The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-05-13

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Strawberries are @s per quart y.
st. Louis.
Whom on the early spring grass,
cattle need salt, and need il often.
Maine is offering land for sale in
Aroostook county for so cents per
acre, payable in work on the public
highways.
We learn with regret that Mar
shall county has lost its fair grounds,
:: Ma-sh.!l.crn, BY failing TO make
the last payment Of 5000.
The Prairie Farmer estimates
that there are 334 900 acres of or
chard in Illinois, which produce over
three million dollars worth OF fruit.
The Missouri Horticulture Society
voted that Ben Davis, Wine Sap and
LAWYER were the three mos. prohta-
bic apples.
Mccormick comes into the market
this year with q highly improved
Haryester-said TO be superior to
anything in advance OF it.
Mr.. A. w. Cook, of Floyd county,
has Just purchased, in France, six
Norman Percheron stations. He ex-
pected to reach home with them by
May lst.
There is broom factory in this
city which has to send to Chicsgo to
buy broom corn at $500 per ton.
Wheat is IS cents per bushel.
Tansy, ergot or smut rye, &c, are
good for COWS troubled about the
delivery of the afterbirih. Or
blanket wrung out OF hot water
placed over the loins.
We are informed (unoffiaially) that
the State Grange is not yet prepared
to grant charters to organize the
Pomona or ffth degree Oranges
Mrs. Kimberly, Of West Liberty,
has the honor of owning the highest
priced bull or COW ever owned in
Iowa. She paid las: week 81 ,43l
for Breastplate, At Pickerell's sale.
Cold spring rains are as uncom-
Portable to beasts as to man, and are
q injurious. Protect, if possible, all
animals at such times.
A writer from Henry county, Iowa,
says, "winter wheat all dead on the
prairie, and the timber wheat is little
or no better off.
Premium crops of all kinds are
never raised on poor land. and large
berries, either strawberry, raspberry.
currants or blackberries never grow
large in the weeds or grass.
The Londen Manufacturing Works
in Jefferson county, Iowa, have made
over $4,000 worth of implements in
the past FIVE months
At Western New York Farmers
club one of the speakers coatended
that il cost $27..0 per acre 10 raise
corn in that region. Their theories
- to planting and culrivating are Of
no use 70 us.
Mr.. B. 3. Groom, of Kentucky,
has just shipped from England thirty
one head OF Short Horns Bells
Messenger, of London, SAYS TIA. this
lot has some OF the pures, Bates
blood they had left in England Ii
pays to import nothing but the best
Iow.
The Illinois Industrial College ex-
psrinentsd with corn raising las.
year. They tile drained, highly
manured, drilled, and thoroughly
piowed, narrowed, and noed, and
raised s4l per acre. Hope they viii
try again
The Agricultural Hall At the APP
preaching Centennial Exposition COW
en ten acres, and vet the National
Grange charges that they are doing
nothing to accommodate the farming
interests.
Mr.. Spawn Of New Hartford, But
Ter county, Iowa, raised an eighth Of
an acre Of cucumbers for pickles. He
saved also what cucumber seed he
could, which he sold for &25 cash.
This from one -eiRhth Of an acre
This year he is going into the bus:-
ness more extensively.
The London agricultural Gazette.
in short article on the comparative
value OF wheat, oil-cake and barley
~ cattle food, says tina, wheat is
richer than oil-cake in the sum Of its
most important food elements
carbohydrates, slbuminoids and fat
but that in fat alone the oil-cake is
seven times as rich as wheat.
We have received from the author
. valuable little pamphlet, being
report on some Of the insects injuri-
Gus to the plants and animals on the
farm, by Prof. Bessey, issued from
the press of Clarkson Bros, Des
Moinss. II contains valuable infor-
nation. and should be in the hands
Of all farmers and sheep raisers.
We say again, never use kerosene
oil to kill lice On calves or colts. 1t
is cruel, dangerous and inhuman.
The mildest and best remedy is to
scatter along the back dry sulphur
and card it in. Do not forget the
card, as it is good for many com
plants, especially if accompanied
with plenty Of nutritious food.
Iowa is becoming so good a place
to sell fine cattle that sharp men
from other States are bringing in
pretended short horns by the car
load, selling at auction, and in = few
hours are gone, not to be heard of
again. Pedigrees are easily manufac-
tured, and as the tide is rising, bad
men will take advantage of the gen
eral desire to buy fine stock. Look
out.
Prof. Baird, United States FISH
commissioner, is engaged with
large force in Matching out young
shad along the Carolina coast. He
will proceed northward as the season
advances, and intends to hatch out
two million young shad in the Po,o-
mac during May. Of these several