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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Iowa's Growth.

The Hon J. b. Grinnell, in an arti-
Gle in the Montazuma Republican,
collates some interesting facts from
the newly issued census of Iowa.
We summarize some of his figures:
In population we have already
nearly doubled in ten years, having
now l,35O,544. At our State Fair
last year placed Iowa with 10000
900 bushels OF corn and 5O,OOO,OOO
bushels ahead in the production Of
these staple cereals and was squibbed
by the press in California, Minnesota,
and Illinois, and the figures 7,OOO,-
600 of corn and 100000 of wheat,
sustain my guess which was not a
random one by the figures.
We raise bushel of apples to
each man, women and child in the
State, and five bushels of potatoes to
each. The number of horses, cows
and sheep is about equal or three to
each family. And swine sold
and kept around, five millions, or
three to each family. We havca ton
of coal for each family, twenty times
the amount we had ten years ago.
The value Of our manufactures is now
thlrty-nine millions, against seven
millions of dollars in 1865. Rail
roads increased from 500 miles, IN a
decade, to 3,00O-carning over fifteen
millions, or eleven dollars to each in
habitant, two-thirds of the amount be-
ing freight. The largest earning, in
GLIDING branches, being the Burling-
ton, $4,000 per mile-Rock Island,
$4,000, and Northwestern near 900
per mile, and average on 80 roads i'll
gross, of s., l26 per mile.
This is but an ontlinc OF material
facts which justly minister to State
Pride, which are correlated to asthc-
tic advance and general culture, re.
view by the school house, college End
church, and the comforts in rural
homes, the augury of greater improve
ments when the twenty millions Of
acres of our virgin soil shall be sub
dued and yield competence for five
millions of people.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Dooryards.

No sufficient reason exists why the
rural dooryard should not be one of
the most attractive places to be
found anywhere; but Judging from
externals in the country districts, the
complaint that the farmers apprccia-
ton or cultivation of the aesthetic
seems well founded. And nowhere
is this carclessnesS and shiftlessness
more apparent than in the country
dooyards.
The woodpile is near the kitchen
door and is most meager in winter.
There is no order; heaps of ashes,
broken hoe and axe handles, tinwarc
and chips lie around. What disabled
and faded tools have not been aban-
doned in the fields occupy various
positions under trees and in corners.
They look as if they had been tumbl-
ed where they lie in great hurry,
and had not been touched since.
Some look very old; ponderous
wheels and hubs Of old carts, pieces
of harness, leather and old iron may
be found in the debris. The fences
surrounding the yard are of no single
and prevailing pattern. a few sec
tons are Of pickets with half the tops
off and frequent omissions for pass
age; then piece of board fence,
with no two boards alike, and fire.
quent saw-mill slabs. Then rem
nant of some formerly elegant fence
is set up to fill a gap. The gates are
in most cases absent or off their
hinges and leaning against the fence.
Rank burdocks and thiStles grow up
between the spokes of old wheels
and the teeth of abandoned horse
lakes. Piles of boards used to patch
fences, replace clapboards and repair
the barns lie about in confusion.
Scores of dooryards similar to this
may be seen in n days drive through
the country. Speak to the owner
about it, and he will say he has not
time to attend to those things; he is
waiting fer rainy day to straight
Gil up, WHEN 1c can WORK III lnc
fields. Now, it is no wonder that
the farmer has the reputation of be-
ing without taste or appreciation of
the beautiful and tasteful, and it is no
wonder that the farmers sons early
leave one of the most useful and
important pursuits and crowd the
city vocations in which they can
hope to earn little more than their
board and clothes. It is true that to
attempt to make art critics Of the til
lers Of the soil is vain, but this is not
necessary. 1t is surprising how far
little will go in the way OF cultivat-
ing good taste, and especially IN
beautitylng country home. a man
will fight harder to defend coy,
comfortable, thrifty-looking home
stead than for one of the torsaken-
looking ones we so often see. Hence
it is duty, not only rs means of
comfort and actual profit in increas-
ed property value, but it is duty as
a factor Of natural strength, to beauti-
fly the dooryards and renovate the
house. -Massachusetts Roughman.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Things Worth Knowing =.

