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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
Some Gentleman Farmers.

Secretary Evarts' Vermont farm is
said to exhaust the best part of his in
come. He has 20 head Of cattle, 200
sheep, 16 horses and % swine The ex-
tent of land is 800 acres. Last year 200
tons Of hay were cut, costing the proprl
etor not much more than double the
market price. More than 1000 bushels
of corn were raised at an estimate loss
of so ceuts a pound, and, therefore, it
ought to be of good quality. His pork
is estimated at 20 cents pound, and
chickens at $3 pair.
Beecher last year raised about $1,000
bushels of onions on his Peekskill farm
They cost him $50 bushel, according
to estimate, and as the market in this
city was 81, any one can see how much
he made Beecher can send beef to the
New York market at 80 cents a pound
and can raise oats at as low mark as
50 bushel His butter is reckoned at
$1.25 a pound and his eggs at IS cents a
Dozen He cleared $4,000 by lecturing
last winter, and if he maintains such an
income he will be able to continue farm
ing.
Cough lectures five times week, his
fee being $500. He has farm in Wor-
cester, which at one time contained 115
acres. He has no children, but his ex
penses are very heavy, and to bring mat
ters in snug shape, he sold part of his
land and reduced the farm to l23 acres,
which is as extensive as his income will
admit A few years ago his wife, who
was Yankee girl, undertook to raise
fancy fowls, which some say are very
profitable. She got up very nice varl-
ETY., and at rather reasonable expense,
for the Shanghais did not cost more than
$75 pair. The Cochin Chinas were a
little cheaper, and bantams could be
rated at from $25 to $40. After stock
ing his place with these rare birds.
Cough, it is said, found that if they
were to be kept up he would
be obliged to lecture on Sundays as
we'll as on week days to make a living
When it costs $15 to winter chicken, a
man wants a good income. The. system
was, therefore, changed; the fowls were
abolished and regular crops were tried
with decided success AS long as Cough 5
rye did not cost more than So per bush
el, and the other crops are kept at an
equally reduced rate, his present income
will enable him to live in a very decent
manner There is nothing like a farm
ing life for men who have plenty OF mo-
ney.-Neu York Letter to Rocheste,
| Democrat.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
Farm Economy.

At the present time, under the pre-
vailing depressing circumstances affect
ing all trades and business, it becomes
the farmer to practice economy in all
his farm operations, for upon the pros
perity of farmers all other branches of
industry are equally dependent. But it
we'll becomes us that we rightly construe
the meaning of the term economy: it is
too frequently construed as parsimony,
which is often very far from true econo-
my. My idea of the meaning of econo-
my in connection with warm affairs is
something as follows: JudiciOus dispo-
sition or arrangement of all our work
yet liberal and frugal management of all
our affairs. | am aware that there is an
apparent contradiction in my definition
yet seeming one only when rightly
construed. All necessary labor should
be arranged and Systematically applied
with the utmost frugal liberality While
practicing liberality, every item should
be made to do execution" to tell" in
common parlance.
Taking this view, it would be false
economy not to provide sufficient and
suitable help to cultivate our lands and
do all necessary farm work, together
with making judicious permanent i'm
provements.. Tospend unnecessary time
and labor in accomplishing any given re-
suit to grow any crop without good and
thorough preparation, as well as full cul-
ture; to allow our farms, from any cause
to deteriorate in actual or intrinsic val
ne; to spend unnecessary time and labor
in merely DISCRIMINATING weeds, while we
should subdue them to the extent of
their not subduing our crops or their
value; to curtail in the products Of the
farm in the aggregate, is not economy.
Rather, economy would teach us to az
range for and so cultivate our lands as
to produce the greatest amount of pro-
duets at the lowest possible cost Of labor
and fertility. Increased products from
the minimum Of previous cost must be
the rule in order to attain success in
farming. When farm products are low,
what is wanting in price must be made
up by economical culture and increased
products
| might add that economy will teach
us to provide good and suitable farm
tools and all implements of husbandry,
for without them labor cannot be eco
nomically applied. Only that stock
should be kept which will produce the
greatest profit on the investment, and
keep; non productive stock and invest
ments should be kept down to the mini
mum rate or amount. Deal literally
with your stock and land, if you would
have them deal literally with you.-W
H. White IN Country Gentleman
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
To Make Butter Hard.

