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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
Berkshires lOr Pork.

A word for that excellent hog, the
Berkshire. 1 have been breeding them
for two years, and find them superior to
anything I have before tried. A few
years ago I purchased a first class Cbes.
ter White SOW and bred her to the finest
boar our country afforded, but I found
the meat too oily and it took too much
corn. They would do better in the west
where corn is cheap. A neighbor Of
mine who was little slow to invest in
blooded stock, thinking it was all hum.
bug, and that food would bring hogs out
all right, was induced last fall to buy q
pair of Berkshire pigs. He took them
home, turned them with some five OF
six other pigs about the Same age, and
fed them all together. A few days ago
he sent for me to bring over Hills patent
hog ringer and ring his pigs. I was
much astonished at the difference in size
of pigs. His Bcrkshires were nearly
three times as large as his other hogs. II
is the hog for Pennsylvania, where feed
and land are 80 high, We want the hog
that will make the most pork from the
food in the shortest time.-Cor. Coun-
try Gentleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
How TODD Early Budding.

In reply to letter from Geneva, Kan.
sas., enquiring how to do early budding,
the Rural World gives the following:
AS soon as the twigs to use for bud.
ding have made q growth of one foot,
pinch the tips, and in ten days thereafter
they will be ripe enough 70 use. Blu,
the young seedlings of this seasons COM
ing up will be too small, and you should
operate on trees of last year. The same
thing can be done later when the seed.
lings of this year are as thick as a; lead
pencil. Tie with bass or pawpaw bark,
or soft cotton yarn. As soon as you see
that the bud has taken, pinch all the
shoots of the tree pretty severely, which
will force the newly inserted bud, which
will soon start out. When an inch long,
head back the stock within six inches
above the bud, and keep all sprouts of
from the bud up. it will come handy To
tie the young shoot to. 1t is very i'm
portant matter this, and of great value
to the peach grower. If any of our read.
ers have better plan. let US have it"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
The Improvement Of Soils.

The United States Agricultural De-
partment has been collecting information
relative to the improvement Of soils con-
sidefed without, and says: Many exam
Piles are given of the renovation of worn
and apparently worthless soil, and the
increase in fertility of fresh but unprom-
ising lands Fields that have been cul-
tivated exclusively for twenty, and
even forty years, have been restored to
original productiveneas, not by guanos
and superphosphates, at $50 to $50 per
ton. but BY inexpensive local resources,
the cheapest and most reliable of which
is found in clovering. In one case in
Butler county, Pa, . section of thin
gravelly land, on which it was thought
no one could secure q decent living,
came into possession Of German emigrants
at nominal rates. They cleared off the
brush, plowed. cultivated, turned under
green crops, saved every fsrtilizing ma
terial available, never duplicated a crop
in five or six years rotation, and that
tract is now a garden, and from worth
lessness has advanced to the value of
800 per acre and is yearly becoming
more productive.-Praiie Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

