Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-05-03
Agricultural Items.
From the State Register.

from the State Register.
Corn planting was in progress in Linn
county on the 18th.
The way to increase the crop OF
tramps is to give them quail on toast
Dubuque will offer about $4,000 fol
trotting the second week of September
Spring is as far advanced in Europe as
in America-b both being a month earlier
There are only 1000 sheep in Con
necticut. Forty years ago there were
100000.
BY neat and tasteful surroundings
the humblcst cottage can be made a pal.
ace.
| never knew a farmer to SOW too
much grass seed on an acre. nor too many
kinds.-.Ms. Wilson.
A well ordered and well cultivated
lawn is a true evidence of good taste
and refinement.
Forty years ago farmers went into
the field to work at sunrise. Then a
dollar was 100 cents.
a balky horse is nearly always a liv-
ing witness of the incapacity or mat
N>''sio VI IN iuh
Mr.. Lorentzen says that dairymen
must treat their COWS to a daily dose of
the milk OF human Kindness"
The reports of the peach crops in
Maryland and Delaware are gloomy.
Not more than a fourth crop is now ex-
pected.
1t was the opinion of Frederick Rob
ertson that nothingWill save this coun-
try but a return to simpler habits and
purer lives.
Hershey's mamoth creamery. now be-
ing erected near Muscatine, will be kept
cool by air supplied through a 45O-feet
tunnel into a hill.
The Western Stock .I%ournol reports
that the swine sales of S. A. Knapp &
Co., in ten months ending March lst,
1878, amounted to 1861 $50.
The men who have filled the widest
space in the worlds history-who have
reached the highest mich in the worlds
renOwn, were agriculturists.
The butter spoiled in this country by
ignorance and careIessness lii m~anufac-
turing, if well made. would sell for
enough more to saon pay the national
debt.
No longer is Chicago or New York
going to determine the price of our beef.
Then let every farmer fully understand
that we have hereafter to compete with
the markets Of the world, and our only
hope is to excel in quality.
Cheese at Chicago is as follows,
Choice, full cream, cheddar makes. at
124Wl3ic per tb.; good full cream at
l2(a13!c; fair to medium grades at
llGll5c, and common a S(G1O!c.
Butter of a good quality is in demand
At Chicago at the following prices;
Creameries 30(G35c per h.; good to
choice diaries 25(G2Sc; fair to medium
do 2O(d24c; inferior to common 5(G1Oc;
roll butter 15W19c.
Sinclair & Co., of Cedar Rapids, are
manufacturing various kinds of fertiliz-
ers, such as bone and meat scraps, an
other kind of bones exclusively, and al
so of blood entirely. The prices range
from 75c to $500 per cwt.
There is scarcely a county in Kansas
but what has a bonded debt, ranging
from 100000 up to 1928 600. The total
county bonded debt last year was 81
12O,O94. The rate of taxation in some
counties is near 9 per cent on valuation.
Chloride of lime is cheap, and it
should be applied freely to all cellars.
The past winter and spring has been
hard on vegetables, and many cellars
are IN a foul condition. AS life and
health are valuable. neglect not this
%precaution.
Good farming and good stock breed
ing are exceptions but probably no
branch Of farming in Iowa has suffered
as much from bad management as sheep
husbandry. No one need attempt this
business until he abandons all the slip
shod practices of Western farming.
The Cedar Rapids Times reports the
sale Of - head of steers by Mr.. IRE at
A. cents. They were three years old
and averaged 1864 pounds. And driv-
ing ten miles to Cedar Rapids they lost
an average of forty pounds each.
Corn planting Logan in many counties
in the State early in this month. Should
the weather remain favorable, most of
the corn this year will be planted in
April, a circumstance which never oc-
CURED before. They were planting in
Northwestern Iowa as early as the 18th.
Our trade ought to be cultivated with
the West Indies, as we imported last
year from these islands 800 600, 900
worth of goods, and exported in return
only $335 ,000,0 From Central and
South America we imported last year
to the ualue Of $4,000 900, and export
ed in return only $4,000, 600.
1t is difficult to distinguish the male
from the female Guinea fowl. But on
each side of the upper ~mandible, at
the base, hangs a loose waffle, which in
the female is red and in the male blush.
Our friend at Cedar Falls after a little
acquaintance can tell also from the diff
ference in their "pot-rack,'
The public sale to be made by Milton
Briggs, at kellogg, Iowa, is appointed
for the 9th of June next, at which time
about 12O head of valuable Short-horns
will be sold on one to three years time.
Farmers will meet with excellent OPP
portunities at this sale to obtain ami
mails OF merit, on liberal terms.
IL cplIlt ILdkC DcuCOU lHlOTilS Tile
public hat the largest body of water in
the State is Spirit Lake, which lies en-
tirely in township 100, range 36, and has
an area of ten square miles, West Oko-
boil is next in size, and is about six
miles long, varying in width from three
fourths to two and one-half miles.
Hon. Martin I. Townsend, who always
talks and lives alike, in his place in the
House of Representatives, on the 18th
said: "A man in any walk of life who
labors diligently in any calling, whether
with property or without property, is
worth a hundred politicians who simply
work with their brains"
At the Canada Dairymen's Associa-
ton, the President contended that he
could get as much milk in winter as in
summer, and he found his COWS fell off
in quantity Of milk when first turned to
grass. He thought milk could be as
cheaply produced in winter as in sum-
mer, unless the COWS were kept largely
by soiling. The general system of pas
turing was very wasteful of land. Win
ter butter brought even a better price
than summer made butter"
The National Lire Stock Journal is
for more schools: "We have reached a
"