Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-05-04
Agricultural Items.


the polish will be longer coming.
Agricultural Items.
An unknown distemper is destroy
ing the sheep of Allen county, Ind.
Missouri offers reward of $40, 900
for the discovery of a specific for
hog cholera.
The grasshoppers are ovcrrunning
the northern portion of Bosque coun-
ty, Texas.
Cayenne pepper will keep the pan
try and storc-room free from cock
reaches and ants.
Mix salt and ashes together for all
animals. Nothing is better once a
week.
The recent severe weather in Min
nesota has, it is thought, damaged
the grasshopper crop one-half.
Ten days ago wheat was a foot
high in San Joaquin county, Calitor
mia, with occasional fields half
higher.
A brother of Tom Hood, the poet,
is florist in Bergen, N. J. He is Il
man of liberal education, and an ac-
complished botanist.
1t is estimated that 100000 pigs
are annually grazed in Servia and
Hungary for marketing in Germany,
Switzerland and Italy.
A resident of Nevada says that q
considerable quantity of alfalfa has
been sown in that State during the
past few years and is doing finely.
Flour is being sent to England by
an American firm in paper cases.
These cases or barrels are less than
one-half the price Of wooden barrels,
and much lighter and more durable.
About 100000 barrels of apples
were last year shipped to Europe
from the United States. More than
half this quantity went to England;
1900 were taken to st. Petersburg,
the balance going to other continent
al ports.
David Reesor, Jr., Markham, Ont,
has recently sold ten of his imported
Shetland ponies to r.. F.. Barry, ST.
Louis, Mo-, for $1,000; to F. Elliott,
Reach, Ont, the imported thorough
bred blood stallion, IIymen, for 49,
600.
At the meeting of the Vermont
State Board of Agriculture, for
Windsor county, held in Woodstock
on the Sth of February, one-third Of
the stated papers were read by ladies
of Woodstock and the other towns
in the State.
The roots of the soap weed,
plant found in New Mexico, are used
by the Mexlcans for washing; they
consider it superior to ordinary soap
for cleansing wooden goods, as it not
only extracts all dirt and grease, but
restores the luster of the material.
A Californian claims to have sue
ceedcd in raising roses as black as
ink. His plan was to engraft slip
of dark red rose into an oak tree,
where it grew, fiourished and bios
somed, the dark sap of the oak etfec-
tually coloring the rose black.
1t has been demonstrated in Min
nesota that grasshopper eggs partial
ly Matched and subsequently frozen
are destroyed. Grasshoppers expos
cd to temperature of 20 degrees
will revive, but if the mercury goes
down to 10 degrees, the insects can
not survive.
A correspondent of an English
horticultural journal writes that
weak solution of carbolic acid (about
half q dozen drops to gallon Of
water) will destroy worms and grubs
in flower pots without injuring the
plauts. Paraffinc (diluted) is also
said to have the same effect.
There is talk among some of the
Iowa farmers whose lands have be-
come exhausted in wheat growing,
of obtaining mari from the upper pc
ninsula of Michigan, where it has
been found in great abundance. The
new railway being constructed to the
iron mines will run near these mari
beds.
A new disease has broken out
among the hogs in Holland, for
which no remedy has rs yet been
discovered. The animal turns blue
after death, and, although bad pota-
toes are suspected to be the cause Of
this malady, it may be that the "blue
glass excitement on this side OF the
Atlantic has had something to do
with it.
Fruit reports from many sections
Of this State, says the Indiana Farm
En-, show that peaches, and in some
instances the tender varieties of cher
ries, have been winter killed. a few
localities report that they will have
some peaches. About all agree thus
far the other varieties Of fruit are
safe, with a fair promise of an aver
age crop.
Melons and cucumbers, says the
Iowa State Register. can be planted
in square pieces OF thick sod, and
placed i'll some warm place in the
window or by the stove, and thus
get good start by the time there is
no danger OF frost. Then the sod
can be set in the ground, and the
sod rotting will give the plants
good start. And water melons are
worth more in July than in Septem-
Der.
The forage plant of the farm,
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