The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-15
ACRICULrURAL ITEMS.


This is the month for clover SOW
ing. Improve the time.
Il An unmitigated curse-a scrub bu
running around.
1t is claimed that Holstein COW
give - rich milk As Jerseys. but NOR
of IL.
Raise the best calves. Never sen
the largest and fattest to the butche
under any emergency.
Now is the proper time to cut vii
low, poplars, and other cuttings 70
pruning hedges, wind breaks, etc.
February-More lovely and pleas
ant than the oldest inhabitant prev
lously ever knew-has passed into his
tory.
The Wright County Mo~itor say
the wheat acreage in that county viii
be small in 1877. Corn and hogs !
the ticket.
From the experiments II 10 assum
ed that ten pounds Of corn will make
II slightly and judieiously fed one
pound of butter.
There are some things which can.
not be planted too early in the spring
Peas, onion sets, and lettuce will
stand considerable frosts.
A bar Of railroad iron IL the best
for breaking corn stalks. Take one
twsnty-four feet long and put . team
Of two horses at each end.
tits supposed hogs will eat just as
much corn, even II they are fed liber-
ally also with artichokes, bests or
rutabagas-but will improve more
rapidly.
The agricultural editor has no sx-
perience with artichokes. And We
are not city editor to instruct in
things we know nothing about.
Those having winter wheat can
harrow it when the ground is dry
The Thomas harrow is best, If you
can conscieneiously stand the enor-
nous royalty on it.
Speaking Of the extortions Of the
stock yards at Chicago, and Of the in
vestigation Of the subject by the Hill
nois Legislature, the Prairie Farmer
says: ut 10 asserted that it actually
costs the farmers Of Illinois more to
sell their cattle in their own State,
when they are shipped to the stock
yards, than il would to ship them to
Canada and pay the heavy duties i'm
posed"
After reconsideration, both Iowa
and Illinois insist on holding their
next State Fair at the same time
September 18th. There il room for
beth. Wisconsin holds hers the week
previous.
We would warn all farmers against
selling their best cows to go east for
either beef or to dairies. no matter
how tempting the price. Save the
best to raise stock, and thereby i'm
prove the stock Of the country.
We have stated frequently in these
columns that farmers could not take
steers to feed by weight for less than
eight cents per pound. But Mr.. Ell
liot, At the West Liberty Institute
said that each pound Of beef made
from corn during winter costs fifteen
cents per pound.
Daniel Mccarthy. OF Ames, last
week sold his Norman stallion En-
perez to H. l. Il r. Heaton, of FIRE.
mont county, for the sum Of s., 0W.-
He is fine dark iron gray, four
years old, and weighs l 500 lbs.
A correspondent Is informed that
the purple Mangel Weitzel j. the best
root to raise for stock. 1t produces |
the largest crops, keeps the best, and
imparts the least injurious flavor 10
the milk.
The Manhaltown Times reports the
way things are done in that comfy:
Our grain buyers were paying $l.l0
for good wheat on Saturday last, and
after cleaning it over sell it to the far
mers for seed at $3.50 per bushsl.-
There is no economy in such business
for the farmer.
Another one has succumbed The
Short Horn 10th Duchess Of Geneva
is dead. She was bought by Lord
Bectine al the New York Mills sale |
in 1873, for $50. 900 and taken to Eng
land. She was about tho only one
which was fruitful.
Late New York papers say that
new experiments will be inaugurated
the first Of March for shipping live
stock to England, and II successful,
and rapid drafts will be
made on the West for choice cattle
Where are your high grade steers"
Cattle from Northern Iowa are 60
ing to market. The Cedar Falls Ga
.ette Of Feb. p says: Fourteen car
loads Of fat cattle went east Tuesday
on the Central, and twelve
passed down on the b. c.
r. Il N. road the same morning. The
owners have the correct returns" by
this time Five years Of such returns u
Iowa's cattle and hogs are bringing,
will add immensely to the wealth o.
our growing state"
Mr.. Perkins of New York, says o
potatoes: 1.-THE Early Ohio is tn,
earliest potato that have ever grown
except the Alpha, and is fully Is ear
ly ~ that variety. being from ton 4
fifteen days earlier than the Earl,
Rose. 1t grows to large size, will
no small ones, and is the easiest pc
tato dug ever grew. The qualit
10 equal, if not superior, to the Peach
blow. and will keep equally with tina
variety"
| The Farm Journal in u cordial nj
tics Of the improvements At our Ar
ricultural College, says relative to til
culinery department.: ut is hinte
that Mrs. WEIGH, the very bushes
like wife Of the President, may b
seen, At stated hours, in this depart
ment, a. the presiding genius. fish