The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-29

rrrom IN. state Register,

From the state Register.
Those who have not started hot beds
can do so now.
Farm hands are hiring in New iorl
. for the year at Sll per month.
: All potatoes should be planted early
whether an early or late variety.
The Michigan State Fair il to be a
jackson, Sept. l7th,-same day a
Iowa and Illinois.
Grapevines, If not pruned last fall
must have immediate attention, o.
they will bleed when pruned.
In planting trees trim the broken
and bruised ends Of roots, to prevent
the commencement of decay.
Il The information is that the cherrie.
are killed in all parts of the State
Well, they are very sour fruit.
| Robert Bonner has at present in hi
| New York stables Dexter, Molsey
Music, Taylor, Mamie B. and Erie.
Mrs. J. I. Case, of Racine, takes .
daily drive behind Gov. Sprague and
Mia c. The cost of the pair was
So 800.
| The seeds for hot bed on the farm
are cabbage, caulifewer, cucumber,
egg plant, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes,
melons, de.
In hiring hands on the farm, hire
the best and pay good price, and
thus encourage other hands to increase
their usefulness.
Two hundred aud fifty thousand
barrels Of last years crop of apples
were shipped abroad, England taking
the largest share.
Prof. Knapp says give sows nothing
but water for two days after they have
pigs. And then feed sparingly for
few days.
The Poland China hog was produced
by the use of the Poland. Big China,
Irish Grazier, and Byfield breeds of
hogs. So says Magic.
A mixture of four ounces Of lard.
one tablespoonful of sulphur. and one
spoonful of kerosene, is good to re-
move lice from calves and colts.
II. X. Willard estimates the value
of the products of the dairy at $780,
00O, 900 annually. This is more than
all the wheat and corn combined.
The Iowa and Minnesota Associa-
ton of Horsemen has been established
at DEBORAH, Iowa, for the purpose of
holding series of trotting meetings.
Plant peas SO soon as the ground is
thawed deep enough. For early, plant
two inches deep-all others should be
planted at least four inches deep.
The National Lire Stock Journal
lays "a considerable proportion of the
support of our racing and trotting as
comes from the gambling
Maternity"
DIR. Traer, of Ninton, says hogs are
II more Importance than short horns.
Destoy the hog crop of Iowa and two
birds of the farmers would go to the
,oor house.
Hon. j. Il. Grinnell says, Don't
ai.e trotting horses unless, having
even boys, you can afford to lose six
# them. 1T you raise trotters you
ant raise your boys. They'll raise
'ou."
Wash the trunks of fruit trees with
ye, soap suds, or lime water, and
Grape them if very rough to destroy
faces for eggs and larvae of injurious
Insects. Do this while waiting for
pring.
Some weeks since we stated that
Mr.. Dixon, of Maha.ka
ounty, had the largest orchard in the
world, but the Rural World informs
Is that A. K. Whitney, Lee county,
H., has 22,eoo bearing apple trees.
After wheat is sown do not roll the
and until the wheat is three or four
inches high. The roller pulverizes
he soil so that it is badly injured by
,ur spring winds. After that, relling
s greatly beneficial,
If you have not grapcvines enough
10 furnish plenty of grapes for the
family, now is the time to prepare for
it. A man has no right to deprive his
family of so important a health pre-
server, when it is SO easily procured.
We warn our readers about invest I
ing in White Flour corn from Tonnes
see. 1t is doubtless a humbug, as any |
kind of corn from Tennessee, will not |
ripen here before frost, until it is ac-
climated. We hear every county in
the State is to be canvassed to get
orders. The Ivory Wheat" last year,
the white Flour Corn" this year,
and the Great Peruvian Esculent,
next year, and thus one game follows
another. The elephant goes round
ana the music plays.
A correspondent of the Journal saws
that Mr.. Gordon set out eight wears
ago grove of naples in Washington
county, Iowa. The present winter he
has cut out every alternate row and
got SO worth of wood per acre, and
leaving fine grove and wind-break
still.
{. l. Mott, Of Franklin county, sold
last week thoroughbred bull calf ten
months old weighing s3s pounds. He
was a native Of that county and the
Chronici, says 1t wa. the first sale Of
Short Horns raised in that county.
Melons and cucumbers can be plant
Cd in square piece. Of thick sod, and
placed in some warm place in the
window or by the stove, and thus get
good start by the time there Is no
danger of frost. Then the sod can be
set in the ground, and the sod rotting
will give the plants good start And
watermslons are worth more in July
than September.
The Glenwood Opinion says that
there are loo, 900 bushels of corn stored
at Emerson in Mills county, and that
1913 car loads were shipped from there
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