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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
Farm and Household.

The noblest men on earth are those
whose hands are brown with toll. And
the noblest women on earth are those
who looketh well to the ways of their
households, and eat not the bread of
idleness, -Ioaca State Register
TO cure felon take pint of com
mon soft soap and stir in air-slacked
lime till it is of the consistency of gla-
zier's putty. Make a leather thimble,
fill it with this composition and insert
the finger therein, and the cure is GER
tain. This is a domestic application
that every housekeeper can obtain
promptly.-N. Y, Times,
Oyster Plant. Scrape the roots, drop
ping each into cold water as soon as
cleaned. Exposure to the air blackens
them. Cut in pieces an inch long, put
into saucepan with hot water to cover
them, and stew until tender Turn off
the water and add milk enough to cover
them. Stew ten minutes after this be-
gins to boil; put in great lump OF but
ter cut into bits and rolled in flour.
Boil up once, and serve.
A correspondent of an English con-
temporary gives his experiences with
regard to frosty nights that sometimes
occur late in the spring or early III the
autumn. He says that when he sus-
poets that there is or has been frost
on his vegetation, he at once goes out
into his garden, gets his watering-pot,
and sprinkles with water those tender
plants which are liable to be frost-bit
ten, taking care to do this before the
sun rises. By this means he has never
failed to obviate the disastrous effects
of frost, when his immediate neighbors
have suffered severely from them. The
remedy is simple, not very laborious
and well worth trying. = Germantown
Telegraph.
The best way to get out timothy seed
is to thresh it with fail-for although
threshing machine will operate more
quickly, yet the waste of seed more
than makes up for the speed in thresh
ing. When threshed out then spread it
out on the floor, go over it again thor
oughly with a fail Then pass it very
moderately through winnowing mill,
so as not to blow out the seed (Which
can be soon learned by examination.
Then pass it through sieve fine enough
for the clear seed to pass, but retaining
the chaff covered seeds, and thresh the
latter again, and so on till all is saved.
For home use all this care is not neces-
sary, but for market the seed must be
clean and in good appearance Detroit
Free Press.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
The Royal Road to Successful Farming.

E. l.. HOPKINS, Sec'y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
HOmcIy Truths.

In these times, plain, naked truths
may as well be presented to certain
classes of farmers. If man lives on an
eighty acre farm, hires q man on the
farm and girl in the house, and goes
to town thrice week, he is on the
down-grade to bankruptcy.
If a farmer has mortgage ON his
farm, and then goes in debt for a car
riage or an organ, the corner grocer
should at once take Il chattel mortgage
to secure the payment of family sup
plies.
When farmer raises poor crop by
poor seed or inattention, harvests and
sells early, and spends all in visiting
friends to the neglect Of his promises to
pay at harvest, when another merchant
sees him and his wife coming to the
store, Mr.. Smith better suddenly hide
himself in the back yard, and leave in
the store such clerks only as are not au-
thorized to sell on credit.
When a farmer sells his calves at
weaving time, and allows his sows to
smother all their pigs in straw stacks,
permits the pigs to eat up all the chick
CIlS, SuHClS lllC SNluC W lOou up tIS
door-yard, pastures his sheep and colts
in the orchard, and has garden of
weeds and grass, and finally, when his
wife dies of neglect and broken heart,
nice young girls better not marry the
widower.
Whenever farmer is up in the nine
ties in religious matters, whenever an
evangelist comes along, and contributes
to donation funds, and for lifting heavy
church debts, and ncglects his business
on the farm attending religious meet
ings on week days, while poor men are
suffering because he does not pay his
honest debts, and his stock is suffering
for want Of his care, and his crops are
going to weeds, he is very much mista-
ken if he thinks Christ meant him when
he said ''ye are the salt of the earth. '
State Re0ister
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

