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Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
What is the Matter with NV Pigs.
Western Stock Journal.
A cOrreSnOndnnt from Illinois mako


A correspondent from Illinois makes
the following inquiries:
Il am a close reader Of your Journal
and | find nothing to suit what [ now
need. Several of my shoats are affect
ed with some kind Of a disease | do not
understand. First | noticed they seem
ed stupid and lay around; then their
wind got Faster, similar to wind broken
horses, and they just dwindled away un-
til there was no more fat visible. One
died and the remainder l kept alive, but
could not prevent the fast breathing. l
desire information"
Answer-We should call the above a
clear case of typhoid pneumonia, so de-
structive to hogs in many sections Of
the country. We have not here space
to enter into a discussion of causes; let
us proceed to treatment.
1st. Thoroughly ~renovate the pens,
removing all manure from within and
around the pens, scatter plenty Of lime
and wood ashes on the floor, furnish dry
bedding in reasonable quantities. Keep
the pens dry and the hogs from expos
ure, always feeding them under cover,
Even when out for exercise do not al
low them to lie down in damp or expos
ed places. If the pens are dark admit
as much sun as practicable.
The food must be nutritious, but very
digestible and not over abundant. Take
equal quantities Of wheat bran, oat meal
and corn meal, well cooked, and feed in
the form of porridge. Add to each
mess Of food some cider vinegar. Feed
no dry corn, If they will eat give them
half a pound of salt pork, once a day to
each animal, and plenty of charcoal.
Take equal parts of copperas, sulphur,
saleratus and ginger, and add to the
compound n thirty-second part of pull
verified lobelia seed, give two teaspoon
fuls of the mixture daily to each animal.
In case of continued constipation, give
castor oil. This treatment should be
carefully observed for at least two
weeks. If taken in time it yields readi-
ly to treatment.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
NepOnset, Ills.

CoTswOLD RECoRD.-This a~ssocia-
ton has decided hat only animals
tracing in all their crosses to sheep
bred by reputable breeders in Great
Britain will be admitted to record. In
any casc where a satisfactory certificate
can be furnished, the Board of Direct
ors, showing that animals have descend
&c from pure bred focks in Great Brit
ain, without intermixture of other blood,
and giving name of the importer, it will
be accepted as Il basis for a pedigree.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
Large OF Small Farms.

NHtA
Ten or fifteen years ago men thought
no money could be made on a farm of
less than $50 or 200 acres, and here in
Ohio many farms of 300 acres and 800
acres were owned. But at last people
are beginning to realize the evil result
ing both to themselves individually and
to the social and educational interests
of the community.
In the first place, large farms imply
heavy taxes and much expense, for hired
labor is profitable only when under the
constant supervision of interested par
ties, for there are many things that
when done carelessly are worse than if
not done at all. AS a result of receiving
less care, large farms produce lighter
crops. Great waste of time and mater
ial in feeding, seeding, c%ultivating and
harvesting is certain when the labor
is performed by men hired by the month
who have no interest in the farm beyond
drawing their wages. On large farms
fences are seldomin frst-class order and
much loss is occasioned by stock break
ing into fields and destroying crops,
while the beasts also acquire bad habits.
Large farms of course have large pas
lures, and this necessitates large flocks
of sheep or herds Of cattle, which every
experienced farmer knows is not the
most profitable. Large farms also in
crease the work and lessen the leisure
of the ladies, and heaven knows that
most farmers wives have little enough
of the latter. Farmers do not seem to
realize that when they have help on the
farm, their wives should have help in
the house.
Again, looking at the subject from
another point of view, large farms dcs-
stroy social intercourse by increasing
the distance between neighbors, making
every house "A hermitage seldom invaded
by visitors, Large farms are also iniur,
ious to our school system, by decreasing
the number of families in a school dis
trict and increasing the distance which
the scholars must travel. This is quite
an item, especially in winter, when the
team must take them to school.
Considering these facts, men are ev-
cry day coming to the conclusion that
small farms are the most profitable,
mentally, physically and financially.
Fifty or sixty acres is as large a farm as
any man can cultivate to advantage.
With such a farm as this. a man may
support a family comfortably, without
~enslaving either himself or his wife. He
can read of business failures without
anxiety. If he wishes to leave home
for a few days, his neighbor, who lives
close at hand, will do his Chores" and
some day he will return the favor. His
neighbors drop in occasionally to spend
an evening, and he knows little of the
"drudgery of the farmers life which is
so often spoken of by men who are
land poor.'-Fdrm and Ftreside..
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
A Plan for Feeding.

