Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-06-07
Agricultural Items.

In farming many things can be sown
broadcast, but not money.
Time, if improved, is wealth, and
should not be squandered.
Franklin never uttered maxim equal
to Live within your means"
A fraud of horse farrier is travelling
through the State. Look out for him
Health, hilarity and happiness march
hand in hand with buds, blossoms and
bloom.
All Of our Southern Iowa papers
speak in glowing terms of the prospect
Of the wheat crop.
1t is a glorious provision that extrav-
agance does not pay in any business
and especially so in farming.
A taste for trees, and plants, and
flowers, is the love an enlightened mind
and tender heart pays to nature.
Col. Hoxie, we'll known in Iowa, is
opening large farm one hundred and
fifty miles south of Dallas, Texas.
Everything on farm should be done
we'll, and for this purpose the owner
must give it his personal supervision
The Wright county Monitor now re-
ports 1920 cattle in herds in that
county, and mot half the territory yet
heard from"
The farmer who will keep his plows
running in his corn fields, wet or dry
will be rewarded in the autumn by a
good yield of corn.
Stock farm according to it's produc.
tions. Have stock enough to consume
all rough food, but not enough to be-
come rough without food.
Free clinics, or instruction and treat
ment in the veterinary hospital, is given
at the Iowa Agricultural College every
Monday afternoon.
There are thousands of wrecked for
tunes in every State caused by invest
ing too much in fine houses. They in
vest the principal instead of the interest.
Fifty-three thousand pounds of but
ter was purchased in Manchester, Iowa,
in the first fourteen days of May, from
the manufacturers in the neighborhood.
The human race without the glow of
green grass, and the garniture of groves,
would soon become hard, soulless, and
dessicated of the amenities of life.
r. L. Miller, Beecher, Ill.,, has sold
forty two Hereford bulls, to Swan Bros,
of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. To-
tai amount realized, $4,000; being an
average of 1923.
We hold it tossbe the duty of every
good farmer to render his home as hap
Ply and agreeable as possible; to COM
bine the solid comforts of life with the
elegant pleasures OF taste.
The profits on the farm are small, and
economy in all proper and legitimate
methods needs to be practiced in order
to provide comfortable living and pay
one hundred cents on the dollar.
Men who have farmed for eighty
years, almost universally testify that
they learned more of the business in
the last forty than in the first forty of
their lives and yet many think it is easy
to learn farming.
Many farmers have learned in stony
counties, and on paved streets and ma
cadamized roads, to shoe horses. Thus
thousands of dollars are annually ex-
pended in this State, without benefit to
the horses or the owners.
In loaning money to farmer, if you
wish the interest and principal paid
when due, see the borrowers house and
barn in good repair, fences we'll kept up,
fence corners clear of bushes. wet lands
thoroughly ditched. corn free from
weeds, and wheat from cockel. Such a
farmer, if he has a neat and tidy wife,
is sure to prosper One who neglects
all these never can.
Several correspondents write to an
nounce the complete extirpation of rats
and mice from their cow-stalls and pig
geries since the adoption of this simple
PLAN A mixture of two parts of we'll
bruised common squills and three parts
of well-chopped bacon is made into a
stiff mass, with as much meal as may be
required, and then baked into small
cakes, which are put down for the rats
to eat.-Enchdnge.