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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-21
Barn Collars.

A barn without a cellar is only half
a barn, and the farmer who don't feel
the need Of cellar under his barn or
whose system of farming does not
require 1t is not more than half a
farmer. TO be sure he can grow
some roots and put them in pits to
which he can resort day after day
through winter in snow and rain.
We have seen farmers do this and
some manage in this way for years,
but it is no way to do. 1t is better
aud cheaper to have a good barn eel
lar, frost proof and ample in dimin
sions to contain rutabagas, sugar
beets and pumpkins for the COWS the
winter through. Many farmer can
date the beginning of his prosperity
in business to the building of barn
cellar. When he has place to store
roots he will grow roots, and the
feeding of roots III some way starts
things a-going on the farm in the
right course Animals grow faster,
grain is saved, hay is saved, the coarse
proyender is worked up and all made
into manure. Why, the quantity Of
the latter is doubled. Crops are bet
ter, things brighten up, money is
plcntier = simply because there is
more to exchange for it and more to
turn off all the while--all this com
ing naturally from having a ba II
cellar. There are otter advantages
which a good cellar under barn
brings which need not be referred to
here. Cellars may be built in winter
und r barns already up. - Detroit
Tribune.
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Positive knowledge Needed.

Farming, rs an occupation, will
never attain to the position to which
it is by right entitled until series of
accurate experiments determine facts.
If asked how much a pound of beef,
pork, mutton, wool or grain costs us,
we cannot answer. What would we
think of the manufacturer OF cotton
goods if he could not show the exact
cost OF yard of cloth: We would
at once conclude that bankruptcy
would inevitably result, or at least
would be likely to result, by pursuing
such course. The need of closer
calculation in regard to the cost of
production becomes more and more
obvious the longer the country is set
tied and the population increases.
The farmer should farm Intelligent
ly, should learn what each crop costs
him, SO that he may be enabled to
diversity his crops, and grow only
what will piy the best, without per-
manently exhausting the soil. \
contemporary very wisely remarks, ''it
we were to count up the losses in
cured every year by the farmers Of
the United States, from want Of ac
curate information in the practical
conduct of their affairs, it would ag
gregate fearful amount. The earth
yields so generous a return for all in
telligent labor bestowed that it bal
ances all losses from unskilled labor,
and produces surplus upon which
all the wealth of the world is based.
If farmers could be induced to study
their processes with the same accurate
observation that manufacturers do
the processes of their business, agrl
culture would soon be taken from the
unknown and placed upon the side
Of accurate human knowledge. 1t
WAS humiliating to hear one of the
best farmers in the State of Now
York excuse the want of progress in
our agricultural colleges by stating
that agriculture is not science"
that ''no one can tell him what it
costs to make pound of beef" and,
by inference, that these schools are
to be excused for not helping the
farmer to knowledge of what he
has all his life neglected to observe
for himself. just as if that were not
precisely what these schools were en-
dowed forte redeem the want of
common observation on the part of
farmers, and to teach their sons the
value of accurate knowledge COL
mans Rurai World.
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A correspondent of a Canadian pa
per writes as follows: l have obtain
ell al the lard oil that | have needed
for several years by making a hole in
the bottom of the keg and lacking a
piece of thin muslin over it, which
will let the oil run off. Oil made up
in this way is the best and purest
quality, and leaves the lard tirmer
and better than before.
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luton of alum, then drying and pass
ing it through concentrated sulphurlc
acid, washing and drying slowly.
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The CHICAGO TRIBUN NE.
FOR 1876.

