Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-04
Agricultural Items.
State Register.

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cagO.
The farmers are blowing in Northern
Iowa the latter part of December. A
rarity.
Cheese is still slow and dull at New
York and Little Falls, at from IL! to
13ac.
Wool at the Boston market seems to
gain nothing by time. Michigan X is
80, Ohio Xxx is AZ.
f. Dillon \ Co., of Illinois, have i'm
ported from France seventy-seven head
OF Norman stations and mares.
Anything done in violation of law IS
illegal Work on Sunday is prohibited,
hence note dated on Sunday is void.
Many of our agricultural writer's are
tedious. Publishers should teach them
to leave off the exordium and the pero-
ration.
By the report Of the Treasurer of the
National Grange, Iowa paid to that
Grange the past year the sum of 81 800
80.
1t is stated that the Illinois Central
has made arrangements to ship grain
from Dubuque and Cairo, through New
Orleans, to Europe.
Mr.. Adam Smith, of Illinois, says the
Nebraska Farmer, has lately purchased
of the B. & NJ. r. r. 10000 acres of
land in Boone county, Neb.
In Usage county, Kan, the past sum-
mer there were raised 2,772 acres of
castor beans. From II to Is bushels
per acre is an average crop. One bush
ell will produce . gallons of OIL
The cost of the transportation of a
horse from New York to Liverpool is
from $50 to $40 per head, and the price
of good carriage or farm horses in Eng
land is from 800 to $500.
Davenport Gazette: They are work
ing up 400 bushels of corn daily in the
manufacture Of grape sugar at the glu-
cose works. They sold 100000 pounds
of the sugar in October
As evidence of Iowa's increasing
wealth, the Cedar Falls Gazette reports:
An eastward bound train passed thro'
our city on the Illinois Central Railroad
Tuesday morning, consisting of forty
two car loads of stock, drawn by two en-
gines."
Timothy hay is now being carried by
rail to Boston from stations forty miles
west Of Chicago. The freight is $50 per
carload, and shippers are ordinarily
able to stow nine tons of pressed hay in
car
The editor of the Western Stock Jour-
nal says the short horn sales the past
fall have taught breeders one good less
on: The absolute necessity of heed
ing the wants Of the general farmers"
Selling to each other among breeders
had to come to an end some time
Mr.. Wilson thus graphically classifes
farmers: "A grain farmer eats his pat
rimony up; hog farmer is a sly ahead
Of him in the scale of thrift; cattle
breeder and feeder, connected with the
dairy, is civilized farmer; and sue
cessful sheep raiser belongs to the en-
lightened world.
Farmers must be on their guard about
dealing or having anything to do with
strangers. Make no contracts-give no
orders-buy no goods, or give them any
countenance. Most of them are jack
ais, travelling over the country to find
some one to prey upon.
In an article on the Short Horn Ma
MIA" the Pail Mall Gazette has the fol-
lowing: Heifers at four thousand
guineas apiece are now not uncommon.
The other day noble lord fell so com
pletely in love with one of these deli
cate creatures that he jumped from
$500 guineas to 1900 guineas at one
bid
The Southern States are already max
ing loud complaints of the rush of
tramps from the North going South to
spend the winter. They say they are
congregating in thousands They will
probably find that the carpet baggers
were not as bad as those who have no
grip-sacks.
The fifth wheel of the Patrons of
Husbandry has just adjourned at Gin
cinnati, after session OF ten days 1t
is a matter of rejoicing that it did but
little harm during the session. When
it does no harm, and only spends $780,
600 per year, grumblings should not be
very loud.
The cow, Fifth Duchess of Hill
hurst" lately sold in England for $22,-
500, the largest price ever obtained in
England, shows the second largest bona
tide price ever paid. The Duchess of
Geneva" sold at the New York mills
sale, some years since, brought $26, $50,
the most costly COW ever sold.
Robert Mcclure, well-known veter-
mary surgeon of Philadelphia, the au-
thor of work on veterinary science,and
one on diseases of the horse, has been
convicted of selling bogus diplomas to
veterinary surgeons, and was fined ST.,
600 and sentenced to nine months i'm
prisonment.
The Eldora Herald reports lively
trade in that region: During the past
day or two farmers have been pouring
in market with pork; on yesterday we
counted no less than thirty seven loads
Of hogs coming into town from the east
Surely there ought to be some money
stirring through the country at this
rate"
1 learn from the London Nng) Field
that prices of heavy farm horses in
England and Scotland have got perfect
ly alarming The prices have more than
doubled in the last ten years. A good
heavy farm horse will to-day readily sell
for $3.50 to $3.50 in gold, either in Eng
land or Scotland.-A.sW. Cook
During the first week in November,
five steamers arrived at Liverpool from
the United States, bringing altogether
4,276 quarters of beef, 700 carcasses of
mutton, and 1872 tubs of butter OF
live arrivals there have been received
1873 cattle, 1877 sheep, and Sc pigs. The
supply Of mutton named above is an in
crease on previous arrivals.
There is something strange in the
fact that Illinois is decreasing in the
number of cattle as reported by Illinois
Board of Agricultural. They report as
follows, showing a gradual decrease:
Number returned in 1874. ,327
:" - 1875. ,985 155
(" 1876...... ........ ,857,JOl
Z" 1877. 5093l
J. r, Goodwin, in the Journal of the