\ good way to persuade cattle to do
their w grinding is to Il the I'M
shucked corn through the feed cutter,
mix twice the bulk of cut hay with the
corn, put a little salt and ashes with
enough water to make the whole quite
damp, mix it well, prepare it twelve to
twenty-fonr hours before using, appor-
ton it to the cattle so that each will get
the quantity desired, always allowing
them to have all the whole hay they
will eat. W. have fed in this manner
the past winter, and we are pleased with
results. We submit the above plain,
practical idea to the readers, and, broth
er farmer, without mixing anything with
it. We give the feed to the cattle and
try to digest the theory ourselves.
Theory is a good thing in it's place,
but it takes a long time to fatten a
Short Horn on it. ID. W, IL.
West Liberty. Iowa.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
Grange DIRECTORY.

PRAIRIE GROVE GRANGE, No. 443.-Meets
at the Sheridan School House, Monday even
ing, on or before the full moon, each month.
A. WROTEN, Sec'y.
WINTHROP GRANGE, No. 1855. Meets at
Winthrop on Friday, on or before the full
moon of each month.
s. G. PIERCE, Master.
S. w. RICH, Sec'y.
WEST BUFFALO GRANGE, No. 12l6.-Meets
Tuesday, on or before full moon.
j. ID. RUSSELL. Master.
GREELEY GROVE GRANGE, No. 811.-Meets
on Friday evening, on or before full moon, at
Warehouse Hall.
W. BUNCE, Master.
p. b. S~CHEMERHORN. Sec'Y.
MIDDLEF1ELD GRANGE, No. 52S.-Meets on
Wednesday, OH or before full moon.
B. DUBOIS, Master.
E.. J. WIGG. Sec'y.
SUPERIOR GRANGE, No. 352.-Meets Satur-
day, on or before full moon, at No. 8 School
House, Hazleton Township.
r. MESSENGER, Master.
G. NJ. MILLER Sec'y.
BYON GRANGE, No. 26T.-Meets at Justus
Durkee's, on Tuesday evening, on or after
full moon.
E. GLEASON, Master.
FRANK Fox Sec'v.
TRIUMPH GRANGE No. 1663.-Meets at the
Sill School House, on the first Thursday, on
or before the full moon of each month, also
in two weeks thereafter
o. S. PAINE. Master.
Il. l.. HOPKINS, Sec'y.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

MANURE FOR PAsTUREs.-The quick
est way to improve our pastures when
short of manure, is to top-dress them,
or to pasture sheep for a season, as
these animals will .exterminate such
weeds and grasses as cows will not eat.
If the pasture cannot be given up to
sheep, pasture as many sheep as COWS,
and ii will be found that the pasture
will sustain as many COWS as when they
were pastured alone, while the fertility
of the pasture will allow an increase in
cows of at least 10 per cent annually
american Cultivator.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
FOREIGN ADS.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
R. 5. & A. ?. LACEY, Attorneys at Law,
599 Serenth-st., Washington, Z. c.
nvlnf0rQ.

Inventors.
We procure Patents in all countries. No AT
TORNEY FEES IN ADVANCE: No charge unless
the patent is granted. No fees for making pre-
liminary examinations. No additional fees for
obtaining and conducting a rehearing. Special
attention given to Interference Cases before
the Patent Office, Extensions before Congress,
Infringement Suits in different States, and all
litigation appertaining to Inventions or Pat
ents. Send stamp for Pamphlets, giving full
instructions.
v. S. Courts and Departments.
Claims prosecuted in the Supreme Court of
the United States, Court of Claims, Court of
Commissioners of Alabama Claims, Southern
Claims before the Executive Department.
Arrears of Pay and Bounty.
Officers, Soldiers and Sailors the late war, or
their heirs, are in many cases entitledto money
from the Government of which they have no
knowledge. Write full history of service and
close stamp and a full reply, after examination
will be given you without charge.
Pensions.
All Officers. Soldiers and Sailors wounded,
ruptured, or injured in the late war, however
slight, are entitled to and can obtain a pension.
U. S. General Land Office.
Contested Land Cases, Private LAND Claims.
Mining, Presumption and Homestead Cases
prosecuted before the General Land Office and
department of the Interior.
Land Warrants.
We pay cash for Bounty Land Warrants, and
we invite correspondence with all parties hav-
ing any for sale, and give full and explicit in
structiOns where assignments are imperfect.
We conduct our buSinesSin separate Bureaus,
having therein the clerical assistance of able
and experienced lawyers. and give our closest
personal supervision to every important paper
prepared in such case. Prompt attention is
thus secured to all business entrusted to us.
Address
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
OMAHA & CALIFORNIA LINE.

