Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-08-09
Agricultural Items.
State Register.

farmer needs Is pluck.
1t is month yet to prairie chicken
time, and then the field is not open to
the world.
Every farmer and farm in the State
is interested in the result of the next
State Fair.
No man is poor who is out Of debt,
and has health, an honest heart and
willing hands.
BOTTLES are now depositing their
eggs on horses. Carefully scrape them
off with knife.
Good farmers read extensively. and
look well to the objects for which they
spend their money.
The laborer, clerk or employee cannot
afford to spend dime for beer until he
has title deed for spot Of ground.
1t is better for farmers to be currying
cattle and horses than to be currying
favors of the rich or Office holders.
One Of the reasons why prosperity
does not return, we have not yet re-
learned to travel in the old-time ruts Of
rigid economy.
Schuyler Colfax delivers the Agricul-
tural address at the Butler county Iowa,
Fair, on the 9th of September, at Clarks-
vile.
Milk just drawn from the cows is
from SO to 80 degrees Of heat. Well
water, from the upland wells in Iowa, is
from 48 to 81 degrees.
If a farmer has good health, good
appetite, good digestion, and sleeps well
not word of complaint should eyer is
sue from his mouth.
Never did the weather cooperate
more heartily with the farmers to make
a triumphant exhibition in the fall than
it has been doing of late.
Rev. j. w. Clinton delivers the adj
dress before the Clayton County Agri-
cultural Society, Sept %, at 2 o'clock
p. NJ. 1t will be worth hearing
In all the history of the world it has
been truly said that no tyranny on earth
is more to be despised than that serpent
OF the social circle, the Communist.
NJ, W. Durham, of Wayne, ILL.,, is on
his way home from France with new
importation of Norman-Percheron hors-
es, numbering thirty head or over.
1t farmers expect to prosper and hon
or their calling, they must study other
things than how to work like an OK, eat
like cormorant or sleep like hog.
Spinoza studied most of his time, but
worked at his trade just enough to pay
expenses. BY the most rigid economy
he lived on five cents per day
The crop of potato bugs came early
and have for some unaccOuntable cause
disappeared early. Less damage is be-
ing done than for any one Of fifteen
years.
The man who is unwilling to take the
market price for his labor is unfair, be-
cause he demands more than he gives,
since he obtains the labor of others at
this price.
Laborers on farm, in shop or factory
can easily get all they earn by trying to
earn more than they get. Do good
service and situation with good pay
will be certain
It is worthy of notice that the adven-
turer aud Spectator, with blasted hopes
and shattered health and fortune, have
in the end to come back to the farm for
health and safety,
Let farmers and those proposing to
become such, remember that the wealth
OF their labor is not represented wholly
in cash, but in health solid comfort and
quiet happiness.
Man genius is inventive and fertile,
yet with all his ingenuity he is not able
to call the smallest bit of matter into
existence; nor is he able, do what he
may, to put it out of existence.
The Marshall Republican reports
that new wheat is selling for 60(965
cents in Kansas. Mr.. Sleight is of the
opinion that it will not command more
than 60 cents here. We hope that he
has placed the figure too low,
Cedar Rapids has had the State Fair
so frequently, she begins to comprehend
the situation, and she therefore well
comes within her gates with courage all
who come to the annual show
Under the laws and habits of the
American people, the poor have no
cause to complain. The property of
the rich passes to the toiling poor every
two or three generations. The indus
trious poor get rich; the idling rich get
poor.
Cows should not be kept over eight
years old and ewes over five Now is
the time of year to determine what dis
position is to be made of old stock,
whether to be prepared for the butcher
or continued as at present for another
wear