Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-10-18
Estate REGISTER l

q colt four months old which weighs
SOS lbs.
Clover seed is down, selling at
Philadelphia as low as ten cents per
pound.
Grape vines can now be thorough
ly pruned, and covered or protected
for the winter. Earth is best.
The Texas cattle fever has again
made its appearance at Toiona, Ill.
Excitement and alarm are great.
The Assessors statistical report for
the State of Indiana shows short
age on hogs of ESQ less than last
year.
In many of the eastern States at
least one-half the apple crop will go
TO waste, being too much to be taken.
care of. The indianapolis, Indiana,
vinegar factory has purchased 10000
bushels, at fourteen cents per bushel,
to make cider vinegar.
Asparagus and pie plant beds should
now be cleaned off and covered three
inches thick with rich manure.
Take care of the calves. Fall rains
and SHOWS are not favorable for those
which constitute the future hope of
the farmer.
Strawberry beds should be mulch
ed for winter protection, and the fur
rows run so as to turn all water like
ly to stand about them.
To have good garden next year,
cover it now with a heavy coat of
rich, well-rotted manure, and spade
1t In deeply and thoroughly.
Dahlias should be left in the
ground for a few days after the tops
are killed to ripen the bulbs. Then
dig, label, and store away carefully
In the cellar,
This is the month to put out hya-
cinths, tulips, ETC., for next spring
Towering. After planting about
four inches deep, mulch with coarse
straw or rubbish.
Beets, carrots and parsnips, if
gathered for winter use, should be
stored in the cellar in damp sand.
If exposed to the air, they wilt,
and are almost useless.
In this climate blackberries and
need winter protection.
Either potato vines or evergreen
limbs are good. They need but little
to protect them.
We hope and trust all good farm
ers have saved ample q antilles of
seed corn for next year. 1t can be
done yet, but not as good as that
which was carefully selected month
ago.
1t is in order now to plant wal
nuts, butternuts, acorns, hickory
nuts, etc. Most of these will not
bear transplanting, so the nuts
should be planted where they are in
tended to grow.
The Hamilton Freeman Of Sept.
10Th says: "Wheat is now selling
for go to rs cents per bushel. Live
hogs bring from 81 to s. per hun
dred. The prices on both articles
have an upward tendency"
The burning of the Patrons wheat
elevator at Marengo, Iowa, five
weeks ago, was a serious loss to the
Order there. Loss, $1,000; insurance,
81 400. Supposed to have been set
on fire by tramps. q,
Tender bulbs, such as gladiolas,
tube roses, ETC., should be carefully
packed in some dry place, from frost,
for winter. How to prepare them
for winter and spring Towering will
be given at another time.
The Hamilton Freeman says young
grasshoppers are Matching out in
county, and believes this
indicates that they will generally
hatch out this fall, and preiudes the
of their doing much dam
age in that region next spring.
The doubt and anxiety in the
minds of many farmers is over as TO
the corn crop. In large portion of
the State, where planted early and
carefully, there is an
crop Of hard corn. But at
the same time there are large guam
titles of soft corn, from late planting.
In digging potatoes it is important
to have them dried before going to
cellar or pit. But for this purpose
they should be exposed to the sun or
light as limited a time as possible.
A days sun greatly Injuries them.
Nor should they be exposed to the
light Tor any lenght OF time. n uarh
place for potatoes always.
J. B. Phillips, State Commissioners
Of Statistics Of Minnesota, from care
full examination puts the wheat crop
of that State for 1875 at 3l,000,000
bushels, and the crop for 1876 at l5,-
sl3,578 bushels. He also estimates
the corn crop for 1875 at 7,lsj,268
bushels, and the crop for 1876, 3Ol,-
sl4 bushels only. This is gloomy
up for our northern sister.
With the opening English market
for our choicest beeves, and with the
best herds of scalawags from Texas,
Arkansas, and Colorado which feed