The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-10-14

The Iowa State Grunge meets on
the second Tuesday Of December,
1875.
If you wish to fattsn chickens put
them up in close pens, q it 10 about
imPossible 70 do % while they are
running about.
The Illinois State Fair, At Ottawa,
Was . serious failure In every respect,
failing to meet expenses BY $1,000.
| The National Grange viii meet in
the city Of LOUISVILLE on the third
Wednesday Of November nest.
1t is estimated By the bes, crop
s'a'isticians, that the corn crop this
year will be about 81 per cent. of .
iull crop, wheat 60 per cent, and oats
20 per cent.
The principal gait Of horse on
the farm or with heavy draft on the
road, 10 walking. Then Why 10 not
more regard paid to this more impor-
rant gait?
1t takes twice - much food TO sus-
tain COW without shelter that it
does with. Common sense and the
demands Of mercy call for 6rst rate
shelter.
J. H. Kissingsr 1 Co., Clarksville,
Mo-, have just sold to Mrs. A. Z.
Kimberly, of West Liberty, lows,
their 6ne imported heifer, Orange
Blossom, 18th, for $500.
Hen msnure, which hogs eat greed.
lily is injurious to them, a. We are
Informed. When they eat such hen
droppings no amount Of good food
will fstten them.
The County Oranges meet the
FIRST Tuesday in December Of each
year, TO elect their quota (which in
most cases 10 one from each county,
of delega,es to the State Grange.
Mr.. Ransom has . large patch of
Canada thistles near Georgeiown, in
Hardin county, Iowa, which he can
not, after various trials, subdue. So
says the Iowa falls Sentinel.
Some friends in CAlifornia sent the
editor OF the Iowa State Center En-
te,prise box of fruit. So choice
was it, he sold some of it IT auction.
Clusters of grapes sold for $3.50 each,
and pears for IS cents each.
Miss Helen Wharton has presented
the Michigan Agricultural College
with two bushels Of Smyrna wheat
raised at T'flis, Armenia province, in
Asia. Tho grain il nearly twice tho
size Of the common berry, very white,
and is said to make the best Of dour.
Whilst grain is being thrashed, let
such OF our farmers q have not vet
built ample barns, provide warm
straw sheds for oil animals for the
approaching winter. Warm quarters
keep stock in good aesh and spirits,
and aid in carrying them safely
through.
Lloyd 7. Smith. Of San Joaquin
county, CAL, has offered Mrs Robert
Blacom, of Centerville, $1,000 each
for three French Merino sheep, which
he proposes TO take to the Csntennisl
Exhibition Of 1876 for competition
with the best sheep from oil parts Of
the world.
The Illinois Central and Chicago
& Northwestern railroads have re-
duced the rates on grain and -four
from Dubuque, Dunleith and Galsna,
10 Chicago, ~ follow: Grain--old
rate, 25c; new rate, zoe. Flour
old rate, Soc; new rate, 4Oc. So saws
the Prairie Farmer.
A gentleman writing from Amsri-
ca to friend in Edinburg, on Au-
gust 2, says be saw the potato bugs
about ten days ago, at least eight
miles out on the Atlantic, and they
appeared to be bound for Scotland.
Some Of them appeared to'be perfectly
at home on the waves. He asks ii
they have not arrived vet.
1t is coming to be the custom in
Englsnd to sell lambs at auction, At
weaving or soon after. Messrs.
Swami Il Davidson sold this year at
Lammas in their sale rings at New
town St. Boswells, 1859 lambs, at
an average Of nearly 3Os. Gid. each,
or over IS so. These lambs are sold
to be fattened for market, which in
dictate good prices.
The bull Marquis, now owned by
S. w. Jacobs, Of West Liberty, 10
spoken Of in the papers, IS "probably
the best bull ia the world"
Large products of butter, cheese
or milk, are not merely the evidence
of the natural capacity Of the COW,
but rather indicate, in nearly all
cases, intelligence and good manage.
ment on the part of the owner; and
it may be further added that even the
COW is itself, to . certain extent, the
product Of human skill.
Usage Orange seed can be sown in
the fall, but it must be just before
the closing up OF the ground with
frost. This will do in this northern
region where the ground remains fro.
zen all winter. In warmer climates
it will rot by freezing and thswing.
Mr.. A. G., who inquiries, we should
judge lives far enough north for
the frost king to hold dominion ell
winter.
A friend, who has heretofore lived
where they use guano, inquiries if
there is any substitute for it, to use
in limited way. There is. Take one
bushel of leached ashes, one bushel
plaster, two quarts Of common salt,
and two bushels Of hen manure. Mix
thoroughly and set away for use, for
garden, or for plants that need fore.
ing by fertilizrs.
What is the best recipe known for
eggs?-J. H. G., Polk Co.,
Iowa. Reply: Probably the best
plan is to dip them in parafine, and
store them in cool airy blace. Par
sffine is waxy substance obtained
by the distillalion Of coal tar at low
1t 10 insoluable in wa