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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Blue Grass.

The question is often asked, "What
is the proper time and mode of SOW
ing bluegrass seed, the quantity per
acre, soil, &c.?" Having some ex-
perience myself, and the past few
years travelled in the bluegrass sec
tons, and conversing with those
familiar with SAID grasses, I will give
in substance what have learned.
LIST. The me.-Almost any time
of the year will do when the ground
is moist, or just before a rain or
snow. But the best time is in the
spring, from the last of February to
the last OF April, or early in the fall
either, with or without another crop.
If sown on other crops, SOW imme-
diately after the crops are narrowed
in; If sown on pasture land or old
meadow, harrow thoroughly with
sharp harrow.
I'd. Mode.-If sown when snow is
on the ground, mix the seed with its
bulk of damp unleached ashes, or
half its bulk of land-plaster; rub the
mixture thoroughly together before
sowing. The plaster and ashes will
benefit the land and make it more
convenient to SOW. If three times
the ashes and plaster is put on after
the seed is sown, it will be good
investment.
Sd. Quantity.-Depends on circum-
stances. If on mellow ground and
brushed in, three-fourths of bushel
per acre will do. If not brushed in
or on hard ground, full one bushel or
more is required. 1t is a good plan
to sow a half-bushel of blue grass
with a few quarts Of timothy or
clover, or both. After the two last
have given out, the blue grass has
possession with a good sod and root.
4th. Soil.-The best is limestone
soil, or loan with clay subsoil; but it
will do on any kind of land except
poor sandy soil, or land that water
stands on a greater portion of the
year. Red-top is the best for wet
land.
Experience has proven that land
well-set to blue grass will yield
double the pasturage of our common
grasses and is more nutritious
Stock fatten faster, and butter and
meat have a better flavor, and it af-
fords better and more pasture in win
ter.
Some theorist thinks the sky-blue
grass is the same as what we call
June-grass. A mistake. June-grass
is light and almost worthless, and
dies out more or less in summer, while
blue grass is heavier and lives the
year round and for years in the fu-
ture.
The writer had the privilege last
summer of seeing seven different va
rieties of blue grass in Cincinnati, as
it was sent in from the fields in
green state, tied up in lunches; some
were much better than others. There
fore, those purchasing seed should
know where and what they are buy
ing.-A. H. Wrenn, IN GHead, d.,
Telegraph.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

rem. False education is the chief
fountain OF the misery we are contem-
plating. We never knew an indus
trious family who had the DISPOSE.
ton for intellectual pleasures and the
means of gratifying it in a we'll Sc
lected library and a number of good
papers who were unhappy. To these
let music be added, with some simple
games for amusement, and home be-
comes dearer spot than the world
can present. And from such Il home
will go forth into the world the no.
blest types of men and women. The
farmer who makes no provision for
this order of happiness for his family
will be a sore looser in the long run
"a looser when it will be impossible
for him to find remedy"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Fretting.

One fretter can destroy the peace
of whole family, can disturb the
harmony of neighborhood, can un-
settle the councils Of cities and him
der the legislation of nations. He
who frets is never the one who
mends, who heals, who repairs evils;
more, he discourages, enfeebles, and
too often disables those around him,
who, but for the gloom and depres-
sion of his company, would do good
work and keep up brave cheer. The
effect upon a sensitive person Of the
mere neighborhood of fretter is in.
dcscribablc. 1t is to the soul what a
cold, icy mist is to the body-more
chilling than the bltterest Storm
And when the fretter is one who is
beloved, whose nearness of relation
to us makes his fretting at the wea-
Their seem like personal reproach to
us, the misery of it becomes indeed
lnsupportable. Most men call fret
ting a minor fault-a foible, and not
vice. There is no vice except
drunkenness which can so utterly
destroy the peace and happiness of a
home.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
GRANGE DIRECTORY.

GRANGE. No 611.-Meets Mt Win
throp on Friday on or before the full moon of
each month. VI
S. G. PIERCE. Master. Sw RICH Soc
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 12t6.-Meets
Tuesday on or before full moon
J. ID. RUSSELL Master
GItEEEEf GROVE GRANGE, No 11.-Night of
regular meeting on Friday evening" on or before
tuli moon, meet at Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master
2. 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. 8 School House
Hazeton twp. 7. MESSENGER,
b. FILLMORE. Secretary Master
BYON GRANGE No. 267. Meets at Justus Oar
KEGS, on Tuesday evening, on or after full
moon. II. A. FREDERICK Master
FRANK FOX. Sec.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Gardening for Ladies.


u T. CEaTksoH. III State heSisler
Now is the exact time to COM
mence the flower garden. But If
you do not intend to attend to it
neutrality-suspicious., train and pro-
tect them-let them alone. Do not
make great parade in sending to
the scotsman for supplies, hire an
ignorant gardner, and then imagine
you arc great lover of flowers.
Many of our friends start out with
very good resolutions in the spring,
but before the hot days of June the
beds are hidden in weeds, and the
ground baked hard enough to make
an adobe house for greaser. But
we beg of you to start out with a
choice selection of seeds, but no
more than you are determined to
take care of throughout the season.
Many thousands of young ladies
who are trying to be musicians who
will always be mere bores to their
frieuds in this branch of female ac-
complishments, some of whom might
be most interesting in botany or
geology.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Fast Walking Horses.

