Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-22
State Register.

An Iowa exchange in the Northwest
says the farmers are almost totally me-
glecting the grape vine.
We can say to an inquiring cores
pendent, that we believe there is no
drain tile manufactured in Iowa.
A doubling farmer is of such little
use, it is a waste of raw material to take
dust to make such a man.
Farmers complain of many wrongs,
but they could right them if they would
make use Of the brain force at their
command.
Iowa could profitably feed 10000, 900
head of neat cattle. But our last official
returns show that we have only a little
over one million.
Illinois and Iowa beef is the best in
the world: Johnny Bull so decides, and
he is the best judge. 1t is tender, sweet
and nutritious.
If there be any leisure time recollect
corn will stand manure to the fullest
extent. 1t not only pays in amount of
yield, but it ripens much earlier.
The younger steers can be presented
to the market fat, the better the salts
faction, and the greater the profit on
feed, investment and labor.
The fifth annual convention of the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Asso-
citation was held at the Grand Pacific
hotel, Chicago, on March g., 7 and 8.
The prevalence of unpaid-for respect
ability among farmers is one of the main
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generation are beyond the means to
crafty.
If orchards are to be put out, or if the
old one is to be improved. now is the
time. Order trees from reliable nurser-
les, Don't wait for a tree tramp,
1t used to be the custom in the day
of the dollar of the daddies," that if a
farmer would not pay for a thing, he
went without it. Debt at that time was
a disgrace.
A farmer should learn lessons from
the foibles and failures of others, as
we'll as by their wisdom and triumphs.
There are lessons in every passing min
ute or passing zephyr.
A chop house in New York imports
regularly from England its mutton
chops. Its customers say they can get
none such in this country. Our people
breed more for wool than mutton.
There need be no oilers in the west
territory Of the United States. Four
hundred millions will not crowd the
United States as much as thirty mil
lions do France or England.
A lover of mutton says: Mutton.
fattened mutton, nice chops from a
Cotswold, nicer ones from a Leicester,
or a roast from a Southdown, is the
most civilized meat in existence"
The President Of the Northwestern
Iowa Horticultural Society (who, we be-
lieve, is a physician says; You may
do without a feather bed, but I repeat,
do not do without an asparagus bed,
Fat little Berkshire pigs are pretty,
and nobby Short-horn steers are the de-
light of the eye. But no pigs are pretty
on the doorstep, o are any breed of
cattle a pleasure to the sight in the or
chard.
In Ohio, says the President Of the
Horticultural Society, neither apples.
peaches, pears nor cherries have been
injured by premature swelling. CT by
frost, but are all in the hest condi-
ton.
Farmers clubs, aside from the agri-
cultural information which may be gain
ed by such associations, will make fami.
lies of the same neighborhood better ac.
quainted with each other; create a bono
of sympathy; promote delightful socia.
relations, and give happiness and en-.
terprise to the entire rural popula.
ton.
A travelling tree peddler sold some
extraordinary kind of gooseberries to 8
farmer. Next year when the peddlel
came round the farmer informed him
that bis g~ooseberry bushes bore eur
rants. AThat is all right" said the ped
der, that kind always produces cur
rants the first. year
DIR. Miller. of the Sac SIM. records
the opinion that a season following a
mild winter like the present is never q
good one for wheat. They say there
should be plenty of snow and hare
freezing to make a good wheat crop
We think that a mixed system of crops
is best, take it one year with another
and also that crops should be well put
in.
We do not suppose there is a farmer
in this State who knows what kind OF
fence wire it is safe for him to buy
All vendors back up their claims with
the broad seal, which ought to be re-
spected, But counts appear to have
very little confidence in such pictures
When will our government transact
business so it will be respected by the
courts and the people?
Cedar Rapids. now the third packing
point in thke United States, has strong
faith in tHtfuture. The Times says:
THE time is close at hand when not a
live hog or steer will pass through Ce-
dar Rapids for eastern packing houses
We shall have not only other pork pack
ing houses, hut beef packing houses as
we'll"
A female friend just married and
wanting to start with a flower garden
inquiries of us what to SOW. Get the re-
tables, such as Asters, Stocks, Balsams
Petunias, &c. Any person can raise
these, aud they will not disappoint any
one. In the first efforts at g flower gar.
den, never be reaching after the wonder
full things, which require great care and
scientific skill.
There appears to be some doubt
among men as to the similarity of Iowa
blue grass to the Kentucky blue grass.
The agricultural editor, on coming to
Grundy county twenty-three years ago,
sent to Lexington, Kentucky, and pur-
chased fifty bushels of blue grass seed.
And much of the blue grass in his re-
gion was from this seed. And he has
not been able to discover any difference
in it and that in other States.
Now is the time to SOW tomato seed
in hot beds. And as an incentive to ac-
ton, let us quote to you the press-poem
appeal Of the President Of the North
western Iowa Horticultural Society in
behalf of tomatoes:
And the glorious, grand, luscious,
l%ifeainspiring tomato, do not forget it,
but plant your tomatoes with care, let
them climb on a %trcllis, or stair, expose
them to the sun and the air, if you
would have them the f%airest of fair