A great Presidential Campaign will soon COM
mence, That struggle will determine whether the
Government of the United States shall continue
to be administered by the party which preserved
it from dismemberment, or by the men who en-
deavored to destroy refused to help save it, in
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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE in their neighborhoods -
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influence in the next Presidential Campaign. Ev
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for the facts and arguments it will contain.
THE TRIBUNE'S PLATFORM.
On the leading measures before the public, THE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE holds the following views be.
lievng them to be right as well as Republican:
l. eform of the Currency, making 1t as
stable and good as gold and silver, without injury
to the debtor classes.
2 Reduction of direct State, and indirect Ma
tional Taxation.
g. Economy and Retrenchment in Public Ex-
pendtures; no Bountes Subsidies OF Public
Moneys for Private Schemes. or Payment Of Rebel
Losses ori of the National Treasury
L. An honest maintenance of Public Credit,
and Condemnation of Reputation in any form or
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.. State Control and Supervision over Common
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them. but to protect the people
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guilty man escape"
z. Honest aud Fit Men for all Ofces-siving
good Unionists preference former Secession,
lists
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o. Election of President by direct vote Of the
People, without the clumsy and dangerous inter
venton of Electoral Colleges, which may some day
cause Civil War.
10. A Constitutional Amendment prohibiting
division of the Pubc-School Funds Of any State
for Sectarian Purposes.
The Political Department is but of the ma
ny excellent features Of THE TRIBUNE, on which
is based its claims as superior
FAMILY AND HOME PAPER.
As newspaper il has few equals in the United
States. Its Home and Foreign Correspondence,
Literary and Miscellaneous Departments, ex-
ceedngy rich instructive, and entertaining. and
the Agricultural Department, eminently practical,
contains matter always seasonable and suited to
direct application to the active operations of the
farmers. In the Department Field and stable is
given valuable information to the diseases and
care of live stock, this contributed by veterinary
surgeon of skill and experience who will answer
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WITHOUT A RIVAL.


The WEEKLY TIMES is also large eight page
sheet, the only one published in Dubuque. brim-
full of Geographic and general news State and
National: 1t is wide awake, aggressive, ambi-
uous and newsy and has made greater improve
ments during the past year than any other paper
i'll Iowa. The coming years. the Centennial of our
National Independence and is the Presidential
year And as 1876 will be one of the most event
full since the close of the war; everybody will de-
sire to keep thoroughly posted. 1t will furnish the
latest news of the action of Congress. and will
have resident Geographic and letter correspond
ent at Des Moines during the winter to report the
proceedings of the General Assembly.
Politically the TIMES will be the advocate Of
Republican principles; those which maintain our
Unions Integrity and the Countrys Honor. 1t
will represent the Centennial idea of free schools
free religion, free press freedom from monopolies
and equal and exact justice to all. 1t will strive
to perpetuate these principles by aiding in the
election of Republican Centennial President.
MARKET REPORTS.
The TIMES publishes the best Market Reports
of any paper in Iowa Two columns of Dubuque
graph from Liverpool, New York, Baltimore. Phil
adelphia. Cincinnati, Toledo, Chicago. Milwaukee
and St Louis, all of which are compiled with great
care and may be implicitly relied upon.
STEADY ADVANCING STEPS
BACKWARD.
Having stepped to the front of Iowa newspapers,
the TIMES will take no steps backwards Its pre-
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cost Its coat is off and sleeves rolled up for the
Centennial and Presidential year.
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LARGEST DAILY IN IOWA.

OF IOWA J0uFHHls. II Is IHrgt t1gut page snttt,
and is now confessed the
LARGEST DAILY IN IOWA.
That the TIMES is really the largest in the State
does not rest solely upon the testimony of its pub
fishers. We here quote from two If the leading
Iowa daies on this point whose testimony will
not be doubted:
[Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil.]
The Dubuque Itmes is now the largest as ii has
ever been of the best daily papers in the State
Iowa State Register
The Dubuque Times has been changed to eight
pages and enlarged. 1t is now the largest daily in
the State
This advance to the leadership of Iowa dalies is
in accord with the fitness OF things. D00agne Is
tie largest c1y in he ot"te and the country tribu-
tary to it is of great extent. Iowa is an over
Republican State, and the TIMES being
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