The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-01-04
AGRlCULTURAL ITEMs.

The Journal says for corn and hogs
Calhoun cannot be beaten.
Thirty-one thousand dollars was
paid out last week At Iowa City to the
farmers for hogs.
Recollect the laws of Iowa prohibit
the trapping Of chickens at any time,
and we hope the law will be enforced.
John N. Lafferty, Of Henry county,
last week sold forty pigs, eleven
months old, that averaged 455 pounds.
The National Live Stock Journal in
tends giving history of the principal
short-horn breeders in Iowa. COM
mencing in the January number of
that paper.
The foul weed, the Mullen, grows
not naturally in Europe, but 1t is care
fully trained in Jardin les Plantes in
Paris, and Is called the "American
Velvet Plant"
The Drorer's Jourad, says: Get rid
Of old-that is, not profitable, stock
that will not pay to winter. Carry
this right through from horned stock
down to hens.
There are no "soft places" in any
department of human industry If every
man faithfully discharges his duty,
and charges no more than he honestly
earns.
The State Grange of Indiana was in
session the same time as the Iowa
Grange. The former reported ST., 900
cash on hand, and over $1,000 MEM
bers paying dues.
II is stated that there were 751 head
Of Short-Horns sold in Iowa in 1876 at
auction, for the sum of S232 AIS. Indi-
ana, Ohio and Illinois sold only about
one-third as many.
While Russia is arming for the fray,
and intends administering on the
"sick man's' estate, let us attend to
the pigs, and do our duty towards
feeding hungry world.
Farmers, when huyiRg your sup
plies, never buy of those who will sell
on credit. Much is eventually lost by
such credit, and goods have TO be sold
higher to those who do pay to make
| up the losses.
God tempey the wind to the shorn
lamb" said some enthusiastic writer
who never felt an Iowa blizzard.
Farmers here must temper the winds
from all domestic animals by works
and not by faith.
The great lesson which our youth
need to learn, and which the world
should practice, is economy-the art
| of living within our means. Until
this is done there will be grumbling
about hard times-there will be assign
ments, bankruptcies and defalcations.
If those farmers who were drowned
out last year would underdrain they
would be prepared for similar year.
II those who had their soil baked by
drouth would use tile drain literally,
they would have less reason to COM
plain of the seasons.
The Hon. Samuel Campbell, of New
York, says: IAN analysis Of strong
wheat straw will show that It's solids
contain ffty per cent. Of silica-a very
conclusive proof that where soluble
silica has been exhausted from the
soil, good wheat crop is an impossi-
bility."
| Minnesota, like all the older West
ern States, is exhausting her wheat,
growing capacity, the average yield 81
the State running below eight bushels
per acre. The patent process of grind
ing spring wheat into a fine pastry
flour has, however, built up great
milling industry in the State.
The Ames Mteligencer informs us
that the Iowa Agricultural College is
to be thoroughly renovated and inn
proved during the winter vacation.
Many Of the rooms, the chapel and
halls are receiving new coats of plas-
tering and the entire building will be
newly painted on the inside.
Be careful of the temperature Of
your rooms. Nearly all the colds,
diptheria, lung fever, etc., are caused
by hot and Irregular temperature in our
poorly ventilated houses. 1t il no
uncommon circumstance to go into a
farmers house and find the tempera-
ture S5 to 80 degrees, when il should
be not over IS.
The Cedar Falls Gazette reports
scamps still about: .The shoddy
cloth peddlers have been out in Wright
county. Two notes given by farmers
were raised from $40 to SllO after be-
ing signed by the parties. The vii
lians have swindled the farmers out
that way to the amount of several
hundred dollars"
Scientific farmers have changed the
wild boar into the Suffolk and Berk-
shire; the wild bull Of Britain into the
Short Horn; the mountain sheep,
with its lean body and hair fleece, in
to the Southdown and merino. They
brought up the milk of cows from
pints to gallons. They have length
ened the sirloin of the bullock, deep
ened the udder of the COW, enlarged
the ham of the hog, given strength to
the shoulders of an OK, rendered finer
the wool of the sheep, added feetness
to the speed of the horse, and made
beautiful every animal that is kept In
the service of man.
We laugh at rural simplicity for the
ancient agriculturist, and in turn we
will be pit led foT0our ignorance in the
generations Of the future. The his
torian informs us how t." "s.ctont
Roman farmer did thingnol,
latter oxen get through OOh9
ss%s %"ss asss ns~s '''''s nsasss $..s,k, or
their throats, and, afte 1-sl
little, be led out to dri hlIlU
will not drink, the b, n
to make them" dto
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