EDITOR RURAL WORLD: In your is.
sue of May 18th, you speak of cutting
sowed corn with a cradle, evidently with
the intention of binding it into bundles.
This, think, will involve more work
than most western farmers will under
take. The importance of the crop has
led me to experiment on the most econo-
mical mode of handling it, and have
finally adopted the following plan. I
prepare the ground well, SOW early, and
roll after sowing, and let the crop 60 I'M.
til it begins to ripen. This is a particu-
lar point in the curing of this crop, for
when the lower leaves begin 10 turn yell
low, it is sign that the sacharine matter
is being converted into sugar, and that
there is less water to dry out than at any
time previous to this, consequently the
crop is more valuable than when cut
sooner. The ground having been rolled
smooth, I can cut the crop with my
reaper close to the ground. I then lie it
in the sun two or three days, then rake
with horse rake and cock up, and allow
it to cure for four or FIVE days, when it
can be hauled to where l wish to feed it.
I usually put it in small stacks, and have
but little more trouble with it than do
with timothy hay. Two men and a boy
can clean of, and stack about three acres
per day if convenient to the place of
E. w. H.
Cameron, No. May 25th, 1875.
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At all events, they were convinced Of the
fact by the experience of their neighbors
last year. One of the farmers referred to
and . practical one, observed:
I have never tried the experiment my
self, but intend to do 50 this spring; for
. neighbor of mine planted three acres
of potatoes last spring, and, in order to
thoroughly test the experiment, marked
of the ground fin burrows two feet apart
as if for corn planting. He then planted
about one-third Of the field in potatoes
in the ordinary way, dropping them in
every row and using several varieties.
He then planted the two acres with the
same kind of seed, leaving every third
row. in which he afterwsrd planted hemp
seed. Where there was no hemp the po-
toes were totally destroyed by bugs, not
even producing as much as he had plant
ed, while that protected by the hemp
yielded more than an ordinary average,
considering the season. Besides the
extra yield of potatoes, $50 worth of
hemp seed was raised off those two acres.
1 have implicit confidence in the in.
tegriiy of the gentleman quoted, and
would suggest a trial to the many who
suffered loss from the destruction of their
crops last year by this bug plague for
even should the potatoes fail, choice
hemp seed always commands . fair
price and their labor will not be lost.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
Sheep did it.

A Maryland farmer, who has lately
visited some of the best sheep farms in
England, makes the following statement
in the April number of the American
Farmer:
Within the last fifteen months forty
eight ewes belonging to the estate of As.
ton Rowant have produced 295 lambs,
all of which are still living or have been
sold fat. Forty-four have each had three
pairs, and most Of them in less than four.
teen months. Two ewes brought seven
lambs each, viz: two few days before
Christmas, 1872 two in June, 1873, and
three in January, 1874. One eve pro.
duced eight lambs within fourteen
months-two of the lambs were sold for
s5 at Easter. Recently the same eve
had four lambs, all of which are strong
and healthy; the mother is doing well
and in. good condition. Twenty-one Of
the above ewes are Observation-Disclosures
are either Hampshire downs or halt
breeds.
The above is taken from the farm rec
ord of the estate under the management
of T. s. Jackson, The American visitor
concludes his report In these words:
The estate of Aston Rowant, it should
be remarked, is not one that is carried on
for mere profit. The lawn, shrubbery.
conservatories and plantations generally,
exhibit the exquisite beauty with which
wealth and taste aiorn 80 many places
in England. Regarding them with in
tense qualification, and thinking of the
immense amount of money required to
keep up this display, said to my wor-
thy and intelligent guide, 4 should like
very much to know the pecunisry re-
suits of this style of farming in your
country He replied: As you live in
America, I will tell you what I do not
speak in the neighborbood-my balance
sheet for last year shows clear profit of
elsOO $4,000, and he added emphatical-
ly, sheep did It!
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
MISSOURI KANSAS & TEXAS
RAILWAY.

The completion of the great iron
bridge over the Missouri river at Boom
vile, enables this popular line to offer
still better facilities for the business be-
tween the Northeast and the great South
west.
Two daily trains will be run between
Hannibal and points in the great Neosho
valley, in direct connection with all lines.
Also, two daily trains between st. Louis
and points in Southern Kansas
For the Texas trade, new and better
facilities are offered. The rates have
been greatly reduced, and arrangements
have been made whereby through Pull
man palace sleeping cars are run from
Chicago, Quincy, Hannibal and st.
Louis, to Galveston, without change,
passing through the finest portion of
Southwest Missouri, Southern Kansas.
and Indian Nation, and the most desira,
bic portion of Texas.
Any one contemplating q trip to
Southern Kansas, the Indian Nation or
Texas, should address Thomas Dorwin,
general passenger agent, Sedalia, Mo-,
for . correct map, with time tables, rates
of fare &c.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
Glover Is . Shade t. the Soil.

