Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-15

The most certain wheat lands in Cali
fornia lie In the mountains.
"A California farmer has Just compile
ted fence around his 45 ,000-acre farm. Ii
isn't painted yet.
"A Fort Scott farmer has over 400 head
of cattle, the average weight of which is
over / 800 pounds.
"A Milwaukee brewing company has
imported 10000 bushels of barley and
300 bales of hops from Italy.
The State of Iowa produced in 1872
5,770,169 bushels of barley, and the wool
production aggregated 2,348,884 pounds.
Davenport shipped 5000 pounds of
horseradish to New York the other day
the first shipment of the kind 1t ever
made.
While the iron interests of Pittsburgh
are depressed, Chattanooga iron compa-
NY, employing about two hundred men, is
running double time.
The heaters, rollers, and catchers OF
the Ohio Falls Iron Works, at New AL
bany, have struck against reduction Of
wages. The consequence is that the mills
have stopped, and 100 men are thrown out
Of employment.
The Florida pecan nut is a profitable
one for cultivation. For instance, ten
acres could well sustain 2l0 trees, which
| would yield the seventh year about 300
bushels, making over $1,000 from ten
acres. This is nearly equal to an orange
grove.
AS evidence of the importance of the
produce interest, the following figures
give the aggregate sales in New York
City last year Butter, $4,000, 600; cheese,
$15,000000; wheat, $24, 100000; flour,
$26OO0O00; corn, 500, 600. 600; petroleum,
$10000,OOO; cut meats, $l2yOO0,O00.
John Starr, German farmer in Sew
ard county, claims to be the champion
hog raiser Of Nebraska. He has ten
porkers weighing over 5000 pounds, av-
eraging over 600 pounds each. One or
two of the number will weigh from eight
to nine hundred pounds, while pigs Of the
same stock, only three months old, and
running at large would weigh over 1866
pounds each.
VIM Shaw, California editor, has
obtained patent for peculiar construc.
ton of the ordinary movable types, and
also for correcting instrument. The
lower shoulder Of the types extends down
one-fifth, and terminates in little slot or
nick, cast in still deeper, so that when the
toiicItiu5 tOoi 10 oiIppCN bCe"cth
the lines the hook fits into the slot. The
correcting tool is made of a fine piece of
watch spring, doubled up at the end, so
as TO form hook, and this bit of spring
is held in the ordinary nippers used by
printers.
A man aged fifty-thrce, residing in
Jewell county, Kansas, lost both his feet
twenty-eight years ago by Frost being then
with his family in Western Iowa. He
learned to ride pony without saddle
hunted, sold pelts, and supported himself
and family. Five years ago he pre-empted
100 acres of land in Jewell county. Last
fall he put in 100 acres of winter wheat,
riding pillow sulky, and doing all the
work himself His farm is well stocked,
and his wife and seven children are hap
by. II is wonderful example Of what
energy and independence will accomplish
for man who is e,long cripple
In England there is now much activ-
lily among trade unionists and co-operators,
and they are discussing a project for the
cooperative working of coal mines on
large scale The cooperative idea has
been spreading for some time among the
GOLFERS Their organizations are power
full, and they have an abundant command
of funds. They begin to think that they
can work their own mines, and add the
profit of trade, or a portion of 1t, to that
of labor; and, that their desire in this
direction may take effect, the leading Co
operators Of the metropolis, as well as of
the North of England, have volunteered
to work in harmony with them.