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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-16
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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
. Plymouth Rock Fowls.

This breed of fowls has grown
steadily in favor among farmers and
small poulterers at the East during
the past few years, and there is con
siderable inquiry about them now in
the West. An eastern poultry pape,
says they have proved very handy
easy to keep, are excellent layers,
they do not incline to trouble the
keeper with the inclination to sit, So
persistently as do the Aslatics, they
are ample is size (when selected from
the best strains) and altogether they
have turned out a valuable accession
to the list of American standard
breeds.
A singular fact has been demon
strated in the instance of the Plym
outh Rocks" 1t is known that this
fowl is a cross of the Black Asiatic
Tor java with the Dominique vari.
ETY.. For several years after their
original production, the color of these
birds, both male and female, was un.
certain and irregular. By a judic.
ious method In mating and selecting
in the hands of the most careful ma.
nipulators Of this stock, the last
years birds were on the average
much better in uniformity of size
and much more even in general col.
or and marking of plumage than
heretofore,
Fowls maturing this spring are an
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
Management Of Helfers.

The value of a COW often depends
much upon her treatment as heifer
when first in milk. Kindness and
milk flow together. Rctty's answer;
when asked why the COW gave 50
much more milk to Peter than to
John, is full Of practical philosophy.
She said Peter, before he MIXED the
COW, patted her gently and said, $50
my pretty little muley, So" but
when John came to milk her he hit
her on the hip with the stool and
said, "Get around, you brute!'
When good heifers are handled and
fed by Peter, they yield him the last
drop of milk, and grow into very val
liable cows; but when John, with
his rough unmanly ways, manages
young heiters, they revenge them,
selves by kicking him at every OPP
portunity, and are often Discarded as
worthless. Vicious heifers are most
ly made SO by vicious attendants.
The leifer, previous to coming in,
should be handled daily, and not on
ly become familiar with her attend.
ants, but pleased with his petting.
He should feed her often little food
that she likes, card her, handle the I'D
der-and thus becoming used to
handling, she will suffer herself to be
MIXED quietly from the first.
The dairyman should remember
that the draft upon the system of
the young heifer in giving milk is
very large; and that after few
days from calvlng she should be fed
generously, that her system may be
sustained under the heavy drain.
Wheat, bran and oatmeal are best.
Cornmeal is not good to be given
alone, but may properly be ted with
oats OF bran. Corn and oats ground
together are excellent.
The heifer, when first in milk,
should have a long milking period.
She is developing her milk secre-
tons, and should become accustom-
ed to give milk beyond the ordinary
season, and she ought not to be
served again under nine months.
She will then give milk about fifteen
months before drying off. A heifer
that holds out her milk well is very
likely to do so in future; and we re-
gard COW as not worth keeping
that will not give milk ten months
with steady, even flow. We have
had cows that, at the flush, would
give forty pounds per day, but hold
it only short time, and dry up at
eight months. Such COWS are not
worth keeping. They are often ont
done in quantity for the season by
COWS that do not give more than
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01

twenty-five pounds at the best. 1t is
the steady mixer that pays; and for
this reason great care should be tax
en- to test the staying qualities Of the
heifer in her first period of milking.
full feeding will greatly assist in de-
veloping the heiter, and should new
err be neglected. Dairymen must
learn that milk comes from the food,
and that only liberal feeding can
produce liberal yield OF milk
Never seek for a small eater, but tol
one with vigorous appetite, and
then give all the food that can be di
gested; and the milk will be returned
to you in as great measure as you
have meted out in food.-Nationa'
Lire Stock Journal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01

A SUPPER DIsH.-Take smoked
halibut; shred in pieces mot too fine)
about two handfuls, and put on the
stove in a spider; cover with cold
water; let this come to 4 scald-be
sure not to holland then turn off
the water, and cover again with cold
water; scald as before; then take
equal quantities of milk and water,
enough to cover and thickcn with
flour; add two well-beaten eggs and
piece of butter the size of an egg.
This makes nice supper dish.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
DAM in the right side, under the EDGE

