The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-11-30

Inc are In the Chicago National
Lire Stock Journal the cards of forty-
one Iowa short-horn breeders.
Trees, and especially evergreens, III
rightly arranged, add largely to the
value and comfort of farm and dwell
ling, aud they cost bat little--except
time to grow.
The Grundy county paper says
wheat may be considered an almost
total failure there-no more being rails
ed than the county will want for bread
and seed.
The Massachusetts, IGorH,an quotes
straw "a worth in market, in Boston,
from $40 to S2l per ton. This il more
than wheat and all is worth in Iowa.
In Iowa, farm dwellings, cattle yards
and all out-buildings should be shell
tered by evergreen windbreaks. The
pine, Norway spruce and Aust rian
pine, are hardy, rapid growers, and
cheap.
The members Of the National
Grange, just adjourned, put in two
weeks at the Palmer House. in Chi
cago.
Mr.. Bone shipped from Des Moines
county last week sixty loads Of fine
cattle, which averaged 1900 pounds
each.
The Charles City paper says A. II.
Evans, Of Rockford, Floyd county,
has made and sold 700 pounds of but
ter from six cows In the past six mos.
aside from the butter and cream used
in his family.
| \ New Hampshire farmer says ii
| costs sixty cents per bushel to raise
corn in that state, and yet he says It
| pays to raise corn.
l.. f. Allen, the great American
herd book man, says that Aldcrney,
Jersey and Guernsey stock are unques-
tionably of common origin, and owe
| their distinctive character to their
manner of breeding.
Mr.. Whitney, of Lee CO., ILL.,, has
this year sold 20o0 bushels of winter
| apples; he has pressed out 200 barrels
of cider; and has $1,000 barrels Of APP
pies still left. He has washed out of
the pomace forty-iive bushels Of apple
seed.
1t is positively stated that millions
| of gallons of California wine are TAX
ell to France and Germany. manufae-
tured by adulteration into French
wines, and brought back to the l.. s.
for sale.
The Kansas City Price CMrtat has
advices as to the prospect Of hogs in
the Northwest. In long list from
several states, we notice six counties
out of nine in southwestern Iowa re-
port shortage, one county an increase
and two the same rs last year.
Oregon bears Off the palm for grain
at the Centennial. Ii has sample of
oats yielding IS bushels to the acre,
and with stalks eight feet high; rye 81
bushels to the acre; wheat, SO bushels,
and spring wheat, 80 to 100 bushels to
the acre.
Mr.. Downing, farmer-.of Pennsyl-
vania, says: 'In our county, Chester,
our merchants and capitalists, instead
Of lending their money to Eastern far
mers at six per cent, send It to the
West and lend 1t to Western farmers
at ten per cent. Can Western farmers
pay that amount Of interest ?"
Here is caution for every county
in the state: A traveller through
Jasper county, Iowa, was passing over
a short but high bridge The team
became frightened and backed off the
bridge, which had no railing. One
child was killed and three badly hurt,
as also was the team. He sued the
county and has lately recovered a judg
ment for i,0O0.
In Grundy county, corn husking
was not half over by the 18th. Good
hands were very scarce, farmers hav-
ing to rely on small boys from the
| towns.
A writer truly says: "If we supply
the right sort of food in the right guam
tity to both animals and plants, health
| and strength result to both. This can
| not be done on a soil exhausted or
partly exhausted of some important ell
| ement. But our soil has been brought
| partially into that condition, and out
of that exhausted condition has arisen
to very considerable extent, the dis
eases which affect and afiiict humani-
| ty, domestic animals and cultivated
plants.
Mr.. Salmon, reliable veterinary
| surgeon, advises: Never attempt to
pour medicine i'm horses nose or al
low any one else to do so. Careful
experiments have shown that at least
| eight times out Of ten when medicine
is given in this way, it passes into the
air passages, causes suffocation, and
above all, pneumonia. l know of
number Of cases in which horses were
killed outright by practicing this
method of administration"
The Farm Journal says that swine
have glands OH the inside of their legs,
which serve as All outlet for the NOR
| bid fluids of the body. If these, from
any cause, become stopped, lameness
is caused, disease often ensuc4, and
often partial paralysis takes place.
The remedy is thorough scrubbing
| of the legs and orfices with warm water
containing little chloride of lime, or
soda, or of common soda. If this is
pursued until the tissues are again
opened, and act, the disability will be
| removed.
Andres Island, at the mouth Of the
San Joaquin river where it empties in-
to the Sacramento, is now the locality
where it is proposed to manufacture
sugar, syrup and oil from the water
melon. Beet syrup is onty fit for dis
tillation. The syrup from melons is
delicious. The seeds make the finest
table oil, and the refuse is good for
cattle. Taking account of SO many