An English butter maker of large ex-
perience, who is now on visit to this
country for the purpose of looking over
our cheese and butter dairies, gives us
the following information concerning a
method in practice among the best but
ter makers of England for hardening or
rendering butter firm and solid during
hot weather: Carbonate Of soda and
alum are used for the purpose, made in
to powder For twenty pounds of but
ter one teaspoonful of carbonate Of soda
and one teaspoonful of powdered alum
are mingled together at the time Of
churning and put into the cream. The
effect of this powder is to make the but
ter come firm and solid, and give it a
clean, sweet flavor. 1t does not enter
into the butter, but its action is on the
cream, and it passes off with the butter
milk. The ingredients of the powder
should not be mingled together until re-
quired to be used, or at the time the
cream is in the churn ready for churn-
ing.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
White-HOuse WhiteWash.

The following recipe, which is fire.
quently inquired after, is given for the
famous whitewash with which the Pres
idential mansion is adorned:
Take one-half bushel of nice unslack
ed lime, slack it with boiling water;
cover it during the process to keep in
the steam. Strain the liquid through a
fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a
peck of salt, previously dissolved in
warm water; three pounds of ground rice
boiled to a thin paste; one-half pound
Spanish whiting and one pound Of clean
glue which has been previously dissolv-
ed by soaking it well, and then hang it
over a slow fire in small kettle within
a larger one filled with water. Add five
gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir
it well and let it stand few days COW
cred from dust. 1t should be put on
hot, and for this purpose it can be kept
in kettle on portable furnace. About
a pint of this mixture will cover yard
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
80 TT VI ~ D.rORE THE PUBLIC.
e. =. MCLANE'S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

HE countenancc is pale and leaden-
colored, with occasional flushes, or
circ,lmscribed spot on one or both
checks ; the eyes become dull the pu-
pills dilatc; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower cyclid the nose is ir-
ritated, swclls, and sometimes bleeds;
Il swelling of the upperlip occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears an unusual secretion of
saliva Shiny or fi,rred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning !;
appetite variable, sometimes vora-
cious, with a gnawing sensation of the
stomach, at others, entirely gone
fleeing pains in the stomach; occa-
sonal nausea and vomiting; violent
pains throughout the abdomen bow
els irregular, at times costive stools
Shiny; not unfrequently tinged with
blood belly swollen and hard urine
turbid respiration occasionally diff
cult, and accompanied by hiccough;
cough sometimes dry and convulsive;
uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grind
ing of the teeth !; temper variable, but
generally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DIR. c. MCLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
i'll any form it is an innocent prepara-
ton, not capable Of doing the slight
est imiHryto the most tender infant.
The genuine DIR. MCLANE's YER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of c.
McLANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
Good Signs.

Notwithstanding there is an average
crop of wheat now being harvested, we
learn from implement men that not half
as many reapers have been sold this
year as formerly GlibtOngued agents
have not been able to sell so many to
farmers who did not need them. The
frequent failure Of the wheat CROP and
the more frequent failure of remunera-
tive prices for grain after it was raised,
have induced farmers to study economy.
Old machines have been repaired 9th
ers have joined with their neighbors
thereby saving in machines and in har-
vest hands. These are good signs.
Nor have the farmers this year been
deluded with the idea that they will
have immense crops and will receive
high prices, and consequently could buy
more luxuries and more organs, and pay
after harvest. They have concluded to
wait and see what the result will be
when they get their grain ticket at the
warehouse. They have learned that a
heavy demand for wheat does not al
ways bring them high prices. Hence
the farmers are wisely moving cautious
ly, repairing old machinery, mending up
their dilapidated garments, and will wait
at least another year for the fine carri-
age A few failures are taking place
with farmers as well as bankers, who
were too fast, liveg too hige, and con-
tracted heavy debts on doubtful future
large receipts. There is but little croak
ing this year, nor are there any exultant
shouts over the prospective crops
They have concluded in many cases that
if they fortunately have remunerative
crop, they will spend the proceeds pru-
IDENTIFY They propose to keep out OF
debt, stunning the horrible nightmares
of debt or duns, and striving to make
the constable's occupation as poor as
possible. These are the true signs OF
coming prosperity. Merchants think it
is revival Of times when they are sell
ling large amounts of goods, much on
credit This is really the beginning of
trouble, and the best signs we have now,
are that merchants are complaining that
farmers are economizing and buying lit
tie or nothing. But we hope that our
fellow citizens will not be guilty Of such
foolish and inconsistent extravaganza as
contracting debts on the delusive hopes
of large crops and high prices. They
seldom come together, and many of the
citizens of Iowa can testify that they
seldom come singly, either. But SO long
as the farmers keep out Of debt and
trade cautiously there is competence
and contentment for nearly every one
who makes wise improvement OF his
time.-G F. Garrison, IN Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10

