The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-12-07

Il
ed to be sold In Boone county, Missouri
at sa5 to $50 per head.
There Is no need Of scanning the
future for trouble. Sufficient for
the day Is the evil thereof"
Every farmer or farmers wife should
keep a soldering iron. 1t is an easy
matter to tinker all kinds of tinware,
and can fruit.
The fashionable skeletons now on
farms are an organ in the house and
. mortgage on the farm. Poor but
proud.
Evergreen branches are excellent
for winter protection Of strawberry
beds. They protect, but never smoth-
er.
1t Is universally conceded that no
State or Kingdom has been more rap
id in the improvement ofstock than
Iowa for the past three years.
DO our farmers know who are so
reckiessly plunging into debt, that
those alone who are out OF debt can go
to bed at night and dream pleasantly
of the morrow.
A good name and good credit are
better In financial point of view,
than large capital. And this Is
within the reach OF the poorest man.
IL it were not for the hog cholera,
hogs could be raised so easily that ev-
cry person would go In deep, and the
trade would be entirely ruined in two
years.
II you see farm which has been
occupied ten years and has no grove,
do not suppose 1t is owing to the shall
low soil but shallow brain.
The Davenport Democrat of Nov.
2Sd, says: The bottom has fallen out
Of the potato and onion trade. No
more shipments. This may give local
buyers chance to handle at low pric-
es. But they do say that dry rot Is
playing havoc.
The Fairfield Ledger reports hog
cholera as quite prevalent i'm neighbor-
ing counties. One man near Win
chester, Van Buren, county, has cost
over 200 head this season.
Iowa has represented in the Nation
al Grange by Gen. VIM. Daune Will
son, Secretary Carpenter, Judge Gates,
Grand Master Buchanan and wife,
and A, b. Smedley and wife, and l..
Shankland and wife.
The Patron Helper. speaking Of the
organization and membership of the
National Grange says the whole thing
savors too much of monarchial caste
and not of republican simplicity.
Every farmer can have hitehing
post, safe and secure for team, and
also scraper to clean the feet. A
neglect Of these are an index Of char
acter, and all men should SO regard
1t.
Any farmer can build q wood house,
and the saving in time and quality of
wood, will pay for the lumber in one
year. It Is a convenient place to
spend wet day, or be protected from
the storms of winter.
There appears to be slight advance
in corn at all our railroad depots. 1t
Is not brought to ship forward now,
hut there Is scarcely station in the
State but one or more are buying and
storing for an advance.
Wheat is stationary, notwithstand-
ing the deficiency In England and the
United States. But supply and de-
mand no longer regulate the markets.
or the prospects for farming in
Grundy county, the New Century
says: There is not foot Of arabic land
in the county, in spite Of the failure
Of the crops, that is not in demand for
farming purposes next year.
Prof. Swing inquiries, "What will
the poor people do to get living?"
The problem is easily solved. Go to
work. We are confident there is
plenty for all to do, If they will get out
Of the towns and cities, and be will
ling to work for such wages AS farmers
earn.
The Waterloo Reporter: Don't
use strychine as a medicine to diseased
hogs. 4 Delaware county farmer
tried the experiment and is now
mourning over their death. A Water
loo man once tried the same expert
ment with similar results"
Every farmer should be an admirer
of his own farm, and in love with his
stock, then there is pleasure in the
life Of farmer But how few have
farm or stock the owner or any one
else could admire.
There are many implements lying
about loose on the farm. If not gath
cred up they will soon be covered
with snow and cannot be found when
wanted. Prepare for the more sober
parts of winter.
Talk as much as you please about
mans superiority to the brute crea-
ton, there are instances without num-
Der where a creature passing for
man has abused a horse or an OK so
cruelty as to deserve the name of
brute, with less humanity in his ma
ture and conduct than the dumb brute
he abuses.
There is world of good advice in
the words of Sisson:-"Deeds are
fruits-words are but leaves" and it's
a vast of words to tell the hired man
or the children that such practices are
i'll hammered, and at the same time
follow them ourselves.
1t Is estimated that 10000 citizens of
Iowa attended the Centennial Expos
ition at Philadelphia. 1t is safe to
estimate the cost to each as high as
500, which will make the expendi-
ture $2,000,OOO. In this we do not es-
innate the money expended for fancy
articles and other goods, which would
be another million.
Mr.. Reynolds, Of New York, says
new tar put on fruit trees up about the
limbs, the borers will not trouble the
trees. The tar runs down over the