AR is about SIG times lighter than
, common water.
The greatest artificial cold ever
produced is 81 Fahrenheit.
One hundred pounds of Dead Sea
water contains forty-six pounds of
salt
The mean annual depth of rain
that falls at the equator is a6 in
ches,
During the conversion of ice into
water, l4O degrees of heat are alb
sorbed.
The greatest height at which vlsi-
bic clouds ever exist does not exceed
10 mics.
The explosive force of close-con-
fined gunpowder is 81 tons to the
square inch.
Mercury freezes at-38 Fahren-
heit and becomes solid mass, NAL
leable under the hammer.
Heat rareiies air to such an extent
that it can be made to occupy $500
times the space It did before.
Sound travels at the rate of 1.l42
feet per second IN tie air, 1850 feet
in the water, 900 in castiron, 1000
in steel, $4,000 in glass, and from
4,636 to 1900 in wood.
The violence Of the expansion of
water when freezing is sufficient to
cleave a globe of copper of such
thickness as to require a force Of Is,
600 pounds to produce a like eff
feet.
Assuming the temperature of the
interior of the earth to increase uni
formly at the rate of l > tor every 40
feet, at the depth of 60 miles the de-
gree of heat would be sufficient to
fuse all known substances.
Water obstructs one-half of the
perpendicular rays of the sun in II
feet, and three-fourths in "a feet, and
less than one-thousandth Part reaches
the depth OF 200 feet; hence the
bottom of deep water is in total dark
ness.
The pressure of the atmosphere up
on every square foot of the earth
amounts to 1850 pounds. An ordi-
nary sized man, supposing his sur
face to be IA square feet, sustains
the enormous pressure of 3o,34O
pounds.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Bots In Horses.

Bots are the larvae of the horse
gad-fy { Est,'us eqruus), and are in a
condition exactly equivalent to that
Of the caterpillar or 4 moth or b tier
fly. They therefore cannot breed or
reproduce themselves in the stomach
of a horse. being imperfect insects
and incapable Of breeding. II is
easier to prevent their presence in a
horses stomach than to get rid Of
them. If the yellow nits or eggs
which may be seen upon horses
knees or shoulders in August or Sep
TENDER are washed off with warm
water, or scraped off with the edge of
a knife, the horse cannot lick them
off and carry them to their Temporal
ny resting place. Every farmers hould
learn the natural history of the in
sects and animals with which he
comes in contact; then he would
know how to treat them with pro-
priety.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28

Save hog manure now, rs 1T is es
pccially valuable from fattening hogs.
AS nearly all the nitrogen of the food
is contained in the liquids voided,
none oft should be allowed to waste.
Litter the pens with an absorbent
dry earth, or muck or cut straw
Much of the net profits of stock
comes from the manurc-hogs in
cluded- and yet not one farmer in
ten saves half the hog manure made.
This is the kind Of economy that
makes hard times. 1t is estimated
that if all the manure 4 pig makes
was saved, properly, it would add, on
an average, about two cents to the
value of each pound of pork Ohio
Farmer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Hog Cholera Cure,

Make from peach tree leaves and
twigs Gf it Is the time OF the year
when there Is no leaves use the twigs
and bark q very strong tea-don't
be afraid of your trees, but make it
very strong-now salt the tea and
thicken with bran Or meal; make it
thick as can be stirred; let it cool and
then give to each hog three plnts.
you need not repeat the dose, as one
is sufficient if you make it strong. l
use for ten gallons of mush a three
peck basket level full of leaves and
twigs. / have seen hogs cured in
this way that would not eat corn, but
by watching them, aud when they
leave drive them back, they will eat
off the mush in small quantities until
they have eaten enough to cure them.
You can give more than stated above
without danger to the hog.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
Experiment 30 Determine the Form
ofFeeding Corn Most Prof.
table in Making Pork.
Progressive Farmer.

