Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-07

rainy day SO that the hollow in the stalk
will fill with water.
1t is said that II per cent. of the
farms in Indiana are cultivated by their
owners, 20 per cent. are farmed on shar-
es, and 8 per cent. are rented.
w. w. woodward, of Morristown,
Shelby county, Indiana, raised snow ball
potatoes, forty-six of which fill bushel
and weigh sixty-six pounds
In Virginia and North Carolina, the
acreage planted in tobacco is so per cent
larger than last year; the yield promises
to be better in the same ratio.
The decrease of the number of buffa-
loes on the plains threatens the trade Of
the Hudson Bay company, whose voy-
ageurs feed on buffalo pemmican.
The Sea Island cotton crop for 1876
u is 1898 bales, Florida producing II,
pa, an increase over the previous year s
crop of that State of 1924 bales.
In the country round about Bloom
field, Ind, hog cholera has prevailed to
such an extent that in many instances
farmers have lost their entire drove of
rat, ValuaDlc nOSS,
Two farmers near Maquoketa, Iowa,
are doing a profitable business in raising
roots and herbs containing medical
properties and shipping them to manu-
facturers of drugs.
A sale of Short-horn cattle took place
on Oct. % at Queen Victoria's Shaw
farm, Windsor castle. The sale COM
prised forty Short-horn COWS and heifers
which realized ,34 guineas.
Timothy hay is now being carried by
rail to Boston from stations forty miles
west of Chicago. The freight is $50 a
carload, and shippers are ordinarily able
to stow nine tons of pressed hay in a
car.
The gluten or chief heterogeneous
principle of wheat varies from 1O.5 per
cent. in English wheat to 11.5 in Viz
ginia, 1875 in Southern and paptzing and
even to ID per cent. in Black Sea wheat
in good seasons.
Zach Chandler has, near Lansing,
Mich, a farm of 3, 100 acres, which has
cost him, with improvements and stock,
about 100000 The stock consists of
80 horses, so cattle, and 200 sheep, all
of the breeds.
A wildcat got into the house of farm
err in STAFFORD, N. H., one Mi ht last
week, and attacked him in his bed, but
he got hold Of stick of wood and after
long fight killed the animal, being
helped by his dog.
There is said to be considerable
expectation of birch wood from New
Hampshire to England to be made into
thread spools Over one million feet
were exported last year, and the de-
mand is still increasing.
Considerable attention is being paid in
Mexico to tho production of coffee, that
industry having been largely developed
within the past six years. About six
million pounds are now annually export
ed from Vera Cruz.
The Mobile (Ala) Register says that
what the South wants now is popula-
ton of farmers, and says that to com
mence life as farmer in that section
demands but very little outfit and only
capital enough to support life for one
year at most.
The Rev. c, H. Ellis, who took five
families, twenty-five persons in all, from
Reading, Mich, last week, to settle at
Columbia, Brazonia county, Texas, says
it is his purpose to add one hundred
persons to his Michigan colony before
spring.
A man in Salem, Oregon, cleared his
premises of rats by catching one and
pouring carbolic acid and then turned it
loose. The odor of their unfortunate
friend appears to have convinced the
other rats Of the propriety OF going else
where.
The farmers of Prince Edwards Is
land are rejoicing over the largest crops
ever raised and safely housed by them.
All the crops are good, but the yield of
wheat and oats is much above the aver
age. Potatoes are, as usual, very fine
in quality, and as to quantity there is
no room for complaint
Canada barley raisers report the bar
ley crop good, but the color of the grain
is dark. Almost all their export of bar
ley and rye is to the United States, and
they fear that the temperance move
ment here will depress Canadian agri-
cultural interests, as their customers
are brewers.
The Corpus Christi Tex) Gazette
says an imported Durham COW recently
gave birth near that place to two full
blooded calves, which are developing in
to strong and healthy animals. The
COW has subsisted since her importation
exclusively on the mezquit grass pecu
liar to that locality.
The growth of winter wheat is very
rank in New York, and farmers are turn
ing sheep into the fields to pasture it
off. Cattle and horses are too heavy,
and sheep are found to be the best ami
mails for shortening the wheat, which
would be likely to be smothered by it's
rank growth and the snow.
The Nicaragua Indians cultivate
maize in primitive manner Two men
drag piece of wood with spikes across
the soil; this serves as a pillow; a few
branches we'll covered with thorns do
duty for a harrow; the native next
makes hole with his big toe, drops
therein few grains of maize, covering
them with clay by scrap of the foot
The Charlotte On. c. Observer says
the Liberian emigration movement has
broken out in that State with redoubled
violence. Each emigrant is required to
take $40 worth of stock in the ship, and
to furnish $40 to buy provision for the
journey. Ten acres of land is promised
to each single man, and twenty-five
acres to each man and wife, together
with dwelling house on each tract.
Glover seed is growing in nearly all of
the States, but the largest produce are:
Pennsylvania, 20O,679 bushels; Ohio,
lO2, 1856; New York, 98,837; Indiana; 6l,-
1863; Michigan, 1928; Maryland, 35,O40;
New Jersey, 29,3O7; Virginia, 1887;
illinois, 10, IDS; Tennessee, 1854; South
Carolina, $3.50; Maine, 5,255; West