The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-01-25
aoerCULrUnAL rTEns.

rPren the Iova eease Regtstss.l
There wegs only thrse new granges
organized In lows list year.
The citizens Of Northern Iowa are
Alling their Ice hous. with pure crys-
I'll lee two feet thick.
II cur friends want fruit trees, 80 to
some square, honest nuneryman and
buy them, and pay IN honest price for
them.
In Boston from Is to SO per cord II
paid for stable manure to haul TO the
farms In the country.
This II what IL needed on more
farms in Iowa John Welsh, of West
burg township. Buchanan county, il
building barn 50 by 100 feet.
There were not - many Texas and
Colorado cattle received at Chicago in
1876. n in 1875 by 5000 head. But
there was an increase In other cattle
Of III ,36s.
The Patron's Helper says: "Tbe
State business agency WAS never on 9
better basis than to-day, and never
better prepared to serve the patrons OF
the State"
1t il estimated by practical men,
that one bushel Of corn judiciously fed
will produce four pounds Of butter,
twelve pounds Of pork, Or eight pounds
OF cheese.
Now is the time to buy bogus fruit
trees. But our advice is to buy Of
somebody that lives somewhere-and
be sure of But sign no notes or
contracts.
Though we have had severe winds
this winter. yet we have had an un-
usual amount Of calm, 80 ~ to serious
~ interfere with pumping water with
windmills for stock.
The Iowa game laws prohibit the
killing. trapping or possession of
prairie chickens, cartridges common
Nv called pheasant) or quails after
February lst. Those interested will
please take notice.
The farmers need not make any
calculations for an improved price on
grain. fit advances in the east, the
railroads will advance in freight, so as
TO keep US poor and humble. and
create few colossal estates like Van
derbilt's.
The Missouri Grange affairs have
been presided over for four years by
r. X. Allen, one Of the greatest
PRIESTS Of Merida, who has brought
down the number of Oranges in that
State from zoos to s74, and the men,
bership from so,o5s down to 42,52s.
Ifany one wishes TO know the effect
Of frosted bit in horses mouth, let
him try it in his own mouth. Bits
should be covered with leather for
winter. But to dip them in water be-
fore putting them in the horses mouth
il generally convenient, and greatly
beneficial.
At the close of 1875 there were report
ed to be 1904 Oranges in Iowa with 81
332 paying members, but when the
books come to be straitened up under
Grand Master Buchanan's administra-
ton, it was found there were only /,
Ols Oranges, with 81, Ols members.
There has been a decrease i'm men,
bership Of Patrons Of Husbandry in
the United States in the past year OF
l72, 23l. And if there il not more
economy and less official domineering
ut the head of the order, soon there
will be an official sermon of the chap
lain of the order needed in preaching
funeral.
1t il stated by Des Moines cores
pOndet OF the chicago JOurHds, that
IN action for SO, 600 was commenced
in the Federal Court at Des Moines by
the Gibbs Sterrett Manufacturing
Company, against the Iowa State
Grange. The amount is due for "Cli-
max" reapers and mowers.
1t might be well for those who are
imposing onerous taxes upon us to
recollect the fate OF the kings who
erected the pyramids Of Egypt. These
were tOmbs for those who butt them,
but II was seldom, says Rollins, that
they were buried in them, for the
reason that the burthens imposed OH
the people drove them from power and
into exile before their deaths.
There II difference of opinion.
The National Grange asks the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington
be increased and made still more
prominent; whilst the editors of every
so-called agricultural paper who know
nothing of the agricultural wants, and
who have no sympathy with their
struggles, favor abolishing the Depart
ment entirely, and depriving us of all
recognition of the Government.
There is no trouble in making horses
and cattle eat poor and musty hay. |
They can be starved down to it. But
the trouble is to make them grow and |
fatten on such food.
The Reporter gives favorable re-
port Of the prospects Of Lincoln town.
ship, Blackhawk county. The num-
Der of hogs marketed in this township
will approach very near 2,0oo head. |
Many farmers are carrying from loo to
20 shoats over to next fall.
Prof. Riley in All article in the New
York Tribune has words of comfort for
devastated grasshopper regions. He
says: The elements may, ere spring, |
conspire to an almost total destruction
Of the eggs, though, As We have said,
1t will not do to trust such an occur
renee. But let the worst come that can.
and you may, by carrying out the
suggestions here given, remain mast
ers Of the field. In any event you
have the assurance that the evil IL
only temporary. The insects will leave
In time to enable you TO raise, with fair
weather, good crops Of many products,
and you may not be visited again for
several years. The people are in much
better condition 10 stand loes next
spring than they were two year. ayo.