The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-12-21

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In cold weather currying horaes and
colts h just - important - feeding.
Small and young svergresns are
better with little protection the frst
winter AFTER setting.
Rabbits are only nuisance to farm
en. Now, let the boys 60 for them,
and thus nave the young fruit trees.
From the Reporter We leern that
they have four pork packing houses In
Waterloo. A good thing for town and
county.
CHATTING is . science easily learned,
and any farmers boy should under
stand It. Root grating 10 done In the
winter when 1t IL too cold to do any
thing else.
Ifthere are no good springs near the
barn, wells should be dug convenient
", and supplied with wind mills to
pump water for stock, and save them
nom long drives in the stormy wealth
cr.
It IL stated by the Concrete del I'oAo
aSpanish paper published at st. Louis
that tomatoes planted around peach
plumb andapricot trees, INTELLECTUALLY
prevent the attack of the curculio.
Minnesotians think they have dis
covered the destined exterminator Of
the grasshopper. in the shape Of a
small red louse-like parasite, that does
not hurt a full-grown insect, but de-
voures its eggs like fun.
Winter is on US with all its severity.
1t will now require all the care and
energy of the farmer to feed and pro
tect his stock. They mus; be pro-
tected from wind and cold and fed
with suitable food for such 4 vigorous
climate.
There Is danger that not only hogs
bat sheep will crowd and heat in pens.
This must not be permitted under any
circumstances. Many of the comforts
oe bed and warm fires must now be
sacrificed to the care of domestic ami
mails.
The reliable correspondent r. F. l.,
OF the Country Gentleman, writing
from Champaign, H., after visiting
and carefully viewing sixty counties
OF Illinois, decides that the crop Of
corn in Illinois this year will not
average over twenty bushels per acre,
while the Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture estimates it a. thirty to
the acre.
A writer of observation has this hint
to farmers living near towns and sta
tons: ITO see good farming. large
crops and the best improvements, one
must get seven or eight miles away
from railroad. or at least railroad
station. Where there is easy oppor-
tunity to reach the nearest railroad
station, the average farmer il pretty
sure to visit town daily and spend
large share Of hi. time there In bad
weather."
The farmers sons who read the
most papers and books, are the bright
est boys in the neighborhood, take the
lead in debating societies, sooner as
sumo leading position in society, and
are frequently promoted to the most
honorable positions in the Govern
ment.
A farmer says: After the family
soap has been made in the spring: the
grease that accumulates and il laid
aside during the summer, often gets
maggoty. To avoid this, the follow
ing IL good plan: Have kettle
full Of I've, and throw all bacon rind.,
ETC., into this kettle. and when fall
comes you will be surprised at the
nice lot of soft soap you will have;
and even Ii a rat falls. in. he will be
changed into soap just the same.
The Producer makes the following |
Of the arrival of Norman horses OF |
ut Ames: within few weeks. Mr.. |
Mccarthy has returned second time
from Europe, bringing four Norman
horses OF remarkable development |
and beauty. Mr.. NJ, whose judgment |
In such matters is infallible, selected |
these stations after a careful inspec-
ton Of a large number Of the best |
specimens that could he found in !
France.
Geo. +. Warning, the author of the |
ogden Farm Papers" in the Ayri-
cu'turist gives this direction relative
to the treatment Of eow:-For at
least mouth before calving she
should have only hay and hay Of or |
binary quality at that; during the last
two weeks the poorest hay and straw
should be substituted. and after the
cali is dropped she should have for
twenty four hours little more than air
Itself, and then warm bran mash
After thi1 IL. may have a little hay.
and after another twen,y-iour hours
it is safe 10 begin gradually inerens-
ing the food until AT tho end OF the
first week she is up to her fall rations
again.
The Waterloo Reporter gives ac-
counts of various deaths of cattle in
Black Hawk township supposed to be
killed by smut or bunt on corn. This
fungi on corn is probably not poison,
but indigestible, and il olstructs and
clogs the manifold Of the stomach of
the animal in some way 10 cause dis
ease and death.
II is supposed by many that il is not
% important to give cattle, horses and
hogs, water a. free Iueltly and regu-
larry now "a in the warm weather.
This is a mistake When eating dry
food they need more, but its tempera-
ture should not be below forty-eight
degrees.
The Secretary Of the State Agricul-
tural Society states that there are about
4O, O07 acres in artificial groves in Iowa,
There are about 200 900 in native TIM
Der, and this shows that only the one
hundred and fiftieth part of the State
is in natural and artificial timber.
The Producer gives the following
facts relative to fine stock breeding in
Story county: I'm the Improvement
of their live stock the citizens OF Ne