" There is no royal road to learning
it is said, but there certainly is we'll
defined highway which leads to success
in farming. This way has been so often
marked out, and is so well known to our
readers in all its qualifications that we
will not stop to enlarge upon it here,
but endeavor to show how surely one of
the main streets of this road brings the
traveller to a very happy and prosperous
termination:
We refer to the combination of grain
growing and stock raising, and beg to
introduce, in exemplifcation of the sue
cessful principle referred to, the owner
of Browndale farm, Minneapolis Mr.
Henry L. Brown.
Four or five years ago Mr.. Brown
purchased his farm-six miles from this
city-and proceeded to stock it with a
choice herd of Short-horn and Jersey
cattle and Berkshire swine, expending
for stock about ten thousand dollars.
To-day he values his herd at the same
figure and his farm of about two hun
dred and fifty acres, and necessary i'm
Elements, at ten thousand more, max
ing total investment of twenty thous-
and dollars. His net income in cash the
past year, after hiring all his work on
the farm, foots up $3,333452, or about II
per cent. of the cash valuation of his
property, which is good enough
Now, the unsuccessful farmer need
not meet us on the start with the asser-
ton that Mr.. Brown has a reputation,
and the money to work with, and it was
perfectly easy for him to make for
tune with the means at his commando"
for when Mr.. Brown started he was not
professional breed or professional
farmer either but he was man of good
and careful business habits, and he
brought these to bear on his farming
speculations. And first comes his ac-
count book to show him whether he was
making or losing money. Everything
sold off the farm went to its credit, and
all that was purchased or expended for
labor and material to the other side, and
three years ago his ledger showed him
clear profit above his expenses of 81 $50
which was increased to $1,94997 two
years ago, and the past season, as we
have said, to over $1,000
There was raised the past year on the
farm of leading crops as follows:
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06


Mr.. Brown didn't carry but little of
this into market in it's raw state. The
five hundred bushels of corn were all
ground with his oats, fed to his cattle
The barley was either cooked or ground
with flax seed and likewise fed, while
two hundred bushels of the wheat alone
were marketed at a dollar bushel.
Ten acres OF his corn were cut up and
shocked, and all his straw stacked in a
yard convenient to his stable This
corn fodder and straw furnished the
principal feed for over fifty head of
stock during the winter by running it
through the straw-cutter, driven by
horse power, after which it was mixed
with ground feed aad fed at the rate of
four quarts of bran and four of ground
feed per day to full-grown animal,
To-day the visible remnant of that
straw-pile is confined to wagon-load or
two only, while the ten acres of corn
fodder have entirely disappeared.
The current year his sales already
footed up over $1,000 cash for stock,
while his expenses will be much less
than last year, as all his machinery is
purchased, buildings erected and main
articles necessary for conducting the
farm on hand, so that it may be safe to
set down the income of Browndale farm
at $1,000 this year, without requiring a
single hour of manual labor on the part
of it's owner.
The money comes, Of course, from the
sales of his blooded cattle which CON
sist of thirty-fiye head of Short-horns,
with the famous Wild Eyes Duke bull
at it's head, and eight head of Jerseys of
high butter-making tendencies. Besides
there is fine lot of Poland China hogs,
bought, we suppose, to eat up the milk
on the farm; and so well and so conven-
iently arranged is everything that his
farm labor thus far this season has only
cost him twenty-five dollars a month;
but then the kernel" who is one of the
bosses, is host at farming "shua. y
Pioneer Press.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

Grange DIRECTORY.

The reading columns on this page will be de-
voted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readersOf the Bull
LETIN are requested to write for it
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
Night Rest for Horses.

During the excessively hot weather,
and in the hurry of securing crops,
farmers are in great danger Of injuring
their horses by over-working or over
heating them Too great care cannot
be taken in watering them often but not
too much at once when heated, and in
giving them frequent rests in the shade
whenever possible. After hard days
work they should be sponged down with
cool clear water and if a little carbo-
line soap is added, they will suffer less
annoyance from flies. The american
Agriculturist says: "A run in a pas
ture field at night would be very accep-
table to the working horses. In close
stables the flies greatly disturb them,
which they escape in the field" This
we believe to be pernicious advice. In
a stall which is properly cleaned, aired
and darkened, there is less annoyance
from flies than in an open pasture. But
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

