The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-11-04

from the STATE REGISTER. /

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/ In putting away vinter fruit, Il
must be - cool - possible, without
freezing.
Stock hogs in Central and South.
ern Illinois are worth nine cents per
pound.
i The past twenty years have made
vast improvements in agriculture.
but there are more to be made in the
next twenty-five years.
| Harris says mix say 10 parts sifted
ashes, 2 parts salt, and l part sui
phur, and let the pigs eat all they
will Of it. would not compel them
to eat salt BY mixing it with their
food.
Celery can be stored in . cool GEL
lar in boxes about A. high ~ the
celery, and filed in with dirt. The
dirt should be damp and we'll packed.
Potatoes are quoted At Chicago 1t
81 per bbl. for Illinois, and $3.50 for
Jersey. Why is this. Illinois po-
tatoes are certainly better than from
any more southern State.
Mr.. Humphrey, of Illinois, At the
Forestry Association said he knew
one man in Iowa who had planted
four hundred acres Of forest. Who
10 it.
State Centre Entcrpriss says, Mr..
Dunn of Biven's Grove, gat
this fall twenty-five bushels of
Fameuse apples from one tree, seven
teen years old.
The Oskaloosa Herald, Oct. IA:
Hog cholera prevails to an alarming
extent in this county, aud anything
that can stop its ravages would be
God-send.
The cost Of repairs and interest on
the cost of fences in the United
States is four hundred millions per
yer. The value Of fences 10 two
thousand three hundred millions.
Mr.. Adams term as Master Of the
National Grange expires at the meet
ing next month Of that Grange. We
see the names of Jones of Osk kaloosa,
and Thompson of Marion, named in
the papers A. suitable persons for the
succession.
The Muscatine Journal says that
the cattle disease which last year
decimated 90 many herds about Will
ton has again broken out among the
herd Of Mr.. Hill, near that place, and
he has recently lost FIVE or six head,
with prospect Of more going. Last
year he lost fifty or sixty head.
Jas. Wick, the scotsman, has thirty
acres in his garden in Rochester, N.
Y, which Is worth 5000 per acre.
Seed raising must be profitable when
it will pay TO raise il on such dear
land. The interest per acre would
be $500 per year.
Much good advice to farmers can
be embodied in bu. few words:
"Cultivate the land more thoroughly,
kill al the weeds. raise more stock,
more clover, and manufacture and
use all the manure you can make or
obtain"
Farmers should always keep on
hand few copper rivets of various
lengths, as we'll rs few yards Of
No. l6 copper wire, for mending
harness. In most cas,s, rivets are
cheap, convenient and strong, but in
other cases little wire is needed to
sew the harness.
The island Of Jersey is no better
naturally for rich milk and sbund-
ance of cream, than Iowa. But it is
the result Of careful and scientific
breeding with that object in view.
Many Of the cows on that Island
yield milk which is one-fifth cream.
Many good wife and her poorly
clad children wonder why 1t the end
Of the year they do not receive the
little comforts promised them. The
editor Of the Progressive Farmer
says it is little delay in securing
the crops. little carelessness in the
manner Of storing, . little wasteful-
ness in the system of feeding and
little indifference to the state of the
market.
The Shepherds Crook is q thing
Of the past, but it should be used by
every man who raises sheep. 1t is
the easiest, safest, and best way of
catching sheep. No sheep should
be caught by the wool. They are
tender skinned, and in most cases
the wool comes out in few weeks
where it is pulled rashly by handling.
Prof. M'Affee, after = thorough
trial, decides in favor of thorough
pruning at the time of transplanting
evergreen and decidious confer trees.
This is very important announce
ment, as there has been great
aversion to pruning such trees, and
there has been also great trouble
in getting them to grow. Prune, and
prune hesvily, says the Professor.
Several States are erecting their
own buildings on the Centennial
grounds at Philadelphia. Ohio is
the last one named as putting up .
fine building there. Similar build
ings will be put up by Massachu-
setts, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, llli.
nois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Kansas and Missouri. The recep-
tion of applications for space in the
main building will close on the 3Oth
day Of this month.
1t is we'll known, says the Pro-
gressire Farmer, that last winter
thousands Of families were barely
kept from freezing in northwestern
Iowa, by burning loose prairie hay
in common stoves. AT the Dubuque
Exposition, held the first week of
September, Mr.. Augustus Besdle, of
Cresco, Howard county, exhibited =
stove which supplied, from fourteen
pounds of pressed hay, abundant heat
for two hours and q half. During
this time baking and other cooking
was safely and thoroughly done.
The hay was pressed by : simple