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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Value of the Home Market,

The Jasper Republican forcibly
remarks: If there is proposition
that appeals at once and directly to
the good, old-fashioned common
sense of the West, IN farming com
mmity, it is one that proposes to
create a home market by building
mills and factories at every availa-
BILE point in the West. 1t is evident
enough that the demand for cheap
transportation that is now heard on
every hand is only in part express
sive of the general desire for relief.
The enormous crops Of corn raised
during the two preceding years
have caused general decline in
the price. from the fact that the sup
ply has exceeded the demand. Al
though it is true that by diversity
ing our farm products and raising
those only which will be valuable
in an inverse ratio in their weight
we would effect change which
would be Of the greatest Importance.
Yet, after all, is it not a humliating
fact that the prices of the leading
grain crops of this country are gov
crned by II ose of Liverpool? Think
of it, Americans! Think of it, farm
ers of the great West.
The bedrock upon which all per-
mancnt agricultural prosperity must
rest is the principle of doing our
own manufacturing at OR own
doors, feeding our own factory
hands, and thus creating a home
market for orchard and field pro-
duets. This is the true idea, and
must ultimately become the prevail
ing one,
1t must be evident to the most
casual observer that the true policy
for every farmer to pursue in the
future is to raise such products only
as can be marketed near the farm.
Where there is no market near home
for the weigh1ier articles, live stock
excepted, let those products be rails
ed the prices OF which, even in our
Western markets, range from ten to
fifty cents per pound, such as dairy
products, cotton, tobacco, wool, etc.
If corn and grass are grown, let
them be fed to live stock on the
premises.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
WE'VE GROWN OLD TOGETHER

Sell Billy No, loosen the bride;
Unletter the gallant old steed.
His eye has grown dim and uncertain,
Forgotten his olden-time speed;
But memory haloes him over
With thoughts that are sacrcdly dear:
SO pledge him no longer to labor,
And hallow that pledge with n tear.
Swift thought, CHANGING back past the shadows,
Speaks first of the long vanished day
He stood all so patiently waiting
BY the injecting house over the way.
While held u hand at the altar,
And VOWS were recorded on high,
Till the angels bent earthward to mnrmur
Yours, yours for the ever and aye"
Oh. the air was all throhbing with music,
And sunshine was gliding the way,
When he sped with my bride to the cottage
Our home from that glad nuptial day.
His step had the antelOpe's feetness,
The grace of the gentle gaz lie,
As he passed the fresh mead and the mountain,
Toward the cottage we both loved so we'll.
But, Billy, time passed, and its changes
Brought changes to you and to me,
For sorrow sent tears TO the farm-h house.
Like waves overspreading the sea,
And, Billy, we two were grown older,
My head was well threaded with gray,
When you waited SO solemn and silent
BY the meeting house over the way.
A hearse stood in waiting beside you;
A dirge floated ont on the air;
And tears trickled silently downward,
While sobs choked the accents Of prayer;
And the bell in the old church steeple
Kept mournfully telling the tale;
And the winds, floating tenderly outward.
Bore softly the piteous wall
Just there, where we stood al the altar
SO happy in days long ago.
The coffin was draped in the symbols
Which typify bitterest woe.
With her meek hands silently folded,
Her sightless orbs shaded from view,
With the pallor so still on her forehead
4 GOODNESS so strange on her brow
They placed her beside that same altar,
But this time all silent ald lone
And they called her an angel in heaven,
Where sorrow may never be known.
Then out from the door of the chapel
They carried that silent clay;
You bore it so slow and solemn.
The sad funeral way.
No, Billy, we've grown old together.
And you have been faithful and true;
We've journeyed through @ladness and SORROW.
Well journey liie's pilgrimage through.
SO, buyer, please loosen the bride,
Uniettcr the gallant old s.eed;
And Billy. from hardship and labo".
Ipledse HIM is evcrmore feed.
orr DuiAb lHiDtaiS.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Subscriptions.
TERM

Ilarpers Bazaar, one year 800
An extra copy of either the Magazine, Weekly,
or Bazaar will be supplied gratis for every club OF
Five Subscribers at 81 each, in one remittance or
six copies for $40 without extra copy.
subscriptions to lIarper's Magazine, Weekly
and Bazaar, to one address for one year, $40; or
two of Harper's periodicals, to one address for
one year, 81.
Back Numbers supplied at any time.
The five volumes OF Harpers Bazar for the
years 1868, go, 70, II, ~, elegantly bound in
green morocco cloth, will be sent by express prc.
paid for 81 each.
The postage on Harper's Bazaar is 20 cts. q year.
which must be paid at the Subscribers postofice
Address HARPER 4 BROS. New York
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