OMAHA 4 CALIFORNIA LINE.
Is the shortest and best route between Chicago
and all points in Northern Illinois Iowa, Dako-
Ia, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Neva-
da. California, Oregon, China, Japan and Aus
tralia. Its
CHICAGO, ST. p. 4 MINNEAroLIs LINE
Is the shortest line between Chicago and all
points in Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and for Madison. st. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth
and all points in the great Northwest. Its
LACROSSE, WINoNA q ST. PETER LINE
Is the best route between Chicago and La
Crosse, Winona. Rochester, Owatonna, Manka-
To, st. Peter, New Ulm and and all points in
Southern aud Central Minnesota. Its
GREEN BAY 4 MARQUETTE LINE
Is the only Line between Chicago and James
vile, Watertown, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, APP
pleton, Green Bay, Escanaba, N~egaunee, Mar
quette, Houghton, Hancock and the Lake SUI
perior country. Its
FREEpoRT X DUBUQUE LINE
Is the only route between Chicago and Elgin,
Rockford, Freeport and all points via. Free
port. Its
CHICAGO 4 MILWAUKEE LINE
Is the old Lake Shore route, ana is the only one
passing between Chicago and Evanston. Lake
Forest, Highland Park, WauAegan. Racine,
kenosha and Milwaukee,.
PULLMAN PALACE DRAWING ROOM CARS
are running on all through trans of this road.
This Is the ONLY LINE running these cars be-
tween Chicago and st. Pau! and Minneapolis,
Chicago and Milwaukee,, Chicago and Winona,
or Chicago and Green Bay.
Close connections are made ut Chicago with
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Michigan
Central, Baltimore & Ohio ittsburg, FIT. Wayne
& Chicago, Kankakee Line and Pan Handle
Routes for all points East and SOUTHEAST, and
with the Chicago & Alton and Illinois Central
for all points South.
Close connections are also made with the
Union Pacific Il. II. at Omaha for all far West
points.
Close connections made at junction points
with trains of all cross points.
Tickets over this route are sold by all Coupon
Ticket Agents in the United States and Cana
das. Remember, yOl. ask for your Tickets via.
the Chicago & North-W estern Railway and take
none other.
New York Office. AIS Broadway; Boston Office,
No. 5 State street; Omaha Office, 245 Farnham
street; San Francisco office, l22 Montgomery
street; Chicago Ticket offices. 81 Clark street,
under Sherman House; Is Canal, corner Madi-
son street; Kenzie Street Depot, corner West
Kinzie and Canal streets; Wells Street Depot,
corner Wells and Kinzie streets.
For rates or Information not attainable from
your home ticket agents, apply to
w. ii. SrENNETT, MARyIN HUGHITr.
Gen. Pass. Ag't, Chicago. Gen. Man. Chicago
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
FOREIGN.
vECET
Chills, Shakes,
FEVER AND AGUE.