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
pAINi in heright side, under the edge
of the ribs, increases on pressure
sometimes the pain is in the left side;
the patientisrarely able to lie on the left
side; sometimes the pain is felt under
the shoulder blade, and it frequently
extends to the top of the shoulder, and
is sometimes mistaken for a rheuma-
tism in the arm. The stomach is affect
ed with loss of appetite and sickness;
the bowels in general are costive, some
times alternative with lax /; the head is
troubled with pain, accompanied with
dull, heavy sensation in the backpart,
There is generally a considerable loss
of memory, accompanied with pain
full sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been
done. A slight, dry cough is sometimes
an attendant. The patient complains
of WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains ola prickly sensation
ofthe skin; his spirits are low: and al
though he is satisfied that exercise
would be beneficial to him, yet he can
scarcely summon up fortitude enough
to tryit. In fact, he distrusts everyr rem
edy. Several Of the above symptoms
attend the disease, but cases have oc-
Cured where few of them existed, yet
examination Of the body, after death,
has shown the LIVER to have been ex-
tensivcly deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr.. C. MCLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them A FAIR TRIAL.
For all Bilious arrangements and as
asimple purgative they are unequaled.
bEHARE OF IMITATlONb.
The genuine DR.. c. MCLANE's
LIVER Pills are never sugar coated.
Every box has red wax seal on
the lid, with the impression DIR.
MCLANE's LIVER PILLS.
The genuine McLANE's LIVER PILLS
bear the signatures of c. McLANE
and FLEMING Bros. on the wrappers.
TInsist on your druggist or store
keeper giving you the genuine Dr.C:
MCLANR's LIVER PILLS, prepared
by Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sold by all respectable druggists
and country storekeepers generally.
Totiose wishing to give DR. C. McLANE's LIVER
Pills trial, we will mail, postpaid, to any part Of
the United States, bog Of Pills for twenty-five
gents. - FLEMING BROS, Pittsburgh, Pa,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
To Have Late Peas and Beans.

This is the way the Germantoacn
Telegraph raises them:
There are few garden luxuries
more sought for t.an good peas and
"snapshort" beans; but it is extreme
ly rare that people know what good
peas and beans are. The peas are
generally as hard as shot, and the
beans have to be chewed as if they
were SO much tow, although the
cook may have "stringed' them be
fore boiling. A good pea should al
most melt III the mouth like ice
cream, or at least mash as. easy as
draw-butter; and there is no reason
why they may not always be this
way. AS for the bean, there is nc
more reason for having string in /,
than there should be string in a roll
Of macaroni.
In cool countries peas and beans
are almost always tender and nice;
it is our hot soil that gives them the
tough tendency; but this is easily
corrected by having deep soil and
good rotten m nure tor them to grow
in.
In old times good part of the
winter IN the Irregular gardens
where gardeners were continually
kept, it was the practice to trench Il
piece Of ground every winter ia,
particular crops. This practice con
sists of turning up piece of ground
about two feet deep; in farm practice
suhsoillng. 1t is found that for mos,
crops this practice Is unnecessary
With good manure and ordinary dig
ging or blowing, the average Of
crops can be we'll known. But no,
so with peas or beans. To have
good tender stuff, the earth must be
deeply loosened as we'll as rich.--
This Is important even for spring
and summer crops; but it is essential
for good fall crops.
1t is generally said that 1t is use
less to try to have good peas and bean,
in this country in the fall, and it is
usually attempted; but in deep coo
soil it is a very different thing.
Good deep soil encourages the
roots of vegetables down into a COO
climate, in which in summer they
luxuriate. This may not be goot
for trees, as we want hard, solid woot
and not luxurious growth. In vege
tables 1t is just the reverse. We dc
not want hard fiber here, but soft
tender succelence; and this is tho
results from vegetable roots in deel
soil in hot weather,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
GRANGE DIRECTORY.

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, NO. 443.-Meets at
the Sheridan School House Monday evening, on
or before the full moon, each month.
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 611.-Meets at Win.
throp on Friday on or before the full moon OF
each month
s. G. PIERCE. Master. S. w. RICH. Sec.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full MOON
I'D. RUSSELL. Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. S11.-Night of
regular meeting on Friday evening, on or before
full moon, meet at Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master.
PB sCHEMERHORN. Secretary.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 528,-Meets ON
Wednesday, on or before full moon
3. DU BOlS. Master. K. j. WlGG. Sec.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Saturday
on or before full moon, at No. School House
Hazleton twp. 7. MESSENGER,
G. NJ. MILLER. Secretary. Master.
BYON GRANGE No. 267. Meets at Justus Dur
KEGS, on Tuesday evening, on or after full
moon. K. GLEASON Master
FRANK FOX. Sec.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
Will Scrubs PayP