LEIIN arc requested 10 WT1tC Tor IT,
Grange Directory.
PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon each month
"A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 166. = Meets at
winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
s. G. PIERCE, Master
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 1216-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL, Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. Sl1-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
w. BUNCE, Master.
+. B. SCHEMERHORN. Sec'y.
MIDDLEFIELD GRANGE, No. 52S-Meets on
Wednesday, on or before full moon.
Is. DUBOIS, Master.
e. j. WIGG, Sec'y.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No. 8 School
House, Hazleton Township.
II. MESSENGER, Master.
G. M. MILLER, Sec'y.
BYON GRANGE, No. 267-Meets at Justus
Durkee's. on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master
FRANK Fox Sec'v.
TRIUMPH GRANGE No. 1663.-Meets at the
or before the full moon of each month, also
in two weeks thereafter
o. S. PAINE. Master.
E. T.. HOPKINS Sec'y
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

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THE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines Of the West and North
west, and with its numerous branches and CON
ncctiOns forms the shortest and quickest route
between Chicago and all points in Illinois. Wis
conSn. Northern Michigan, Minnesota. iowa,
Nebraska. California, and the Western Terri
tories. Its
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
vECET|NE
Has Entirely Cured Me of Vertigo.

CAIRO, Ill.,, Jan. %, 1878.
Mr.. H. r. STEvENs-Dcdr Sir:-I have used
several bottles of "Vegetine;" it has entirely
cured me of Vertigo. l have also used it for
the Kidney complaint. 1t is the best medicine
for Kidney complaint would recommend it
as a good blood purifier. N. YOCUM.
PAIN AND DISEASE. Can we expect to enjoy
good health when bad or corrupt humors cir
culate with the blood, causing pain and dis
ease; and these humors being deposited thro'
the entire body, produce pimples. eruptions,
ulcers, indigestion, costiveness, headaches, neu-
ralgia, rheumatism, and numerous other COM
plants? Remove the cause by taking Vege-
tine, the most reliable remedy for cleansing
and purifying the blood.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

GREEN BAY & MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only Line between Chicago and James
vile, WATERFOWL, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh APP
pleton, Green Bay, Escanaba, Negaunee, Mar
quette, Houghton, Hancock and the Lake SUI
periOr country Its
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

FREEpORT 4 DUBUQUE LINE
Is the only route between Chicago and Elgin,
Rockford Freeport and all points via. Free
port. Its
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
FOREIGN.
vECET|NE
Purifies the Blood s. Gives Strength.

DU QUOIN, Ill, Jan. 81, 1878.
Mr.. H. r. STEvENs-Dear Sir:-Your "Veg-
etine has been doing wonders for me. Have
been having the chills and fever. contracted in
the swamps of the South, nothing giving me
relief until began the use of your Vegetine,
it giving me immediate relief, toning up my
system, purifying my blood, giving strength;
whereas all other medicines weakened me and
filled my system with poison; and am salts
fled that if families that live in the aguc dis
tricts of the South and West would take Vege-
tine two three times q week, they would
not be troubled with the chills or the malig-
nant fevers that prevail at certain times of the
year, save doctors bills, and live to good old
age. Respectfully yours,
J. e. MITCHELL,
Agent Hendersons Looms, st. Louis, Mo.
ALL DISEASES OF THE BLOOD.-If Vegetine
will relieve pain; cleanse, purify and cure such
diseases, and restoring the patient to perfect
health after trying different physicians, many
remedies and suffering for years, is it not con-
elusive proof if you are sufferer you car be
cured? Why is this medicine performing such
great cures? 1t works in the blood, in the cir
eulating fluid. 1t can truly be called the Great
Blood Purifyer. The great source of disease
originates in the blood; and no medicine that
does not act directly upon it to purify and rem
ovate. has any just claim upon public atten-
tiOn.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

LACROSSE. NINONA & ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La
Crosse, Winona, Rochester Owatonna. Mank;l-
to, St. Peter, New Tim ana and all points in
Southern aud Central Minnesota. Its
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06
OMAHA < CALIFORNIA LINE.

Is the shortest and best route between Chicago
and all points in Northern Illinois, Iowa, Dalo-
Ia. Nebraska, Wyoming. Colorado, L tab. Ncva-
da California, Oregon, China, Japan and Aus
trllia It's
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-09-06

CHICAGO, ST. p. 4 MENNEApoLIs LINE
Is the shortest line between Chicago ana all
points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
and for Madison, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and all points in the great Northwest. its
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16

TEXAS.
The Mexican Muddle.

