The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-04-05
AGRuCULTURaL ITEMS.
rrrom The STATE Rezister. /

Mr.. Castle says milk pals sfoui
always be tin.
March has maintained its characte
and integrity.
Give cows plenty of salt and water
winter and summer.
II is conceded that no feed viii pro
duce richer milk than corn meal.
Mr.. Bowen says not one man in tel
knows how TO sit down to 8 COW.
See that cows coming in and hog
do not occupy the came lot
Sow thin spots on pasture, lots, o
lawn. with grass seed, now.
Purchase flower and garden seeds
early. and of reliable houses
Kentucky is nov shipping mules Il
Scotland, and doing profitable basi
ness.
4 pure bred horse i generally con
eeSed TO be one which has six pur'
and known crosses.
So soon as the ground Is thawed
fork up the asparagus bed. and SOW
il literally with salt
The It. Louis Journal Of Go1shifrcf
fayors w. c. Fogg Of Illinois FOL
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
II pays 10 manure the ground foi
potatoes. But il must be well rott-d.
sheep or hog manure is the besi.
II only costs twelve cents per bushe.
to ship wheat from Sen Francisco Il
Liverbool. ten thousand miles,
Mr.. Littler, OF Scott county, says
never turn a COW out doors when il L
cold enough 10 freeze water.
The great temptation Of the age
among farmers sons, are tros'ing
horses. All fas, boys want fasl
horse
The last Of April i about $. early
a. Young chickens can be managed
safely. 90 il i almost time to begin 10
set hens.
If snow is the poor mans manure,
the month OF March has supplied
aap!eus showers Of fertilizers TO those
10 INDECENT too aid themselves.
Ra-pberrie>, goosebe.r.es and black,
berries starr TO grow early in the
spring, % that either roots or cuttings
should be sci early - possible.
Mr.. MeMar1zin. on. Of the largest
farmers in Grundy county. Is going
to remove from his farm to some city.
His wife j. q sister Of Mrs. stanton.
Watch msres coming. They are
more uncertain a. TO time than any
ether domestic animal Have roorny
tax stalls, and aBaI don the halter in
season.
Mr.. H. u. Wood. Of Delaware coun-
y. Iowa, says Western creamery
butter il now quoted higher in New
York than any ether butter that goes
10 the market"
some q the be.t horse keepers
charge nothing for the use Of stallion
until tie foal j. able 10 stand up and
suck In thi- way no one is required
10 pay something for nothing.
Take q lump Of sugar, piece OF
gum Arabic, a fragment of starch,
and a lump Of beef suet, and you have
nearly all the elements in the most
form for fattening animals.
Those who are doubling about SOW
ing grass seed this spring must heed
the admonitions, Rest your land be
fore it is weary-feed it before it is
weed it before it is foul.
1t is charged that the reason the
West took both premiums of butter
during the Centennial, was, thu
Judges were all from the West. No
50. One was from Illinois, one from
New York, and the other from
Canada
The fruits of the Centennial ar
ripening. 4 Pittsburg manufactur
has received large order for pick,
fire shovels and garden rakes from
Titlis, located between the Caspia
and Black Seas, not far from tn
original Garden of Eden.
The Hamilton Freeman report
that l.. l.. Estes has sold lately ST.
worth of steers and hogs off one farm
and that nearly all the corn was raise
on the farm to feed the stock. An
that he has yet on the farm 100 hea
of stock cattle, and over sixty hogs.
Horses always need care, but tn,
should have far more when just b
ginning To work in the spring. Ca
for their shoulders is important, but
il of great utility to use freely Z
comb aud brush on body and lie
more freely than any other time
the year.
No farmer should enter the spri
and summer work without 20
work bench and few of the necessa
tools for the speedy repair OF ma
things OH the farm. There should q
be ali assortment OF bolts, files, copf
rivets, cold chisel and "a blacksmith
wise attached to the bench.
Good, The day dawns. The Tr
tees of the Iowa Agricultural Coli
have placed the kitchen of that I'M
tuition under the charge of the teacl
81 domestic economy, and this We
each young lady in the junior 81
will have 10 spend one morning e.
week in the kitchen for practical
! -truction. 4 regular course Of less
il to be given, including bread, pas
and cake making, soups, roasti
broiiing, stewing, desserts, preserv
+ and canning fruits, making jell
etc, etc.
The Davenport Gazette says: CT
merchants have been West on WI
buying missions. One went to At
tic, Avoca, Council Bluffs, and
other 70 Kansas City, and other pl;
in Northwestern Missouri-and I
9 couldn't buy d bushel at less fig
than the ruling prices in this c
?. The milling demand in those sect
r. wa. immense, and besides there
fear OF another hopper visitation. 4
the merchants came nearer home
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