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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-28
Western Hog Product OF 1856.

The Cincinnati Price Currents
twenty-seventh annual exhibit of pork
packing in the West, shows the mum.
Der of hogs packed the past winter
to have been 1880, 1876, falling off
of $4,000 compared with last year;
average net weight per hog 217
7l-1OO pounds, an increase of 7
24-1OO pounds, or 1900 per cent.
The total pounds of hogs show a fall
ing off of lO5, ls3, 4s6 net weight, or
a decrease of per cent. The aver
age yield Of all kinds of lard per hog
is 35 45-1OO lbs, an increase of II lbs;
total pounds of lard 173,O16,5sO; de-
crease of 7,364,027 lbs, equivalent to
1850 tierces, equal to % per cent. of
product. The decrease of receipts of
hogs at Eastern cities, including New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Alba
ny, Troy and Buffalo, show falling
off over 100000 for the winter, which
makes In round numbers deficiency
of 100000 hogs marketed in and
from the West during the winter
season, compared with last season. q
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Hash.

That's right, laugh. Every one
does when hash is mentioned, yet
every one likes it when properly pre-
pared and duly certified to-estab-
lished as 1t is by pledges of public
confidence - and nearly everybody
eats it. Hash is a vastly abused dish.
1t is made the scapegoat for about all
the gastronomic sins in the kitchen
calender, not to say colander.
There are not many of us who
boarded at home, when home meant
a experimenting mother in the kitch-
en- as well as elsewhere, but can re-
call the delight we felt, in those days
of innocence and a sinless stomach,
when we discovered there was hash
for breakfast. Was there anything
superior to that rare combination of
minced corn beef and potatoes as it
came steaming from the kitchen; and
have your noses ever enjoyed more
savory treat than that which emanatcd
from the maternal hash? What is
home without q mother? And what
Is mother unless she can make good
hash?
But the average boarding-hous
hash is a different affair. 1t is often
either not half chopped or else it is
chopped so much that it is mashed
into sticky, ugly-looking compound
that nobody could consider as palat-
able. Hash, like sausage, needs to
be cut, not ground, and to be good it
should be prepared over night and
stand with the seasoning in 1t, and
that seasoning is the rich point; it
must not be so hot as to burn the
palate, but it must have good sharp
taste of pepper and be as salt as pos
sible not to taste salty. If any other
seasoning is added we prefer little
sage. 1t should be put on to cook in
a hot vessel, in which a little butter
or drippings has been melted, COW
cred closely, stirred often, and only
enough water added to steam it thor
oughly, not enough to make it soupy.
Farmer.
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Best Butter-HIalfer in Berkshis r.
That is her fathers assertion, and
|, having tasted her butter, vouch for

That is her fathers assertion, and
|, having tasted her butter, vouch for
it.
"Take some BUTTER" said the far
mer, "M. makes the best butter in the
country"
l took some. The roll showed
care, and glistened like glass, and
tasted beautifully.
"What do they pay for butter in
your placer" asked the lady, in mono
tone.
81 think % and 80 cents"
"Wal," said the farmer, 81 get 40
cents. I've got an agreement with
two families III your place, to furnish
each 20 pounds of butter a week, for
five years, at 40 cents pound"
"Change in the market does not
affect us" replied the damsel, slowly
speaking.
eyer see that glaze on that but
ter?" said the farmer, proudly
''That's what sells 1t. You big folks
like that shine. I never see any
only my butter that was glazed"
"IIow is that done?'' l asked.
"Well," said the lady, 81 am not
adverse to telling, now that we've
made this five years. agreement
Formerly, my success was a mystery,
but now l don't mind telling"
l always find it good Iolicy to
flatter old maids, and so | expressed
a desire to know how she made and
glazed her butter. The truth is,
was not highly interested, but it is
excellent to hear the discourse of a
real old maid, you know!
81 go by rule" she said, artlessly
lingering bean. "My milk set just
two inches deep; my cream | skim
the third day; | churn Friday; my
cream is just so hot. In five minutes
it comes. I then wash out the but
termilk. 1t stands in the bowl till
night. then make it into balls and
stamp them. They are spread in
rows on wire-cloth shetland are
done. L have usually twenty-five
pounds at time. then glaze each
ball, as you see this one is, to polish
them.
''The way to do is this: l take a
pint of water and Dissolve in it tea
spoonful of sugar. l have this hot
My butter is on a wire shelving.
Then | turn it Oh each ball. When
it touches the butter it just melts the
outside, and when it cools it is just
ICY"
She talked by jerks, and very fast.
This is the first | have heard of "glaz-
ed BUTTER" and when saw the CLASSY
polish on the rolls, l resolved they
were worth forty cents.-Berhshire
GLASS; Eagle.
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Breeding Horses.

