The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-05-31

fEran, the State Register.

To the next falr, from MY 10 twenty
five cents.
Our Northwestern farmers this year
are buying cows and steers instead OF
farm machinery. They intend to win.
The grasshoppers do rot scare some
men. The Sac City San says IL. {.
Wheeler will plant | 500 acres of corn
this year.
Ii is labor that bothers us. Tell us
how to raise ten bushels more corn to the
acre without more labor aud expense,
and We will be thankful.
The University of Michigan and the
Agricultural College of that State now
draw Sl51,o)1 every year from the state
treasury for their support.
| Mind must be the emancipation of the
farmer. Science, intelligence, machin-
/ ery-these must liberate the white
| bondmen Of the soil from their long
| slavery.
| fla hen he not setting so that her
nest and eggs absorb little moisture
from the earth, sprinkle her nest and
eggs every few days with water when
she is off to feed.
! For fall or winter cabbage none
of the new discovered varieties are
equal to the old fiat Dutch. And twill
/ 4 . h l. Il n. fnr
June transplanting.
| The SCOT from the chimneys should
be saved. A pint OF SCOT Ia pailful
of water will make liquid manure of
great value for flower bels and plants
of all kinds.
In Vermont, Central AM Western
| New YORK, Northern OHIO and North
ern Illinois, where dairy farming Is
| the principal business, are the most
thrifty farmers in this or any other
country.
Donot put flowers in straight rows
any where. Do not crowd your flow
ers, and especially not crowd large
/ number in the froat yard. A very
few aal very choice is the best taste.
| High arts of farmin :, butter making
or stock raising are not imbibed like
the sucker imbbes mud from the bot
tom fthe estuary. bat it is by heavy
taxes Oh genius and heavy outlay OF
patient endurance.
| In grape culture it seems that the
| finer varieties, which grow weak and
! liable r. disease, can he grated on
Concord an Clinton roots, and then
grow Is well aud aS strong as these
/ popular varieties. The French have
| found this ont, AMI are improving
| largely on these American kinds fol
grating their own kinis for their
! VINEYARDS.
! Potatoes are coming from Ireland
One hundred and seyentyfive sack
were lately delivered to dealer il
Albany, y. V, direct from Ireland
These can he called"Iri.h potatoes.
Mr.. b. NJ. :, of Cedar Rapids, after
having tried over forty kinds ofstraw
berries, recommends the following 70
Iowa cultivation: Downer Prolific
Charles Downing, Green Prolific
French, Kentucky, Boydon's No. 30
and Cheney.
The prosperity of a few farmers VIII,
are pursuing the wise system of farm
in, i tha e,EKeentien, and nnt the gen
says:
William Winter has sold Sli,0t
worth of cattle and hogs or his HON,
farm the past season.
Mr.. :. Wilcox, at the Illinois Dairy
mans Association, makes this jus
and plain statement: "~kimming III,
milk for butter and then working tn,
blue remains into stuff called chees,
j. fraud and j. most certainly ruin
Ing the standard of our product"
Weeds, clover, meats, scraps, boiled
potatoes, kitchen refuse, any and al
heterogeneous or flesh forming foods, ar,
preferable during the early months OF
the the pigs existence, to the mea
and grain or fat forming foods whicl
are required for the finishing off pro
cess.
There was a general fear that til,
freeze of May lst had been fatal to fruit
But the Oskaloosa Heraid reports
The storm of las, sunday did not dc
III much damage to fruit "a we at frs
/ supposed We have conversed with
John \. Dixon, w. :. Edgar, II. +.
| Martin, Byron V. Sewers and other
/ experienced fruit-growers, and univer,
/ sal verdict j. that the storm killed but
little if amy o. the apple crop.
An English exchange says paraiiine
! oil Will destroy crops of insects" when
! two ounces OF oil are mixed with six
gallons ofwater and ourei-sprinkled
/ over them. 1t i etftctual too when
! SprinkIei over the seed before sown,
ani the subsequent growth i. said t.
/ be wonderful.
/ 4 legal bu~hel of oats must weigh
/ thirty hounds in Maine, New Hamp-
shire and New jersey; thirty-four
/ lbs. in Canada, thirty-six lbs.
/ in Oregon, thirty-fve in Missouri
thirtv-thrcc in Iowa, and thirty-two
/ pounds in Massachusetts, New York
/ and most other States.
/ NJ the Northern Illinoi, Horticultu-
/ raj society, Suel Foster, of Muscatinc,
| said the Lawrence pear was healthy
/ and hardy grower, more free from
! blight than many Of the more thrifty
/ trees, and that he highly esteemed it,
and that he had kept some of the
/ pears till January.
The Wright County Nrnitor give, d
/ very cheerful view of the prosperity
of The farmer, in that county, result
| from the change from wheat raising to
corn, hogs and cattle. And the editor
contend, that large portion of the
stock shipped from Webster City and
/ Alden was from that county.
The Grundy County Repubiican
says, let them beg. There were l5C
tramps in Cedar Rapids one day last
week. The b. G.. II. d \. X. r. Go.
| offered them one dollar day to work