upon the outside of house, if properly
applied. Fine or coarse brushes may be
used according to the neatness of the
job required. 1t answers as we'll as oil
paint for wood, brick or stone, and is
cheaper. 1t retains it's brilliancy for
many years There is nothing of the
kind that will compare with it, either
for inside or outside work. Coloring
matter may be added of any
shade desirable except green, for which
there is no material that can be used
with lime. Spanish brown will make
reddish pink when stirred in, more or
less deep according to quantity. A del
icate tinge of this is very pretty for in
side walls. Finely pulverised common
clay, well mixed with Spanish brown,
makes a reddish stone color; yellow
ochre stirred in makes a.yellowish wash,
but chrome goes further, and makes a
color generally esteemed prettier. 1t is
best to try experiments on a single and
let it dry.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10

In the construction of their stables,
some of our best Virginia farmers keep
separate rooms or stalls for their work
horses. These contain no stalls, but the
horses are all kept promiscously togeth-
er in the same room After they have
become accustomed to each other they
will not fight Horses that are kept in
this way will learn to behave very dis
creetly towards each other. Eeach one
will select his own place of feeding, and
he will scarcely ever trespass upon the
rights of his neighbor. There are two
very decided advantages to this plan
First, the horse will be able to select
his bed, and thus make himself more
comfortable Second, the excrements
will be uniformly distributed over the
floor of the stable, and not all dropped
in the same place, as when the horses
are confined to narrow stalls. When
stalls are provided they should be wide
and roomy, so that the horse can turn
round and change his position at pleas
ure When the stalls are narrow and
the horse is haltered therein, the excre-
ments are all dropped in the same place,
and, in consequence, much of the liquid
excrements are leaked out.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
Learning to Plow.

Probably every person in their first
can appreciate the perplexities of cit
izen Of Davis county, who rehearses his
troubles in the following graphic pic
ture:
" But the darndest thing ever tack
led yet is one of those newt tangled two
horse walking cultivators I've got one,
and got it bad. Did you ever run one,
or rather have one run you? If not,
don't; but if you will, then profit by my
experience and advice. First, choose the
best one you can find, it will be bad
enough. Then look well to the time and
place Of trying the experiment. To be-
gin with, hitch on the horses, no matter
where, or on which end. You will have
to learn by experience when you have
them properly hitched, and even then it
will take you some time to convince
yourself that you are right No instruc-
ton or rule will teach you this. As to
time, choose some dark night, the dark
er the better; it will have two advanta-
COSMOLOGY will see you, and if in a
cornfield you will not see the corn plow-
ed up. If not some dark night, then
just after you come home from some
party or sociable, or after full meal, or
some time when your mind is calm, so
that you won't lose your temper. As to
place, choose small lot, and then keep
near the fence as a guide. Just imagine
greenhorn in the middle of forty-acr
lot; corn knee high; two spirited horses;
both arms at full length, in sight of the
big road, trying to straddle the rows,
with big rain coming up, and you have
my picture. The only thing you can do
is to shut both eyes and start for the
fence, and then you will think it mile
off; but when you do get to the fence
count the result: wet as the d, a
streak, the shape of a worm fence, de-
scribing a rainbow four feet wide, with
corn all plowed up, cramp in both shout
ders, and rheumatic pain in the right
limb:.that will last you till yet. But no
matter, go in to win as | did and you
will conquer the thing. | tell you | can
just lay it to anyone in these parts now
with one of 'em. I have been through
my corn three times and it's waist thigh
and looks nice. never saw tool yet
that | couldn't get the hang Of; and if
you try one Of these cultivators you'll
come to the conclusion that you can't
keep the pillow from following the wheels,
and will soon turn your attention to the
most important part, that is, keeping
the horses off the corn. But if you
should be in any way troubled with too
good an appetite, you had better stick
to the old-fashioned shovel pillow, or get
one that you can ride and work on So
you now have my experience"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
Sleep With Your Head toward the North
Pole.