New Orleans, June ia San An
tonic dispatch says the following was
received atheadquarters this afternoon,
dated Laredo, fromCapt. Cunningham,
in command: Have just seen Gen.
Soto, commanding on the opposite side
of the river. He states that all revo-
lutionary parties are broken up or dis
banded for the present, except Escobe-
dos, who has small force about sixty
miles above here, near Amale. He has
sent out a, force to that point, and ex-
poets Escobedo'to cross over into Tex
as tonight OF. tomorrow. sent Lieut..
Fountain, with forty men, last night
at midnight, to point opposite Amale.
He will 6e there tonight. Gen. Soto
gives the list of killed and wounded in
the fight of the 9th inst, as: Revolu-
tionists killed, Ii; wounded, Z; prison.
ers, %. The government troops lost
one killed, seven wounded. The num-
Der of revelutionists engaged was 130;
government troops, 105. He also states
that Generals Salinas and Garcia Ayala,
revolutionists, who were in the fight,
are on this side of the Rio Grande en-
deavoring to reorganize.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
MILITARY MATTERS.

Maj H. G. Thomas will report il
person to the commanding general, De
partment of the Platte, for assignmen
to duty.
Capt. A. II. Nickerson, of Gen
Crooks staff, is being urged at Wash.
ington for appointment as Adjutani
General.
Lieut.. r. Baronet, assistant surgeon,
U. S. A., is ordered to report to the
commanding officer at Fort Mckinney,
for the purpose of relieving Lieut.. w.
M. Wood. assistant surgeon, U. S. A.
The latter will report to the command
ing officer at Fort Mcpherson.
The following named officers are re-
lieved from the special duties assigned
them in Europe, and will return to the
United States and report rs follows:
Col. VIM. b. Hazen, Sixth infantry, for
duty with his regiment; Lieut.. Colonel
Alexander Chambers, Twenty First in
fantry, for duty at the recruiting depot,
Fort Columbus, New York harbor;
First. Lieut.. F. V. Greene, Corps of
Engineers, in person to the Chief of
Engineers.
A general court martial has been ap-
pointed to meet at Fort Mckinney on
Monday week, for the trial of such
prisoners as may be brought before it.
Following is the detail for the court:
Capt. Edwin Pollack, Ninth infantry
Capt. Samuel p. Ferris, Fourth infan
try; Capt. Charles J. Won Hermann
Fourth infantry; Capt. Thos. F. Quinn
Fourth infantry; First Lieut.. John w
Bubb, Fourth infantry; First Lieut.
James Regan, Ninth infantry, and Firs
Lieut.. Butler b. Price, Fourth infan
try, judge advocate.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. c. f. Annett has returned from
his visit to Laramie.
Governor Hoyt, who has been rs far
west as Salt Lake, is now visiting
Evanston.
Orville Z. Grant, brother to the
ex-President, passed over the road east
ward bound yesterday.
o. II. Henry, ESQ.,, of the Colorado
Central Railway was booked at Jones'
Railroad House yesterday.
Rev. L. J. Hall, of the M. Z. church
is on visit to Fort Collins. He breaches
there this morning and evening.
Rev. c. A. Brooks, pastor of the
Methodist church at Fort Collins, is in
the city, the guest of s. M. Preslaw,
Esq.
d. o. Clark Esq, of Carbon, Super
intendent of the Coal Department of
the Union Pacific railroad, passed
through the city yesterday EN- route for
| Omaha.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee Rankin, who
have just concluded an engagement ut
the San Francisco theatre, passed
through on the eastern bound train
yesterday.
On yesterdays eastern bound train
we noticed Hon. A. ]. Poppleton, OF
Omaha, attorney for the Union Pacific
Railroad company. He has been on q
visit to Salt Lake.
Hon. A. r. Converse has started fol
Paris. Mrs. Converse will soon return
to Cheyenne from Three Rivers, Mich.
Mr.. Converse's address is "No. 4 Rue
Scribe" Paris, France.
Robert Higgins Esq, President OF
the Denver Typographical Union, came
in from the east yesterday and proceed
ed south on the Colorado Central. He
had been on visit to Detroit.
Ed. Cuthbertson, Esq, of the firm
of Cuthbertson & Young, has gone tC
Colorado Springs in quest of health
Mrs. Cuthbertson accompanied him
They will be gone about two months.
M. F. Maley Esq, of THE LEADEI
composing rooms, went on trip to tn
country yesterday for the purpose o
locating q stock ranch. Three or fou
years hence he will probably be one o
the cattle kings of Wyoming.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16

