Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-04-06
Agricultural Items.
Farmers around NJ. ndota have put
in their spring wheat.

Farmers around NJ. ndota have pu
in their spring wheat.
Around Austin, Texas, grasshop
pers are Matching by the million.
Over one million bushels of corr
are stored i'll Philadelphia, awaiting
shipment.
Potato bugs are reported in Con
nectIcut few inches below the sur
face i'll vigorous, healthy condition
The Minnesota Senate has Jus,
passed il bill appr"priating 100000
for the destruction of gra>shoppei
eggs.
A man in Nemaha Co., Kan, has
found mnety-tw" grasShopper eggs
in one and half inches square OF
dirt.
In Colorado county. Texas, white
laborcrs are superSeding col"red,
with entirely satisfactory results to
the planters.
The locating committee of the
Michiga State Agricultural, So ietv
voted to hold the next State Fair at
Jackson, if certain conditions, one of
them the raising of $500, were
complied with.
1t is claimed that if you cut off the
spray Of a lilac bush and put it into
hot water SO rs to force it, there will
be perfect bloom. This is proha-
bly, another election lie. Don't ruin
your bushes.
The Fruit Recnrder thinks the
best manure for hot,bpds is mix
ture of forest leaves and stable ma.
nure; and that the best way to OBJ.
tam this mixture is to use leaves to
litter the stables in winter.
A prominent horticulturiSt has
been making special examinations of
hedge fences in different parts of H.
linois, and pronounces the honey 10
Gust more hardy and otherwise bet
ter plant than the Usage orange.
Cotton seed oil is largely sold for
olive oil, which it is said to equal for
culinary and table purposes. There
are five cotton-Seed o factories in
New Orleans, producing an amount
equal to the entire production of OIL
i've oil in France.
The Canadian Dalrymen's Associ-
alton held It's annual convention this
year at Bellville, Feb. IA, Is and l6.
Ii is now known as the Dairymen's
Association of Ontario. The meet
in.s have always been largely attend.
ed and interesting.
A sheep belonging to II. Switzer,
OF Stephen, CANADA, got itself fast
between partition in Il building,
and remained in that position fol
twenty one days The animal was
SO tightly wedged in that i, could
not move IN inch nor get ANYTHING
to eat When found it was alive.
! Amy dairyman troubled with COWS
hay ing sore teais should use plenty
Of llnseed oil before and after milk
ing. He will find but few if an,
sores about his COWS ,cats if this i
done. Many cows that are kirkers
would delight TO be milke,l if Il little
linseed oil We're used on the teatS.
There is Il stringent bill now pend
ing before the legislature # Mrchi
gan providing for the punishment OF
those guilty OF cruelty to animals
1t provides for the punishment by
fine or imprisonment Of any person
who may be found guilty OF over
loading or overworking draft AMI
mails; beating, under feeding or poor
ly sheltering; Keeping dogs, game
cocks, etc, for fighting purposes
keeping pigeons or other animals OF
fowls to be shot at for pleasure nl
amusement.
A writer in Colman's Rmru
Wor/d says that mere than fit,
thousand pear trees are set out il
Missouri, not one in ten of which
survives the ninth year in the or
chard. They grow vigorously ii
first, and afterwards gradually perish
under Il modification OF the blight
Yet here and there is found one thai
has remained sound for more than
half a century, yielding annual,
wagon loads of fruit. 1t would b.
worth Il good deal of investigation
to find out the reason Of the differ
ence, so as to profit by II in plant
ing.
Considerable interest seems to bt
Hakened among our Eastern farm
crs about sowing oats and barley to
gether. Those who have tried il
have been quite successful, securing
more to the acre than If the crol
were sowcd alone. a trihc more
seed is led to the acre than wher
either is sown singly. The barIe,
natures first. yet as the oats come
forward they seem to shade it, anH
the field which II. first seems all bar
ley, gradually comes to appear to bt
all oats. So soon as the top kernal,
of the latter are ripe, the grain is en-,
and harvested with wooden forks, the
| same nS If all ha,lny