The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-08-12
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from sSs State Register;
Rarey's celebrated horse, Cruiser,
is dead.
Cedar Rapids has packed about
10000 hogs since the 6rst Of March.
The Cedar Falls Gazette says It is
recommended to cure balky horse,
to fll his mouth with dry sand.
1t is claimed that lie Mars, Iowa,
will buy and ship of the forthcoming
crop Of wheat at least 100000 bush.
els.
The headquarters Of the National
Grange has been at Louisville, Ken
lucky, since July 18th, 1875.
o. H. Kelly, in his book. says that
w. H. Stevens, Of New York, is tho
discoverer of the word "Granger."
Any one who has a grapevine
should never waste quart of soap.
suds. No fertilizer has yet been
fourd equal to it for vines.
Sales of the new corn crop are now
being made in Morgan county, Indi-
ana, for fifty cents per bushel, next
winters delivery.
Large crops alone are profitable.
II your farm Is not in condition to
raise large crops, make it so, or buy
a better farm.
No man is SO poor as to make it
necessary to have his pig trough at
his door, but man may be so indo-
lent as not TO have neat lawn about
his house.
Keep no more msnured stock on
hand thnn necessary. A horse that
does nothing costs sl5o per year, and
that is the interest on 81 500.
.The destruction of the poor is
their poverty" Men had to sell corn
last fall at twenty-five cents per
bushel, to meet liabilities. This sum-
mer they had to pay fifty cents TO
meet necessities.
In the summer of 1874, there we're
packed in what is termed the West,
about 100000 hogs, and so for this
year it is little ahead of the last.
Cedar Falls Gazette, July 23d:
Our buyers are Offering to contract
for new wheat at 30 cents and up.
ward Harvest hands, says the Ga
zette, are beginning to arrive at Cedar
Falls from the grasshopper regions.
The Iowa City Republican gives =
statistical item, the exact facts for
which we are at loss to know how
they were obtained. 1t says the ag-
gregate amount received in 1874, by
the johnson county farmers, for their
wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, buck
wheat, fax, hay, timothy and clover
seeds, and potatoes, figured up 3d..
04s,4l9. Dairy products, $l32,49O.
The decrease or increase of tho
price of freight Of five cents per
bushel on grain between Chicago and
New York, changes the value Of land
in the Northwest, t5o,0O0,ooo.
Hon. L. Q. Hoggatt, of Story coun-
ty, has inaugursted the enterprise OF
fish raising in his neighborhood, by
depositing two thousand diminutive
trout in the Squaw. branch Of
Skunk river.
Mr.. Grant, the founder OF the Vic
toris Colony, in Kansas, has a farm
which embraces the entire county of
Ellis, Kansas, and contains $4,000
acres, being probably the largest farm
1 in the world.
Time is money. Therefore have
plenty Of good water close to the
house and barn; store the wood near
the stove; make washing and ironing
rs easy as practicable; and have
everything As convenient as possible
both out and indoors.
A farmer with limited capital
should do everything reasonable for
the comfort and pleasure of his fam
lily, but money spent for cupola on
his house or piano in his psrlor, are
not always necessaries nor money
well invested.
In a letter to the \'inton Fine
Stock Gazette under date of May 26,
Mr.. l.. F. Allen, editor of the Ameri-
can Herd Book, says: "Iowa is in
creasing her herds more rapidly than
any other State, showing the great
spirit and enterprise of her breeders.
Cabbage is no value without heads.
To make them head uniform and
we'll, hoe often, especially in dry
weather, and as soon as surface dries
after rains. Don't allow crust tn
form around them. A thimble full
Of salt scattered over them OCCASION
ally will be found very beneficial.
OF the l,9O5,O.s cheese received
at New York for the year ending
May 3lst, 1874, l,,Ol,32s were ex-
ported, leaving for home consump-
non only nine per cent, showing that
the foreign market is what our cheese
makers have to depend on. The
cheese exported were worth sl4 ,5Oo,-
900.
The Lake City Jour7.ai, Of Calhoun
county, Iowa, which we used to con-
slider the back country, of the pros
poets of crops, says: 'Let one ride
in whatever direction one may, vine
yard and corn field, orchard and
grove, present unmistakable evil
dences of the soil and the bountiful.
ness of the crops"
| A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman, and which we see copied
into some of the Western papers,
recommends "India Wheat as i
good substitute for buckwheat, and
much more prolific. Our advice
would be to let it alone. 1t is worth
less trash. We have thoroughly
tried it.
+. r. Elliott, writer on agricul.
,ure, has been collecting certain data
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