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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
Timber Growing in Iowa.

Extract from an Essay read before the Iowa
State Horticultural Society by G. E. Whiting,
Monona County.
Let us consider few reasons why ev-
cry man on prairie farm should plant
imber:
l. To those of us who have chosen
our homes in this prairie State, it is a
binding duty we owe to ourselves, to our
State and to our children.
z: Timber growing is no longer an ex-
complete success.
3. The State has wisely offered to
and actually does-pay, in exemption
from taxation, amount equal to the en-
tire expense Of cultivating the timber.
4. If planted in belts around the
farm, the protection is worth more than
the rent of the ground on which the
timber stands. All the timber which |
have planted, or will plant under the
present law, will stand when ten years
old without having cost me cent.
D. 1t renders farm so much more
beautiful and attractive as a home, and
SO much more valuable if we ever wish
to sell.
6. One can hardly look on these
beautiful groves, with their cool shade
in summer and protection in winter,
without feeling of self conscious salts
faction that he has done one good thing
for himself and for his posterity.
With these facts before us, have we
not every inducement to 60 forward in
the work? Our State, as part of the
great confederacy, is taking noble lead
in the work. Our State Horticultural
Society is giving, and giving most ear
nestly, all the benefit of her great expe-
rience. The State Agricultural Society
has also offered large premiums for tim
Der planting. But it's strongest and
most earnest advocates are those who
to-day are in house, barn and field sur
rounded by the protecting influence of
groves and belts, and know their full
value, both in summer and winter.
A high state of civilization and an
abundance Of timber must ever go hand
in hand. And it is a hopeful sign of
the times that the whole civilized world
is beginning to move in this direction
Iowa. as State, must move with the
current if she maintains her present
proud position. AS fine groves Of young
cottonwood, white willow and box elder
as ever saw growing, l have seen in
the extreme northwest counties of our
State, as Clay, O'Brien and Osceola. In
the years 1873 and 1874 the St. Paul &
N. 2. r. r. planted successfully four
millions of trees west of the timber re-
gions OF Minnesota toward the Red Riv-
er of the North
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
Packing Fruit.

The profits arising from the deceptive
and dishonest practice of packing apples
in barrels with all the little and knotty
ones in the bottom, and the fine, large
ones on top is played out. Every apple
buyer expects it, and consequently buys
with the knowledge that such is the
case. But if man would pack honest
ly-making at least two grades of his
apples, brand his name on the barrel,
with the grade and kind of apples, he
would soon gain reputation which
would sell his apples at much higher
prices than the dishonesty packed
Those who sold such apples would soon
be able to sell without the trouble Of ia
king the head out of every barrel before
selling Besides, the deceptive prac-
tice Of packing apples should be prose-
cuted for fraudulent transactions. Now
is the season of the year for fruit pack
ers to decide whether they will be hon
est or dishonest.-Statc Register.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
How to Raise and Harvest Clover Seed.

It requires some skill in growing clo-
yer seed, in order to understand how
long to pasture and when to NOW the
first crop. There are three kinds of
clover grown in this country, the com
mon red or medium, the large and the
Fiske; each one is different in it's nature,
and should be managed properly if SOW
ed for seed, in order to secure good
crop. Of course the season has much
to do with it's filling, yet the crop can
be materially helped if managed as it
should be- The large kind, if saved for
seed, can be pastured till the 18th of
OF June, and very close; then, if the land
is poor, give it a coat Of plaster so as to
give it good start. The medium or
common clover, if pastured, should be
pastured till the 10th or 18th Of June,
and if mown, cut the same time, and be
sure and get it off by July LIST; you can
then look for good yield of seed; but,
if left later, your crop will not pay for
tending. If the land is poor, give it a
coat Of plaster, and you will find it very
beneficial, particularly on light soil, and
if the season be dry. In cutting the
seed do not let it stand till dead ripe as
one-third will rattle off and be wasted.
But when the head is handsomely brown
and the stalk not quite dead, there will
then scarcely be any waste, and the
seed just as plump. Many people, in
gathering clover seed, waste at least
one-fourth in allowing it to stand too
long before cutting.
Cut with mower or reaper. A now
er is preferable, attaching a drag apron
of circular form, similar to a reaper
apron, extending far enough so that the
horses, in cutting the next swath, will
not tread the bunch of clover last
thrown from the apron. Then drop
each bunch opposite the last bunch
thrown off, that they may be left in
rows to facilitate gathering on the wag-
on while hauling together Turn it over
before the dew is quite off, so as not to
rattle off the bolls. When thoroughly
dry you can thresh Immediately, or put
it away where it will keep dry, as damp
clover is very difiult to hull, and, at the
same time, impossible to get all the
bolls from the straw. Never rake Glow
err where cut for seed, as it will rattle
off a great deal of seed. If laid in
swaths, gather together carefully with a
fork
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
A Stimulus.

