The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-01
AGRGCULTURAL ITEMS.
from the State Register.


hog last week weighing 80 pounds.
Wheat was selling at Eldora last
week at sl.l6 per bushel.
Cions can be cut now when they are
not frozen. Pack them in damp saw
dust.
Procure seeds early from seed stores.
the assortments are always the best
early.
Do not buy fruit trees from the ex-
travagantly colored pictures shown
by travelling agents.
Pruning must be done before, or
wait till after the sap flows. Use wax
or paint to cover large wounds.
If young lambs are coming along
about these times those having care
Of them must recollect Mark 1887.
No such spring-like weather as we
have had for two weeks has been seen
in Iowa in February since 1855.
A young farmer friend asks US what
he will do to make monev? Buy
sow and pigs and take care of them.
Horses that have been kept on hay
and corn fodder can now be grained
more thoroughly preparatory for
spring work.
Cows should be dried of from four
to six weeks before calving. Give
them generous food of good moist hay,
but little grain.
1T you are going to set fruit trees in
the spring, it is time orders were made
and sent to some reliable nurseryman,
as near home as possible.
See that plows, harrows, corn-mark-
ers, corn planters, seeders, singletrees,
harness, and every thing needed in
putting in crops, are in perfect repair.
The wingless female Of the canker
worm begins to crawl up the trees "a
soon as the ground thaws. Recall
what we have said heretofore to you.
Manure, rich and well rotted, is the
one thing needful for garden, east,
west, north or south. Have 1t ready
In time before all hands drive afield.
Hon. John Russell, at the Month
cello Farmers Institute, cited instan-
ces where fence posts had been plugged
with salt which had lasted thirty years
Hot beds can be made early next
month for tomatoes, cabbage, peppers,
egg-plants, &c. They are simple and
easy of construction, and any one can
have them.
Let the boys, when home from
school on Saturdays, build neat houses
for martins, blue birds, and wrens and
put them up about houses, barns, and
fruit yards.
Allow young calves to have the
milk of the COW for four or Ave days.
The first milk is medicinal, and it Is
necessary the young animals should
have it to make them healthy.
Insects are to be fought at any time
Remove the eggs of the tent caterpil-
Ter before they hatch. They will be
found near the end of the twigs,
wound around like neat band.
The most hopeful tidings from all
parts Of the grasshopper region is that
they are Matching and perishing
while others contend that freezing
will injure neither egg nor hopper at
any stage of growth.
Fruit Trees can be profitably washed
with strong soap suds or lye. 1t can
be done any time now until the busy
season commences. 1t kills dormant
in sects, removes MOSES and litchen,
and improves the trees generally.
Breeding sows should have potatoes
or succulent food before farrowing.
Put poles around the pen eight inches
from the floor and the same distance
from the sides, to keep the sows from
overlaying their pigs. Give them
clean well Uttered beds, but not enough
to endanger the young.
The peddlers of apple trees grated
on Canada stock are humbugs Of bad
kind. But the people need not be
humbuggcd unless they want to be.
1t is free country, and none of their
natural rights should be taken away.
If the fruit trees are gnawed by
mice and rabbits during the deep
SHOWS, if it does not amount to entire
Kidding, smooth Off the torn and rough
edges and paint thoroughly with graft
ing wax, or make plaster of dry and
fresh COW dung and cover thickly and
bind on with cloth.
Why in the olden times did men
live to such immense ages? 1t was
not permitted that meat should be
eaten until after the flood So If YOU
want to live long in the land it is time
to begin preparations for the early
garden, for there is where many of
Gods blessings come from.
The Cedar Falls Gazette reports that
q. n. Miner informs us that the de-
iol ioui dDONe Tile sup
ply. The millers are unable to get
wheat. And that w. Winter has
been spending two weeks in northern
counties, and estimates from what he
heard, that only about one-half the
farmers will have wheat enough for
seed this spring.
George Wells, Of Grundy county,
intends keeping four hundred mich
cows the coming summer. Most OF
them will be for the purpose solely of
raising calves. He could do better by
the use of the milk for butter and
cheese, but the almost utter imposibiii-
ty of getting help prevents such un-
der takings. Too many soup houses.
John Stewart, the famous butter
manu- facture of Delaware county, sug-
gests that a convention of dairymen
of Northern Iowa meet at Manchester,
July 9th and 2Sth, 1877, for the pur-
pose Of discussing dairy interests, and
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