Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-18
Agricultural Items.


bloom at Watseka, ILL.,, last week.
Nebraska raised this year %, 100000
bushels of corn and 17O,500 hogs.
There is almost any amount of gov
eminent land remaining in Northern
Arkansas.
The losses of the Scotch farmers this
year through floods and bad weather, are
estimated at $4O,OO0,OOO
Prof. Riley, the entomologist, has
been going over the State of Texas get
ting up facts regarding the grasshop-
pers.
The tubers of Jerusalem artichokes
are much improved after taking up by
being laid for time on unslacked lime.
Hon. Geo. Wells is the big farmer of
Grundy Co., Iowa. He has 5000 acres
under cultivation, all inclosed with a
fence.
During the late mild weather num-
Der of farmers in Jersey Co., Ill.,, took
advantage of it in blowing the fields for
spring crops.
The peaches and wheat in Southern
Illinois and Missouri are said, by best
judges, not to have been injured in the
least by the weather
One Pope Co., ILL.,, farmer raised on
one acre three hundred and thirty two
bushels of potatoes, and on three acres
more than seven hundred bushels
Wheat receipts on the Southern Min
nesota road are reduced to almost moth
ing by the terrible condition of the wa
gon roads, which are almost impossible
A farmer at Orwell, VT, tapped thirty
maple trees one day last week, boiled
down the twenty pailfuls of sap obtain
ed, and gave a sugar party in the even
ing.
Farmers of Clay county, Mimi, along
the line Of the Northern Pacific, cele-
brated last Christmas by blowing theil
fields, which were in excellent condition
for working
The wheat crop is set by the agricul
tural bureau at 16O,0OO,0O0 bushels, the
largest ever known by 50,O0O,0O0 and
affording 100,0O0,000 for export; corn
crop, 4,3O0, 100000 bushels.
Pork has deprecated in value more
than any other meat, and is worth about
half as much as it was few years ago.
Hogs are now quoted at from $500 tc
$3.50 per hundred.
AS the rinderpcst is prevalent in por.
tons of Europe, the Secretary of the
Treasury has issued an order prohibit
ing the importation Of either cattle OF
hides from the infected districts
1t is estimated that the farmers of
Jackson Co.. Iowa, lost half million
dollars worth Of hogs during the past
season, from hog cholera Some farm
ers lost as many as two hundred head
each.
The king of Sweden has created new
decoration-a medal which is to be dis
tributed among such farmers in Norway
as particularly distinguish themselves
in the cultivation of their land.
Jamaica began quinine planting in
1860, and now has eighty thousand trees
OF which experienced chemists report
most favorably The experiment made
by government is regarded as a complete
success.
A few days ago a hive of bees belong
ing to George White, of Newman, Ga,
swarmed. The phenomenon of bees
swarming in December was never
dreamed of in philosophy The swarm
of young bees was saved.
\ correspondent of the Toronto Globe
recommends licensing horse shoers. He
takes the ground that thousands of
horses are ruined every year by impro-
per shoeing, and that the only way to
correct the evil is to license shoers.
The government of Guadaloupe offers
$40, 900 to whoever can obtain fourteen
per cent. of sugar from the juice of the
sugar cane, provided that the cost of
applying the process does not exceed
,orty per cent. of the value realized
The exports of cheese from the Uni
ed States, as shown by table prepared
Oy the bureau of statistics, has grown
from IA, 734 pounds in the year 1860 to
1864, 666 pounds in 1870 The total
Export for the period, including both of
hose years, has been l,262,525,71O
pounds.
The West Chester 1D,ericon Rep~bH-
ran says that many of the Chester Co.
'armers still employ oxen, but not to
he extent of few years ago. Horses
are now generally substituted, but the
Republican thinks that the time will
come when they will be more extensive
~ used than at present.
The Georgia farmer who has carried
IF the palm this year is Mr. James H.
Booker He raised sixty bales Of cot
ton, twelve hundred bushels of corn,
i've hundred of potatoes, one thousand
of oats and wheat, and % hogs. The
newspapers chronicle this as the great
est harvest gathered by any one man
since the war.
A correspondent Of the Willamette
Farmer, Oregon, speaking for the soil in
chat State in relation to the adaptation
to orchard cultivation, says he has
found that timber lands gently rolling,
are best for fruits. Where timber can
not be had for orchards, then rolling
fern lands should be selected for an or
;hard.
1t is estimated by British authorities
that one-half their stock of sheep is an
nually slaughtered for food, numbering
at least 100000 animals, averaging IS
pounds per head. This gives an annual
supply of nearly 1000, 100000 pounds of
mutton through the home supply, in ad-
Iition to which 100000 imported ami
mails give 100000 pounds more.
In 1912 the Spanish adventurer Colo
nado, marched at the head of company
from Mexico to point on the northern
boundary of Kansas. He gave the
world the first authentic account of the
great plains west Of the Missouri river.
Writing of country he said: The earth
is the best possible for all kinds of pro-
auctions of Spain; for while it is very
strong and black, it is very well watcred
by brooks, springs and rivers.
A correspondent of The Los angeles
Herald relates the effect of placing few
leaves of the castor oil plant under trees
chat were being spoiled by grasshoppers.
So remarkable was the result that an
actual count of the number killed under
one tree showed fourhundred and ninety
light dead ''hoppers," without twenty
more in dying condition. Judging
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