OF all the grasses permissible in an
orchard, clover Is the least Objectionable
and most beneficial, particularly as q
shade. An enthusiastic agricultural
writer argues that there is no other plant
of 80 much value to farmers as this. 1t
furnishes the msst perfect protection to
the soil during the fierce dry heats Of
summer. Being constantly deciduous
plant, its leaves arc perpetually falling,
and soon form Q delicate covering for
shade, and easily penetrated at all points
by the air, which is the great carrier to
the worn out soil of those atmospheric
elements which are to enrich it. In this
way the clover plant not only contributes
directly to the fertilizing of the soil by
giving its own subsistence to it, but it
furnishes q protective covering to the
entire ground, which encourages and
stimulates those chemical processes by
which the hungry and exhausted soil is
recuperated from the vast supplies of
nutriment that are held in the atmos-
phere. It becomes to the farmer the most
valuable fertilizer in the world, as it inn
parts fertility to the entire coil. 1t
should be added, by way of caution, that
every two or three years it should be
plowed under and left for q year to rot
in the soil; otherwise the ground may
get too sod bound, which is almost inva-
riably injurious to fruit trees.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

ASHES FOR CATTLE.-The Live Stool
journal has q correspondent who found
his cattle given to the habit of eating
wool, chewing bones, &c. They become
thin in flesh, refused to eat hay, and pre-.
sented a sickly appearance. He had no
impression that their food lacked the
constituents for making bone; and his
neighbors used bone meal without MOTTO
ing any good results whatever. At last
he put about four bushels Of leached
ashes in his barn yard, and threw out to
them about shovelful each day. They
all ate with evident relish. After turn
ing them out to pasture, he put one peck
of dry ashes per week on the ground in
the pasture. They ate it al, and gnawed
off the grass where it had been lying.
The cattle began to improve, gained
flesh and looked better than they had for
several years. He says that this morbid
appearance was unnoticed years ago,
from the fact that the ground was new
and ashy from the burning of the wood
and land clearings. Since thisdiscovery,
he gives one quart Of ashes mixed with
one quart of salt, to twelve head of cattle
about once a week.
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Has . Remedy Been Found.

A correspondent Of the Kentucky
Live Stock Record writes from Harris.
burg, in that State, and gives the follow
ing remedy for the prevention of the Col.
orado potato bug. He says:
While on a recent visit in Woodford,
I heard two prominent farmers discussing
the subject of the Colorado potato bug.
They held that in planting Irish potatoes
if every third row was left until the dan.
ger from frost had passed, and then
planted in hemp, that no bugs, neither
the terrapia shaped Colorado, or that
species with long striped backs, resem.
b ing the Spanish fly, would disturb q
vine in the patch. The gentleman did
not profess to know, or give any scientific
explanation of the fact; but their opin.
ion was, that the bugs had such an anti.
pathy to the hemp or its peculiar odor,
that they would not live in its vicinity.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
Salt Water for Eyes.

Many persons are suffering pain from
weakness of the eyes. This, sometimes,
proceeds from local Inflammation, and
sometimes from other causes. Several
persons who have thus been afflicted in
form us that they have derived almost
immediate, and, in some cases, permanent
relief from the application of salt water
as bath and where the pain has been
aggravated from a compress saturated
with salt water laid on the eyes, and re-
newed at frequent intervals. Opening
the eyes and submerging them in clean
salt water has been found beneficial to
those whose eye.ight begins to tail.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
SHERIFF'S SALE.
STATE OF KANSAS, 1ss
COUNTY OF ALLEN. S

