Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-25
Charles Riddle. an English farm

Charles Riddle, an English farm
er, has in his possession COW aged
fourteen years, which has produced
twenty-one calves, having had twins
nine times and single calves three
times.
The Kansas cooperative associa-
ton is making arrangements to ship
their grain directly to another coop
erative association in England, with
whom they have reciprocity treaty
business.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has
lately decided that farmers having
wheat stored in warehouses and ele-
vators along railroads, have to run
the risk of fire, and not the owner Of
the elevator.
Every one notices that the horses
used on the Chicago street-cars are
increasing in size year by year. We
throw out this hint to farmers who
are raising draft horses for that
market.
Judge Booth, of Chicago, raised
over bushel of peaches on one tree
in his garden last season. Years
ago peaches were largely raised in
that vicinity, but the recent severe
winters have. killed the trees.
Mr.. Lewis, of King William coun-
ty, Virginia, is planting this year
seven hundred acres of Tomatoes
AS this is one of the eastern coun
ties in Virginia, Mr.. Lewis is evident
ly preparing for 4 long extra session
of Congress.
Farmers who grow turnips can get
the best seed by setting out the roots
very soon. They will mature their
seed in season for the main crop,
and, besides, the seeds will, in all
probability, be good. But it is nee
essary to change seed occasionally.
An English farm is negotiating
with the Viceroy of Egypt for con-
cession, giving it the right to export
bones from old Egyptian cemeteries,
which will be made into phosphate
manures for English acres. To such
strange uses do men come ut last.
The Southern Minnesota Stock
Breeders Association will hold its
first annual exhibition the first week
of June next, at which there will be
awarded the sum of 50 500 in horses
and cattle premiums. The place for
holding its exhibition has not yet
been selected.
The Norfork Virginian says
The opening of the War in Europe
should cause an entire revolution in
the agriculture of the Southern States.
The people of the South must raise
their own corn and bacon this year
orprepare for utter bankruptcy.
Paris had horse show in April
with 400 entries, of which no less
than $40 came from Normandy.
Valuable prizes were offered for COM
petition. Anovel feature of the show
was prize for grooms and coach
men distinguished for neatness in
their dress and stables.
When the canker attacks fruit
tree, causing the bark to loosen, the
host remedy is to cut off the diseased
limb with a fine saw and cover the
end OF place of excision with graft
ing wax. This will prevent the es-
cape Of sap, and serve to check the
progress of disease.
Green clover makes better returns
as cattle food than the hay made
from it, because in the process of
drying many OF its vegetable parti-
Giles are so hardened that the diges-
tive organs are unequal to the task OF
assimilation. Steaming clover hay
improves its feeding qualities.
Mr.. II. c. Jordan, of Wapello
county, a., has received his medal
and diploma for the best corn ex-
hibited at the Centennial. 1t is stat
ed that Mr.. Jordan last year raised
about twelve thousand bushels of
corn on farm Of twelve hundred
acres in the southeast corner of Wa
pello county.
The Missouri Legislature las pass
ed a bill making all able-bodied
male persons, between twelve and
sixty years of age, liable to be draft
ed for two days in each week during
the Spring months of the year to
fight grass-hoppers. We should ad-
wise the 'hoppers to leave that State
at once.
Rennet curdles milk because it
contains an acid, either natural or
artificial, which possesses the proper
ties of coagulation. In Holland
muriatic acid is used to produce rem
ret; but the natural curdler of milk
is the gastric juice of the sucking
Calls stomach, in which milk is rap
idly coagulated as it is sucked.
An effort is being made by irriga-
ton, to reclaim fifteen thousand
acres of sage bush land in the valley
of Susan river, California, near
Honey lake, east of the main summit
of the Sierra Nevadas at an eleva-
ton of forty-two hundred feet above
the sea. The cost of the work SO
far has been $4,000, including two
miles of flume six feet square, and an
inverted syphon pipe forty-two inches
in diameter and five hundred and
thirty feet long, to carry thc stream
across depression eighty feet deep.
Spring and Summer Feed for Mich
Cows.
There is q great difference Of opin-
ion among dalrymen in reference to
the kinds of grain best adapted to
milch cows in Spring. Dairymen
generally suit their own convenience
in this matter, without much regard
to the opinion of others. If they
have raised and have on hand sur
plus of corn, or barley, or oats, they
are very apt to feed one or the
other as best suits their convenience
at the time; and if grain is to be pur-
chased, the matter of prices has more
Of a controlling influence than what
| is best ADAPTED to the animal ecOnO-