The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-05-27

Iron the state Register. !

Sold lately, ut Waterloo, slxty-nVt
head Of steers for the sum Of $9..a4.
w. M. Evans, of Mahaska county,
los. By death, last week, $1,000
Norman horse.
The Heraidsays man in Mahsska
county, has raised new white grape
Of great excellence.
1t il presumed early cabbage are
set out. They should be hoed every
Monday morning before sunrise.
Nearly one-h half OF the stock sold at
the late sales in Illinois, was bought
by Iowa men.
In the human family wealth covers
! multitude of sins, but in the bovine
family fat covers a multitude OF de-
formitics.
A sheep raiser of Ohio says sheep
nav better with wool at j. cents per
pound, than cattle do at SIX cents per
pound.
1. il said a sheep never dies IN
debt. Its pelt will pay the price Of a
common sheep.
Mr.. 5. w. Jacobs appears to be
buying largely at all Of the Short
Horn sales in Illinois, and is bringing
the cream OF stock sales.
Hogs are scarce. Make the most
OF them. There will be much shor-
ter crop Of pork next year. and prices
will be good.
The Nevada cheese factory has
failed, and been sold at Sheriff sale.
By some mismanagement. the stock
holders lost largely.
Cultivate thoroughly the strawbcr-
~ beds, then mulch with hay or straw
TO keep the fruit from the earth and
sand, and to keep the earth damp.
Wick, the florist, has been TO Cali
fornia, and in bis Floral Guide, No.
3, gives us racy and readable des,
cription Of the seeds and flowers Of
California.
Florida is the only State in the
Union which is shown by the L. S.
census not to have raised bushel o!
either spring or winter wheat.
The census of 1870 shows the pro-
portions Of spring and winter wheat
in Iowa to be, spring wheat, 2S,10S,-
3l2 bushels winter wheat, .2., $50
bushels; being about one-fortieth
part winter wheat.
The Cedar Rapids Times of May
l3, says: 1.-The number Of hogs re-
ceiyed At the packing house OF T. NJ.
Sinclair & CO., for the week ending
May Sth, was 900 head"
George w. Brown, the owner of
the Brown corn planter, has a suit
against the Key Stone Corn Planter
for violation of patent. The sympa-
thies Of the people are with the de-
lendant.
Circulars are being scattered thick
as autumn leaves, Offering at enor.
nous prices "White Silver Wheat,
by q Tennessean. Wheat at So .5C
per pound, without any endorsers, i.
. poor investment. Hands off.
The Marshall county Cheese Fac.
tory is again in full blast, and Mr.
Ehle is making it a success. He pays
90 cents for each 100 pounds of milk
furnished by the surrounding farmers
This would be about six cents PEI
gallon.
Look after your meadows. Lime
plaster, manure from the chicken
house. or any fine fertilizer, will pay
well to be sprlnkled over the grass
1t will not do for even Iowa farmers
to boot at manuring.
As newly set grape vines begin tc
throw out shoots, attend to them, land
allow only one to grow, and not a
half dozen feeble ones spread out
over the ground. Only one vine
should grow, and that will be strong
and vigorous.
The Cedar Falls Gd1ette warns the
farmers that :he travelling "shoddy
men" are again on their travels west
ward. They represent themselves as
leading cloth manufacturers,and mex
10 the "Roe Bros are the bigges
swindlers Of the age.
The Grundy county 4tias says Mr.
Warner, Of that county, is planting .
six hundred acre confeld, and Mr.
Greenwood, on the farm Of Mr.. NJ. !
Townsend, is planting three hundred
acres. Mr.. Wells, of the same coun.
ty, is planting about three Thousand
acres OF corn this year.
The Farmers Union railroad, from
Liscomb, in Marshall county, to Chi.
cago, breaks ground to-day by Gel
ebration at Liscomb. Ed. Chaplin, O
the Times, throws the first shovelful
He has been two weeks practicine
under instruction of two Irishmen il
the back yard.
The Progressive Farmer introduce
Prof. Johnson, of Yale College, a
saying that "a multitude Of observa
tions has demonstrated that from 9,
to 80 per cent of the entire mas
(weighed) Of agricultural plants if dc
rived directly or indirectly from thu
atmosphere
A correspondent Of Colman's Rua
World gives glowing account of hi
visit to Mr.. Hunziker's wine celia
aud vine yard, four miles below
Keokuk, in Iowa. Mr.. II. appears t.
be determined to show that wine @
the first class can be produced in on
State.
To an inquirer we would say tina
it has been ascertained that a Berk
shire hog crossed with Cheste
White makes very desirable hog 70
market. But the fine Berkshire o
Chester White generally sell tn
most readily either as breeders or a
pork.
There is to be a joint Short-Hor
sale At the fair grounds at Ceda
Rapids on the 9th of June, the da,
Of the meeting for organizing tn
State "Fine Stock Association.
Greene and Morton are arranging t.
make this the greatest sale ever mad
IN Iowa. That region Benton an
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