The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-02-08
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
From the Iowa state Register. j

from the Iowa State Register
Marshall county has decided to hol'
their Agricultural Fair, Septemhe
18th to 18th, inclusive.
1t is very positively stated that grass
hoppers will not eat peas, artichoke
or flax.
The West Liberty District Agrieul
tural Society have determined to hole
their fair Sept. 18th to 18th inclusive.
The time of holding the State Fair
of Illinois and Iowa have been select
ed the same date-the 18th of Septem
Der.
Mr.. Jones, in addressing the Polk
county Grange, said that Iowa had
paid the National Grange 5000 Foi
this large sum what has Iowa received
in return?
Mr.. Winters, of Blackhawk county,
has 10 head of steers that grew on an
average three pounds per day, for
forty days, ending Jan. 5th.
The orchard OF the Hon. John y.
Dixon, of Mahaska county, is said TO
be the largest in the world, containing
over IL 900 apple trees.
No stock should be kept so closely
housed as to exclude them from the
sun on warm and pleasant days. Give
them opportunity to sun themselves,
exercise and run. This should include
calves and colts.
A correspondent wishes 10 kno.
where choice variety of seed corn
can be had of an early variety. He
wants the Dent coFn--ach a will
raise large crops in Central Iowa and
ripen earlier than the usual crop.
Hon. J. 5. Mcclure. one of the old
est and most successful farmers of
Linn county, is making preparations
TO leave for Great Bend, Barton coun-
ty. Kansas, where he has bought prop
erty and expects to make his perma-
nent home.
Where is the man who lived in his
boyhood days among BURBERRY and
huckleberry bushes but what bankers
for those DAYS" In Wood and Monroe
counties, Wis, hlueberrie- are the
principal articles OF trade AT Tomah,
in the Lemonweir valley. at the proper
season, at least loo bushels per day are
purchased. and sent forward to mar
kst
Mr.. Coop, in sheep-raising, recon-
mends beginning with small flock.
This will increase with your growing
knowledge, and you will find that by
the time you are competent TO manage
them, the increase will afford you |
sufficient flock. This advice would
be good for more branches Of business
than sheep husbandry.
4 writer in the II. Paul Press says
he knows man in Minnesota who /
had run through with large farm by |
persisting in the delusive but ruinous |
practice of raising wheat, and when |
he had become completely poverty |
stricken, his friends gave him team, |
and it was by the most strenuous ar
that he was disuaded from
placing a chattel mortgage on this last
spring to again buy wheat to SOW an
other year.
The Oskaloosa Herald says, SO far
as We know not single imported APP
Pile has been sold in this county this
season, and the price ha, ranged from
Is to 30 cents per bushel. for better
fruit than any Buckeye, Hoosier, or
ever saw in his native
State, and yet the idiotie cry goes up,
You can't raise apples in Iowa"
The President of the State Horticul-
tural Society says that the law pro-
vides that every publisher of a news
paper in the State is to be supplied |
with copy of their annual report
Had the law provided for editors in
stead of publishers, the Agricultural |
editor of the Register would be sup
Piled. He has not seen a report for
three years, but we propose to make
good use of the reports as given in the
)skaloosa Heraid.
The total number of paying oranges
IS reported at 1851, not including
Alabama, Oregon, Arizona, Montana
and Canada. Up TO the issuing of Mr..
kelley's report, in 1875, there had
been issued in the United States "a
300 charters, which, plus sS5 last year,
makes total of p, LIS, leaving 10, 5il
oranges, or about two in every five
dead, consolidated or delinquent. This
is a pretty heavy rate of mortality.
The Kansas Farmer says of the re-
cent meeting of the Kansas state
Grange: 1.-The last session of the
State Grange was more purely a bust
ness meeting than any heretofore held
in the State. The delegates were ear
nest and enthusiastic, and worked
without pay or hope Of pay from the
State Grange That is the way To do
it, then good men will come to the
front, and not those who are striving
solely for the spoils.
The Iowa City Repnbticun of Janu-
airy 24th says: 'Mr. Black informs
Us that his advices from commission
merchants in Chicago is that ring
has been formed extending from Chi.
cago to Boston, and including all the
prominent shippers and packers in
the principal hog markets of the coun
try, which accounts for decline in
prices, and there i. no probability o.
an advance until the ring is broken. ;
A writer in the producer upon tn,
subject of over feeding of short horn,
for the show ring or public sales, says
l. ii not an undeniabe fact that man,
valuable short horns are made perma
nently barren by it" All writers OF
beef cattle agree that excessive feedin.
often destroys the breeding capacity
and every breeder Of wide experienc,
has owned cows that could not be go
with calf because their reproductiv,