sT Cagx1 OF IL k AiSsAs }ss.
In the District Court 9TH judicial District sitting
in and for said county and State.
Z. l.. Northrup, Plaintiff
VS..
5. !. Stauber, g. W. APP
pie, and X. Sprague, De-
PENDANTS
BY virtue Of an execution to me directed and
issued out Of the It'll Judicial District Court
in and for Allen county, Kansas, in the above
entitled cause, will ON
Tuesday, June 22nd, A. D., 1876,
at 10 CLOCK q m. Of said day, ut the front door
Of the court house Of Allen county, in the city Of
lola, Kansas, Offer for sale 1t public auction to
the highest and hest bidder for cash in hand the
following described land and tenements, t0-wit:
The west half Of the southeast quarter Of Sec
ton four ~ in township twenty five :tx5) range
nineteen (is), appraised At three hundred le3Ol
dollars. And fifteen Q5) acres commencing at
section seventeen 40 in township twenty -four
thence north 70 the middle Of the Neos6o river
thence up said river in . north-westcfly detection
to point at which the west line Of said south.
east quarter crossed said river, thence south to
the place Of beginning, containing fifteen ceres,
appraised at one hundred (elO0) dollars. All
being situated in Allen county, Kansas.
Said premises have been levied upon q the
property of the above named defendant G, w,
Apple, and will be sold to satisfy said execution
Given under my hand 1t my ONCE in the city
of lola this the 18th day Of Nay, E7s.
il. WOODN,
zaw Sheriff Allen county, Kansas.
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Farm and Firesioe.
Live Stock at the Centennial.

1t is understood that the Centennial
Commission has concluded to have the
Live Stock display at the international
Exhibition, within the months of Sep
TENDER and October, 1876; the period de-
voted to each class and family being
fifteen days, and the division as follows
Horses, mules and asses, (as one class
from September first to fifteenth.
Horned cattle, (of all varieties,) from
September twentieth to October fifth.
Sheep, swine and goats. (as one class),
from October tenth to twenty-fifth.
Poultry will be exhibited as a perma-
nent and also a temporary show, the
first commencing on the opening of the
Exhibition. the latter from October
twenty fifth to November tenth.
Animals must be Of pure blood to be
qualified for admission. (trotting stock
fatand draught cattle excepted) and even
those of pure blood must be highly me-
ritOrious.
The exhibition being open to the
whole world, it is of the first Importance
that we bring forward the best of their
kind only, as the character of our stock
will be Judged by the general average Of
those exhibited.
Exhibitors will be expected to provide
for feeding their stock.
All forage ard other food will be fur
nished at cost prices at depots conven-
iently located within the grounds.
Exhibitors will also be expected to
furnish their own attendants, on whom
all responsibility of the care of feeding,
watering and cleaning the stalls, will
rest.
Though the Commission will erect am
pie accommodations for the exhibition
and protection of Live Stock, contribu-
tors who may desire to make special Al.
rangements for the display oftheir stock,
will be afforded facilities, at their own
cost.
All animals will be under the super
vision of veterinary surgeon, who will
examine them before admission to guard
against infection,-and will also make .
daily inspection, and report
In case of sickness, the animal will be
removed to suitable enclosure, specially
prepared for its comfort and medical
treatment.
Rings will be provided for the display
and exercise of horses and cattle.
1t is highly important that all who
design exhibiting, should now make ap-
plication, and the extent of preparation
necessary can only be regulated by an
estimated base upon actual demands.
Inquiries may be addressed to the Chief
of the Bureau of Agriculture, Philadel.
phia.
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SHERIFF's SALE
STATE OF KANSAS, loo

STATE OF KANSAS,1,.
COUNTY OF ALLEN. %.
In the District Court eth Judicial Distr;et sit-
ting In and for said county, and Ssate.
Joseph c. Merritt, Piaint,G,
vs..
John Everheart and Mary C.
Everheart, Defendants
By virtue Of an order Of sale to me directed
and Issued out Of the 7th Judicial District Court
In and for Allen county, Kansas In the sboyo
entitled cause, will ON
Tuesday, June 18th, A. d. 1875,
at 10 O'Clock m OF said day at the front door OF
ne court house In the city Of iola, Allen county,
Kansas, Offer for sale nj public auction to tho
highest and best bidder for cash in hand the fol-
lowing described lands and tenements, to-wit:
Lot eleven QD in block thiTty-nve (Ss) In the
city Of lola, Allen county. kansas. Appraised
at one hundred and seventy five (el75. 0) dollan.
Said premises to be sold to satisfy said order OF
sale.
Given under my hand at my oARce, In the citv
Of lola, this the Eth day Of Nay, 1915.
J. L. WOODEN.
05t Sheriff Alien County, Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

