The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-07-27

from the state Register.l

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ss5 per 1000 feet.
II We could only manage to have
no weeds to 60 to seed how soon We
would have final triumph over this
enemy.
We want every farmer to answer
this plan and important question:
Are you preparing for . serene aud
healthy old age?
Weeds about newly set trees will
absorb all the moisture and nourish.
ment from the trees.
Industry is all right. But If q
man recklessly by overtaking his
strength shortens his days, is he not
guilty OF suicide.
In the harvest field exercise oil
the prudence you can in drinking
large draughts of cold water.
Go abroad to get the news. Mr..
Sinnett, Of Iowa, says in the Oregon
Calticator "The present outlook
for the farmers in Iowa is a gloomy
one"
Some things are not astonishing
Sam. Sinnett says: "The Grange to
which | used to belong has subsidized,
aud am going to join another
some distance off,"
Mob law is not right, but if the
tramps come about the premises of a
farmer, tell them to "get up and get,'
and enforce it with stiff toed boot,
or mild shot gun.
Sheep are being slaughtered in
California by the hundreds of thou
for the pelts and tallow, on account
of the depression in the wool market.
Very unwise policy.
The Cedar Falls Gazette reports
that James Rugg, of Grundy, has
two Cottswold shep, which weighed
24o pounds each, with fleece off. He
has also fourteen months old bull
calf which weighs ll40 pounds.
N. II. Hill, State Grange Agent
for Ohio, says his operations for
1876 will amount to over two millions
of dollars. lie says the Grange in
that State is success, and every
member should be proud of it.
All the space occupied in the east
ern agricultural paper about "when
you cut wheat" is ali bosh in Iowa.
Here we have to cut it when we can.
! 1t takes all the time from when it
will possibly do, until the grain is
about falling to the ground.
Even away from rivers, swamps or
sloughs, houses on high lands should
be protected from disease breeding
cesspools, drains. garbage, dirty hog
pens or barn yards. Health is not
too dearly preserved at any cost.
The English quarter, by which
wheat is quoted in the English re-
ports, is $50 pounds or one forth Of
ton gross weight of 2,240 pounds.
The English legal bushel is 20 pounds,
consequently s Of these bushels is
quarter, equal to % Of our statute
bushels of 60 pounds.
| Those who are likely to have de-
iciency Of hay or fodder, caused by
floods or any other cause, can now
sow corn on any idle land and raise q
profitable crop. There are plenty of
such places in the flooded regions.
No condition of weather checks
the growth of weeds. Hot or cold,
wet or dry, they are in their element.
They crow in the corn, wheat, pota-
toes, garden or orchard. They flour
ish supremely in fence corners, along
private roads, and in all unapproach-
able places. Vigilance, farmers. vig-
lance.
The Helper says the executive
committee Of the National Grange
will meet in Louisville this week,
and will then compare views on all
the points of cooperative store busi-
ness, both at home and abroad. We
hope they will be able to present a
system suitable to the wants of all
parts of our country.
After the great floods in our
streams, hot weather succeeding,
there is threatening danger of malar-
ial diseases. Use freely disinfectants
about all your houses. Dwellings in
| ioW VI StICdHlsy
and sloughs, should have chloride of
lime or carbolic acid in every room
in an old saucer or other vessel.
Odd expressions which come down
to us from the fathers, have great in
luence. ''Ill weeds grow apace,"
might have been expressive enough
in old times, but we want a more en-
ergetic word to express their pro-
gress in these days. In the warm
rains and hot suns they go it by
their double-quick.
The unusual rains and dampness
of the earth will require more ventil-
alton to the grape vines. They are
making larger growth than in or
dinary seasons, and will need cutting
back, and in some cases stripping
some Of the foliage. But recollect
that the vine and grapes receive
most of thei. nourishment through
the leaves, and enough must be left