Washington, June l5.-The commit.
tee of Conference on the bill to provide
fo- the distribution of the amounts re.
ceived from Mexico, in payment Of
awards of international claims
commission, have reached an agreement
providing. for the immediate pro rata
distribution except as regards the Neil
and Labra claimants. In these cases
the President is authorized in compli-
ance with the request of the Mexican
government, to reopen the question of
the validity of the awards. But the
proviso is added that this authorization
must not be construed as any express
sion of opinion on the part of Congress
concerning them.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
The Outlook for a Constitutional
Amendment Exceedingly Dark.

The Outlook for a Constitutional
Amendment Exceedingly Dark.
Washington, June 15.-The majority
report of the Senate committee on
Elections upon Sargent's joint resolu-
tion proposing sixteenth amendment
to the constitution, prohibiting States
from disfranchising women, takes the
ground, substantially, that the amend
ment, if adopted, will make several
millions Of voters who are totally mex
perienced in political affairs, and quite
generally dependent upon the other sex;
all incapable of performing military
duty, and without power to enforce
laws which their numerical strength
may enable them to make, and compar.
atively few of them wish to assume the
irksome and responsible political duties
which such measures thrusts upon
them, and which men seek to eyade.
Such q change should only be made
slowly, and in response to the general
public demands.
Thirty thousand names, asking fol
this legislation, were obtained through
the efforts of women suffrage societies
thoroughly organized, with active and
Jealous managers. Without woman
suffrage, legislation for women is con
stantly improving, and the disability
| imposed upon her under the common
law is being swept away by the spirit
Of the age. The States are gradual,
granting suffrage to women; perhaps
with good results. The committee re
CARDS it as unwise and inexpedient t,
enable two-thirds of the States, through
an amendment of the constitution, t,
force woman suffrage upon the othe
third, in which the public opinion o
both sexes may be strongly adverse Il
such change.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
Army Appropria,ion nnl caucus,

Washington, June ia Demo-
cratic caucus was held Saturday in the
hall of the House, for the purpose of
determining what course should be pur-
sued by the Democratic members of the
committee of conference on the army
appropriation bill In addition to
about three-fourths of the Democratic
members of the House, there were also
present eight or ten Democratic Sena-
tors. Representative Hewitt, of New
York, who had charge of the bill in the
House, made statement showing that
there was no prospect of an agreement
being reached by the conference COM
mittee except upon the basis of the
House receding from most, if not all,
of its agreements to the principal
amendments of the Senate. The House
provision for the reduction of the force
of the army to 10000 men was adopted
by an extremely small majority, and
the Senate majority against this propo-
Bition was very large. Hewitt also al
luded to the absolute unanimity of the
Senate in voting to refer all questions
of army reorganization to commission
for report at the next session of Con-
gress, and to a similar action taken
with the concurrence of nearly all the
Democratic Senators, in regard to the
proposed transfer of the management
of Indian affairs to the War Depart
ment.
Aside from the tenor of some of the
speeches, it became evident in q pri-
vate interchange of views among the
members, that there are sufficient
number of Democratic Representatives
ready to unite with the Republicans,
to insuea the adoption of the confer
ence report. Both Houses will un-
doubtedly adopt it.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-06-16
suceessful Appeal from oregon.

Washington, June 15.-The Presi.
dent and Secretary of War were in con.
sultation to-day upon the subject of In
dian troubles in the northwest. Sec
retary McCrary read to the President a
telegram received by him to-day from
the Governor of Oregon, relating that
the Indians were committing hostilities
on the eastern border. of that State,
that settlers are unprovided with arms
and ammunition for the purpose of
their protection, and asked the Govern
ment to furnish them with supplies.
The request will be granted.