Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1878 — AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

AGRICULTURAL BREVITIES.

—The following agricultural and domestic brevities are taken from the lowa Stale Register: By neat and tasteful surroundings the humblest cottage can be made a palace. Spring is as far advanced in Europe as in America—both being a month earlier. A balky horse Is nearly always a living witness of theincapacity or Inattention of spme man. A well-ordered and well-cultivated lawn is a true evidence of good taste and refinement.. I n4~— "v t* amu .4 m A. moms, . ? I’HYSU lAN AND SURGEON, manyonico in Hpltlur’s brick building, opposlti Potr (Mart lloum. H- LOUGIUUDGK days D physician and surgeon. Thnttßlitngtou street, below Aimtiii’n hotel, j ?ou per cunt. Interest wll be added to nil (lamp running unsettled longer than Union bug fle - —---■ The most careful business men of the present day commenced business on a farm, and early learned the worth of a dollar. Sheep will always injure a hedge fence, and if they can work at it on both sides will kill out any sized hedge in about three years. If a farmer or business man wishes to know hoW great a spendthrift he is let him keep an exact memorandum of all the time idly spent. The men who have filled the widest space in the world's history—who have reached the highest niches in the world’s renown, were agriculturists. The butter spoiled in this country by ignorance and carelessness in manufacturing, if well made, would sell for enough more to soon pay the National debt.

The speculative farmer is the man of large means and a small stock of practical sense. He invests his money in expensive buildings, and uaavailable stock—fails and reports farming as unprofitable. Chloride of lime is cheap, and it should be applied freely to it 1 cellars. The past winter and spring has been hard on vegetables, and many cellars are in a foul condition. As life and health are valuable, neglect not this precaution. At the Canada Dairymen's Association, the President contendud that “ he could get as much milk in winter as in summer, and he found his cows fell oft' in quantity of milk when first turned to grass. He thought milk could be as cheaply produced in winter as in summer, unless the cows were kept largely by soiling. The general system of pasturing was very wasteful of land. Winter butter brought even a better price than summer made butter.” The National Live Stock Journal is for more schools: “Wejiave reached a, new departure, which must soon be introduced—practical dairy schools, for the more thorough education of dairymen, and the advancement of this great industry. The factories have done, and wiil continue to do, much; but they are not schools of Experiment, schools of discovery, schools for the demonstration of the true road.”