The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-07-19

Sow vacant places TO turnips. Now
IL the time.
Apples will be . light crop this year
nearly every place In the United States
1t don't pav to bind barley. Cut and
lay in swatha and load with ! barley
fork.
Linseed oil b now highly recom-
mended for pear blight. Wash the
limbs with IL.
Beans are t2so to ~ 1t New York,
and yet Iowa does mot raise enough
for home consumption.
For hauling hay have . long and
wide rack, ~ IL IL % much eaAier In
pitching and safer in hauling.
| A large green worm, nearly like the
tobacco worm, In destructive to toma-
TO plants. Look out for them.
In the reports Of the Illinois short
horn sales, the names Of Iowa men Do
not appear A. often - they did last
year.
There Is no eight orten hour system
on well regulated farm In haying.
The days work il done when the hay
Is all secure.
Though the corn needs attention yet
hay should now be cut. II II has not
been already. It In now decreasing In
value every day.
When hay is cut, ifit IL not cured
and put in the barn the same day, IL
should be put in large cocks to save il
from the heavy dews.
Common SCOT from the house chim-
| ney is one Of the best fertilizers for
house plants. One pint In . pail Of
water, to be used for watering plants.
If the bOrer has been neglected until
he has just entered the body Of the
apple tree, now is the time to follow
him with the knife before he is out OF
reach.
Suckers should be pulled off the APP
pie trees before they get large. hard
and tough. They draw nearly all the
nourishment from the other parts Of
the tree.
A man at Pawlet. VT, has recently
lost fourteen cows, who broke into his
pot ato field and ate vines that had
been anointed with kerosene to keep
off bugs.
Now IL the time that newly set
fruit and shade trees have their hard
trial. Hot sun and probably dry
earth 10 too much for them. They
should be mulched.
With the right breed, - suitable
hogs can be raised aud forwarded to
market At twelve months Of age, -
were few yeas since 1t eigh-
teen or twenty months.
When there is considerable wheat
tn cut 1t IL better to begin too soon
than too late. There 10 great loss gen.
orally at the close Of harvest in Grip
Piled and straw-broken grain.
Forty-five per cent Of all the pork
packed now in Chicago is packed In
the summer time by the aid Of Ice. and
1t il said that 1t finds reader sale In
the foreign markets than the winter
packed.
The Massachusetts, Plouqhman says
that oatmeal contains ~ much sugar
as milk; fifty per cent. more than rye
meal and wheat bread, and nearly
fourteen times ~ much - Indian meal
and rice.
The Hon. Campbell Brown, Of Ten
nesssee, says:
Guernseys are . distinct breed of
cattle; larger, more ragged and some
what coarser In form, with buff or
flesh cOlOred noses, Of q yellow or yel-
lOw-red color, often shaded with brin-
die, less attractive in appearance than
Jerseys, but said to be FULLY equal 70
them at the pail, and in the richness
and flavor Of their butter.
We will say to our correspon dent
that there has yet been nothing better
discovered for garget in COWS, than
socks poke. Pecan, or botanically.
phytolaccaces.) Crate the root, and
give desert spoonful daily in some
thing the cow will eat, until the milk
comes pure, and swelling ceases.
On the last day of June, there were
over one hundred lots Of beef cattle
sold at Chicago, and the heaviest lot
was So steers which averaged, 1883
pounds, aud brought ak cents per
pound. Choice, smooth, heavy steers
are worth seven cents.
The Governor of Nebraska took one
hundred English srarrows to that
State, but they all perished. Good
thing. They drive out all other birds,
and are neither usefnl, or beautiful
themselves, except for their gornand-
izing propensities.
This Is the hot season. Let farmers
be kind and careful Of their friend, the
horse. Give him clean, cool water
frequently. Work him not beyond
his reasonable powers Of endurance.
If you demand 1t he will kill himself
for your sake.
There is getting to be too much
court house In this country Tor the
prosperity Of the farmers, too much
court expenses, too much court h0use
rings, too much expenses In esart
house building, too much court house
dOmineering in politics.
A writer in the Hamilton FreeBson
very justly takes the officers Of their
agricultural society to task for Offering
only 81 premium for the best ten
pounds Of butter, when it 10 one Of
the most important branches Of farm
ing, and one which needs more im-
provemeDt than any other.
Blue grass has now An enemy which
Ia injuring it seriously In Kentucky.
1t is So small that 1t can scarcely bc
seen by the naked eye, but with .
magnifying glass It looks like email
ants. 1t kills the grass 40 that some
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