Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-14

Constant rsins hsye dsaastIed the cot.
ton crop drought the State Of Louisi
ana.
The last graduating class at Iowa
Agricultural college numbered twenty.
three.
Large shipments Of barley for the
European markets are being made al
Oswego.
Last week two million bushels Of
wheat were shipped from New York tc
England.
I The Michigan Beekeepers' association
holds its annual meeting at Adrian, Dec
Is.
The average yield Of the cane in Iber-
ia, La, is one and half hogsheads to
the acre.
The millers'of Cass county, Missouri,
are complaining that they can't gel
wheat enough to grind.
Oat meal and rye bread are used by
ninety per cent. Of the agricultural la
borers Of Great Britain.
An editor at Rockdale, Tex, has re.
ceived a sweet potato almost yard
long and weighing seven pounds.
The wolves are killing sheep south of
the Platte, and the ranchmen are killing
the>wolves with strychnine.
Cherries were grown in England in
Saxon times, and used in the fourteenth
century in the preparation Of broth.
The eucalyptus trees planted at Nice
have prevented, during the last two
years, ma1arial fever usual in that city.
Eggs are being shipped by the carload
from Decatur ILL.,, to the Black Hills,
where thay command fabulous price
New Hampshire produced over 2,0OO,-
600 bushels Of Indian corn last year, or
more than any other New England
State.
Oregon, with population of but 135,
600, this year produces a surplus of
100000 bushels Of grain and 100000
pounds Of WOOL
In central Georgia the annual average
cost per head of keeping sheep is fifty
four cents; average cost OF raising a
pound OF wool, six cents.
In South America the cities are light
ed with castor oil, The castor plant is of
very remote history, seeds having been
taken from the Egyptian tombs suppos-
ed to be four thousand years old,
About fifty immigrants from New
Jersey, passed through Clinton, Mo-,
recently, for Texas. They were the ad-
vance guard of colony Of five hundred
who intend settling in that State the
coming Spring.
D. w. Coe, living near Peterboro, n
Y, has an apple tree which was set out
by his grandfather seventy years ago
This year it produced sixty bushels OF
apples, which Melted him twenty EIGHT
dollars.
An American horticulturlst was en-
gagged by the japanese government a
year ago to establish permanent model
farm in Japan. He writes that he has
already 800 acres under cultivation, to
be increased several fold
J. B. Snowman, Of Weld, Me-, has
raised castor-b bean plant measuring
eleven feet in height, with stalk eight
and half inches in circumference. A
single leaf measures three feet across.
The farmers in the vicinity of Lyons
Mich, have foamed mutual protective
union. They propose to protect them
selves against horse thieves, tramps
clothes-line thieves, lightning rod men
and all other chaps that prey upon the
guileless farmers.
Cocoa-nut trees yield from 80 to Ion
nuts yearly, and will continue in bearing
during two generations of men. The
edible part when ripe is composed OF fa1
or oil, to the extent of about seventy
per cent, so that quart is obtained
from six or eight nuts.
Texas made this year 100000 bales Of
cotton, from which will be 4O,OOO,OO(
pounds of seed. This seed, converted
into oil would bring over $14,0O0,000
The total exports OF cotton from thu
port of Galveston for the season JUS
closed were 495, 814 bales, of which 256.
928 went to foreign and 238,866 to do
nestle ports.
The grape yield of Ohio has been very
satisfactory this year, although there
were serious apprehensions of a failure
in the Spring. From Put-in-Bay alone
10000 baskets were shipped They have
fetched from two and half cents a
pound for Concord to six cents fol
choice Delaware. Catawbas have sole
for four cents and upward.
Barley, though rarely used in this
country except in the preparation OF
malt and the manufacture of ales, yet
is eaten as bread in many parts OF New
South Wales, and is also added to wheat
-four in making brown bread. 1t is also
largely consumed by the peasantry anc
soldiers in continental Europe, also in
parts of India and other Eastern coun
tries. When used whole as food, as i,
is in many districts of India, it is first
parched.
Concerning the English wheat crop
J. B. Lawes, of ROthamstead, states
that the average yield per acre in mum
Der of bushels is very nearly the same
in 1877 as in 1876, but that the quality
as indicated by the weight per bushel, is
much inferior in 1877. Thus the aver
age weight per bushel on the selected
spots in the permanent wheat fields was
% TBS, and among the varieties OF wheat
nearly 3sfbs less in 1877 than in 1876.
A stock grower, writing to the New
York club, gives his mode of destroying
lice on cattle. He says, l destroy then
with brine-any kind of salt water vii
do it. | find two kinds of lice, the blu.
lice, and | think the other is hen lice.
tried red precipitate one year; it killed
the lice, two yearlings, and two-year
old. But washing the cattle with brine
is easier, and they get into the habit o
licking one another, and are more gentle
toward each other.
The chestnut is one of the most beau
tiful trees, whether it's flowers, foliage
or fruit are considered. Old trees, grow.
ing singly in pastures, not unfrequently
possess the grandeur of the oak, and
are often mistaken for it. Nothing cal
be more exquisite than the silky, silvery
down, covering the nuts and lining thu
husk before it is married by the touch Of
rude fingers. The young trees with
their soft, thrifty bark, are always beau
tiful, and the value of the timber is too
we'll known to need comment. They
thrive better on light, dry soil than on
heavy, wet land.