Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-06-23
Agricultural Itcms.
State Register.

IuenJS 1Of inc season, lake care OF
them.
Swede turnips can yet be sowr
with good prospects for good crop
In the midst of other work do MOI
forget the garden.
1t is the careless and unskillful far
mer that loses most by unfavorablt
seasons. The shrewd man surmounts
nearly all difficulties.
1t is better to keep a little aheai
of work than to always be dragging
behind. Better for the farmer ant
better for his crops.
Early eight-rowed corn has fire
quently produced good crop plant
ed as late as the goth of June.
There has been considerable corI
planted since the 9th inst. Without
a very favorable fall there will b'
soft corn.
Weeds poison the earth, draw it
nourishment, destroy the crops, an(
leave their foul seed for an inheri
| lance.
When the milk from fresh COW
will boil without boiling over, it is
good for family use.
AT present prices no man can at
ford to hoe his corn by hand. But
by skillful management Of the walk
ing cultivator, better crop can be
raised.
Good news for the boys. They
have invented machine for curry
ing horses. 1t Is said to save time
and do the work far better.
A granger writes to q rural paper
to ask chow long COWS should be
milked?" Why, the same as short
cows, of course.
Hungarian grass can be sown until
the last of June. 1t makes excellent
feed on which to winter calves. 1t
is not rs much grown as it should
be.
Mr.. Foster complains of unusual
depredations in his orchard by can
ker worms. He is sprinkling them
with Paris green and arsenic.
1t is stated by careful staticians
that the decline in Mess Pork in the
past month is a loss of Sl4 100000 to
the holders of pork in the United
States.
The man or boy that will abuse q
kind, gentle cow, which is supplying
the family with one of the best luxu
ries, is fit only for the loneliness OF
the desert.
Liebig has shown that oatmeal is
almost as nutritious as the very best
English beef, and that it is richer
than wheaton bread in the elements
that go to form bone and muscle.
A correspondent of the Neae Cen
tury contends rightly that farmers
should keep but one breed of poultry
1t will not pay to have all the trouble
of keeping various kinds separate
Select choice breed, and then keeI
them pure.
Mr.. J. M. Hayner, of Lebanon
Southern Ohio, raises over five hun
bred acres Of sweet corn annually
and disposes of his immense crop by
first drying and packing it in barrels
The process is very simple.
G. f. Clarkson has accepted an in
vitation to deliver the annual address
on commencement week, before the
Board of Trustees and Faculty o.
the Agricultural College, the second
week of November.
Mr.. Pike, of Winthrop, Maine
kept eight Jersey cows last year, and
after supplying the family with milk
and cream, he sold his butter at
Portland and it averaged for the sea
son $9o.9S per COW.
The Henry County Free Pres
says probably selfshly): "Would
you realize dreams of wonderful
beauty and agricultural prosperity
combined, drive over Henry county
at the present season. A richer re
gion Of country to both sight and
cents can not be found"
The man who keeps at night his
COWS in muddy or dirty yards, will
have dirty milk, sickly cows, puny
children, His milk will be too
strong for his own use, his butter
bad, and his cheese worse.
There have something like four
teen thousand cattle passed through
Grundy county this spring, going
north and west to be pastured in
Franklin, Wright, and Hardin coun
ties. They come from Cedar, Linn,
Tama, and Iowa counties.
Buckwheat for some years has
been a profitable crop, and if corn
has failed in some places owing to
poor seed, or if you still have land
not planted, buckwheat can yet be
sown. But there is no time to wait.
Now is the appropriate time for
layering grapes for the production
of new vines. If your neighbcr is
too poor or too stingy to buy vines,
layer few for him, that his children
may enjoy this delicious and health
lnvigorating fruit.
In the horse, hereditary disease is
well recognized fact. Youatt says
"that there is scarcely malady to
which the horse is subject which is
not hereditary" and Barnard says
"that there is scarcely disease
which does not run in the stock, is
gaining new advocates every day"
1t is supposed the farmer can live
without the favor of the public, or
the smiles of politicians. Not So
The crops may depend ON his indus
try and the rains and dews of heav.
en-. But without wise government
and a sound and staple currency
there will be no reliable market.
Good milk COWS are worth SIS al
Albany New York.
Cedar Rapids is to have the ma
chine shops Of the b., G. r. & M. r.
II. The blacksmith shop will be
1O2x60 feet; the boiler and engine
house 42x62 feet; and the paint shop
sOx1O2 feet, all to be built Of brick
The contract for the brick and stone
work has been let to Mr.. Lock, OF
Vinton, and the filling and grading
to O'Harrah Bros, both contracts in
volve an outlay of 100000.
A mare belonging to G. F. Clark.
son, dropped a colt on the sth INST