A stimulus is good thing sometimes.
Every year farmers find something to
stimulate sowing more Hand to wheat
than is for their best good, we think.
Now, the stimulus is big and powerful
one-war in the wheat growing districts
of Russia and few thousands of men
fighting
While there is every probability that
wheat will bring goOdsprice for year
to come, and that we can find ready
market abroad for all that we can raise
yet it is very questionable whether it
will be good policy for farmers to change
their regular routine or course of crop
ping to SOW larger breadth to wheat
Half our population are farmers, and
they need season or two of good crops
and good prices, things which sell
dom work together. Good crops are OBJ
tanned only by the best modes of cul-
ture. Under the ordinary mode of rails
ing wheat the crop is oftener light than
large and remunerative. Every year
the disappointments are nearly univer-
sal among farmers when the wheat crop
is threshed.. They admit that they
make but little money out of wheat, but
this is certainly oftener owing to the
way the crop is grown than to any una
voidable weather influence Now, if I'M
der the great stimulus of big and long
war, farmers SOW an extra large breadth
to wheat and put it in in a careless and
unfarmer-like manner, the crop will
surely fall far below the common aver
age-low as that is. We are quite sure
that unless extra care is taken with the
land in making it rich and in cultivating
it well, we shall lose more than we shall
make by the operation.
A farmer cannot alter his rotation for
a single year without disturbing his
plans for years to come. What then
would you have farmers do? it may be
asked.
Sow no more land, but prepare the us
ual quantity in better manner This
is our advice. Then you will realize as
much, or more, and be in no danger of
loss from a general change in your
course of rotation. System and an add
herence to it are of quite as much i'm
portance for farmer as for the mer-
chant, though it is not so considered.
No farmer can alter his regularly estab-
lished system of farm operations he
has one-without great loss. If he has
no system, but is governed by every
passing event, then it makes but little
difference what he sows, or how much
Of this or how little of that. Let the
needle point steadily to the pole and
then you may be guided safely. When
disturbed by chance or local influences
it is no longer a safe trust.-Detroit
Tribune.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
80 Ts YEAR, BuF0RE THE PUBLIC.
e. 9. McLANE'S
Celebrated American
W Or M SPECIFIC
r ERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

,'lII:countcnancc is pale and leaden-
coiorcd, with occasional flushes, or
D., crcumscribed spot on one or both
checks the eyes become dull the pu-
pills di!atc; an azure scmicirclc runs
along the lower eyelid; the nose is IL
ritatcd, swclls, and sometimes bleeds !;
Il swelling Of the upperlip occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
Of the ears an unusual secretion of
saliva Shiny or furred tongue breath
;ory foul, particularly in the morning ;
appetite variable, sometimes vora-
cious, with gnawing sensation of the
stomach, at others, entirely gone =,
ilccling pains in the stomach; occa-
>ional nausea and vomiting; violent
pains throughout the abdomen bow
els irregular, at times costivc stools
Shiny; not unfrequently tinged with
blood /; belly swollen and hard urine
turbid; respiration occasionally diff
cult, and accompanied by hiccough !;
cough sometimes dry and convulsive !;
uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grind
ing of the teeth temper variable, but
generally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DIR. c. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
1T DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form it is an innocent prepare.
ton, not capable Of doing the slight
est injury to the most tender infant
The genuine DIR. McLANE's YER
MIFUcE bears the signatures of c.
McLANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
Curiosity Of Grating.

In 1866, Mr.. Carillet, of Vincennes
France, took two young pear trees, each
of which was worked on the ounce
stock, and one of these, the Beurre de
Aremberg, was made to serve as the
stock, while the other, the Buerre dc
Charneu, was grated upon it in an in
verified position, having its roots fully
exposed to the air. The operation was
performed in April, and during the
summer the stock grew vigorously, and
bore two fruits, while the scion tree
threw out buds and shoots from the
ounce stock. To add to the complex
ty of the experiment, NJ. Carillet graft
ed four pear scions on the principal
roots of the ounce, and two of these
succeeded. The sap thus passed from
ounce roots through Beurre de Arem
berg, thirdly through the inverted
Beurre de Charneu, then through the
ounce again, and finally into two varie
ties Of pears. Tile Gardea.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
Mr.. B. H. Campbell, of Des Moines,