The following conversation is
supposcd to have occurred between
an old and new settler down at
Colorado Springs: New GOMEZ or!
"And what do you call that?" Ola
"That! that's soap weed"
New comer-"Why do you call it
soap weed?" Old settler-"Bears
little balls of scented soap all
through the summer for the conyen-
fence Of visitors. Wonderful coun-
try this, sir-grows everythinS."
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

BREEDING GEEsE.-When kept
in good condition and fed with
somewhat stimulating food, such as
corn and oats, geese will commence
to lay very early, and can DO set TO
the work of incubation by the end
of February or early in March. To
secure the eggs being fertile, there
must be one gander to every five or
six females. 1t is always well to
give them separate apartments from
those where fowls are kept, and wa
ter should always be accessible
1t is best not to disturb the goose
when, as, although 4 steady and
constant sitter, she will leave her
eggs often enough to feed and drink.
TO save her from going away too
far, and so running the risk Of the
eggs getting chilled, food and wa
ter should be placed near enough
to be readily accessible, and yet
not attract her attention to the feed
cr. When the eggs are Matched it
is better to contine the mother for
some days in a coop or pen, placed
upon dry grass during the day, al
lowing the goslins no access to wa
ter beyond what. they need to drink
which can be placed in a shallow
pan-until they are two weeks old,
after which the mother and young
may have their liberty upon clean
grass. The gosings should get
meal mixed with water at first, and
a few leaves of early beets, turnlps
or cabbage cut fine will be beneti-
cial. When they get their full lib
erty they will live upon grass, but
if it is wanted to have them grow
rapidly and become plump and fat,
they should get meal mixed with
buttermilk or skinned milk once a
day. When young the goslings are
very subject to die of cramps, caus-
ed by getting wet and cold. Hence
it is necessary to insure them clean
and warm nests at nights, and not
allow them out in the mornings till
the dew IS off; nor should they be
allowed to remain out in cold, wet
cold spring storms. They should
never be allowed about muddy barn
yards. y small grass paddock for
exercise ground should be set apart
for them until they can be turned
into the stubbles after harvest,
when they will fatten rapidly.-Er-
chonge.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Harper's Bazaar.

NOTICES OF THE Press.
The Bazaar is edited with a 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.-BOsfOn Trdgeitr.
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 provdent matr on
by its patterns for the chdrens clothes, to pdter
.fdnlilias 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 a wide pop
ularity for the freside enjoyment it atfOrds.-N
Y ETp0iUH Past
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Grass and Pork.

Feed more grass These three
words contain and explain the en-
tire theory Of that practice by
which any one can make hog rails
ing-barring the cholcra-as profit
able as the raising of any other
kind of stock, if not more so, on ac-
count Of their really sale in any
market every year. When ! say
feed more grass, | do not mean to
advise you to turn your sows and
pigs, shoats and fat hogs upon a
short crop of any kind of grass, or
upon an old field in which the nox-
ious weeds and bricrs luXuriate, or
from which the cream Of the best
and richest heritage HIS been crop
ped by your bunch Of mules, cattle,
or horses, and then expect your
hogs to flourish, grow and fatten for
the market, without feeding corn at
all. BY no means; for hogs kept on
such pasture must have corn, and
that in ample quantities every day,
1t you would realize anything from
their growth.
\ small but excellent hog raiser
followed those rules: lie fed about
siXty-iive acres in clover and rye;
while the clover was growing rap
idly, he turned in the smaller ones,
and when it blossomed, he turned
them all in until the rye was ripe
enough, then turned them all on
rye to eat it down, and in this way
the clover and rye reseeded fields
for years. Before the clover came,
there was always good blue grass
pasture. The first of October they
were put up and finished on corn.
On this plaza his hogs were always
healthy and his pork chcaply made.
-E.r.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
FARM FOR SALE.

100 Acres of Land in the southwest corner
If Madison township, Buchanan Co., Iowa, 30
eies Of which are timbe5ed.the rest p Ganied
Good orchard in bearing; abundance of small
f,uit: good we'll; house isx24, good basement
and cellar; barn 1sx44; granary 1sxs4. Terms:
al 1000; one-half cash. the balance on time to suit
urchaser. Also.
A House and Two Lots
!, Esreo,s Addition to Independence. Terms:
* IN. one half cash, balance on time TO suit the
surchaser. Inquire Of 3. H. ELY, Indepcnd
euee Iowa. Asn'S
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
TRY PARSONS
KEY CITY BITTERS,

and you will buy no others, af-
ter using them once. AS Il cule
and preventative of all Skin Dis
eases, they stand without a III
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,
IDLY Dubuque, Ia
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
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Experixn onts IN Setting Fence Posts.

