The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-09-09
From the State Register. /

The cattle sales to come off this
fall are more numerous and larger
numbers will be offered at each sale
than at any former year.
Lambs, calves and colts should now
be weaned, while pastures are still
green. But at this important period
of their lives, give them An abund-
ance OF the most nourishing food.
As county fairs are about commenc-
ing, II might be we'll to suggest that
1t would be best to stop the public
delivery of the annual address while
the horses are running.
In the Northern part of Iowa let
every farmer be on the lookout for
the Canada thistles before the seed
ripens. The Marshall Times says
there is vacant lot full of them in
that city.
Chaplin, who has been rus,icating
up NORTH, thinks they will have
good crop oil corn in Minnesota next
year ''if they are successful in winter
ing over the present growing crop.
The Cedar Falls Gdzene predict,
thai this part of Iowa will be more
prosperous this coming fall aud win
ter than it has ever been before.
The crops are good and the prices
are high for anything the farmer has
to sell.
Col. Scott has very practical artl-
Gle in the last Farmers Stock Jour
"n' on cheap feeding, and there is an
equally sensible article in The Pro-
gressire Farmer upon the foolish and
cruel practice Of using binders on
horses.
Hunt & Rowland, of Cedar Falls,
have sold. this season, one hundred
and six Marsh Uarvesters and one
hundred and eighty-three Champion
Reapers and Mowers. These would
amount TO about $4,000. This is
some indication of the vast amounts
paid by farmers for agricultural i'm
plements. Aud this item is only of
two articles by one house.
The farmers of Scot, county, Iowa,
announce that they will market this
year, one million bushels onions.
These they calculate will bring them
about 100000.
4 circular has been issued by the
Treasury Department, forbidding the
importation of cattle, sheep and goats
from Spain, in consequence Of the
prevalence OF hoof disease in that
country.
There is a spirited discussion go
ing on in the Hoosier Patron as well
as the Prairie Farmer, by various
members Of the Order, relative 10
abohshing all the degrees but oae.
One firm, Mr.. Berry a Co, of Fort
Dodge, has shipped east, in the last
sixty days, eighty thousand pounds
Of butter. That is decided i'm
proEement in that region upon the
days when we used to stop, twenty
one years ago, NJ the Wankonsa
House.
The 1ntericaa Iarnler: Il no.
tced last year that one of your cor
respondents complained that his
sweet potatoes ran to vine and bore
nothing. Advise him to apply either
salt or lime. or what would probably
be better still, tho salt snd lime
mixed"
Mr.. Wick sats in his Floral Guide,
that ten drops of carbolic acid. to be
put III pint Of water, ard poured on
the earth in flower pots, will destroy
all earsh worms, which do SO muci,
damage to the plants. 4 trial will
satisfy all Of its beneficial effects.
Now is the time to determine what
you will take to the County. State,
or District Fair. But be sure to
take something, Take the best you
have, and then, il others have better,
this will stimulate you to renewed
exertlons another year, which will be
more for your own good than the
Fair.
The National Forestry Asssoc,a-
ton meets in Chicago on the sth,
OH and 10Th OF September. Sucn
men as Dr.. John A. Warder, Arthur
Bryant, ST., A. 5. Fuller, Josiah
Hopes, Thomas Meehan. S. T. kel-
sey. Robert Douglas, X. l.. Elliott,
Judge Whiting, are expected to be
present.
The Waterloo Courier says: "The
first new wheat of the season mar
ketei in this city, was purchased on
Saturday py Christie & Corson, of
4. I. Weatherwax, Esq. and was
raised on his farm. 1t was plump
and good, and sold for Sl.a0 per
bu,hcl. The yield was l.. bushels
Ter acre
Colsnans Raroi Uorld fore
shadows as 10 lows: "The executive
committee OF the National Grange,
we believe, are about ready to report
upon a plan that will not only give
general satisfaction, but which will
enable US As an order to co operate
with other labor organizations in
foreign countries, to the mutual ad-
vantage OF both"
The Farmers Stock Jo,r,.ot says,
Mr. Alexander. at Woodburn Farm,
Ky, in eight years, ending June,
1879, has sold 354 yearlings of his
own breeding: ls2 colts and ls2
fllies. at al average of s59o.lo per
head. OF xaus, 1880 for the whole I.
This years (le,5) sale his 36 YEAR
lings averaged *925 per head at
auction... We believe eight Of
these were the get of old Lexington,
now dead.
J Mr.. J. l.. tnob insists that every
farmers family should be taught
some higher aspirations than mere
animal desires. The love Of the
beautiful should be cultivated, and
the mind trained to know the differ
encc between specimen of real art
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