The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-03-08
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS,

AGRICULTURE ITEMS.
From the State Kegjster.l
Good common cows ut New York
are from $50 to S65.
Osier Willows are raised at Coal
Creek, Keokuk county; Iowa. Ad-
dress, Benz. Coulsen.
Hard times mean that large class
stand idle or resist by strikes such
prices as business men can afford to
give.
1t is q safe calculationto plant seeds
in a hot-bed six weeks before the time
at which the plants can be set out in
the open grouud.
Cheese Is an old invention. Job
talks about it, and we learn in I'd
Samuel, II, 20, that cheese was made
Of the milk Of cows.
In opposition to Mr.. Fosters theory
the Producer says that by burning
green wood, both the temper and the
steak are often spoiled.
Order your garden seeds at once.
Seed wheat can be cleaned up. Seed
corn shelled. Wood all cut and piled
up. Clean up your yards.
We regret the death Of two fine
Norman stations in this State lately.
One owned by c. I. Mott, Hampton;
and the other by w. A. Burwell,
Clarinda,.
For full success with clover our
prairie soil should be plowed from
twelve to fifteen inches deep. Let no
soil scratcher be frightened at this.
From personal correspondence with
several live stock breeders, we are
pleased to learn that the various herds
are getting along through the winter
better than usual-and especially bet
ter than last winter when 1t was SO
warm and muddy.
Mr.. Winters cattle f10s head gain
ed II pounds per day for the month Of
January. And Mr.. Kilpatrick's
about A pounds per day. This latter
is extra. This was in Black-hawk
county. Gazette authority.
Preventives in cases OF hog cholera
are evidently Of far more value than
specifics. Give hogs bituminous coal,
ashes, salt carefully, copperas lin
limited quantities., charcoal and
such vegetables as can be furnished.
The National Egg and Butter As
sociation recomend giving to chickens
afflicted with cholera, "blue pill"
known to the apothecaries, so soon as
the chicken Is seized. II 1t is not re-
lieved by next morning, give another
pill.
We know an old man sixty Year,
old, with one foot, who makes dog
en- AK handles per, day for which he
gets 80 cents apiece. Stout hearty men
have to feed on public soup.
Mr.. Albert Dunlop, Of Champaign,
ILL.,, prominent horticulturist, has
heen making special examinations Of
hedge fences in different parts Of III
inois, and pronounces the locust =
more hardy and otherwise better plant
for hedges than the o>age orange.
Ye who burn your straw listen to
Mr.. Yoren Of Delaware county: took
straw stack and spread it on the
ground, plowed it under, and raised
large corn crop, and then followed
with wheat which produced lsi BUSH
els per acre.
So that our farmers may know what
their eastern cousins pay for fertilizsrs,
we quote; At New York, guano from
$50 to $62 per ton; dry ground Ash
guano, s45; ground bones, SIS per ten:
ground gypsum, So; superphosphates
from $40 to $50; Nitrate of potash, 8
cents per pound; sulphate Of potash, I
cents.
In arranging for the corn crop this
spring be careful not to have too many
acres and too few hands. Twenty
five acres per hand is enough. Corn
should be plowed at least five times,
and the weeds which escape the plow
must 0e removed by the hand or hoe.
Cultivate it as to increase the average
product, and keep the farm cleaner Of
weeds.
Now is the time to purify your
chicken houses to prevent disease.
Burnings sulphur in the houses; sprink-
ling with carbolic acid; whitewashing
with hot lime; cleaning out frequent
ly; providing new nests; providing
literally ashes. charcoal, burnt oyster
shells, lime, gravel, pure water, will
all aid in stopping or warding of dis
ease.
L. +. Allen estimates the total num-
Der of beeves consumed in the United
States annually 1t 100000 head.
These at fifty dollars per head would
be $3.50, 100000. BY the census Of 1870
there was II 900, 900 cows In the Unit
ed States.A COW will make 400 pounds
Of cheese per year. This would give
1, ,4O0, ,0OO, 600 pounds. This at ten cents
per pound would be $40, ,000, 900. near
ly doubling the entire value Of all the
bullocks.
At the discussion at the Waterloo
Farmers' Club the following conclu-
siOns were made: That DuttinR wheat
into corn stalk ground Il h not
best to stir the ground very deep, but
stir all the surfacs, II possible. Piow-
ing under corn stalks and sowing or
drilling afterwards was not asgssd -
sowing and cultivating with double
shovel or sulky plow and dracgisg
same way as cultivated, - - nst -
drag the wheat In the farSovs.