|
The experiment made by Superin
tendent Stalker, to determine the
most economical method of turning
corn into pork, is certainly highly
important one. We cannot, OF
course, claim that a single expert
ment, however carefully conducted
can settle the question:; bu. what we
do claim, is that every consideration
calculated to give confidence in the
result was carefully fulfilled and that
the result is consequently very sug-
gcstive. Mr.. Stalker selected fifteen
hogs of the same age and breed,
nearly the same weight and condition,
prepared for the experiment by the
same feeding and treatment from
littlehood. He divided these hogs
into pens of three each, tor the first
two months, fed equal dry weights
of dry corn, soaked corn, boiled corn,
dry meal and cooked meal. Then
tor nearly two months Mr.. Stalker
continued to each pen the sumo farm
of nm, giving, however, as much as
the hogs would eat. The result OF
four months of feeding, showed that
the different forms of corn had made
per bushel the following live. wei ghts
of pork:
One bushel dry corn Is lbs. pork
One bushel soaked corn lO4 lbs.
pork.
One bushel boiled corn 10 lbs. pork
| One bushe dry meal l3 2-l5 lbs.
pork.
One bushel cooked meal 99-l5 lbs.
pork.
The experiment certainly suggests
that, to fatten hogs, dry corn is the
best form in which corn can be fed.
1t Is true dry meal produces 2-l5
per pound more pork to the bushel,
than dry corn, but the slightest in
crease would, by no means, pay the
expense of grinding. Indeed, the
experiment, so far as it goes, justifies
the ordinary practice in Iowa of
shutting up hogs whenever they have
reached their full growth and giving
them their final fattening on corn in
the ear. Beyond all question corn
is our best fattening food and it is
extremely satisfactory to know that
the least troublesome way of feeding
it, is, at the same time, the most prof
table.
But we cannot, of course, infer
that because raw corn is, on the
whole, the best fattening food, it is,
therefore, the best food for grooming
animals. Nothing is mole certain
than the fact that corn contains only
small amount Of the elements that
contribute to grorth. Hence it is
not the proper food for young animals
except when mixed OF fed alternate
ly with other kinds that contain, in
large proportion, the matters which
corn lacks. Grass or clover, ground
oats, rye or barley, boi ed potatoes,
boiled beets, skim milk and kitchen
slops; any Of these make an excellent
supplement for corn. One feeding
of corn day Is generally enough
when fed separately, with boiled roots
for the other two meals. Stock hogs
running on pasture, may be rrotitab-
ly fed a couple of ears each. once a
day. Young pigs near weaving,
should have plenty of cooked mush
made Of oat meal and corn meal, half
and half in wei ght From the day
of its birth to its maturity, every pig
whether designed for breading or for
the packer, should be keptin thrifty
growing condition and corn alone
will not answer the purpose.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28
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Put with little water into a fiat
dish and cover tightly. Heat slowly,
and do not stir while warming, as
that will make them mussey and
pasty. II they are likely to burn,
put them where there is less heat
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A correspondent Of the Country
Gentleman has this to say about
overlooking for exhibitions: 81 think
the leading breeders of short-horns,
as well as other breeds, begin to see
the folly of hampering their breeding
stock for show purposes. If an ami
NAL will not on a whole summers
pasturage look well enough for the
show ring, then the breed is scarcely
worth owning. This is the key note
to successful rearing of stock tor the
masses, and the true reason why
small breeders with limited means
have not dared to bring Their cattle
70 exhibitions OF any sort, where they
would have to compete with meal
fed animals"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28

"That was good advice an old
farmer gave to his sons: "Boys,
don't You ever spccerlatc or wait for
something to turn up. You might
just as we'll go and sit down on a
stone in the middle of a medder, with
pail 'twixt your legs and wait for a
COW to back up to you to be MIXED"
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-01-28

When young farmers wife made
her first boys pants precisely the
same before as behind, the father ex-
claimed: "Goodness! he won't know
whether he's going to school Or COM
ing home"
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GRANGE DIRECTORY.

WINTHROP GRANGE. No 611.-Meets at Win
throp on Friday before the full moon Of
each month
s. G. PIERCE. Master. S. W. RICH. Sec.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No 12l6-Meets
Tuesday on or before full moon.
}. d. RUSSELL. Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. Sll.-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. II. MESSENGER,
b. FILLMORE. Secretary Master.
BYON GRANGE No. 267. Meets at Justus Dur
KEGS, on Tuesday evening" on or after full
moon. H. NJ COUGUTRY Master,
CHAS. FERNALD. Sec.
PERRY GANGE, No 31S.-Meets at the Center
School House. in Perry Township, Tuesday
evening, on or before full moon.
E. LITTLE Sec