The Maine TANNER asks: "How many
farmers winnow out and save the heaviest
oats, wheat and barley for sowing; how
many separate out the light, imperfect
kernels and foul seeds, and destroy them
previous to sowing; how many wash
their seed wheat. that the seeds of nox-
ious weeds may be discharged, and the
wheat rendered hearty and clean
for the purpose of producing good yield
of extra quality of grain? Yet these
are very important points in the most
important work of the year on our farms
that of seed time-and in reality takes
precedence of high manuring and culti-
walton. If the farmer attends to these
latter matters, and yet sows foul or light
seed, he is perpetrating an injury, and
gaining but portion of the profit and
increase from his land and labor which
he might"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

Room DECORATION.-There has stood
on the table of my room in my house,
for thirteen months without q break
(says a writer in the Gardener's Maga-
sine), nice young plant of Corypha aus
trails, and in the course of that time he
has not lost a frond, but has made six
new ones that are as healthy and we'll
developed as any one could wish. The
room which this palm adorns is not par
ticularly we'll lighted, and the light
comes from one side only; yet the plant
is as symmetrical as it it had never been
out of first class plant house. The
room is sometimes cold and sometimes
warm and occasionally well filed with
tobacco smoke. But these varying con-
ditions make no difference, the plants
persist in thriving, and illustrates in a
most pleasing manner the adaptability Of
this class of plants to domestic purposes.
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SHERIFF'S SALE
STATE OF KANSAS, ! "a,

STATE OF KANSAS, Too
COUNTY OF ALLEN. o.
In the district court eth Judicial District sitting
in and for Allen county, Kansas.
Michael H. Moore, Plaintiff,
Susan +. Hovey, and D. r.
Hovey, Defendants.
BY virtue Of an order Of sale to me directed and
Issued out Of the 7th Judicial District Court in
and for Allen county, Kansas, In the shove en-
titled cause, will on
Tuesday, June 10Th. 1875,
at 10 O'Clock q. m. Of said day At the mont door
Of the court house Of Allen county in the city OF
lOls, Kansas, offer for sale 1t public auction to
the highest and best bidder for cash In hard tho
following described lands and tenements, to-Wit:
The west 0ne-half Of section thirty-one an
in township twenty-four CA south Of ranee
eighteen Qs) east In Allen county, Kansas
Said premises to be sold without sppr1dsennent
to satisfy said order Of sale.
Given under my hand 1t my once In thu ciey OF
lola, this the 9th day Of Nay, A. d. 1873
j. L. WOODIN,
east Sheriff Of Allen county, Ksnsss.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

Parents, above all things, says ex-Pres-
ident Hill, of Harvard College, should
have regard for the physical capacities OF
children. No machinery is SO delicate
in its structure, or is called on to produce
work 30 fine, As the brains of school
children. Their capacities of endurance
are very limited at the age when the fac.
ulties are developing. There is more
danger to be apprehended from long
continuance in study than from close
application for brief period. In this
particular half is better than the whole.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

CooKIEs.-l cup of sugar, ! cup Of
butter, l cup of sour cream, t nutmeg,
teaspoonful of soda, l tesspoonful cream
of tartar; roll rather thin and do not
knead, but merely mix, sprinkle white
sugar over the top, press down with roll
ing pin before cutting out, bake a very
light brown.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12

Lately As an old citizen was mailing q
"to rent" card on q vacant house, . ped.
estrant halted and remarked that
''howze" was not the way to spell house.
elbow long have you lived in Detroit p
asked the old citizen, scowling savagely.
Fifteen years." was the reply. "Well,
I've lived here for thirty, continued the
old man, "and I guess know how to
spell as we'll IS you do"
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"Ish dere some ledders here for meT'
inquired German at the general deliv-
cry window of the post-ofice yesterday,
says the Detroit Free Press "No. none
here" was the reply. "Vhell, dot is
queer" he continued, getting his head
into the window; my neighbor gets
sometimes dree ledders in one day. and
1 gets none. pays more daxes Is he
does, und I hat never got one ledder yet.
How comes does dings p