An old breeder of Tennessee, Geo.
Il. Altman, in the Rurdl lSun, gives
his ideas of improving stock. He
says:
l beg and urge each and all to
patronize only pure-bred males, and
never q mongrel. While my taste
would be to patronize the thorough
bred stallion (the best of all purposes
that horses are used for), yet the
present indications are that the trot-
ter is the coming horse for the mas
ses to handle. ''Blood will tell'' in
everything, from chicken to a man.
If you propose to breed trotters, or
mules, you want a dash of blood to
give the produce the staying qualities
desirable on the farm or on the turf
l prefer early foals, especially if
thoroughbred, A few weeks differ
ence tells on the race course, or in
the fair ring. They go through the
first winter much better than the
later ones. Flllies which have never
produced should be bred SO as to
drop their foals the middle of April
or May. The trouble with all young
dams is to give milk enough to their
offspring; hence the necessity of hav-
ing the produce drop when there is
plenty of luxurious grasses. 1 hold
that the only true policy is to breed
tho host have fbom wo11 oora1 for
The days of pay or pleasure in hand
ling inferior stock are numbered
among the things that were. SO Of
half-fed and poor accommodations
for the comfort of your stock. A few
good ones. well cared for, afford
more pleasure and profit than a host
of inferior ones fed on shocks and
promises. 1 find grass the cheapest
feed I can grow for stock, and a
meadow to pay the best of any on
the farm.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-28

Some one, not long ago, started the
idea that sulphuric acid would total
ly destroy stumps. An augur hole
was to be bored in the top, filled
with acid and plugged. In day or
two the stump would be eaten up,
even to the very roots. The expert
ment was tried and failed, only a
portion of the stump, at the top being
affected. The following method is
recommended by the Scientific Ame-
rican:: In the autumn bore q hole
one or two inches in diameter, &C
cording to girt of the stump, vertical
ly in the center of the latter, and al
most eighteen inches deep. Put into
it from one to two ounces OF saltpeter;
fill the hole with water and plug up
tight. In the ensuing spring take
out the plug and pour in about one
half a gallon Of kerosene oil and ig-
mite it. The stump will shoulder
away without blazing to the very ex-
tremity of the roots, leaving nothing
but ashes.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-28
Cieopatra's Needles.
From Scientific American.

FROM SCltHllHC AlHtIlCan
OF the many monuments which at
one period of history rendered Alex
andria, in Egypt, the grandest city in
the world, after Rome, but few relics
remain beyond the column known as
Pompey's Pillar and the two obelisks
called Cleopatra Needles. Of the
latter, one is still standing; the other
lies PROSTATE, half buried in the sand,
not many feet from the sea shore, its
fall having probably been caused by
an earthquake. These curious monu-
mcnts measure 1916 feet IN length,
and are supposed to have been made
during the reign of Thothmcs III,
about 1000 years before Christ, an
epoch when ancient Egyptian art
vigorously hourishcd. They were
transported to their present site by
Rameses H., from Heliopolis. No
hieroglyphics known were more
clearly cut and defined than those in
scribed on the sides; but since the
obelisks have been In no wise pro-
tectcd from the weather, the beauty
of the carving has yielded greatly to
climatic influences, and we can only
obtain an idea Of its former perfcc-
ton by comparison with those ODE
lisks which have been transported to
Rome and Paris, and there carefully
guarded for many years.
The PROSTATE monument belongs
to England, and has been the prop
erty of that country since the begin
ming of the present century, when
Mehemet Ali made it present to the
English Government. Up till quite
recently, however, the British author
tiles have not concerned themselves
regarding the stone, for the reason
that, its inscriptions having become
SO impaired, Eyptologist reported it
as of little value or scientific interest.
Since the completion of the Thames
embankment, the project has been
preached of claiming the monument,
transporting it to London, and sitting
it up in some commanding position.
The Kheiive of Egypt has acknowl-
edged England's right to carry off
the obelisk when she pleascs, and the
probabilities are that, sooner or later,
transportation will be effected, that
is, as soon as some one suggests
wholly feasible plan for overcoming
the engineering difficulties involved
in the operation. The last time an
obelisk went to sea (that of Luxor,
now located at Paris, It's behavior
was not of the best; for in heavy
weather its vast weight seriously
strained and nearly caused the foun-
dering Of the vessel in which 1t had
been slowed.
The most recent plan for shipping
the Needle that has come to our
knowledge was suggested last sum-
mer, and seemed to find considerable
favor at Tie hands of tho engineers,
though we have not heard of it hav-
ing been adopted. This was to fasten
wooden beams around the stone until
its quadrilateral form was changed
to a cylinder. 1t might then be rolled
over a temporary road to the sea-
The. wooden envelope, it was consid-
cred, would diminish the specific
gravity OF the whole bundle so that
it would float in the water; and so it
might be lowed to England, bcached
on the shores Of the Thames River,
and rolled up to it's site.
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GRANGE DIRECTORY.

WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 611.-Meets at Win
throp on Friday Oh or before the full moon of
each month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master S,W. RICH. Sec.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216-Meets
Tuesday on or before full moon.
J. ID. RUSSELL. Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. s11-Night of
regular meeting on Friday evening" on or before
full moon, meet at Warehouse Hall
" w. BUNCE, Master.
P. B. SCHEMERHORN. Secretary.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No 52s, Meets ON
Wednesday, on or before full moon
b. DU BOlS. Master. E. j. WIGG. Sec.
SUPERIOR GRANGE No. 352.-Meets Saturday
on or before full moon, at No. School House
Hazleton twp. T. MESSENGER,
b. FILLMORE. Secretary. Master
BYON GRANGE No. 267. Meets at Justus Dur
KEGS, on Tuesday evening, on after a full
moon. Ii. A. FREDERICK Master
FRANK FOX, Sec.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-04-28

Moths will work into carpets in
rooms that are kept dark and warm,
in winter as well as in summer.
Before laying down the carpet pour
strong alum water about the floor,
and occasionally sprinkle dry salt
over the carpet before sweeping.
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