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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
Small Talk.

1t is necessary to exercise care III the
use of artificial fertilizers, most of
which, are poisonous, if taken in any
considerable quantity.
Cut timber for fence posts and rails,
or boards, in August; then let the trees
lie until the foliage has dried by which
time the timber will have lost the most
of the sap, and split or saw up the logs
before the timber becomes frozen.
The best hay caps we have used were
squares OF 40 inches wide sheeting OF
the coarsest and heaviest kind. Oiling
is not advisable 1t tends to rot the
cloth, instead of preserving it, and caus-
es them to crack where it is folded.
The unbleached cloth will turn steady
rain for "a hours.
A careful citizen of Champaign Co.,
ILL.,, has been trying the benefits Of
using broadcast nitrate of soda, and sui
phate of lime. He has used 125 pounds
of the first and 100 pounds of the latter
per acre on meadow and pasture land
last year, and has repeated the applica-
ton this year. He now reports that he
has blue grass on one and timothy on
the other equal in depth and color to
any wheat field.
Orchard grass ripens its seed in June,
and should be cut when the seed is
easily shelled by rubbing head between
the hands. 1t can be cut as any other
hay, and thrashed either with the
machine, the fail, or by laying a thick
bed on the barn floor and driving a pair
of horses over it, This last plan, al
though very old one, is very cheap and
effective, and there are times and places
when such rough methods may be used.
There are some varieties Of wheat
that are harder than others, and better
resist the attacks of fungoid diseases,
such as rust and smut and Of insects
Amongst the old hard wheats are the
Treadwell and the Touzelle, and newer
variety, which has been very successful
is the Clawson. The first of these is q
light amber wheat which makes an eX-
cellent -four; the latter are white whoats.
AS rule. we have found the red and
amber wheats the hardest, and the
white to be tender.
Guiding is the splitting out or dropping
OF the food, especially nay, after III mas
been chewed by a horse. This is caused
generally by some soreness of the throat,
which makes the horse averse to swal-
lowing any bulky food. The horse
should be examined and inhamed patch
es at the root of the tongue and back
part of the mouth looked for There
may also be soreness of the gullet,
evinced by finching on pressure of the
throat at the upper part Of the glands
may be swollen. In either Of these cases,
the parts, where they can be reached,
may be dressed with mixture of honey
or molasses, one ounce, and finely
powdered elaborate Of potass, one dram.
The mixture to be applied with a brush.
Half an ounce of sulphate of soda may
be given in the feed for few nightsr
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
An Indiana Milk House.

Mr.. Linville Ferguson lives in Fay
cite Co., Indiana, and describes in his
county paper his milk house and his
plan in connection with it for supplying
water for his stock. 1t is as follows:
The we'll is near the porch of my
house. l built a brick building with
good stone foundation divided into two
rooms, one for milk and the other for
ice. The walls are hollow and filled
with sawdust. In the milk house on
one side of the room there is a tank
built in heavy masonry, which is seven
and half feet deep, five feet wide and
eleven feet long. The milk trough,
which is also of masonry, is alongside Of
the tank but little higher, so the wa
ter that is pumped into it falls over in
to the tank for screen. The tank is
covered over tightly so as to prevent
anything from getting in to interfere
with the pipes. The water is drawn
placed three feet below the surface to
prevent freezing. l have three watering
places, two of which are twenty rods
from the tank and one thirty rods. The
amount of fall from the bottom Of the
tank to the outlets is from three to six
feet. regulate the amount Of water
by the size of the hole at each outlet in
this way. l plug up the end of the pipe
with wood, bore small hole in the
wood and plug it up with lead, then
bore hole through the lead with a
small awl which l batter up or enlarge
as the case may require. A hole the
size of sewing machine needle will
run three barrels in twenty-four hours
This arrangement has passed through
two winters without freezing, based on
the philosophic principle that stream
of running water will not freeze. | run
the amount wanted and no more, but in
cold weather [ increase it to cut the ice
away. My tank holds sufficient water
to run my fountain for week if there
should be no pumping done, but the
longest | have yet seen it stand was two
days and two nights My device for
stopping the pump when the tank gets
full is as follows: In the tank is a
float eight feet long and four feet wide,
that rises and falls with the water, and
is guided up and down by rods of iron
passing through it and fastened in the
cover above. In the center Of the float
a staff is attached, that passes up
through the ceiling of the milk room,
and attaches to a lever that shuts off, or
turns on the area of vane surface to the
wind have a churning attachment
which works nicely and will churn in
ten or fifteen minutes, when the wind
and cream are in proper condition, but
q rfnID
motor to be depended upon.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
Treatment OF Pigs.