Fitch B. Stacy treats this subject
as follows, in the Western Stock
Journal for April:
A short-horn steer, under good
management, will average 1900
pounds at two years old, and in
some cases will make 1900 to 1000
pounds His gain the first year is
from 500 to 1900 pounds, and the
second year from 400 to 500 pounds.
If the object be to give the call the
largest and most rapid growth posi-
BILE, / give him the entire milk of the
dam eight or nine months. l have
never been able to attain as good re-
suits from feeding skinned milk as
new milk, though very good calves
can be raised by feeding new
milk three months and skinned
milk afterward. | cannot tell in re,
gard to the amount of hay, but for
the first year l should feed four
quarts OF bran per day, with a little
oil cake (say 100 pounds for six
months)I coat Of bran and oil cake
would be 1915 to 81. The second
year the food would be, per day,
eight quarts of grain, three-fourths
bran and one-fourth meal, for six
months, and for six months grass
alone, cost say $3.50; two tons OF
hay, IS; grass S.. Total cost sec
oad year, $3.50. The milk of the
dam for six months, suppose
she give twenty pounds per
day, would be 5000 pounds, worth
at the cheese factory s25 or $40.
Taking the highest prices the cost
would be S53.5O. In the Chicago
market he would be worth, for 1900
pounds, at least 500. With the best
keep he should weigh 1900 pounds
and bring 500, with a chance of get.
ting SIP or more.
In the winter of 1928 l ted eight
common steers past two years old,
all extra good for common stock. ]
fed four quarts barley meal three
times each day, with all the Hungar-
ian hay they would eat. The largest
average gain per day for ninety days,
was one pound per day. During the
same time l fed a thoroughbred
coming two years old four quarts of
barley meal twice per day, with
what hay he could cat, and for the
whole ninety days he averaged three
pounds per day, and this on one
third less grain than the common
steers had. | have several times fed
common calves and half Durham
calves together, each having same
care and same feed, the results in no
case varying from the above.
would sum up this way, The differ
ence between the common stock Of
cattle of the country, and those pro-
duced by crossing a good, thick,
thoroughbred short-horn bull on our
common cows, is one-half 1. e., | can
raise the same amount of beef from
the latter for half the money that
can tho former.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01

improvement IN these respects upon
all former hatchings within our
knowledge; and we now know sever
eral yards of these birds where both
cocks and hens are really very fine,
in 1877. The Plymouth Rocks of
the present day promise to equal the
best varieties for all the desirable
practical qualities sought after in a
first-class variety-either for fancy
breeding or marketing.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01

STUFFED BEEFsrEAK.-Take a
flank or round steak, pound it and
sprinkle with pepper and salt; then
make plain stuffing and spread on
the meat, roll it up, and tie closely;
put in a pot with a quart of boiling
water, and lump of butter the SIZE
of an egg; boil slowly one hour;
then put in a pan with the water in
which it was boiled, and bake until
nicely Drowned, basting it frequent
ly; dredge little flour into the
gravy, boil, and pour over the meat.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01

VIENNA RoLLs.-To one quart Of
-four add two hcaping teaspoonfuls
of Royal baking powder, slit thor
oughly, put in a little salt, and rub a
q tablespoonful of lard or butter
through the flour; use enough sweet
milk to form soft dough, roll out
and cut with round cutter, fold ov.
er like a turnover, wettlng the edges
with milk to make them adhere,
wash over with milk to give them a
gloss, place in pan so they vii!
not touch each other, and bake fit
teen or twenty minutes. They arc
delicious.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
Farming Expenses in England.
Total expenses per acre. ..... $28

This certainly looks formidable to
an American farmer, but the Gazette
publishes statement of a farmer in
the south of Scotland, who works
500 acres, giving his actual expenses
per acre in 1901 and also in 1874
rs, under the same heads, which
amount as follows:
Whole cost 1901, as above $22 II
Whole cost 1S74-75, as above. 81 80
Here we find the cost, including
simply ten per cent on the tenant $
capital, both for interest and profit,
for working a 5OO-acre farm to be, in
1870, $l1,355, and in 1916, 3d.
600. 1t will be noted that the ten
ant farmer is expected to have flO
per acre, or $44.40 gold. THIS cap
ital is more than American farmers
generally think necessary, including
ownership of the soil.
Now let us see what is regarded as
the average gross income from an
English farm, the cost of working
DelnS W. 10 Sa1 per acre per year.
The Gazette ventures to figure up
this average and finds 1t sso.6s gold,
on ordinary crops. This leaves but
small margin for rent of land, I'M
less we take the lower estimate of ex-
penscs. The Gazette asks its read
ers for actual figures of the cost per
acre and gross proceeds. We fear it
will not succeed in getting many re-
sponses with accurate details, as
farmers are not strict accountants
But we should be glad to get an &C
curate account from one hundred
farmers. This would give true in
sight into the actual condition of the
agricultural Unconstitutional Zice
Stock journal.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01

CURING Mad Doc BITEs.-It is as
serted that the bites Of mad dogs
have been rendered harmless by im
mediately cauterizing the wound
with q saturated solution of carbolic
acid, and keeping it constantly wet
with Il weaker solution of the same
at the same time giving the patient
according to age, from two to six
drops of the spirits of ammonia in
water, every two hours for twelve
or fourteen hours. The wound is
not allowed to dry for an instant fol
three or four DAYS.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-06-01
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"Household and Home Deco
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