Mr.. B. H. Campbell, of Des Moines,
who is a clear and forcible writer, has a
strong article in the last National lire
Stock Journal in favor of farmers pay
ing more attention to raising draft
horses, and less to mere speed. He
says:
what the farmer wants or needs to
produce is, first, that horse which sells
for the. largest profit on his cost, and
secondly, that horse which supplies the
greatest number of uses for which a
farmer needs horse. We do not rank
horse racing or rapid road driving as
one of the prime needs of man, much
less of the farmer, in this connection.
When that type of horse can be found
which will most nearly fill the above
conditions, not one without the other,
but both taken together, we have no
fears but he will in time become the
horse of America.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

All dairymen who test their milk both
III quantity and quality feed grain in
some form. At the east the extra feed
is usually middlings and meal.
The amount of milk received daily in
New York from Massachusetts is about
one thousand cans each containing forty
quarts. Occasionally the supply OK
ceeds this quantity.
In Morocco, butter is churned by a
woman, in bag of goat skin, which,
when nearly filled with milk is closed by
tying the mouth tightly. The bag is
then rolled about and kneaded until but
ter is formed.
The Laplanders preserve the milk of
the reindeer in frozen pieces like cheese.
When melted, even after the lapse of
several months, it still tastes fresh and
good. When a stranger whom they de-
sire to welcome enters their dwelling,
the frozen piece Of milk is Immediately
set to the fire; the guest receives a
spoon, with which he skins off the soft
ened exterior as it melts; at the conclu-
sion of the repast the remnant is pre-
served in the cold for other guests.
Pure milk is the highest type of hui
man food, being equal to flesh and more
easily digested; the necessity of pure
milk is apparent to all Cheese is twice
as nutritious as beef; four pounds of
milk is equal to one pound of cooked
beef. Double the quantity of milk is
required to grow one pound Of veal or
beef, than to produce one pound of
cheese. English laborers, having their
choice for dinner, one-quarter pound OF
cheese or one-half pound of meat, gen
orally prefer the cheese.
A young farmer in Sheldon, VT, pur-
chased dairy farm stocked with sixty
cows. During two years he has sold,
exchanged and reduced the number of
his cows, so that last year he had but
thirty five. He reports having made as
much butter from the thirty select
ed COWS as was made from the original
sixty. 1t is easy to see that in reduced
attendance and diminished cost of feed
ing, with equal products, his profits
must be largely increased.
TO dye black, allow | pound of log
wood to each pound of goods to be dyed.
Soak the logwood over night in soft
WAGER, then boil it an hour, and strain
the water in which it is boiled. For
each pound of logwood, dissolve | ounce
of blue vitrol in warm water sufficient
to wet the goods. Saturate the goods
in this and then immerse them in the
logwOod dye. Drain the goods and dry
in the shade. When dry set the color
by putting them into hot water in which
has been dissolved teacupful of salt to
three gallons of water. Let the goods
remain in until cold, then dry, without
wringing Scientific american.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

BLACKBERRY JELLY-Put the Der
ries into stone jar; set the jar into a
kettle Of warm water and let it boil
closely covered, until the fruit is all
broken; strain through stout, coarse
cloth; to each pint of juice allow ono
pound of sugar; set the juice on alone
to boil, and while it is boiling let the
sugar be heating in the oven; stir the
sugar occasionally to keep it from burn
ing; after the juice has boiled just TWEEN
ty minutes add the hot sugar; when the
sugar has dissolved let the juice just
come to boil, then remove it at once
from the fire; have your glasses rolled in
hot water; fill them at once with scald
liquor:when cold and firm, place brand
led tissue paper on the jelley, paste q
thick paper over the glass, and keep in
a dry place.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
DIR. G. MQLANE'S
PILLS

These Fills are not recommended as
aremcdy for all the ills that flesh is
heir to, but in affections of the liver,
and in all Bilious Complaints, Dys-
pepsia, and Sick Headache, or dis
eases Of that character, they stand
without rival.
A G u e AND FEVER
No better cathartic can be used pre-
paratory to, or after taking Quinine.
AS a simple purgativc they are un-
equaled.
80, BEWARE OF INVITATIONS,
Tho genuine arc never sugar coated.
Each box has u red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DIR. MO
LANES Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures
of 9. MCLANE and FLEMING Bros.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storckeopers generally.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

