Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-03-15
Agricultural Items.

counCy ~ 1eAaS dlOne are being graZeu
on the North Platte.
In Greeley county, Colorado, there is
enough good oak timber to supply the
demand for fuel for years to come.
Canadian horses are being transport
ed to England in large numbers, where
they are sold at fair market prices.
Missouri supplies. Chicago with large
quantities Of apples this season, while
very few are received from the east.
As animal heat is kept up by con-
sumption OF food, shelter and warmth
are to some extent substitutes for
food.
A farm hand in central Italy gets sew
en- cents a day for harvesting, and is
glad to find employment even at that
rate.
English experience is that the con-
sumption OF a ton of roots produces, on
the average, fourteen pounds of NUT
ton or beef.
1t is asserted that, Notwithstanding
the unusual rains, the sugar crop in Gu
ba will exceed the last crop in quantity
and quality.
The present is an excellent time to
buy timothy seed. An opportunity to
purchase it at the present low rates
may never occur again.
A pair of splendid Clydesdale mares.
aged eight and ten years respectively,
recently sold in London at the high price
of $4,000 for the pair.
There are about seventy-thousand or
ange trees in bearing in Louisiana yield
ing over thirty million oranges annually
which are worth on the trees about
100000.
Several parties in Custer Co., Monta-
ma, are drying buffalo meat, and the
market will be well supplied. 1t is the
intention OF some to ship to the Boze-
man and Bismarck markets.
The value Of mich cows in New York
equals one-sixth the value of the cows
in the United States, and in number is
double the aggregate contained in New
England.
The coffee imported into the United
States in 1876 amounted to ;339, 1926
pounds, and valued at 500, 7S8.997. It
is believed the coffee plant would
thrive in Florida, Lower California and
Southern Texas.
Some plants grow without any at
tachment to the soil, united to other
plants on which they feed, depriving
them thus of a portion of their sap, and
also %impairing more or less the vigor of
their growth.
All the varieties of the horse are at
tributed by naturalists to one common
origin, either of Tartary or Arabia. the
diminutive size of the Shetland, Iceland
and other ponies being attributed to eli
mate and proyender.
The Vermont Sheep-Breeder's Asso-
citation has passed a resolution asking
the States Senators and Representa-
tives to try to have the present duty on
wool and woolens preserved. or only
slightly reduced.
Dryness is one of the essential re-
quirements in a poultry house. Expos
ure to damp, particularly at night, fire.
quently produces attacks of that most
fatal, and, in its severest stages, con-
taglous disease termed roupe.
An organization of landowners near
Naples, ILL.,, is being formed to con-
struct a levee along the Illinois river,
to which eight thousand acres of rich
bottom land will be reclaimed from ov-
erfow and break-water.
Under the mistaken idea that early
exposure to cold renders the calf hardy,
it is often turned out in early spring in
to the fields. Exposure to the sharp
frosts OF Spring often Injuries the con
ditlon OF young animals, and renders
them more liable to contract disease.
1t is important that every young ami
NAL should at first be supplied with an
abundance Of milk.
The North British Agrlculturtst re-
ports that a well-known English stock
breeder has offered to the earl of Dun
more the m sum Of ten thou
sand guineas for the ~2-year-old Short
horn heifer the daughter of Duchess
9th, by 9th Duke of Geneva. This ex-
traordinary offer is conditional upon the
coming calf of the heifer to be purchas-
ed being alive and a heifer.
1t is stated that one of the principal
rose firms of England purchase annual
ly from sixty to eighty thousand briar
stocks upon which to bud standard
roses. These when received are sorted,
trimmed and planted out where they are
to grow until sold. The proper time
for budding these stocks in Eengland is
said to be in July, earlier or later ac-
cording to the season.
Mangel-wurzel root contains a larger
amount of solid matter than the turnip,
and usually produces a heavier crop.
When first taken from the ground its
flavor is acrid; but when stored for
some months it becomes far more pal
atable, owing, apparently, to the con
version of some of its insoluble carbo-
hydrates into sugar. 1t is said that sew
enty-fve pounds of mangels equal in
nutritive power 100 pounds of turnips.
According to Wcckerlin, a COW 700
pounds weight requires one-sixtieth Of
its live weight in hay Tor it's food equiv
alent) daily to maintain her weight,
while on this allowance her average
production during lactation is from four
to five times her weight in milk, varying
according to her breed, age and other
conditions. European experiments
show a variation in cowsfrom a product
Of one quart of milk for every five
pounds of hay consumed, up to a con
sumption of nine pounds of hay for ev-
cry quart of milk produced. Expert
ments in this country showed hat Hol-
stein cow produced nearly seven and
one-half times, and Ayrshire COW over
eight times their own weight in milk.
1t is admitted by London brewers that
American hops have greater strength,
as well as the property of retaining their
aroma and bitter principle longer than
any other growth. The brewers find