Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-08-16
Agricultural Items.
From the State Register.

than is given by the habits OF Injurious
idleness INDUCED in by the greater por-
ton Of the extravagantly rich in this
country, is at heart highwayman, and
would join the James boys if he had
the courage.
Prof C. V. Riley, who has done so
much by chronological research for the
agriculture Of the West, has just mar
ried wealthy lady of St. Louis, Miss
Emilia Councilman, and they will soon
take up their residence in Washington
City.
Plato calls the ignorant the "manikins
Of earth, and some one else calls them
human Holsters" If you would be
wise, persevere in cultivating a taste
for reading. Vast no leisure time. In
telligence is the supreme power over all
human destinies.
A farm sixty miles long and ten wide
in one tract, mostly fenced, is that of
Miller 4 Lux, cattle monopolists, of
California. They have eighty thou
sand head of stock, own several hun
dred thousand acres of choice land, and
are rated as worth 100000.
Laborers, save your money, shun the
idea of ever being reduced to that low
est order OF our race-a tramp. Sa-
credly lay by goodly portion Of your
wages every year, and soon you will be
one of the envied of earth, by your in
dependent position.
The Grandin farm, thirty-fv miles
down the Red River of the North in
Minnesota, is propably the largest grain
farm in the United States. 1t contains
$4,000 acres, and is owned by the three
Grandin brothers, of Tidiout, Pa, and
Mr.. Dalrymple.
The largest strawberry farm in the
world is probably that of John II.
Young, about two miles from Norfolk,
Va. 1t comprises about 25O acres.
The yield last year was 1000 quarts to
the acre, and it was expected that the
product would be much larger this sea-
son.
The Massachusetts, Ploughman says:
"The English sparrow is rapidly driving
away our native songsters from all To-
calities where it has been introduced.
1t is an exceedingly quarrelsome bird,
and as it travels in flocks from one
place to another, woe betide the unfor-
tunate native bird who provokes it's ire"
To kill lice on animals Prof. Stalker
recommends linseed or fish oil one
part, and sulphur four parts. This will
make liniment or paste that can be
applied with a brush, and prove most
destructive to parasites. The efficiency
of the remedy will be greatly increased
by first thoroughly cleansing the skin.
By raising more clover for hay, the
ground could be kept in better fertility.
By keeping more stock and not selling
so much grain, the farm can be kept
productive and not be allowed to wear out
and run down. By keeping better stock
it can be kept easier and will sell high
er These matters the farmer should
think about.
Machinery tolerates no fools; it COM
pels men to think. Man must think, or
be crushed by his own creation, to
the wall-and starve. The omnipres-
ence of the machine has relieved the
shoulders, but burdened the brain of
the laborer; he may work less, but
must think more.
AS you value forty years of happi-
ness, do not enter into the marriage re-
lation until your homestead, free of
debt, is secured. 1t is not safe to rely
upon woman as a helpmate to a poor
man. She is not as much so as she was
forty years ago. The falsities of the
fashionable and indolent world have
nearly spoiled the majority Of the young
women, especially in the vicinity Of
cities and towns,
The raising of grain requires much
labor, and at the low prices it commands
it don't pay to raise it at the present
time. The farmer should put on his
study cap, and ask himself what will
pay, what kind of farming requires
least labor, If he does, he will say that
is stock raising That takes little la
Dor. That keeps the farm rich. That
requires more grass and less grain,
more condensation OF values.
The official authorities of Council
Bluffs show that tramps are of some
use. The NQnpa1eH says: On Friday
the convicted tramps were taken out in
squads of five and put to work on the
streets, and on Indian creek. They
proved generally efficient and faithful
workers. A large number of them
were employed in cleaning cutters,
street crossings and replacing sidewalks,
damaged by the late floods. One gang
of them was engaged on Center street
bridge and did good days work on
that structure.
Here is an example for all harmless
farmers set by the editor of Coleman's
Ruul World: "We built very COM
modious barn, GO feet square, a couple
of years ago, with men hired at fifteen
dollars per month The timber was got
out of the woods. The clapbords for
shingles were rived in the woods. All
the lumber bought was the planks to
enclose it. The cost of the whole barn
was trifing in comparison to its value,
and the amount saved by it in any year
would build another like it.