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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
FARM MOVIES.

Arkansas has a State Agricultural So
ciety, formed exclusively of colored men.
The refuse bones from the family table
should be saved and pounded into bits
that the poultry can swallow.
1t is a good plan to have two sets of
roosting poles and change them each
week, setting them outside when not in
use.
Remember it is the appearance of
goods that sells them. Nice, large, fat,
plump, white turkeys, ducks, chickens or
geese always bring outside prices.
In Spain, when person eats a peach
or pear as he passes along the road, he
Immediately plants the seeds. Fruit trees
are plenty and free to every passer-by.
A horse may have sound limbs, sound
body, and be sound apparently in every
particular, yet if he lacks constitution
and good vital organs he is of but little
value.
Small chickens should never be kept or
fed with old ones: they are apt to be in
jured. Have two or three yards and
separate them according to size and
strength.
The free use of clover-seed and keeping
of farm stock enables farmers to main
tain land in good condition for ordinary
cropping without purchasing commercial
manures.
Minneapolis is the greatest wheat mar
ket' receiving 33,OOO,OOO bushels, against
100000 in Chicago, Is 100000 in Duluth,
100000 in Toledo, and 100000 in St.
Louis.
The production of flour at Minneapolis
for week before last was 1OS.37O barrels,
averaging 1S,061 daily against III, 3O9
barrels the preceding week, and 143.-
936 barrels the CORES ponding time in
1885.
Cream rises almost wholly when the
milk is cooling, says the Dairy Farmer,
and il the milk is warmed up to 100 de-
grees the cream will all rise while the
milk is gradually cooling down to fifty
degrees.
Small fruit culture will always be most
successful on the intensive plan. Plant
only a small area and give that the best
culture possible. Better raise 500 bushels
on one acre than that amount on five or
six.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
Apple Culture in Wisconsin.
Michigan HorticulturaliSt

That our whole system of apple-grow
ing in the Northwest must be greatly modi-
fed or entirely revolutionized, all must
admit. Many now claim that We should
give up growing for general purposes and
depend upon more favored regions for
our apples.
This is weakness, folly; We have in our
varied climate and soil the best conditions
for the production of fruit of great beauty
and highest quality.
The fact was settled long ago, and is
attested by our success in every exhibit
ton where our apples are in competition
with any or all states of this latitude.
We are within the apple belt" not out of
it.
We have the best home II arket in the
world; a people who do and will consume
as many apples as any other, and it is not
wisdom nor economy to give up growing
this fruit in every section of our State.
But with the severe experience of the last
year where can we look for success? In
reply to this question which comes to us
daily. We say:
1st. Take the best of our very good
Siberian crosses, and utilize all we have
in that line. They not only stay with rs.
but give US condensed apple, in unlimit-
ed quantity of every quality and for every
domestic purpose.
ID Less certain. but hopefully sure of
giving Us large size and fair quality are
the RusssiOd apples, old and new; in var
iety, no end; with nomenclature difficult,
and essential character and local adap-
ton uncertain to a large extent. Yet
their advent is godsend, and they and
their offspring are to fill a large place in
our pomology.
Sd. In the multiplicity of our native
seedlings which are tinctured with the
blood of either or both the races mention
ed, we have some that have come to stay.
The testing of these, for local or general
adoption is the work of years, and of a
few only of the most persevering of our
very patient toilers in this field.
4th. In the older sections of our state
are yet good healthy specimen trees of
many of the choice old varieties, which
will remain to remind us that after all,
there are some conditions of soil and cuI-
ture, elevation and aspect, which when
duly understood and observed, will make
them safe to plant, and so they will be re
tanned for special locations.
9Th. 1t is not a new discovery that the
hardness and adaptation of a variety is
largely enhBnced by the use of a hardy
stock, but the fact that perfectly hardy
variety on its OWL roots needs no such
help. and the increased cost of propaga-
ton by ''dOnble working" have prevented
any considerable use of this method of
increasing hardness. But this method
must now come in for its share of atten-
ton, and will be one of the sources
of security in apple growing in the north
west.
By some or all of the means outlined
above, we certainly need not fail to pro
duce all the apples can consume, and
some for greater extremes to the north.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
THE HOUSEHOLD.


