The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-08-02
AGnBCULrURAL ITEMS.
From the state Register. |

Extracting Is the only remedy 70
black teeth in pigs, If there he such
complaint.
They have manufactured this yea
four thousand Marsh Harvesters a
Plano, Ill.
Sometimes women CAD about 81
much that there is nothing Mt hom'
worth caring for.
| The Cedar Rapids Times thinks tn
average price of harvest hands il
Iowa this year will not exceed SI.5o
| Good butter making Is fine art
and the premium for the best butte
should be included in the list o
premiums on the arts.
All doubts about erops may now be
dismissed from troubled minds. This
is to be year of abundance of thu
products of the earth.
We wish the fine stock breeders Of
Iowa to show at our State Fair that
the failure of one man will not '.break
up the Short-H Horn breeding in Iowa. y
You need only to take up almost
any paper and find some writer (who
probably never smelt newly plowed
earth INDUCING in rhapsodies upon
| the bliss of farmers life.
The agricultural mind has received
noble stimulus from the Centennial
Exposition, and aroused the farmers
to a larger conception of their duty
and responsibility in the worlds pros
perity.
Fast walking horses are of more
Importance on the farm and road than
fast trotters. So Agricultural Socie-
ties should give premiums to fast
walkers. And there is great need of
improvement in this respect.
Let every farmer Of enterprise and
none others have any business there
resolve at once to attend our State
Fair at Cedar Rapids, and compete
for any prize he possibly can.
Whittier K Prang gave us fine
picture of the barefoot boy. Now let
them give US a picture of the farmers
boy, VINO weary and sleepy is compell-
ed to wash his feet before he goes TO
bed.
The Davenport Democrat has dis
covered that one teaspoonful Of Paris
green fed TO a potato bug morning,
noon and night will make him awful
sick If his blood isn't in the best con-
dition.
The Agricultural Department has
received information tibet the wheat
crop in North Cumberland county
Va, has been ruinel by rust, and has
sent DIR. Taylor, the microscopic Of
the department to investigate it.
A young man sometimes sells a
farm, turns merchant and dies in a
poor house. An old man sometimes
sells his homestead to live on the in
terest of the money. Sharpers run
away with his money and he saws
wood for living.
Summer pork packing is becoming
immense. Chicago, from the clos of
the regular winter packing. March LIST
to June 2lst, packed about 10000
hogs, and the number will reach
100000 by the lst of November.
The. Grange now for social privi-
leges take the place of the old fashion,
ed huskin,s, the log rollings, the fax
puliings, the house raisings, the apple
parings. &c. The Grange is all there
is left to call the farmers together for
social enjoyment.
Let every reader of the Register take
the Premium list of his own county
fair, and read it over in the presence
of his wife, sons, daughters and hired
help, and see how many items there
are which he can contest for at the
fair, and then work for it till the dav
Of the exhibition.
Cattle drovers are buying stock in
Oregon, and driving them by the
Boise and Snake rivers, then through
Utah to Kansas. One man is on the
way with 2,7O head, and Others will
follow him. In Kansas they will be
fed till next spring, then sent East to
market.
The Monroe Times, Iowa, gave ex-
preston to this sentiment: "A fresh
imported foreigner, after few days
practice, will make first rate farm
hand; even half witted fellow can
work on farm, yet he can not teach
sshool, and then the paper died as
it ought to.
4 lady correspondent has been
troubled about making soap, and in
guires for information. That is easily
impaired. The soap must be made in
the old Of the moon, just as the moon
enters Capricornus. The soap must
be stirred with sassafras stick. and
stirred only with the sun. That will
do ii.
We can say to NJ. G. H., of Stuart,
Iowa, that we know Of no one who
has ever tried the Brazilian Artichoke
and found II superior to the common
white kind, except those who make
great puffs in the papers and sell them
at $500 per bushel.
The English stock journals are try
ing to write up the Red Roses Short
Horns as equal if not superior to the
Duchesses. Thus is introduced an
other family Of pure blood.
The New Orleans P.cayune notices
Unsuccessful cultivation o! the teapl,nt
on the farm of a Mr.. Manard. above
Pickfsw, on the Jackson railway,
The prophet prepare the leaves as
the Chinese dc, and test of the decoc-
ton IL reported to be all that could be
desired from actual test.
The Indianola Tribune REPORTS the
prospect good for all kinds of crops in
Warren county: Rye Is being har-
vested and is said to be a good croo.
Many farmers are now busily engaged
making hay, which promises one of
the h;yUast yiaId IL, ,,o, txr, :.