A writer to the Western RMtal
says: send You the result of my
experience in setting posts on q
farm in Iowa. set about 1900
whiteoak posts, thrifty timber cut
and split in Spring and set early in
the Summer just as it happened,
average, size five inches.
In about eleven years the fence
posts began to fall. Some, upon
examination, found were rotted
entirely off, others were sound
This fact led me to investigate care
fully and | then ascertained the fact
that every post set butt down was
rottcd off, or nearly so, and every
post that was set top down was
sound. Thercupon ! went to ex-
perimenting with other timber such
as black-wa!nut, black-chcrry and
rcd-clm, all set different ends, and
obtained the same result. | also,
the same year that | set the first
posts, drove pickets for garden
fence and found the same result,
with the addition that the pickcts
which were about one and half
inches square riven, lasted just as
long as the fence posts. The posts
set top down lasted about sixteen or
years.
There were on my farm, when l
it, II few burr-oak post
set top down, with bark on
and when | sold the farm, eighteen
years after, some remained on 1t
still doing service without having
rotted oil.
have thus told what | am GER
tain of, thinking that | may do some
of my fellow farmers Il good turn in
good time, for certainly the farmer
needs all the help he can honestly
get in these times of railroad mo-
nopolics, high trcights, corn corn
ers and dull markets.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
KS
# 1oRA1 6u1Dr
For 1879.

TIVE GUIDE is now published Quarterly, and %
i cents pays for the year, four numbers which
is not half the cost. Those who afterwards send
money to the amount of 81 or more for Seeds,
paid for the GUIDE.
The January Nu,..5er is beautiful, giving plans
for making Rura! ZONES, Designs for Dining
Table Decoration. Window Gardens. &c, con
tanning a mass OF Information invaluable to the
lover OF flowers.
One hundred and fifty pages, on fine tinted pa.
per. some 500 engrarngs and superb Colorcd
Plate and Chrome Cover. The first edition OF
200 600 just printed in English and German, and
ready to send out.
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Subscriptions. 1878.

llarpers Magazine, one year. 81 90
An extra copy of either the Magazine, Weekly,
Bazaar, will be supplied gratis for every club of
Five Subscribers at 81 90 each, in one remittance
or six copies for SEQ, without extra copy
Subscriptions to Harper's Magazine, Weekly,
and Bazaar, to one address for one year, $40; or
two of Harper's periodicals. to one address for
one year, 81.
Back Numbers supplied at any time.
A complete set OF llarpers Magazine, now
comprising Is volumes, III neat cloth binding, will
be sent by express, at expense of purchaser, for
1926 volume. Single volumes by mail, post
paid. So Cloth cases for binding, IS cts by mail,
postpaid.
The postage on Harper's Magazine is "a cents Il
year, which must be paid at the subscribers post
Office. Address
HARPER & BROS. New York
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
Aarienltnral Golnnln.

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 it,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02
COMMISSION TO AGENTS.

We nav to agents, in Cash, larger commission
man any other paper gives in cheap prizes
hooks and merchandise. For particulars, addres
hface. We want an agent at every Post Ofhce
iowa. ,..,
Specimen copies sent free, on application
GARRISON BROS.
Des M0ineS Iowa,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

HoLLowAY's OINTMENT AND
PILLS Disorders that eat into the
flesh or inllame the skin are eXtin-
guished forever by the Ointment,
and affections of the stomach, liver
and excretory organs by the Pills.
These are rules without exceptions.
Sold rs Maiden Lane, N. Y. Price
% cents perpot or box. Ask for new
style: the old is countertelted. 50
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-05-02