The best gait a horse has is the
fast walk. A slow walking horse is
an abominatlon. Who has patience
with such horse? If you ride him
or drive HIM, he exhausts your patti
ence. If he Is used to plough or
harrow, or go on the road he mopes
along at a snail's pace. He does
only about half the work of a rapid
walker. If time is money, you make
money because you save time by
having horse that walks fast.
Breeders should pay attention to
this matter. In selecting a stallion
to breed from, by all means select
one that can walk fast. A slow
walking stallion will be likely to get
slow walking colts; while the stallion
that has long, rapid, spirited stride,
will be likely to beget with Il similar
action.
Then, there is a great deal in breed
ing to a horse with spirit and ambi-
ton. These cold-blooded horses
will beget cold-blooded colts. The
nearer you approach the thorough
bred, even for obtaining fast walk
er, the better. There is game there,
and spirit, and endurance, and STAN
ina, and style. There are the neat,
bonny heads, the prominent eyes, the
small eyes, the capacious nostrils, the
large lungs and chest, the well de-
veloped muscles, the bones as dense
AS ivory.
Even for walkers, then, get the
nearest to thoroughbred possible, and
the same for trotters, and, of course,
the same for runners. You have
then horses fit for any company, and
for any purpose-to haul the plough,
or buggy, or carriage, to carry you
upon their backs. Breed large fine
mares to thoroughbred horses and
you will get colts that you will not
be ashamed to have your friends see.
-Colnan's Rural World.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

ed, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the BULLETIN
are requested to- write for It,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

A Nevada sheep man, who had
tried and succeeded with sheep. said:
"Sheep are better than Government
bond; you can tear off coupon
every six months half as big as the
bond, and the bond is lett as big as
it was"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12

We must row with the oars that we
have, and as we cannot order the
wind, we are obliged to sail with the
wind that God gives.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
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Tears are due to human misery.
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The Dubuque Times.
PRESIDENTIAL YEAR!
CENTENNIAL YEAR.
" LARGEST PAPER In IOWA."

Twenty years ago the DUBUQUE TIMES sprang
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and upward until it has reached the foremost rank
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and IL now confessed the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-05-12
Only Republican Daily in the North
Half Of Iowa.

its widest and greatest circulation is thus logically
attested by this fact to say nothing Of the
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-11-02
HORTICU 1t u r A L
BY ]. RosENBERaER s. SON.
Pr0prietors Of the Maiden Rock M,
cprjpc

Proprietors of the Maiden Rock Nur-
series.
FAIL. CARE OF YOUNG ORCHARDS This is
a very important subject for amateur
orchardists, especially those who are
just beginning to cultivate the differ
ent varieties of fruits.
Many set ont their trees and think
that completes all the obligations they
owe to their orchards. But how do
their dreams dissipate after a year or
two, as the trees, after fighting hard
for life against adverse circumstances,
finally give up the ghost, and disap-
pear. ThereupOn they declaim against
those who sold them the trees, and the
uncertainty and unprofitableness of
fruit culture generally.
Now is the proper time to prepare
the orchard for the winter. Orchards
that were set out last spring, as well as
orchards two or three years old, should
have dirt, and not manure, or any SUBJ
stance of that nature, thrown around
the trunk of each tree, to the hight
of six inches, and forming cone,
sloping off from the tree all around for
a foot or more. The object of using
dirt instead of manure is that the dirt
will thaw out in the spring and permit
the sap to start from the roots i'll con-
nection with the circulation of the sap
in the top. But manure does not per-
NIT of this combined action.
Ii would also be of advantage to
stick a piece of board OF barrel stave
ntO the ground on the south side of
each tree to protect the trunk of the
tree from the scorching rays of the
spring sun. This should be done be-
fore the ground freezes.
In this connection it might be well
to make few suggestions in regard to
the care of grape vines.
1t is not absolutely necessary to pro-
tect grape vines in the winter, but we
have learned by experience that il
pays us to protect our vines, which we
do as follows -
First, we carefully take down ouI
vines, placing them on the ground
then we cover their entire length with
dirt from three to six inches deep, and
then leave them till spring.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-11-02
EsDAILE.


The public school will commence Nov. 18th
Several new families have moved into town
lately.
James Youman has purchased the Desso
property.
}. Gillespie has men at work laying the
foundation walls to new brick house.
A. Mumlord has opened a saloon in this
place. They granted him license a short
time since.
ID. w. Morgan has been appointed Town
Clerk in place of w. II. Alley who has re-
moved to Martel.
The Ishem property has been decided to the
town. 1t will make an excellent town
hall and clerks office
Political affairs receive due attention from
all parties. Look ont for a large Republican
majority from this town.
Every one should call and examine that
large stock ofdry goods, ready-msde clothing,
hats and caps, boots and shoes, hardware
etc, which the Mcdonald Bros. offer so cheap
for cash only.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-11-02
LOCAL CORR EsPON
TRINBELLR.


There is some talk about q town-house. 1t
is much needed, lin fact a positive necessity.
and should be located as near the center of
the town as possible.
ofice-seekers are plenty as angle-worms
after summer shower,-every one reporting
his chances good. We shall he better posted
about noon, Nov. Sth.
Rumor has it that T. H. Ives and j. &. But
ton, of Prescott, are to address the patriots
of Trimbelle at the village school-house on
Friday evening, Oct, 81.
The travelling public will he glad to learn
that J. X. Bardon has opened hotel at the
old stand of VIM. Preston, where the hungry
can find food and the weary rest.
Passing Huot's old stand on Saturday last,
we counted 10 teams in waiting for grists.
Our worthy miller, Mr.. Havilandt, reports
over 80 grists received during the day. Hon
est toll and good grinding tells.