a writer in the Ne,o York Times says
To prevent grease accumulating ON the
face, battle it often with mild acids, OF
the juice of lemon or tomato diluted
rub the face delicately with towel sew
eral times day. To render the com
plexion smooth and soft, apply cold
cream mixed with water every night in
winter time. In summer apply DAT
meal water instead Beware of getting
on too much of any such preparation, as
it renders an uncomfortable night and
does harm to the skin. Apply the of
tener. Late suppers have more to dc
with muddy complexions and heavy eyes
than the girls realize. Never use cos
metics. They contain lead Lemon
juice and sugar mixed will remove
freckles.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28


voted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers Of the Bull
LETIN are requested to write for it.
Grange Directory.
PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443.-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each MONTH
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 166. Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
s. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 12l6.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL. Master N
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. 811-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
W. BUNCE, Master.
P. B. SCHEMERHORN, Sec'Y.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 52S.-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
B. DUBOIS, Master
E. ]. WIGG. Sec'y.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No. School
House, Hazleton Township.
Z. MESSENGER, Master.
G. M. MILLER, Sec'y.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267.-Meets at Justus
Durkee's, on Tuesday evening" on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox, Sec'y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28


GRADE OF WHEAT Mr.. G. f. Clark.
son writes as follows in the State Reg
tster::
If Iowa wheat is not No. l this yeal
it never will be. And yet we learn all
our wheat is graded No. 2 at Chicago
The Vinton Eagle says j. c. Pike ship
ped car load last week, which graded
No. l, and it was the first car load evel
shipped from this place that ever grad
ed No. l" They may not grade oul
wheat equal to it's quality, but it makes
but little difference as there is now only
about one cent per bushel difference be-
tween No. l and 2. And amidst the
perversity of Chicago wheat inspectors
we should not at any time be astonisheC
if No. 2 was worth a little more thar
No. /. There formerly was difference
of from eight to fifteen cents.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

The factory Of St. Charles, ILL.,, ship
ped twenty tons of cheese in July and
thirty tons in June.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

NEURALGIA AND RHEUMATISM "A
very simple relief for neuralgia is to
boil small handful of lobelia in half a
pint of water till the strength is out of
the herb. then strain it off and add a
teaspoonful of fine salt. Wiring cloths
out of the liquid as hot as possible and
spread over the part affected. 1t acts
like charm. Change the cloths as soon
as cold till the pain is all gone; then
cover the place with soft, dry cover
ing till the perspiration is over, so as to
prevent taking cold. Rheumatism can
often be relieved by application to the
painful parts, of cloths wet in weak
solution of sal-soda in water If there
is inflammation in the joints, the cure is
very quick; the wash needs to be luke
warm.-C0r. Country Gentleman.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
REGISTERS Eminent.
ROWELL'S ADS.

plkNnc 715-octave, fine rosewood mot used
I lHNUO over six moths), only $3.50; cost $3.50.
New Pianos at wholesale. Bargains!
0QcANc Nearly new, $50; two stops, s45; 5
OOUHNO stops, $50; 6 stops, $55; stops. $50; 9
q stops sos; L stops s55 to S75. Rare
opportunities, New organs at wholesale. Be
ware limitations. Best offer ever made, read.
Svnt on to Is days test trial. Money refund
ed and freight paid both ways if unsatisfactory.
Est. 1856. Agents wanted. Discounts to
teachers, minister's &c. Address DANIEL +.
BEATTY. Washington, New Jersey.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28
r. S. g. A. p. LACEY, Att'ys,

Any person desiring information as to the
standing and responsibility of the members of
the firm, will. on request be furnished with
satisfactory reference in his vicinity or Con-
gressional District. 12-24tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

Last Autumn, writes a correspondent
of the Ne,o England Farmer, while Wis
iting in the north part of the State, my
father saw man brushing his faded
window blinds over with boiled linseed
oil, instead of painting them, and think
ing it capital idea, came home and
tried the experiment on his own, as the
oil was all evaporated from them, and
he had expected to have to paint them
before winter; but, although badly fad
ed, the application of one coat of oil
brought them back nearly to their origi-
nal brightness and glossiness. If it had
been put on in hot weather they would
have looked better, as it was so cold
when he found leisure to do it, that the
oil would not penetrate readily, but
gathered in occasional drops on the low
er edge of the Stats and dried Judg-
ing from the appearance of ours, | am
inclined to think if one oiled his blinds
over in hot, sunny weather, once every
year or two, beginning, of course, before
the color is rubbed off, they could be
kept looking bright great many years
without painting, and this would make
quite saving, as green paint is rather
expensive and has so little oil in it that
it soon evaporates and leaves nothing
but the color, which, of course, wears
off unless more is added.