The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-06-17

AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
EfRenfhe state Registsr.l
a nulme nnn Or boy never jerks
or 6eSts his faithful horse.
Elias Marble, of Grundy county,
has eight hundred acres Of corn.
sNahsAlrs county has four cheese
factories, vnftT f.ff4
They have started an associated
cheese factory in Polk township, JEFF
ferson county.
Spend odd hours in the garden,
and Il de weeds appear, spend some
Of the even hours. Fight the weeds
1t all hazards.
Peddlers Of groceries and dry
goods are on the route again, selling
kysahpaes. sltisa grab game some
where. gA
The Enterprise says that Ackley,
Hardin county, Iowa, shipped 1864
cars Of grain in 1874, or something
ovo SOo, 900 bushels. 81
friend inquiries how 10 tell cocks
from hens of Guinea fowls. The
cocks have the largest wattles, and
do not sscome back'' like the hens.
The amount offered as prizes at all
Of the Northern race courses the
present season, is carefully estimated
attwo millions of dollars.
Mr.. Suel Foster, after. specifying
the prosl ects Of various kinds o fruit
in the EavNssr, adds, ION the whole
the prcspectis good for an abuna-
ance ofspples."
Col. r II. Campbell, Of West lib
eri iowa, 81 the firm Of Campbell
4 Dhso6 stock breeders, has been in
Ea16pe Tor six months, making selec-
tions of Percheron horses.
ME w. May, Of Black Hawk
county, has colt two years old
weighing eleven hundred and ten
pounds. Vide Cedar Falls Gazette.
G. N. Miner, Of Cedar Falls, last
week shipped 500 barrels of -four to
New Orleans, all the way by rail, for
t1.O5 per Dbl. This, says the Gazette,
is from 40 to so cents less than to
New York.
Jas. Rugg & Sons Of Grundy coun-
ty are using on their farm this sum-
mer about 10000 feet of lumber, and |
Geo. Wells Of the same county is
building aboutsix thousand panels Of
fence, or about eighteen miles.
WMhave from the author, Hon.
JdpH. Gesr, pamphlet Of twelve
pc the condensed reasons why
til pDple Of Iowa. should construct
naoW gauge railroads. 1t is valua-
bic - this time, when the people are |
seeking reliable facts and figures on
this subject.
The c. b. & q. railroad promptly |
instructed their agents to comply
with the Iowa law, SO soon as Judge
Dillon decided the law constitutional.
But how about those who have been
violating the law for ten months? t
Common men would have to suffer
the penalties.
There we're purchased at the stock
yards at Chicago last week twenty
eight head of steers, to be shipped |
alive 70 Roddick & Co., of Liverpool. I
Seven dollars per hundred was paid,
and they averaged l,5lS lbs, costing
$1OG.2G per head. England would .
not buy our scrub steers for beef.
BY may in the papers, from data,
furnished by Prof. Riley, Of Missouri,
it is seen that the territory infested
last year by grasshoppers is greater
in extent than all of the United States
east OF line drawn from the northern
point Of Lake Michigan to the north
of the Mississippi |
Every day we live, and every time
We look out upon garden, orchard, or
farm, more firmly are we convinced
that lows should have "A scientific
and spractical State Entomologist.
Our Legislature is ready and free to
give liberal appropriations to sinecure
positions, but reluctant to do any
thing which win add SO largely to the
.Aahh NJ tho C%.ko
- Connecticut farmer, showing
that it ssibpAgtosrsise corn in that
State, ssks ltwih, and yet use sG4.5O
woah - manure per acre. By this
process he gets SO bushels Of corn
per acre worth $50, and two ton of
stalks worth go. An Iowan could
not re the profit in that way.
The Aeser;sas Agriculsuriss says,
'The I'm crop IS worthy a place in
: rotation, not only for its profit, but
for its influence on the soil. 1t takes
itale from the son, is acleaning crop.i
rsqui1Dt ul1ls 6utlsy for ssed, occu.
piss1ke ground but short time, and
may follow . crop of clover the same
s:Aaoa. i an early ripening variety is
~ Osee6la (fowa) Beacon, says:
- ~ espe iells " that Michael
- = Aadison county, owns :
- ysan 81 seser that weighs s,0sol
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