corn, burnt on the cob until each kernal is black, or as long as it can be burned and have the corn retain its shape, is greedily eaten by fowls, and results in a general improvement in their health, and a greater average number of eggs are produced.—(January 31, 1883.)
E. W. Lockwood & Son shipped two car loads of hogs Saturday, one from Nevada and one from Roland.—(January 31, 1883.)
Dunklebarger & Son shipped several car loads of stock from this station Monday. Or. Dunklebarger accompanied the shipment.—(January 31, 1883.)
Put a tea-spoonful of sulphur in the nest as soon as hens or turkeys are set. The heat of the fowls causes the sulphur to penetrate every part of their bodies; every louse is killed, and as all nits are hatched within ten days, when the mother leaves the nest with her brood, she is perfectly free from nits or lice.—Clarkson in Register.—(January, 1883.)
We noticed in The Intelligencer, of March 24th, an item stating that Mrs. W. S. Anderson, in December last completed a quilt containing 4,320 pieces, and asking if any lady in Story County could beat it. Miss Nellie Coon has pieced two quilts, one containing 15,988, and the other 9,580, both of which were completed before her sixteenth year. What lady can beat this? Mrs. G.—(April, 1883.)
Colonel SCOTT left yesterday for Washington, D. C., where he is expected to read a paper before the National Agricultural Convention now in session in that city. The Colonel will be absent about a week.—(April 24, 1883.)
Maxwell voted Monday to build a $2,700 school house. This is a good move, and just what might have been expected of the enterprising town and township in which it is located.—(April, 1883.)
Mr. Sowers shipped a car load of cattle, and a car load of hogs, and J. Duea & Son two cars of hogs this week.—(May 13, 1883.)
Our school will conimence Monday. Mrs. Lizzie Truitt will teach the "young Indians to hoot." She is a good teacher.—(May 13, 1883.)
NEVADA—MARSHALLTOWN CONTEST.
NEVADA. Iowa, April 24, 1883.
At eleven o'clock, Friday morning, April twentieth, twelve Marshalltown contestants with forty or fifty friends, stepped off the train and were escorted by the Nevada contestants and their