Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-15

gia is acquiring the reputation OF be-
ing the best region in the United
States for sheep raising.
The sale of fruit trees in the West
has been very small this season, part
ly owing to the hard times and part
" to the short season available for
tree planting.
Paintings along the Green Bay
and Minnesota railroad, in Wiscon-
sin, are far in excess of former years,
and growing crops indicate a large
and profitable harvest.
Large plantations of bananas have
been made in the worn-out cotton
fields of the Cult States. In Florida
the trees are growing rapidly, and
require very little care.
The agricultural department OF
Dartmouth has just sent out thirteen
graduates. 1t is said to be in flour
ishing condition. 1t is proposed to
increase the course from three years
to four.
Russia has more horses than all
the remainder OF Europe put togeth-
er. She has 100000, or 227.05
for every 1000 of population. 1t
would seem that she will never be at
a loss for cavalry.
The corn crop of New Hampshire
promises to be much increased this
year. A larger amount of acreage
will be planted and great care taken
in the selection of the seed and its
cultivation.
A farmer in Springfield township,
Noble county, Indiana, has been ex-
perimenting with the product of one
head of wheat Of rare variety
Last years sowing (the fourth) yield
ed one hundred and twenty bushels,
at the rate of thirty bushels to the
acre.
Information has reached the State
Department of the discovery in
Egypt of a peculiar cotton plant pro-
dueing a double crop. The plant is
being raised there, is a distinct varie-
ty, is adapted to commercial pur-
poses, and the discovery has caused
a great deal of excitement among the
cotton planters there.
The Semi Tropical says: The Gu
cumber is naturally a climber and
not 4 creeping plant, and it always
bears better when furnished with a
bush or trellis Of laths and strings
for its support. Some brush, like
those used for sticking peas, laid on
the ground around the hill are better
than no support.
The ANa Californian says: The
number of sheep that have died or
have been slaughtered because of the
scarcity of pasturage, is not less than
100000, and at the end of the year,
instead of having 100000 sheep, as
we should have with an average rain
fall, we shall probably not have more
than 100000, perhaps not so many.
Many young fruit trees, especially
pears, are burned to death during the
hot season. Even when the ground
is kept wet and their roots are moist
enough, young and newly-set trees
upon which the bark is thin and ten
der, are cooked by the sun as by 4
fire, and the branches and trunks die
while the roots remain alive. This
may often be prevented by winding
the trunks with cloths, which shuts
out the sun.
No part Of Minnesota, says the st.
Paul Pioneer Press, seems to have
been passed over by the recent be.
neficent rainfall. Right on the heels
of the late seeding, too, the showers
were doubly favoring. In Southern
Minnesota the few chinch-bugs that
have strayed away from Wisconsin,
appear to have taken congestive
chills and begin to subside. Nothing
seems going against the grain now,
except sick hoppers and boss edo
zers."
The best time to kill weed is as
soon as it is born, before you can see
it. When the seed has terminated,
and if just ready to break through
the ground, then the least disturb
ance of the soil disarranges its con-
nections and it dies in a hot sum-
but if it grows until it makes roots, if
it is disturbed considerably you DO
not kill 1t; it has hold upon the
soil and it will live in spite of
you.
Good authorities estimated the last
cotton crop i'll the United States at
100000 bales. 1t turns out to be
100000. The crop in Egypt and
India Is larger than. was expected,
and there is enough of the raw
produce to last until the beginning of
the new crop year. The war In En-
rope has caused falling off in the
consumption and decline IN the
price. Neither scarcity nor a rise
is to be expected this spring.
The prize sheet for the Royal Ag-
ricultural Societys show at Liver
pool, in July next, has just been
issued. The sum offered in prizes is
over 10000, of which the local COM
mittee contribute $4,000. There are
special prizes Of 100 guineas by the
Mayor of Liverpool for the best agri-
cultural stallion; ESQ for the best
bull, and one of ESQ for the best fe-
male animal. The committee have
raised 10000 in subscriptions.
The Angora goats from Asia have
been introduced into Texas very
largely within the last few years.
One man has now about 1000 cross
ed with the Mexican goat. The hair
or wool is long, and will sell for from
seventy-five cents to one dollar per
pound; the skin or hide makes the
morocco leather and kid glove; the
suet is the best in the world, and the
meat of the young goat is tender and
toothsomc. On the whole, the goat
business in Texas and Mexico pro-
misses to be great feature of their
future.
Says the New York Graphic:: SO
far we have enjoyed our boasts of
our increasing beet trade with Eng