colored paint will last
much longer than if it had been
painted with black paint. The
most economical paint for 2 roof is
a generous coat of coal-tar once in
a few years; but coal-tar will color
the water for FIVE years after a
coat of it has been applied to the
roof.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14
SIGN OF
The Big Hat +!

AS the sign denotes, it is tru-
ly a Hat Store, both for Ladies
and Gents. Every person who
visits Independence is familiar
with Turner's Millinery and Fur
nishing Goods Store. Last spring
they added to their stock in the
shape of Gents Hats and Fur
nishing Goods, making it truly
a Hat Store. We say it land
without boasting), that we have
as large and as fine an assert
ment rs can be found in any
store of our class Of goods west
of Chicago.
To the Ladies Gas usuan, we
solicit share Of your patronage.
To the Gents-remember it is
truly, surely, and the only Hat
Store in the city. Our Facility
and Experience for purchasing
stock is second to none; expen-
SEES small; consequently our
prices we guarantee.
Remember the place, The
Sign of the Big Hat.
"a Complete Pictorial History Gf the
s"-"The Best, Cheap st and
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14
TRY PARSONS
KEY CITY BITTERS,

and you will buy no others, af-
ter using them once. AS a cure
and preventative of all Skin Dis
eases, they stand without a ri
val. They regulate the bowels,
restore energy to the system,
aid digestion, and give new life
and vigor to all who use them.
Try ONE bottle Of the Key City
Bitters; they are for sale by all
first class druggists, and at
wholesale only by the proprie-
tor O. NJ. PARSONS.
l4-ly Dubuque, Ia
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FARM FOR SALE.

100 Acres of Land in the southwest corner
# Madison township, Buchanan Co., lows, ~
scles Of which are timbered-the rest p prairie
Good orchard in bearing; abundance OF small
fIuit; good we'll; house 1sxs4, good good. basement semen.
and cefiar; barn 1874; granary lsxM: Ierms ms:
5000; onehelf cash, the balance Oh l''ne ~ s"''
A House and Two Lots
a., Esroo's Addition to Independence. Terms:
=, o, one half each, balance on time to suit the
T.rchsser. Inquire Of Z. H. ELY, lndepsnd
nss,I Iowa. As"
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Su Inscriptions 1S73.
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The postage on Harpers Magazine is "a cents n
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HoLLowAY's OINTMENT Not the
slightest danger is incurred in the
rapid cure ofpiles by this prepare
ton. 1t never "drives in" inflama-
ton or "suppresses" irritation; but
annihilates them to the very roots.
Sold IS Maiden Lane, N. Y. Price
25 cents per box or pot. Ask for
new style; the old is counterfeit
ed. 4S,
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NnrIcuS or TILE DnnSa

NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
The Bazaar is edited with n contribution Of tact
and talent that we seldom find in any journal, and
the journal itself is the organ of the great world
of fashiOn.-BOstOa Trdreter.
The Bazaar cOmmends itself to every member of
the househOld-tO the children by dolls and pref
ty pictures, to the young ladies by its fashion
plates in endless variety, to the proyident matt
by its patterns for the childrens clothes to paer
finailius by its tasteful designs for embroidered
slippers and luxurious dressing gowns. But the
reading matter of the Bazaar is uniformly of great
excellence. The paper has acquired wide pop
ularity for the Preside enjoyment 1t atfords.-N.
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Total, 10, 900 Gifts, all Cash. $5OO.OOO
To provide means for this magnificent Concert
One Hundred Thousand Whole Tick
Whole Tickets, SO; Halves. SIS; and
Quarters, So. so. Eleven Whole Tick
cts 500. No discount on l S. than
500 orders. .
The object Of this THIRD GIFT CONCERT.
like the two heretofore given with such universal
approval, is the enlargement and endowment of
the Public Library Of X cntucky, which. by
the special act authorizing the concert for its ben
eft. is to be forever free to all citizens of every
State. The drawing will be under the supervis-
ion of the Trustees of the Library, assisted by the
most eminent citizens of the United States. The
sale of tickets has already progressed so far that
complete success is assured, and buyers are there
fore notified that they must order at once if they
desire to participate in the drawing.
The Management of this undertaking has been
committed by the trustees to Hon. rhOs. T..
Brnmlcttc. late Governor of Kentucky, to whom
communications pertaining to abe Gift Concert
may be addressed. X. T. DURRE TT, Pres.
w. N. HALDEMAN. V. Pres.
JOHN S. CAIN. Sec'y Public Library of KY
FARMERS AND DRoVBRS' BANK, Treasurer.
Pablo Library of Ky, Louisville, Ky.
Orders for tickets or applications for agencies
circulars, Information, etc, will meet with
prompt attention when addressed to me-
THOS. z. BRAMLETEE, louisville.
Agent Public Library, Ky.
All orders should be addressed to Il. I. DIB-
BILE, Il CO.. Western Depot of supply,
I5l La Sale ST., Chicago, Ill.
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Unquestionably the best sustained Work
Of the kind in tie World"
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NOTICES OF THE Press.
The ever increasing circulation of this excellent
monthly proves its continued adaptation TO popu-
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into how many homes it penetratcs every MONTH
we must consider it one of the educators as
well AS entertainers of the public mind, for its
vast popularity has been won by no appeals TO
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The character which this Magazine possesses for
variety, enterprise, artistic wealth, and literary
culture, that has kept pace WITH il it has not led
the times, should cause its conductors to regard
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them to great claim upon the public gratitude.
The Magazine has done good and not evil all the
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AaritMltMral Column

The reading columns on this page Will be deyo-
ted mainly to topics pertaining to the FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the BULLK.
TIN are cordially invited TO write for It,
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r EWAR D,
Tuesday, April>S. 1873.

At this Concert the best musical talent that can be
procured from all parts of the country will add
pleasure to the entertainment, and Ten Th0us.
and Cash Gifts, aggregatlng vast total Of
Half Million Dollars currency will be
distributed by lot to :he ticket holders, AS fol-
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-03-14

COMMISSION TO AGENTS..
Wcpay to agents, in Cash, larger commisfio'
than any other paper gives in cheap prizes
hooks and merchandise. For particulars, addres
once. We want an agent at every Post once
Iowa. ,,.,
Specimen copies sent free, on application.
GARRISON BROS.
Des Moines, Iowa.