The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-07-22

From the state Register ]

this year FIVE thousand acres Of corn.
Dudley w. Adams, Master OF the
National Grunge, is President Of the
Waukon and Lansing Railroad.
Mr.. Stoner commenced shipping
peaches by the car load from Shreve-
port, La, to St. Louis as early n
2ith of last month.
The destruction by floods and
drowning out of crops on Fat and
low lands, have been very heavy the
past month, but before estimating
the per cent. Of loss We will wait the
result of better weather.
Mr.. John Mitchell, of Fairfax, To-
wa, has lately imported a number Of
long wooled sheep from Scotland,
costing him 1900 each when deliver
ed on Iowa soil.
The Iowa State Grange Agency is
selling the Polo Harvester, equal to
any harvester in use, at Al35. being
t45 less than dealers sell that or any
machine.
Mrs. +. r. Shankland, of Dubuque,
is about to publish cook book. As
she is prominent patron, We sup
pose it will be Grange Cook Book.
In New York all the meanest but
ter, cheese, poultry, and fruits are
called slow class Western" no mat
ter where it comes from. 1t is an
insult to the West, from whom they
receive their best customers.
Gen. Horace Capron, who was en-
ployed by the Mikado Of japan, at an
enormous salary, to teach his subjects
agriculture, has finished his mission
and returned to Illinois.
The Kansas State Grange Executive
Committee has ordered the use Of
81 900 OF the funds returned to it
from the National Grange, to be used
in providing a warehouse at Topeka,
for the use Of the State Agent.
If any one thinks farmers get too
much for the products of their labor,
let them try it-work as many hours,
live as cheaply and prudently-and
their wives doing all the work Of the
house without servants.
There is one serious question as to
the future of American farming. II
the tendency Of society is TO frown
unon and discourage the farmers
calling as compared to other pursuits,
then American agriculture has seen
it's best days,
Coleman's Rural World Of July Sd,
saws that st. Louis was then flooded
with watermelons from the South.
Several car loads arrived per day,
and would not sell for more than
enough to pay freight, from 800 to
$3.50 per car.
The Indianola Tribune Of July lst,
on the prospects of crops says: "Our
best farmers say there can scarcely
be half crop Of corn. The green
worm has bred 60 rapidly the past
few weeks that Jaeoby can't make
cultivators fast enough to save the
crop. Small grain is rank, too rank
for full crop, and farmers are scared
about rust"
Why do SO many business men
fail. 1t is because they do not live
within their means, houses to extrav-
agantly furnished. too many extrava-
giant and fashionable dresses, and too
much spent on horses and carriages,
pianos, and fashionable tours. If
farmers attempted TO live in this way,
their own farm, and all the farms ad.
Joining, would not pay expenses.
Three wears ago COMPANY OF
English capitalists offered $1,000, 900
far the Sullivant farm in Ford county,
Illinois. The same property has
since passed into the possession Of
the Hon. Hiram Sibley. of Rochester,
\. Y, who values his interest al
100000. II is supposed that these
figures fairly Indicate the extent Of
the decline in prices Of farm lands.
Among the rare and wonderful
plants which will be exhibited ut the
Horticultural Hall of the Centennial
Exposition at Philadelphia next year,
will be the celebrated Espirito Sancto,
or Holy Spirit plant, tender exotic
from South America. Its blossoms
are beautiful, and in the heart Of
every flower there is model Of q
white dove, as perfect, in all its ex.
ternal appearances as living one.
The number of new and rare flowers
will make the conservatory remark
able feature of the grea, worlds
fair.
At the late commencement of the
Massachusetts, Agricultural College
1--WE wish agricultural colleges would
adopt more sensible term for the
close of the college year, there were
eighteen graduates who had gone
through four years course and
graduated. During the four years
this class had earned by labor on the
farm $lO,49S, or an average Of 1852.
6. each. Without this aid il is said
their means were such they could
not have gone through the course.
Eleven Of them intend to pursue az.
riculture, one each OF horticulture,
Horticulture, veterinary surgery, en-.
gineering, and three undecided.
The -inaericon .4qricuhuris. of
July, 1875, says:
There is little probability of high
er prices for grain. There is nothing
to regret in this. Business RECEIVERS
slowly from its depression. Labor is
everywhere drug. Lsborers gen
orally are in such straights that cheap
food is needed for their proper sub
sistence. The way to Improvement
seems to lie in fair if not abundant
crops, and low prices"
Mr.. Marriott, of Polk county. Iowa,
reports in the Helper that he made
from eight cows, from March 10th,
1874, to March 9th, 1875, each COW
being dry two months, ], 900 lbs, be-
ing 2374 lbs. from each COW, inclu-
ding l44 lbs used in his own family.
He raised seven calves which were
at tho and of the var uor<hF x,Oo.