Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-08

1t is estimated that in blowing an
acre of ground two horses will make
about 100000 footmarks and neces-
sanly harden much of the soil on
which they tread.
A horseshoe will hold much long
er if the clinches are not weakened
by the file in finishing. Insist that
the file does not touch the end of the
nail where turned down.
The man who stopped his paper
lately because he could not afford it,
lately sold a hundred bushels of
wheat at twenty cents per bushel be-
low the market price.
Before the war Mississippi and Al
ALBANIA were the largest cotton pro-
ducing regions Of the South, but
neither one ever exceeded the &C.,
900 produced by Texas last year.
The total area of Scotland is 49,
639,377 acres, of which only 1910,
900 are in crops; l,235,OO0 in grass,
l,006,OOO i'll permanent pasture, and
l5,32S,377 acres are unrcclaimed.
In 224O pounds of potatoes we find
1880 pounds of water, 81 pounds of
albuminous compounds, 4l9 pounds
starch, 81 pounds of woody fibre and
% pounds of min cral matter
An English farmer recently wash
ed a pair of his horses with sheep
dip, i'll order to clear them of vermin.
The horses licked the poisonous ma
terial and died a short time after
ward.
The London General Omnibus
Company employs about 8 900 horses,
their average life in the company's
service being from four to tour aud
one-half years. About 100 horses
break down annually.
Sowing cloyer with Hungarian
seed has not proved satisfactory
The latter grows very rank, and so
shades the former and Injuries its
growth as to cause thin catch, and
indifferent crop of clover.
Only one-seventh of the area of
the area of Greece is under cultiva-
ton. Its surface is irregular and
billy, with rich wales and some rocky
places and mountains. The soil is
various, clayey in some places, but
generally light and sandy.
Coal ashes scattered on the stable
floor will absorb the liquid manure,
prevent the cattle from slipping and
falling, afford an excellent addition
to the pickings of poultry around the
place, and can afterwards be spread
on the soil.
In Southern New Jersey farmers
are much alarmed over the discovery
Of millions of eggs of the seventeen
year locust. These eggs are found
in the newly-turned sward beneath
trees. Such numbers have not be-
fore been seen in that region.
In Central Australia the annual
rainfall is less than five inches, while
at Adelaide, in South Australia, the
fall OF rain in 1876 was only thirteen
and one-halt inches. To this favor
ed spot many American families are
now emigratipg, preparatory to "dry-
ing up
A legal bushel of oats must weigh
thirty pounds in Maine, New Hamp-
shire and New jersey; thirty-four
pounds in Canada, thirty-slx pounds
in Oregon, thirty-fve in Missouri,
thirty-three in Iowa, and thirty-two
pounds in Massachusetts, New York,
and most other States.
On the Goth ult., which was Glass
Tree Planting day at the Normal
school at st. Cloud, Minnesota, the
five classes, with the Model Depart
ment, set out in the grounds about
eighty trees-box elder, elm and ma.
pie. Some of the young ladies enter
ed into the work with enthusiasm.
Estimating the produce of an acre
In oats at so bushels, they will con-
tain $50 pounds of tlesh-torming food
and 672 pounds of fat-forming food;
while three tons of hay off the same
acre will carry $50 pounds of flesh,
formers and 279O pounds of fat-form-
ers. Hay is a standard food for cat
tie.
a bale of cotton, sent by tho Cot
ton Exchange, of Memphis, to the
International Horticultural Exhibi-
ton at Amsterdam, Holland, has
been awarded q gold medal. Mem
phis has been awarded first premiums
on cotton at the Worlds Fair in
New York, London, Vienna, and last
year at Philadelphia.
A new machine for pplping roots
to feed to stock, with cut hay, Is be-
ing manufactured in the East, with
which boy can pulp bushel of
turnips, beets, etc., in three or four
minutes. Roots, when so pulped, are
found to be safe and more valuable
for feeding, and may be mixed with
cut hay to great advantage.
The japanese Commission, who
have been making so many stock
purchases throughout the bluegrass
counties of Kentucky, have complet-
ed their arrangements for shipment
of their stock to Japan via San Fran
cisco. Their selections consist of
about forty head of horses, jacks and
sheep.
The Dutch tulip show is to be a
striking feature in the Paris exhibit
ton of 1878. The King will contrib
ute his best. In the SEVENTEEN cen
fury, when the tulip rage dominated
Holland. bulbs were regularly quot
ed on the bourse. An amateur OK.
changed brewery, estimated to be
worth $4,000, for Il single kind Of
bulb, which thence got the name OF
''the brewery
Hay,well settled iii mows or stacks,
fifteen cubic yards make u ton. Rule
for long or square stacks: Multiply
the length in yards by the width IN
yards, and then by half the hight in
yards, and divide by fifteen. Rule