The Commissioner of Agriculture of
the State OF Georgia, in Manual on
the Hog" says among other excellent
things:
Success in raising hogs depends in
pigs for the first few months of their
existence, and if proper attention is Civ
en- them it may be stated as a maxim
that increase OF pigs is increase of pork
The future usefulness of every animal,
man included, depends, in an eminent
degree, upon the treatment received
when young, and in none more than in
the pig. Pigs that are allo wed to be-
come poor or diseased seldom so entire
ly recover as to attain equal develop
ment with those that receive no check
to growth or health during the forma-
tive period. 1t is therefore, of prime
Importance to- keep pigs, from their
birth, in thriving, healthy condition
AS soon as they can be induced to eat,
they should be provided with shallow
trough in the sow S pen, but, inaccessi-
BILE to her, to which they can resort at
pleasure. Commence by giving them a
small quantity of milk, several times a
day, being careful to feed at regular
hours, so that they will expect it at
those hours, and sleep quietly during
the intervals Increase the quantity,
and give little grain as they grow old
er, being careful to clean out the trough
each time before feeding. If the pigs
have been well fed, and the SOW is much
reduced, they may be weaned at six weeks
old, but if the SOW is still in good CON
dition and strong enough to bear the
drain upon her constitution, they may
remain with her ten or twelve weeks, if
there is time enough to prepare for the
next litter. When only few weeks old
the boar pigs should be altered and
Marked and the sows spayed about two
weeks before they are weaned, that they
may have the mothers milk until re-
covered from its effects. If the pigs
are castrated at this tender age, there
is less risk on account of the greater
ease with which they can be held in the
proper position, and the small develop
ment of the parts. If allowed to run
three or four months, as is often the
case, the parts become more sensitive,
and hemorrhage, swelling and stifening
of the parts are apt to follow When
the pigs are operated upon the SOW
should be removed to sufficient distance
from the pen not to be excited by the
cries of her young, since there will be
risk Of her eating her pigs if she smells
blood upon them wien she is excited.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
A Good Year for Farmers.

1t is some years since farmers could
afford to be as complacent as they can
be- now, says the american Agriculturist.
Generally this season there has been,
and is now, little to complain of. Wheat
and rye and oats, where cut, have done
well; if not very well, hay has turned
out better than it promised in the
spring; potatoes are a good crop in spite
of the beetle; fodder crops, corn and
roots, are doing well, and outside Of the
farm business is looking up. We have
got over the furry of artificial values;
we have come down to hardpan, and
those who are out Of debt feel as well
as ever. Confidence is returning; it is a
wonder that it was ever lost; and if any
man in the world should feel confident,
it is the farmer who is out of debt, and
who knows how to use his farm well.
Unfortunately there are comparatively
few such; but the experience of the last
few years ought to add greatly to the
number of the class. The great study
of the farmers now should be to add to
the capacity of his soil by every appli-
ance known to science. How we have
changed during the past few years! No
men are now more eager for scientific
knowledge than farmers, and years ago
the idea that science could do anything
for the farm was secuted by the great
majority of them. But what has been
done is too plainly seen, and is too clear
ly understood now, how much more re-
mains to be done before the farmers can
say that he is satisfied. We are Just
BEGINNING to know how to learn. This
is the first step in all education, and it
is pretty certain that in the next few
years we shall see great advance in
our system of agriculture and in its. profit
able operation! Now is the time Of our
necessity, and necessity being the moth
er of invention way to arrive at the
needed end will be soon reached. And
the end we need to reach, is simply to
bring the productive capacity OF the
farm to an equality with that OF other
industries which have, for years past,
shot ahead of agriculture,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