Baron Reichenbach, who has devoted
many years Of deep study to the art of
bedmaking, maintains that you must not
always lie on your bed as it is made, I'M
der penalty of abridging your life by
great number of years If, says the
baron, a mere magnet exercises an intlu
ence on sensitive persons, the earths
magnetism must certainly make itself
felt on the nervous life Of man. Hence
he insists on the salutary effects of the
inhabitants of the northern hemisphere
lying with their heads to the north, and
those of the southern with their heads
to the south. For travellers with short
memories we may put the rule in gener-
al terms: In whatever hemisphere you
may be, always sleep with your feet to
the equator, and let your body lie true
af needle to the pole" In giving this
rule the baron has simply told us how
to live hundred years; for the polar in
clination of the body is, it appears, of
the utmost Importance for the proper
circulation of the blood, and we have
the Baron's authority for saying that
many disturbances in the human organ
ism have been cured by simply placing
the bolster at different point of the
compass from that. it had occupied be-
fore. Let such as have hitherto been
in the habit of sleeping with their heads
where the feet ought to be, take to
heart the example Of the late DR.. Fisch-
weiter, of Magdeburg, who died recent
ly at the age of 100 years, and always
attributed his long life to his faithful
observance of the pole to pole position
of sleeping. The most unhealthy posi-
ton, we are told, is when the body lies
due east and west. Some observers as
sure us that to sleep in such position
is tantamount to committing slow sui
eide, and that diseases are often aggra-
waited by deviations from the polar pos
! ture,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
DIR. G. MCLANE'S
LIVER PILLS.

These Pills are not recommended as
arcmedy for all the ills that flesh is
heir to- but in affections of the liver,
and in all Bilious Complaints, Dys-
pcpsia, and Sick Headache, or dis
eases of that character, they stand
without u rival.
a G u Il AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used pre-
paratory to, or after taking Quinine.
Asa simple purgative they are un-
equaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS,
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DIR. Nc
LANES Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures
of G. MGLANE and FLEMING Bros.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storckcepers generally.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10

When persons are feverish and thirsty
beyond what is natural, one Of the best
coolers, internal or external, is to take
a lemon, cut off the top, sprinkle over it
some loaf-sugar, working it downward
into the lemon, and then suck it slowly,
squeezing the lemon, and adding sugar
as the acidity increases,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
Grange Directory.

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each month
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 16G. = Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 12l6.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
J. ID. RUSSELL. Master
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. 811.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master
p. B. SCHEMERHORN, Secy.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 528.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
b. DUBOIS, Master
f. J. WIGG. Sec'y.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No. 8 School
House, HaZletOn Township.
T. MESSENGER, Master.
G.. M. MILLER, Secy.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267-Meets at Justus
Durkees, on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox Spc'V
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10

The reading columns on this page will be de-
voted mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the Bull
LETIN are requested to write for it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-10
FOREIGN ADS.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
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SEQ Secenh-st., Washington, d. c.
Inventors,

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Claims before the Executive Department.
Arrears of Pay and Bounty.
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their heirs. are in many cases entitledt to money
from the Government of which they have no
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state amount of pay and bounty received. En-
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Pensions.
All Officers, Soldiers and Sailors wounded,
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Contested Land Cases, Private Land Claims,
Mining, Presumption and Homestead Cases
prosecuted before the General Land Office and
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Land Warrants.
We pay cash for Bounty Land Warrants, and
we invite correspondence with all parties hav-
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structiOns where assignments are imperfect
We conduct our business in separate Bureaus,
having therein the clerical assistance of able
and experienced lawyers, and give our closest
personal supervision to every important paper
prepared in such case. Prompt attention is
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r. S. e. A. p. LACEY, Att'ys,
WACHTNCTON n

Any person desiring information as to the
standing and responsibility of the members of
the firm will, on request, be furnished with
satisfactory reference in his vicinity or Con-
RreSsiOnal District 12-24tf
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DOBBIN'S STARCH POLISH !!
{ HOW DA SHINE

BY the use of which every family may give
their linen that brilliant polish peculiar to fine
laundry work. Saving time and labor in iron
or will be sent postage paid on receipt Of 25cts
Dobbins, Bro. & Co., l3 N. 4th St., Phil
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ROWELL'S ADS.

nATFNTS. VIM. II. BabcCck, Solicitor date
Examiner Patent Office, jl3 Washington, ID.
c. Circular.
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