TARBORO, N. G. 1878.
Da. H. r. STEVENS:
Dedr feel very grateful for what your
valuable medicine, Vegetine, has done in my
family. l wish to express my thanks by in
forming you of the wonderful cure of my son;
also to let you know that Vegetine is the best
medicine l ever saw for Chills, Shakes, Fever
and Ague. My son was sick with measles in
1878, which left him with Hip-joint disease. My
son suffered q great deal of pain, all the time;
the pain was so great he did nothing but cry.
The doctors did not help him a particle, he
could not lift his foot from the floor, and he
could not move without crntches. l read your
advertisement in the Louisville COuriel-JOu-
nal. that Vegetine was Il great Blood Purifier
and Blood Food. | tried one bottle which was
q great benefit. He kept on with the medicine,
gradually gaining. He has taken eighteen bot
ties in all, and he is completely restored to
health, and walks without crutches or cane.
He is 20 years of age. l have a younger son,
fifteen years of age, who is subject to Chills.
Whenever he feels one coming on, he comes in,
Of the chill. Vegetine leaves no bad effect up
on the system like most of the medicines rec
commended for chills. Icheerfully recommend
Vegetine for such complaints. | think it is
the greatest medicine in the world.
Respectfully, MRS j. w. LLOYD.
VEGETINE.-W When the blood becomes life
less and stagnant, either from change of wealth
er or of climate, want of exercise, irregular di-
ct. or from any other cause. the Vegetine will
renew the blood, carry Off the putrid humOrs,
cleanse the stomach, regulate the bowels and
impart Il tone of vigor to the whole body.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

It. is said that when the flowers Of
chickweed expand fully there need be
no fear of rain for several hours. Should
it continue in that condition, no rain
will disturb the summer day, When it
half conceals its miniature flower, the
days is sure to be showery; and if it en-
tirely shuts up, or wells the white flow
err with it's green mantle, let the travel
er put on his great-coat.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

Says the Drorers' Journal of March
I'd, 1878:
Thursday Messrs. Gehlsen, Ingwersen.
& Co. bought their first lot of steers to
go to the pastures of North Germany
for fattening. Yesterday and to-day
they added to their purchases, and now
have between three and four hundred
steers of good style for which they paid
$390d3.95. These will be held in the
vicinity of this market until the arrival
in New York of the steamer Schleswieg
when they will be shipped. The steam
err left Cadiz, where she had stopped to
coal, last Sabbath, and will make her
way by easy running, using only two OF
her four boilers, to New York by the
10th of March.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

,osh the gloss and freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thickened, falling hair
checked, and badness often, though
not always, cured by its use. Moth
ing can restore the hair where the
follicles are destroyed, or the glands
atrophied and decayed. But such as
remain can be saved for usefulness
by this application. Instead of foul
ing the hair with a pasty sediment, it
will keep it clean and vigorous. Its
occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling oft, and
consequently prevent badness. Free
from those deleterious substances
which make some preparations dan
gerous, and injurious to the hair, the
Vigor can only benefit but not harm
it. If wanted merely for a
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
4ass

The reading columns on this page will be de-
voted, mainly, to topics pertaining to FARM and
HOUSEHOLD. The farmer readers of the Bull
LETIN are requested to write for it.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

The Mark Lone Express says: The
Americans are trying the experiment of
sending carcasses of mutton in their
skins, the wool having been scalded off.
They skin better than one would expect
under the circumstances, and the car
casses are of course fresh and clean.
At Mr.. Tallerman's wharf in Thames
street, | saw, last week, a carcass in the
skin, and one which had been skinned;
the pelts are presumably worth as much
here as on the other side, and no anvas
cloths are required. There must also be
a saving weight, as the evaporating SUI
faces are lessened more than one-half.
There is, however, more trouble attach
ed to it on this side, and it remains to
be seer whether the plan will be gener-
ally accepted,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
G. & NV. r.. r..
C., 4 NV Il. Il.
c.. & N.
LINES.

THE CHICAGO & NORTII=WESTERN RAILWAY
Embraces under one management the Great
Trunk Railway Lines of the West and North
west, and with its numerous branches and con-
forms the shortest and quickest route
between Chicago and all points in Illinois, Wis
consin, Northern Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa.
Nebraska: California, and the Western Terri
tories. It's
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

Farmers complain of many wrongs,
but they could right them if they would
make use of the brain force at their
command.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

A doubling farmer is Of such little
use it is q waste of raw material to take
dust to make such a man.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

Little misfortunes yaccinate big ones,
says Victor Hugo.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
r. S. & A. P. LACEY, Att'ys,

Any person desiring information as to the
standing and responsibility of the members OF
the firm, will, on request, be furnished with q
satisfactory reference in his vicinity or Con-
gressional District. 12-24tf
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
vECE time.

