Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-07-27

The crop prospects in France are pro-
missing, especially in the central dis
tricts.
Five prize American oxen were ship
ped. on the 18th, for Europe, to com
pete with the Scotch oxen at the Fal-
kirk Tryst.
Diaries in Delaware county, N. Y, can
be contracted for at 14c. per pound, but
butter makers refuse to make contracts
at that price.
Mr.. John Cox, of Ebenville, n. Y.
has a half Attorney and half Durham
COW, from the milk of which . pounds
of butter day are made.
The apple crop is likely to be failure
in Missouri this year. The caterpillers
stripped the trees so thoroughly last
June and July, that but few of them
had strength enough to blossom this
year.
The annual cheese show of the East
ern Ontario Dairymen's Association will
be held at Belleville, in connection with
the West Hastings Agricultural EXhi-
bition, on the third and fourth of Octo-
ber
\ COW belonging to Mr.. j. f. Oliver.
OF Ethel, i'll the township of Gray, while
drinking water out Of a tub with about
six inches of water in it, caught her
horns in it and was smothercd.
The Colorado beetle, in every stage of
development. was discovered in potato
field i'll the vicinity Of Cologne. in Ger
many. The field belongs to butcher
who has purchased American bacon.
Julius Frank, a farmer living near
Henryvlllc, Clark county, Ind, lost two
COWS short time since, by some old GU
cumbcr pickles that had been thrown in
the yard and eaten by them
The crops Of Palestine. Manitoba. are
looking splendid. The late heavy rains
have done some damage. but we hope
the worst is over a much larger area
OF crops was put in this year than the
last.
Several COWS belonging to an Iowa
farmer Of Marion county have died from
eating refuse wall paper that was thrown
into their pasture The paper was orna-
mented with green figures, which evil
IDENTIFY contained arsenic.
A New Hampshire paper states that
at Newton, in that State, mad dog,
after having been wounded, took refuge
in barn, where some of the hay became
soaked with his blood. The hay was fed
to a horse, which went mad.
Nearly all the cattle in Germany are
Stalled. A traveller passing through
the country rarely sees any live stock in
the fields or pastures. The Germans
understand and practice the closest
economies of cattle food and animal ex-
crementS,
A New York farmer goes wild over
Guinea hens. He declares that each one
will keep an acre OF potatoes clear Of
bugs, and will answer every purpose Of
a barometer in predicting. storms. He
also says that they will not scratch, and
lay more and better eggs than the com
mon hen
An Illinois farmer who fixed up a
scare-crow of his old clothes and placed
it in the field. was struck dumb to see
that same scare-crow of old familiar
clothing marching into the door of his
house at dinner time with tramp inside
OF them.
The Conneautvillc, Pa. Cheese Fac
tory, two weeks ago, made Il sale, re-
ceiving 12f cents in New York. netting
the patrons liz cents A shipment was
also made on Monday to New York. on
commission, of all of the make Of the
factory ready for market
The trains on the London and Port
Stanley railway were almost stopped on
a late trip in the vicinity of Glanworth,
owing to the multitude of the caterpil-
lars that filed the track, making the
rails greasy and slippery as they crush
ed through the mass.
The export of eggs from Kent county,
Canada, is estimated at 5000 dozens per
day, and one dealer in Chatham has laid
away in pickle for the fall trade over
80, 900 dozen When one reflects that
1000 dozen will fill ten barrel tub,
some idea may be formed of the space
and labor requisite to carry out this
trade
The Lindsay Post says: A large black
bug has made its appearance in this
county, its mission evidently being to
destroy the potato bug and not to inter
ferc with the plants Mr.. Jas. Farrell
has received visit from the new bugs
on his farm, and through their kind Of
fees nearly all the potato bugs have
been destroyed.
The Colorado potato bug has com
pletely devastated the farmers potato
fields in and around the island of Mon
treal. Eggs and beetles are yet very
plentiful in the neighborhood of that
city and Quebec 1t is stated that large
OF these insects arrive by rail
way, and float down the river on RATS
and steamers.