Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-05-21
Tara And Grange Itsns.

1ern Ana O1Amee lee0s.
c. f. clarkson, In state Register
When business hurries on the
farm, let there be method in haste.
Onions, castor beans, and broom
corn are safe crops in the grasshop-
per region.
One ofthe most brazen-faced things
at this day, is attempting to make an
agricultural paper fit New York,
Florida and Iowa.
The three cooperative stores in Ce-
dar county, Iowa, are still a success,
and are working to the satisfaction
of the stockholders.
Lawton blackberries have played
out in most of Iowa, and there is no
sense in peddlers pressing them on
the public any longer.
Farmers who take their county or
State papers, as they ought to, should
carefully read their advertisements,
as they contain, frequently, matters
of vital importance.
Now is a good time for bogus nur-
sery agents to flourish, with their
books of highly colored pictures of
fruit. And their victims are legions.
Let us, in short paragraph, inn
press upon all the Importance of
great care in setting out trees. One
tree set out carefully, SO that it will
make thrifty growth, is worth more
than forty dead ones.
Lettuce has been SO much improv-
ed that it will not do to crowd it in
the bed as formerly. If you want it
right, give it room. The plants
should be five inches apart and the
rows ten inches.
The farmers are probably humbug-
ged in no one thing as much as in
pretended agricultural editors. A
man who cannot make living at
anything else, concludes he can d.
rect farmers how 20 farm.
1t is reported that the proprietors
of the Marsh Harvester have obtain
ed an injunction against the State
Grange of Iowa, or its employees, re-
straining them from manufacturing
Werner Harvestcrs.
As our rulers are determined to
grind down to resumption, economy
must be observed on the farm and in
the household. We are passing out
of the period of good prices, and en-
tering lower level, except in partic-
ular cases OF failures of crops, and |
expenses must be curtailed. Until
the monied men effect their purposes,
our wives, sons and daughters must
be content to ride in farm wagons,
before contracting debts for anything
better. Avoid debts until the great
farce of redemption is enact
ed.
On the sixteenth day of last month
we say two walking cultivators stand
ing in the middle OF a corn field,
where they were used last July, and
have been there ever since, and this
along q public road.
In sending for list of flower seeds
do not forget paper or two Of toll
aged plants. The Amaranths or Co
leus, or any other to suit the TASTE
They are always pleasure.
These farmers who are satisfied if
they winter their cattle just SO they
can kick in the spring, in many cases
made their calculations rather close
last fall, and winter has put an end
to kicking.
Corn is dear and scarce with ma.
ny farmers, and many a noble horse,
the dependence of the family, will be
sacrificed. Worked hard and fed on
green grass. We are at 4 loss to
know what to do under the circum-
stances. Mems necessities often
lriye them to dangerous expert
ments.
The Agricultural Department sent
cut inquiries as to the use of manures.
The practice in Iowa is summed up
Is follows: Out of tifty-three returns
from Iowa, but single county re-
ports the use of any other fertilizer
Than barn-yard manure. In Della
ware county, small quantity of gyp-
sum was used last year, for the first
lime, with profitable results.
Some people think farmer has no
use for a big dog, and yet his house
md his garden are infested nearly
every day with peddlers Of patent
territory, cheap humbugs in various
shapes, non-explosive fluid for lamps,
white wire clothes lines, packages of
goods and groceries, newly discover
ed fruit trees, marvellous remedies,
ETC., etc.
Iowa has the best Agricultural,
State and Grange papers in the Uni
led States, yet too many of our farm
ers neglect their home, to take the
eastern papers, one-half of which are
devoted to puffs of their own merits,
and the other half contains directions
FOR making compost heaps, saving
barn and pig-pen manures, accounts
ot the erection of super-phosphate
mills, and the richness Of night-soils.
etc.
Swindlers are selling the chloride
IF sodium to villagers and fan mers
Is a non-explosive to mix with all
amp oils. Those who have bought
will be benefited by knowing that