NERVOUSNESS
And General Debility.
B~ERNARDsTON, Mass, 1878.
We, the undersigned, having used Vegetine.
pleasure In recommending it to all those
troubled with HumOrs of any kind. Dyspepsia.
Nervousness or General Debility, it being the
Great Blood Purifier. Sold by X. L.. CrOwell &
Sons, who sell more of it than all other patent
medicines put together.
MRS. l.. +. PERKINS.
MRS, II. W. SCOTT.
EPH SLATE.
VEGETINE is the great health restorer-cOm-
posed exclusively of barks, roots and herbs. 1t
is very pleasant to take; every child likes 1t.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05

We have seer for some time notices
of u exchanges Boosting of the fine
and heavy specimens Of the porcine pro-
duct marketed by farmers who make
their respective towns their shipping
point. Now it is time for us to get in
our work, and we think that Glidden can
flourish as big and as loud a trumpet as
any of them. Robert McCreath, of JAS
per township, shipped last week sixty
hogs which averaged 374 pounds per
head, one k~ing-cooler of il pig tipped the
beam at the 700-pound notch. Crawl
we this shoat, will you? This, We ven
turc to say, was the evenest and heav-
lest lot of hogs ever raised by one farm
err in Western Iowa. Ghdden Sen
tineI.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
Experiments with Potatoes.

\ French agricultural journal, the
Bosse- EoM, describes the result Of
some experiments in potato growing
recently conducted by scientific men in
Germany. The principal conclusions to
which these saees have come seem to
be two in number. The first of them is
that the vigor Of the potato plant is al
ways in direct proportion to the weight
of the tuber used for sets, a theory
which certainly finds some support in
common sense alone, considering that
the young shoots for some time draw
their sole nourishmcnt from the moth
er potato. The second conclusion is
that there is a great variety in the pro-
ductive power, not only of different tub
ers, hut also of different eyes in the
same potato, 1T is found that the
eyes at the top Of the potato produce
a much more vigorous offspring than
those in the lower part, and the conse-
quence is that those agri%culturists who
cut their potatoes in half before plant
ing them are not well advised in cutting
vertically, but should always divide
them horizontally, planting the upper
Hall dIlu uSluS IN Ill dc IoOd " u
tie. But the best plan of all is, to plant
the tuber whole, cutting out, neverthe-
less, all the eyes except those in the top
part Experiments were conducted in
a garden soil by Prof. Gantz, the amount
of crop produced by several different
settings of potatoes being accurately
estimated in statistical tables. 1t APP
peared that from tubers divided verti-
cally only five tons were produced per
acre, and from whole potatoes, seven
and a half tons. The third sort were
potatoes horizontally divided, which are
set down as nine and threc-quarters tons.
In this particular, however, some Of the
other professors do not agree with Herr
Gantz, but maintain that, other things
being equal, the whole potatoes will al
ways produce more than halves, howev-
err cut. On the fourth result. however,
all agree, and that is, that the
whole potatoes from which the lower
eyes have been cut out, produce eleven
and One-half tons per acre, or more than
double the result by the sets first men
tioned.-Prairie Farmer.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
Ayers
H0w V1g0r,
For restoring Gray Hair TO
its natural Vitality and Color.

A Tres ing
which is at once
a 6 e a b e,
healthy, and eff
fectual for pre-
serving The
hair. Faded or
gray hairi soon
restored to ais
original color,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
D0BBIN'S STARCH POLISH!
(HOW DAS shine

BY the use of which every family may give
their linen that brilliant polish peculiar to fine
laundry work. Saving time ana labor in iron
ing, more than its entire cost. Sold by grocers.
or Will be sent postage paid on receipt of 25cts.
Dobhins, Bro. &Co., Is N. 4th St., Phi
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-05
WHITE"

Sewing Machine is the easiest selling and best
satisfying in the market. 1t has a very large.
shuttle; makes the lock-stitch; is simple in
construction; very light running and almost
noiseless. 1t is almost impossible for other
machines to sell in direct competition with the
White. Agents Wanted. Apply for terms to-
White Sewing Machine Co, Cleveland, o.