Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-23
Agricultural Items.

ue OF QOme6Clc ANIMALS.
The true principle Of mulching is to
exclude the sun but not the air.
In Denmark, out of an average of
1000 people, 1876 live exclusively by ag-
riculture
One hundred acres of tobacco was
grown in Jefferson county, Wis, this
season.
Twenty thousand baskets of grapes
have been shipped from Monroe, Mich,
this season.
According to the Department of Ag-
rlculture, the cotton crop is as large as
that of last year.
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and
North Carolina have all cut and housed
fine tobacco crops.
Nebraska City expects to handle ST.,
600, 600 worth of farm products between
this and May, 1878.
M. d. Sullivant, of Ford county, ILL.,,
estimates his own corn crop at a mil
lion bushels.
Gen. Franz Sigel has purchased a
farm at Blooming Grove, Pike county,
Pa, where he will place his three sons,
two of whom are to become farmers.
immigration to Minnesota is much
greater at the present than at any pre-
vious time in the history of the State.
The immigrants are seeking farms.
There is a tank in the Westminster
Aquarium, London, capable of contain
ing $4,000 gallons of water. 1t is $50
feet long and 20 feet broad.
Geo. Jones, Of Grand Ledge, Mich,
has just shipped 1000 cabbage heads to
Cincinnati Mr.. Jones crop of cab
bages exceeds 10000 heads this season.
The Indians on the Oneida reserva-
ton in Outagamie county, Wis, who
number 1,045, have raised during the
summer $500 bushels of vegetables, and
22,5OO bushels of grain.
Don't look gift horse in the mouth"
says the old adage. We beg to add
Never look gift mule Cor any other
mule) in the heel. Y. Commercial
Advertiser
The cranberry crop throughout Wis
consin has proved a very large one
About forty thousand barrels will be Sc
cured near Berlin, and the growers fig
ure their profits by the thousands.
Texas bids fair to be the greatest
among the grain growing States, the
yield to the acre in wheat being much
larger than in California, which is re-
garded as the finest wheat growing coun-
try in the world.
Albert J. Harding, young man liv-
ing in Climax, Kalamazoo county,
Mich, recently husked one hundred and
twenty eight bushels of corn in eleven
hours. He took down his shocks and
bound his stalks
Broom-corn was introduced into this
country by DR.. Franklin. While exam
lining an imported corn-whisk he acct
dentally discovered a single seed, which
he planted in his garden, and from which
the corn was propagated.
The Spanish peasants think that birds
eat the grain, and that the trees harbor
birds, so they cut down the trees, and
the country represents the character Of
endless, melancholy, treeless plains,
with a poor, stunted cereal vegetation.
The State of Iowa is estimating its
this years crop Of hogs at one million
five hundred thousand head. This will
not only fill the mouths of the people of
that prosperous commonwealth, but,
with the vast amount of grain raised.
will fill every pocket.
A new Matching establishment in
Plymouth, N. H., is nearly finished, and
five hundred thousand California sal
mon eggs are to be received for hatch
ing. By next May twenty thousand
land-locked salmon and several thous-
and brook trout will be ready for distri-
button.
During the last ten years, nearly a
million acres in Great Britain, formerly
under grain crops, have been converted
into pasture, meat having become so
paying an article to raise; but in the
last Board of Trade report it is remark
ed that this conversion of arabic land
into pasture has received check, as a
result of the large importation of Amer
lean meat.
The steamship Lake Megantic, from
Liverpool, which brought out a quaint
ty Of cattle to Quebec in violation to
the Dominion act regarding the impor-
tation of cattle from a prohibited coun-
try, was obliged to leave them below at
quarantine. She will have to take them
back to Europe on her return trip
The first shipment of fresh meat from
this country to France, was taken out
by steamer to Havre, Oct. II, consisting
of fifty carcasses of beef, fifty sheep,
eighty-one hogs, and two hogsheads of
saddlerock oysters. IF well received in
that country, the trade will undoubted-
ly spring to large proportions.
Ezra Keen, of the line district, Hart
ford, Me-, raised two hundred and fifty
nine bushels of sound ears of corn from
two acres of plowed land, it being the
most of any one in the district on two
acres, if not in the town or county. H.
A. Bicknell, of the same district, raised
on ten square rods of old ground, lob
bushels of Norbiton's Giant Mangold
Wurtzel beets. Rows eighteen inches
apart, drills made for the seed by NOV
ing a wheelbarrow over the ground,
dressing narrowed in.
Trees should be planted not only by
dwelling houses and along roads, but
they should be in every pasture and by
watering places, and near every barn
wherever cattle, horses or sheep are to
be provided for. All these animals suf-
fer from our burning sun; and to say
nothing of their comfort and enjoyment,
the cost of shade trees will be many
times paid back in the saving in the
milk, fat, fleece and strength, which will
result by protecting domestic animals
from the heat of the SUM-
The best Irish butter brought into
the London market is what is called
Aylesbury, including not only what is
manufactured in that district, but also
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