Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-11-15
Agricultural Items.

Little labor with large profits has
ruined many man.
Now is the time to keep stock in good
condition for wintering.
A purpose fixed and interchangeable
makes a man steady and reliable.
Good blood, good care, good cattle
and good prices go together.
Good books and papers are so cheap
no farmers boy need grow up in ignor-
ance.
Change of feed with horses from
green to dry should be gradual, and
carefully watched.
The best way for young men to get
all they earn is to begin by earning
more than they get.
The good farmer looketh well to the
title of his farm that his children may
not become outcasts.
Every one should have a purpose. a
part to gain, an end to accomplish and
a definite thing to compass.
Spend no dimes uselessly. Econo-
mize, be industrious, save your money
until you have foothold
On the genuine farm flowers and
vines in great abundance please the
senses, educate the taste, and purify
the soul
MIR. Bowen says this season will make
thousands OF converts to the use of
sweet corn as field crop for hogs and
cattle.
Do not be scared. Storms financial
as well as atmospheric, have ragged be-
fore now Be encouraged by the fact
that very few ships go down amid ocean.
Any young man can, by the faithful
improvement of his leisure time, pre-
pare himself for some lucrative position,
which merit always awards to her wor-
shippers.
Arrangements are being made in this
country for the expectation of fat cattle
in large numbers direct to Hamburg.
The success of the experiment, inaugur-
ated only a few years ago, of shipping
live cattle to England, appears to have
opened up almost boundless possibili-
ties for the American cattle raiser.
The Essex Inder informs us that cat
tie are coming into Southwestern Iowa
by the hundreds from the west and
north, to eat up the corn that is almost
burden to the farmers in that Vi
cinity
In these times let hired help be in
dustrious. AS things are moving young
men who are able to do other things
must seek employment as hired labor
ers. But do good service, and you will
be sure of situation with good pay.
In these adverse times farmers
should recollect that ships freighted for
distant shores, do not turn about at the
first adverse wind, but beat onward
straight or oblique to the point laid
down in the sailing orders. Grand ex-
ample for equivocating men.
All men should aim in the aspirations
OF their life struggles, at some noble
ambition distinct possibility of
a brilliant character. Napoleon once
believed in his star of destiny. and in
his struggles never lost sight of his am
bition to be the dictator Of all Europe.
Trainers have had season of com
parative rest. But the days are short
ening and the time for corn gathering
is close at hand. Have all the work
out of the way. Most corn is ready to
crib and now is the time to do it; not de-
lay until cold winds and clustering
SHOWS.
Last year Gas we'll as many years pre-
vious), we saw men in the fields with
their wives and children, gathering corn
in the last days of November. This is
extreme cruelty, if it could possibly
have been done sooner and in pleasanter
weather. Let everything be done in
season and in order
The ID. n Magic Co., of Oxford, Ohio,
recently sold Mr.. G.. B. Woodhouse, Of
New South Wales, Australia six Poland
China pigs. They were shipped ON the
18th of last month to 60 via. San Fran
cisco and Sidney. The lot consisted Of
five sows and one boar five months old.
and the average weight was hundred
and sevcnty-fve pounds each.
The export of wheat from the sea-
board for the eight weeks ending the
18th of September, have been 24,111,-
567 bushels, and of flour during the
period 656, 100 barrels, equal to $685.
845 bushels of wheat, or an aggregate of
wheat and -four of 1885, 112 bushels,
which is movement without a prece-
dent.