The Tipton advertiser., 1877-04-12

from the state Register. |

from the State Register.l
| At the last court in Scott county
Mccormick took judgment against
twenty-five farmers for reapers.
| Potatoes which are to be plantet
better be cut . few days before ant
placed so the cut part can be dried
before planting.
Remove the covering over straw
berry plants, especially if 1t be thick
as ii may pack and smother the plants
The first strawberry of the season
arrived i'm New York March sth, from
jacksonville, Fla. sold for $3.50 te
$3.50 per quart.
Many farmer and son will spend
idle rainy iavs in April, and then the
mother or sister have to make coops
for hen and chickens in May.
Mr.. Robt. Cheyne has brought
from Canada 10 Jasper County, Iowa,
fine imported Clydesdale stallion,
weighing 1000 pounds.
We SEQ that list of fruit trees rec
ommeuded some years since by ID.
W. Adams has commenced the rounds
of the papers again. Scan it carefully.
The Freeman says Mr.. Sutton OF
Hamilton county has in his orchard
one thousand Duchess of Oidenburg
trees, hardy, thrifty, and just begin
ing to bear.
The Jersey stock owned by A. J,
Miller of Muscaiine county, has been
purchased by Morrison Brothers, of
Minneapolis, and they have been tax
en- 10 that state.
The venerable New York farmer,
John Johnson, now So years of age,
said the other day: II have often fed
forty tons of oil cake year, and
wish / had fed much more.
Touch with caution all new garden
seeds, especially when they are ac-
companied with an extra price. Nine
ty-nine times out of hundred they
are swindles.
Seven cattle OF the II ,se of sharon
breed, arrived in New York recently
from Kenucky, for shipment to Eng
land. They are valued at 5000 each,
and were purchased by A. F. Fox.
A correspondent wishes to know how
to break q hen from eating her eggs.
There is no effectual way, and the
best thing that can be done is to make
a pot pie of the hen.
In selecting evergreens never pay
extravagant prices for fancy foreign
varieties when you can get cheaply
our native white pine. A few Nor
way spruce and Australian pine
would be ornamental and are reliable.
In laying out the garden devote no
more to flowers than you intend to
take care of and do it well and scien-
tifically. And if you do not know
that means let the flowers alone and
devote the space to potatoes and
onions.
Our friend f. C.. ID. il informed
that German Millet' and Golden
Miilet" are the same thing. But
either is very uncertain name. In
some places in the United States Hun
garian grass is called German Millet.
A good resolution. A farmer in
Cerro Gordo county says he has re
resolved so to direct his business "a
to ship from his farm one car of hog
and one of cattle every year. And tn
Republican will certainly encourage
him in his resolve.
The glucose factory at Devenpor
have increased their working capita
from $50, ,00) to S6o, 900, have determin
ed to put up an additional buildin,
and increase their manufacturing ca
pacity. They propose to use from
500 to 700 bushels of corn per day
This is a home market for the farmer
of Scott county.
There should be some device b
which more of our produce should b
shipped to Brazil. They buy largel
of other nations, and yet we buy {
them 10000, 900 in coffee. &C., an
sell them only S4,OO0,0Oo, so tn:
we have to pay them 5000, 900
gold annually.
The Editor of the Hamilton Fre.
man recommends the following list
apple trees as being valuable frui
and reliably hardy, to-wit: Wealth,
Duchess of Oldenburg, Willow Twi
Fameuse, Talman Sweet, Ben Davi
and Red astrachan.
A Vermont correspondent of IL
Country Gentleman gives the price
farm labor in Vermont:
At the present time laberers a
plenty and cheap, compared with forI
er years. Good hands can be hf
from SIS to SIS month. | ha'
recently hired good man, furnishir
him a house to live in, and he boar
himself; at SIS month. | thin
) help will be plenty at not over sl6 p'
month.
A correspondent of the Massachuset
! PouyI.ma,, estimates the cost to pr
duce ton Of hay in that state as #
lows:
Ten feet of manure from livel
stable will make ton of hay; I
/ cost of that amount OF manure is eig
: dollars, the hauling and applyi
eight dollars. interest on that mon,
one dollar, harvesting four dollal
NOW rent two dollars, interest on lai
and the tax two dollars, all of wbi'
q amounts to twenty-five dollars |
ton at the barn.
The Cedar Falls Gazette repol
that Mr.. Jannings, last week, pure
ased eighty head of fat cattle fro
: Field & Bro. That Mr.. Winter so
nine car loads to Mr.. Ford. Mr.. !
!, land sold four heavy steers weight
an average of 1900 pounds for $
- cents. And Mr.. Andrews for ii
!, and half cents. This is all dol
well for Blackhawk county.
d The Cloth Swindle" has been pr
l. tised again in Marion county I
}, Thomas Bull, Levi Mills, John Cla
N and A Tickle, by swindlers selling
e them on credit from ten to sixte