UK. SAGt'S CAl Amin htMtUT.
It is the only form of instrument yet invented
with which fluid medicine can be carried high up
and perfectly applied to all parts OF the affected
nasal passages, and the chambers or cavities com.
municating Herewith, in which sores and ulcers
frequently exist, and from which tho catarrhal
discharge generally proceeds. Tho want OF sue
cess in treating catarrh heretofore has arisen
largely from the impossibilty Of applying rene
dies to these cavities and chambers by any OF
the ordinary methods. This obstacle in the way
of effecfing cures is entirely overcome by tho
invention of tho DOuche. In using this instru
ment, the Fluid Is carried by its own weight tno
n it R oig FIJI Il gemg Ssg to th
highest portion of the nasal passages, passes
into and thoroughly cleanses all the tubes and
chambers connected Herewith, and flows out of
The opposite nostrl Its uso is pleasant and 50
simple that a child can understand it; Full
md explicit directions accompany each instru-
ment When used with this instrument, DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures recent attacks ~
Gold in the Head;' by few applications
Symptoms Of Catairh. Frequent hea,.
ache, discharge falling into throat sometimes
prOfuse, watery, thick mucus, purucnt, often
sive, &c. In others q dryncss, dry, watery, weak
or infamed eyes, stopping up or obstruction of
nasal passages. ringing in ears, deafness, hawking
and coughing to clear throat, alterations, scabs
from ulcers, voice altered, nasal twang, offensive
breath. impaired or total deprivation of sense of
smell and taste, dizziness mental depression loss
of appetite indigestion, enlarged tonsils. tickling
cough, &c. Only few of these symptoms arc
l-Eely 10 DC present III any case at oue tihc.
Dr.. >age's Iatarrh Remedy, when used
with DIR. Pserce's Nasal Louche and accom-
panied with tho constitutional treatment which
is recommended in the pamphlet that wraps each
bottle Of the Remedy is perfect specific for this
loathsome disease, and the proprietor offers i'll
good faith $500 reward for case he can
not cure Tho Remedy is mild and pleasant to
use, containing no strong caustic drugs or
poisons. The Catarrh Remedy is sold at so cents.
DOuche at 80 cents by oil druggists. or either
will be mailed by proprietor receipt of 90 cents
II. ". PIERCE, NJ. d.,
Sole Proprietor
BUFFALO,. N. Y.
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ezo 1879
THE
Iowa State Register,
DAILY AND WEEKLY.

The proprlctors OF The REGISTER. having learn
b from experience what newspaper should De
suit the people of Iowa, enter upon ,ne ne
hd distribution of news, from all parts OF Iowa
adj all quarters of the world. In all the genera
atures of modern Political, News, Literary
hd Family journal, The REGISTER is now able
] compete, before the Iowa public, with any
We need not say that Politically it will be Re,
hblican Its record is its promise mere. Al
!. powers shall be lent to the aid OF pure, oio
.hioacd Republicanism, which never changes
by more than liberty changes. Devoted to the
6rty, it will yet preserve the free agency OF hon
d opinion, and the right of frankly exprcSsihs ~
r. tnnw of marty: we know nothing OF patty
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TERI MS
tHE WEEKLY REGISTER.

This edition will be compedium Of the most
Linahle matter appearing in the Daily Issues
is edited for the class of readers taking It, be-
. made paper to interest and inform the farm
and the workingman, and al! classes Of ,ntelh.
Eactical farmer. In news each issue OF THR
FIEKLY REGISTER will be history OF Iowa iof
e current week; in general features, il Will give
much reading matter literary and miscellan'
ina as would be given in book OF $50 pages.
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One copy for one year will be sent free TO an!
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DAILY REGISTER.

Now, as always before, THE REGISTER is frs
bd pre.eminently Newspaper. No paper IN
bwa has the facilities for so completely ana
kickly gathering and SO rapidly distributing the
q control at Des MONIES of the Associated Press
dispatches, and Is the only paper at this point
hblisbing said dispatches in full, and all me
larket reports accurate and compete-and the
NV Rcpublican Des Moines paper publishing the
|ssociate press Dispatches and markets at all
! other features. miscellany and literature; II
Ives more and choicer reading than any other
iva daily. ,.;.,o. .ho
Located at the Capital, THE REGISTER gives the
Hest Legislative reports of any paper, ana also
r. latest and most accurate reports of the decls-
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al Repository Of Fashion, Pleasure and
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Il Complete Pictorial History Of the
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NoTIcEs THE Press.
The ever increasing circulation of this excellent
monthly proves its continued adaptation 10 popu-
lar desires and needs. Indeed, when we think
into how many homes it pcnctrates every month,
must consider it one OF the educators as
well us entertainers of the public mind, for its
vast popularity has been won by no appeals TO
prejudice depraycd tastes .--iIpstoh GiOGe.
The character which this Magazine possesses for
variety, enterprise, artistic wealth, and literary
culture, that has kept pace with, if it has not led
the times should cause its conductors to regard
it with justihable complaccncy. II also entities
them to a great claim upon the public gratitude.
The Magazine has done good and not evil all the
days of its life -Br0Okiga Edqi,.