Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-07-30

IMPROVED HoGs.-We have frequently
alluded to the intelligent and successful
efforts of our fellow citizen, Alex Nc
Gowan, of Jefferson township, to improve
the breed of hogs in this county. He has
labored with enthusiasm and skill in this
peculiar field, and to him, probably, as
much if not more than any other man
is due whatever Of favor and prominence
the Poland China stock enjoys in this
vicinity. He has heretofore given his
entire attention to the above breed but he
has long had the idea of adding to his
herd new breed, and hereafter devote
his entire attention to the improvement of
two distinct strains of stock. He has now
carried out this plan, and we had the
pleasure the other day of viewing an i'm
portation of five splendid looking Short
faced Lancashire pigs which he had just
received by express from the breeder, G.
w. Byers, of Wyandot county, Ohio
They are of undoubted blood, bred from
stock imported from England by Mr..
Byers, and cost Mr. MCGOWAN 1926 each
in Ohio; expressage included, about $3.50
in the aggregate Mr. MCGOWAN informs
US that the Shortfaced Lancashire is some
what similar to the Suffolk, only larger
boned being medium sized hog, posses
sing excellent feeding and fattening quail
tiles, and are fit for market at any age.
They are regarded in England one of the
best if not the very best of English breeds.
Mr.. McGowen has also just received
from Mr.. Ellsworth, of Illinois, thor
oughbrcd Magic Boar, which he pronoun-
ces the finest, having the incest head and
ears, he ever saw. 1t was ordered with
out regard to cost, and with the express
understanding that if it should not prove
perfect in all points it should be shipped
back to the breeder.
THE HAwKEYE WAsIER.-Of washing
machines the name is legion, their princi-
pies of construction are an infinite variety
and their several merits-if we may be-
lieve their inventors and venders-compass
the whole problem of the emancipation
and the consequent happiness of woman.
But alas, like all panaceas for human ills
they often, we may say almost always,
nrOvn 6nluciva Annnr tho fou ayoaO
tons, Judging by the enthusiastic praises
of some of our most fastidlous house
keepers, is the simple affair named at the
head of this article. 1t is constructed on
the principle of compelling hot soap and
water, unaided by human manipulation,
to do the work under spur of steam and
atmospheric pressure, being forced through
the fabric with a momentum that takes all
the dirt with them. The principle is not
new, but the application of itin this al
most ludicrously simple machine is the
most efficient that has come to our notice.
Absolutely no rubbing is required for the
foulest garment and the washing of the
household linen is, by it, reduced, if not
quite to diversion, at least to n vastly
mitigated infection, while the saving of
clothes in contrast with that corrugated
nuisance, the washboard, would pay its
low cost many times year. In short. to
use an original expression, no family can
do without it; and if anybody mistrusts
our judgment, We refer them to the fol
lowing ladies who know of 1t by actual
test:
Mrs. ]. S. Woodwork, Mrs. A. II. Fonda,
Mrs. D. s. Deering, Mrs. G. r. Wallace,
Mrs. T. Kittredge, Mrs. NJ. D. Smith, Mrs
L. A. Main, Mrs. VIM. Toman, and others
The washer is sold by Mr.. Goodwin, on
the west side. who has the right of this
county.