The producer will profit more in the
end by accepting upon the earliest OPP
portunity, fair remuneration for his
products and making immediate use of
the money they bring, than by holding
on for a speculative rise, running the
risk of heavy fall, and losing the use
of the money in the meantime The
Troy Times relates the case of farmer
who made it an invariable rule to turn
his crops into cash as soon as they were
ready for market, whatever the price
might be- Sometimes he lost, but more
frequently gained, and an experience of
thirty years convinced him that he had
made no mistake in adhering to the rule.
This case can doubtless be offset with
innumerable instances, where farmers,
by waiting one, two or three months
longer than their neighbors, have real
lied extraordinary profits But no man S
experience is uniform in that direction;
and it is true of speculation in the pro-
duets of the farm as it is true of specu-
lation in Wall street; the proportion of
those who fail is ninety to every ten who
succeed Utica az ~ Herald
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
Good and Bad Crops.

1t is common to see accounts of large
crops, and the way infinitely described by
which they were produced. But if there
be failures (and they are numerous and
sadD, they seldom get into the newspa-
pers This is wrong. We ought to
have the facts. In navigation, buoys
and light houses are not placed amid
the ocean where there are neither rocks,
shoals or breakers, or where there is no
danger or difficulty, but on places of
danger. So in farming. If our friends
have failed in hogs, cattle or other
stock, or in grain and vegetables, let the
world have warning by a true account
of the course adopted which resulted in
failure. Place buoy on all dangerous
and disastrous plans and practices
others may be warned. If the failure
has been from idleness, negligence, or
from bad advice or willful perversity,
let the truth be known. By little hui
initiation on your own part save hun
bred readers from the same fatal quick
sands. 1t is easy to write up successes
and enormous products of grain and
stock. But undertake to write up blum
ders and failures and then you begin to
feel as it you were making sacrifices IN
the great missionary work which should
be done in agriculture. 1t is hard for a
true Yankee to say or write that he has
been ignorant, stupid and slothful, and
thereby failed in crops and stock. Yet
these confessions, if true, are the begin
ming of wisdom, and are really the foun
dation of success. There are more fail
ures than triumphs, and why can we
not have more lighthouses to warn us
of the dangerous reefs on which more
than half of our profession are stranded?
If we raise thirty five bushels of wheat
per acre, or steer which weighs 1000
pounds at three years, it is sure to get
into the papers. and how it was done;
but if we raise only five bushels per
acre and our steer only weighs 900
pounds, it is never told. On return
from the market the nelghbors are not
even informed. Why? For the reason
in most eases, it was not the fault of the
season, the soil or the steer, but the
owners neglect, and he is ashamed to
tell it. But in this he is committing an
other fault He is not warning his
neighbors against following his prac-
tees. He is not honest with them in
Withholding the facts. And in recitals
of failures charge nothing to Providence
or the soil which resulted by negligence
or ignorance. And while you are warn
ing others your own lapsed brain force
will be waking up to nobler efforts to
gain more knowledge and to achieve
greater triumphs Let us hear of a few
more failures, and the true causes
State Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
Grange DIRECTORY.

GROVE GRANGE, No. 443.-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each month.
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
GRANGE, No. 166. = Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
S. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Secy.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 12l6.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. d. RUSSELL, Master.
GROVE GRANGE, No. 811.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master.
P. B. SCHEMERHORN, Secy.
GRANGE, No. 528.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
u. DUBOIS, Master.
E. j. WIGG. Secy.
GRANGE, No. 352-Meets Satur.
day, on or before full moon, at No. School
House, Hazleton Township.
T. MESSENGER, Master.
G. M. MILLER, Sec'y.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267.-Meets at Justus
Durkee's on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E, GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox, Secy.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

One pound of corn is equal as food to
about three and three-quarters pounds
of potatoes, or eight and one-half pounds
of white turnips. Analysis gives the nu-
tritive value of corn to be, compared
with that of oats, as 20 is to 60. An av-
erage of several tables takes the value
of a given quantity of oats to represent
100, while the value of the same quaint
ty of corn would be 50, the weight being
identical in each case. In practice one
bushel of corn is equal to two of oats
for fattening; but oats are altogether
better for the growing animals than
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

