Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-12-21

HC Ndluc VI AGRICULTURAL 1mDlemontS
and other machinery made in San Fran
cisco last year, is stated at $4,7OO,OOO.
The late cold snap in East Baton
Rouge did great injury to the cane.
Some planters estimate the damage at
ST. 100000.
The Charlotte On. Co. Observer steps
up with a sow ten years old that has
raised 149 pigs-22, $50 pounds of pork,
1926.
A Chistmas beef, weighing five thous-
and one hundred and fifteen pounds,
goes from Kenton Co., KY, to the Gin
cinnati market
Flax, hemp, jute, and ramie are of ca
sy production in this country, yet we
annually import these articles to the
value Of $5O.0OO,O0O,
The fern mania is spreading so that
one woman in reach of New York has
fern farm, and makes good income,
sending both fresh and pressed ferns by
mail
Augusta, Ga, has $4,000 cotton
seed factory. The price paid for dry
seeds is fifty cents per one hundred
pounds, and ton of seed yields 30 gal
Ions of OIL
The farmers of Sebawa, Mich, would
rather be struck by lightning than trade
with lightning-rod agents any more
One man paid $50 rather than have his
order for $l2 worth of rods filed
The President Of the South Carolina
State Fair Association has sold his en-
tire crop of bread corn to Gen. W. G.
LaDue, United States Commissioner of
Agriculture This corn will be distrib-
uted throughout the United States for
seed
/ Thomas Rivers, one of the most emil
nent horticulturists of the present cen
fury, died at his residence in Sawbridge-
worth, England, on Nov. 18th, at the age
of sevcnty-nine years. His skill in row
culture was known throughout the
world.
Wolves are getting to be very plenty
and very ravenous about River Falls.
Pierce county, Wisconsin. To such an
extent have they increased of late that
sheep raising is out of the question, and
the heaviest sheep raisers in the county
have sold the remnant Of their stocks
and gone out of the business.
The gigantic enterprise of the Duke
of Sutherland, in Scotland, is being imi-
tated on a smaller scale in Ireland
Capt. w. Trousdell of Aughrim Park,
County Galway, is retaining some
5000 acres of bog and waste. There is
a wide field for such work in the eastern
sections Of the United States.
A Maryland farmer thinks he has
found sure cure" for Canada thistles.
1t consists in sowing the land infested
by them with buckwheat early in the
spring, allowing it to grow until it is in
full blossom, turning it under and again
reseeding with the same grain. The last
crop is harvested when ripe.
One Kentucky farmer appropriates
the yearly product of one acre of his
for himself and family.
In these days of bank failures it is
safest for the farmer to make his depos-
it's in banks of rich soil and more ma
nure; buy improved stock instead of
| bank stock, and the only shares that he
should indulge in should be to share
with his wife and family the comforts of
good home.
There are some things it never pays to
doctor. If you have a sick fruit tree OF
any kind dig it up at once, and in so do
ing dig big hole ready for thrifty tree
next spring.
An effort is to be made to raise coffee
in California. Captain Hansen, of Con-
ira Costa has tree eight or ten years
old which is now loaded with coffee ber-
ries
Experienced feeders always select an
imals whose organs are all in an active
state, and capable of assimilating large
quantities of food. Such animals may
be made to gain rapidly in weight and
quality. Thirty two-year-olds are pre-
ferable to older and heavier animals
which have been grown by the slow
methods.
Showing the possibilities of cultiva-
ton and the variations that may be pro-
duced, we find the difference between
the Tuscan wheat, which is cultivated
exclusively for its straw, of which fine
LeghOrn hats are made, and the 'pedi-
gree wheat" of Mr. Hallett, of England,
is in some respects as great as between
two entirely different plants, Thus the
hat wheat has short, loose, bearded
ear, containing not more than dozen
small kernels, while the pedigree wheat
has shown beardless ears of 81 inches in
length, closely packed with large kernels
to the number of 12O.
Oregon, with population of one hun
dred and thirty-fve thousand, this year
produces surplus of eight million
bushels of grain and four million pounds
of wool Wheat sells at Portland for
$l22 per bushel loaded direct for Liv-
erpool. Among other Oregon Industries
which are fast coming to the front and
vying with similar products of Califor-
MIA is cheese. of which trial consign-
ments have already been forwarded to
the San Francisco market. California
will have to look to her laurels if the
bulk Of Oregon produce continues to
approach in quality the sample of cheese
shown us. Prime qualities are quick at
IL cents per pound.
Mr.. Hallett, of Bristol, England, we'll
known for his successful experiments in
improving the quality and yield of seed
grains, through careful selection, in re-
lation to this question, says: Every
close observation during many years has
led me to the discovery that the varia-
tons in the cereals which nature pre-
sents to us are not only hereditary, but
that they proceed upon fixed princi-
pie, and from them / have deduced the
Following law of development of cereals:
l. Every full developed plant, whether
of wheat, oats or barley, presents an ear
superior in productive power to any of
the rest on that plant. q Every such
plant contains one grain, which, upon
trial, proves more productive than any
other. B. The best grain in given
plant is found in it's best ear f. The
superior vigor of this grain is transmits
sable in different degrees in its progeny.
5. BY repeated careful selection the
superiority is accumulated. 6. The i'm
provement, which is at first rapid, grad
ually, after long series Of years, is d.
minished in amount, and evidently so
far arrested that, practically speaking, a
limit to improvement in the desired
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