Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-11-09

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Tobacco can be successfully raised in
Nevada.
The Florida State Fair will be held at
Jacksonville, Feb. II.
At Plymouth, Indiana, good potatoes
sell at fifteen cents per bushel.
A large sale of fancy cattle will take
place in Kansas City on the 9th and 10th
Of November.
Green Bay shipped one hundred and
sixty thousand bushels of wheat by lake
in one week.
A Texas farmer raises enough Chin
ese tea to supply his own family and sew
eral neighbors.
The ~ crop promises now to make
the best quality of tobacco that Wiscon-
sin has ever produced.
A trial of steam engines suitable for
agricultural purposes will be held at
Syracuse, N. Y, under the auspices of
the State Agricultural Society.
They are cultivating the poppy in
France largely Of late; over $4,000 acres
are thus occupied, yielding last year
100000 francs worth of opium.
That there is no royal road to success
as an agriculturist, is shown in the sur
rendering of Chiswick farm by the
Prince of Wales. He couldn't make it
pay:
The GAINESVILLE pickle factory has
manufactured 1000 bushels of cucum-
bers into pickles, ard 1000 barrels of
saur kraut, during the season just clos
ed.
The Indiana State Horticultural So
ciety has had under discussion the pres
ervation of fruits, and general disap-
proval of all chemical processes was in
dulged in.
The Aroostook Land Company, at
Marysville, Me-, is grinding twenty-five
hundred bushels OF potatoes, and max
ing ten tons of starch every twenty-four
hours.
Now is the time for procuring chest
nuts for planting next spring. Do not
let them Get dry; pack them away in a
box of earth and place it where it will
keep cool and moist.
The fine quality of the hogs received
here from Nebraska occasions frequent
comment Not only do they show good
breeding, as rule. but they are, almost
without exception, healthy.
Clover can be made to answer three
fold purpose-for pasture, for hay, and
as fertilizer. In such capacity it is
first-class, and, being easily grown, its
use should become universal.
requires about two thousand horses
per year to replenish the London Omni
bus Company's stables in place of the
disabled and dead. They keep employ
ed about eight thousand horses.
The committee on distribution of
birds throughout the forests of South
Jersey have been authorized to expend
81, 600 during the next year in purchas-
ing birds and attending to their distri-
button.
The worlds annual production of su-
gar aggregates 2 1900 tons of cane SUI
gar, 100000 tons Of beet-root sugar,
100000 tons of date sugar, 10000 tons
of maple sugar, and 10000 tons of sor-
ghum sugar.
Comfort in COWS promotes secretion
Of milk hence groups of trees in a pas
ture are invaluable during hot weather,
and entire lack of trees should be sup
plemented by artificial shelter of some
kind.
In Italy the rearing of barn-door
fowls has taken an important extension.
In 1876, the country exported eggs to
the value of 25,00O,000 francs, or ID 900,
600 francs more as compared with the
year 1878.
Tobacco cultivation in Germany occu-
pies about $4,000 acres. The average
crop is worth $45 100000, and the Ger
man empire, in spite OF it's enormous
consumption of the weed, exports far
more than it receives.
There was sample of American corn
sent to Havre, France, in 1875, which
resulted in 1876 in demand for 1926
bushels, and in the first seven months
of the present year we sent to that port
576,716 bushels.
Martin Steufer, living near West
Point, Neb., raised 9Th bushels of rye,
machine measure, from five acres, and
700 bushels of oats from twelve acres,
which in the spring he gave up as de-
stroyed by grasshoppers.
The prodigious wheat crop of Mime
sofa this year has produced an immense
demand for farms, and the area OF vir-
gin soil that has been brought under the
pillow next year will reach up among the
hundreds of thousands of acres.
The Russian thoroughbreds the "Or-
loft trotters were sold at auction re-
Gently, says the New York Tribune, for
prices ranging from 1855 to $400. The
coal-black stallion, Lebel, brought the
highest price, and was knocked down to
j. e. Jones, Of Kansas.
California farmers are cultivating fig
trees for the sole purpose OF raising and
fattening hogs. This fruit contains
large quantities of saccharine matter,
hence is very fattening The fig tree,
once well started, requires little atten
ton, bears several crops year, and IS
very prolific.
Since the cattle disease made its APP
pearance in Cleveland, Ohio, and vicin-
ity, one hundred and thirty-nine cows
have died. The general theory is that
the disease is fever of some kind, and
is communicated to native cattle by Tex
as steers taken there to be slaughtered,
many of which are pastured in the sur
rounding country for awhile.
Miller & Lux, California firm, own
seven hundred thousand acres in allan
area nearly equal to that of Rhode Is
land. They own about eighty thousand
cattle, and last year their newborn
calves numbered twenty-five thousand.
OF sheep they have vast number, as
they furnish the largest share of fresh
meat for the San Francisco market.
Japan cultivates about 100000 acres
one-tenth of her entire area, though
one-fourth of her fertile area She sup
,ortc n nnnnlation Of three and nna-half