Many farmers are exceedingly dissat-
isfed with their profession, and repine
at their duties. On the other hand,
Socrates, the wisest of ancient philoso-
piers, said of it: agriculture is an
employment the most worthy the appli-
cation of man; the most ancient and
the most suitable to his nature. 1t is
the common nurse of all persons in ev-
cry age and condition of life; it is the
source of health, strength, plenty and
riches, and of a thousand sober delights
and honest pleasures. 1t is the mistress
and school of sobriety, temperance, JUS
tice, religion, and in short, Of all virtues,
civil and military"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

The Ne'o England Farmer recon-
mends the following recipe as simple
and invaluable remedy for rheumatism:
Take pint of the spirits of turpentine,
to which add half an ounce of camphor;
let it stand till the camphor is dissolved !;
then rub on the part affected and it will
never fail of removing the complaint.
Flannel should be applied after the
part is well fomented with turpentine.
Repeat the application morning and eve
ming. 1t is said to be equally availa-
BILE for burns, scalds; bruises and sprains,
never failing of success.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
=. A correspondent of the Kalamazoo

"A correspondent of the Kalamazoo
Telegraph residing at Galesburg, Kala-
mazoo county, says it is an item worthy
of remark is the great abundance of
white clover this year in this region.
Whole fields and pasture lands where
none or but little was visible last year
are now snowy with white clover.
Some of the old inhabitants say it is in
digenous to the soil. Cooper, in his
Coax Openings" says the same of this
region. AS result Of the abundance
of white clover there, honey is of a
clearer white than usual.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

A Westchester Co., N. Y, farmer is
in the habit of sowing yellow Aberdeen
turnips among his corn at the last pass
ing of his cultivator, when the plants
are about two feet in height. The tur-
nips do not make much growth until the
corn is cut, after which they swell rapid
ly The cost is nothing except for seed
and harvesting, and the corn being alrea-
dy cut is not injured when the turnips
are gathered in. From one hundred to
four hundred bushels per acre have been
obtained without lessening the crop.
Weeds are not tolerated, and the whole
strength of the land is devoted, as it
should be, to useful crops.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

Orchard grass, Kentucky blue grass,
and white clover, and, if the ground is
low or moist, add red-top, and you will
have the finest and most productive
pasture known among extensive stock
growers, as it requires no reseeding, but
improves in quantity or quality, carry
ing more stock each succeeding year,
invaluable for woods and pastures, and
should be extensively sown in the burnt
forests. Leaving out the orchard grass
Gas it is too rank and rapid grower),
you have the best mixture that can be
formed for lawns, yards, etc.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

There is no better food to induce a
large flow of milk than wheat bran, or
wheat middlings. This should be scald-
ed and made into thin cruel, and given
as drink. A handful Of salt should
be put into each pailful. Buckwheat.
ground with bran and oats, makes rich
feed, and is productive of milk, but if
butter is made, neither the quality nor
the color is good.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

Good Use for Soap-Suds. Save your
washing suds for the garden; if they are
poured over the plum tire es they will
kill the curculio; if turned at the roots
OF the geraniums, roses, etc, they will
enhance their beauty ten fold.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17
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voted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the Bull
LETIN are requested to write for it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-08-17

Don't wash your vegetables until just
before you are ready to cook them. At
least one-quarter of the value in sweet
ness, vivacity and aromatic element is
lost by the too common practice Of hay
ing washed clean of the natural earth
adhering to its fbres and surface dur
ing the growth, and which, when rough
ly dug, is put into the cellar or pit of
the countryman for winter keeping,
Did that countryman wash each beet,
carrot, potato, ETC., as is generally prac-
ticed for sale to the dealer, and by the
consumer desired, he would never be
able to keep his produce single month.
The receiver of clean washed vegeta-
able, according to the new established
law of refinement, never yet ate of a
good natural flavor, and these same peo-
pie, if once they leave their city homes
and go. into the country farm house
rarely fail to notice the superiority of
vegetables. 1t is not because of the
better knowledge of cookery, but it is
from the fact that the earth is a pre-
sentative and absorbant of the volatile
element of the root, which, as soon as
washed, evaporates rapidly into the all
is lost
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