Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-09-28

sheep owners have sustained very great
losses lately.
The largest steer in the State Of Indi-
ana is in the possession of Mr. G. Lowe,
OF Monon township, White county. It
weighs three thousand six hundred
pounds.
While England is yelling =" free trade"
at the top of her voice, she quietly pro-
poses to put a heavy duty on American
beef in the interest of British cattle
raisers.
a new disease has broken out among
the horses on the Delaware and Hudson
canal. 1t seizes them suddenly and is
fatal in its results, lasting only about
one hour
Dairying on the average farm is safer
than grain growing, since grass will grow
at a lower temperature than any grain,
and again, will stand the drouth far bet
ter.
The Mystic Conn.,, farmers have rails
ed twenty thousand bushels of to-
matoes for canning factory, and are
going into the business still more extern
slvely next year,
Eagle Island, near Newburyport, Mass.
has coffee tree raised from seed snug
gled during the time of the embargo
The tree bears, but the berries do not
ripen, and have very little of the coffee
taste.
Honey seems to be exceedingly plen-
tiful in West Virginia this season, and
sells for about fifteen cents per pound
cheaper than butter. One man near
Wintersville advertises three thousand
pounds for sale.
The quantity of wool, or rather hair,
obtained from an ordinary camel wei CHS
about ten pounds, but its color and
abundance depend entirely upon the
particular species of camel and the eli
mate which it inhabits
A farmer of Billet, in the fertile Aus
trian province of Banat, has this year
harvested the extraordinary quantity of
1902 bushels of barley from a field of one
and a half acres, or at the rate of sixty
eight bushels to the acre Who can
beat this?
Grapes are so plentiful and cheap in
California this year that they are used
by farmers in preference to grain for
fattening hogs. Grapes thus converted
into pork, it is claimed, will realize to
the producer so per ton, with no ex-
pense for boxing and shipping.
Farmers of Stanislaus Co., Cal, are
making extensive preparations for the
next years crop. and there will be more
land sowed to wheat this fall and winter
in that section than in any previous
season Quite number of farmers
have already commenced sowing.
A new enemy threatens the cranberry
crop on Cape Cod 1t is worm which
eats the blossoms and the fruit 1t is
stated that more than three thousand
bushels are already destroyed, Paris
green, which kills the insects, is too dan
gerous an article to be used, and various
other expedients are being tried.
The Secretary of the Illinois Board of
Agriculture furnishes the following in
relation to the corn crop in that State:
Acres in corn as returned to the assess
ors in 1876, S,S15, 791; in 1877, 1886, All !;
average yield per acre for a series OF
years, 30 bushels; estimated crop on ba-
sis of full average yield per acre, 340,-
62S,245.
There are five great grazing regions in
the world: First, the interior of Asia;
second, South Africa; third, the interior
of South America; fourth, Australia;
and the fifth is the trans Missouri and
Mississippi country of America, as yet
imperfectly developed, but which sur
passes III every natural advantage any
part of the known world.
The New England Farmer says: a
cheese that will weigh when cured, over
thousand pounds, was made a few days
since at Barre Central factory. Over
5000 pounds of milk was used in its
manufacture. The present appearance
of the cheese indicates that it will be a
perfect success. 1t was manufactured
for parties in Providence, r. L., but will
be retained till after the cattle show.
Lamp ana veal contain mucn less sol
id food than mutton and beef, and are
consequently not so economical, even 1t
purchased at the same cost per pound.
Mutton, if in good condition, is one of
the most easily digested of the ordinary
meats Pork is not so easily digested
as beef or mutton. The flesh of young
animals is not nearly so nutritious as
that of those which are of mature age
A new swlndle III the hop trade Is an
nounced in Sweden. Hops already used
once in brewing are dampened with
tincture of absynthe, or NORWOOD,
freed from spirit by distillation, redried,
and then placed on the market as the
genuine article, with or without the adj
dition of little fresh bloom. They
sometimes command better price than
the unadulterated hop, owing to their
increased bitterness.
A Manlius, Onondaga Co., N. Y,
farmer writes that last fall he sowed %
acres to wheat, applying 225 bushels of
damaged salt, and this season he has
harvested from the same land 112O
bushels of fine wheat, averaging forty
bushels to the acre. He keeps eight
horses, twenty-five cows, a large flock
of sheep and forty-seven hogs, and be-
lieves in genuine grain growing, stock
raising husbandry.
Corn starch is manufactured by steep
ing the corn in water, at a temperature
Of from 20 degrees to 14O degrees Fair,
for about week, changing the water at
least once in twenty-four hours. A GER
tain amount of acid fermentation is thus
produced, causing the starch and refuse
of the corn to be easily separated after
wards. The swollen corn is ground in
current of clear, soft water, and the
pulp passed through sleeves with the wa
ter into watts. In these the starch grad
ually settles to the bottom, the clear
water is then run off by tap, and the
starch gathered and dried in a proper