When a man has a certain kind of work
to do, 1t is considered necessary that he
be provided with the proper tools. /
think it is only right that this rule should
be applied equally TO housewives. The
position which housewives occupies can
not, by any means, be looked upon as a
sinecure- Cookery, which used to be
such an easy, commonplace matter, has
now become an art; so have house decora-
ton, and many other things. The conse-
quence Is that if q housewife nowadays
wishes TO keep pace with the times, she
certainly has no easy task, and very of
ten l know, feels almost at her wit
end
In households where the mistress at
tends to the chief part of the cooking
herself, she likes to get through With 1t
as quickly as possible. It's not at all
pleasant If a caller drops in, IN the after
part of the day, to be found still employ
ed In culinary operations, with ones
morning dress never changed, and with
scarcely time to spare for few minutes
chat
This sort ot thipg-if allowed to go on
soon makes life seem very closely al
lied TO drudgery; and often makes good
industrious housewife. Who Is trying 70
do her very best. nearly lose heart The
cause can generally be traced back very
easily to the simple fact that the necss-
sary helps-in the shape of proper uten-
sis etc--are wanting. First one thing
goes wrong. then another until soon she
Is behind with everything How much
more pleasantly and evenly life goes with
housewife who has veil-ordered KIT
chen, where the things needfu 70 Keep
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
The Corn Root Worm.
Iowa Register.

The plague to the great staple corn
crop Is still menace TO unskillful and
careless farmers. 1t says to them palmer
than any agricultural writer ever has.
that there must be rotation of crops. Mr..
Clapp. careful farmer of Illinois, says
that this beetle not only works on the
roots, but that it goes up on the stalks
later IN the season, feeds on the leaves,
husks and silk at the end of the ears. In
some sections of Illinois and Iowa for the
past seasons they have been numerous,
and have done so much damage where
corn has been raised three or four times
on the same ground that the crop was
nearly failure. But no case is known
where they did any considerable damage
where 1t was the first crop for two or three
years, except where the year previous they
became so numerous that they spread
out on adjoining fields of grass or other
crops. But the corn field is their natural
home, and corn roots and blades their ma
tural food. And their presence is an
admonition to farmers in the right direc-
ton, that of the rotation of crops. There
has been no other way devised to destroy
this pest except to starve 1t out by remov-
ing the corn to another field. The worm
is not great traveller, and yet by some
process it has managed to spread over
considerable territory in few years. Or
1t has been spontaneously produced to
teach farmers their duty.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
Pistols of Day in a Texas Town.
San Antonio I.ishe

Wills Point had q shooting matinee last
night, six participants and two victims.
Padgett and Carroll. An old feud well
loaded did 1t.
Hermogenes Chapa was found at his
ranch, fifteen miles from San Diego. at
noon on last Thursday, shot through the
heart.
twelve-year-old runaway from Deca-
tur, Ala, was taken care of in Dallas yes
terday. He came Ito Texas to ride a
pony, carry pistol, and grow rich on a
ranch"
Dan Robertson, s negro, was shot and
killed by unknown parties few miles be-
low Austin last evening. The man who
shot him left him in the wagon and rode
off with one of his horses.
The little six-year-old son of H. c.
Griner was shot and killed by an eight
year-old playmate at Weymiller'S rancho,
near Cline Station, yesterday. The chill
dren were playing with broken pistol
which they picked up.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
The City vs.. The Country.
Herald Of Education.

The writer was boy once, and lived in
the country. He is a man now, with bows
of his own, and lives in the CITY. He
does not find time to be as much with his
family as every father shonld be. From
early dawn to dewy eve" and often into
the night, he must toll to provide for his
offspring. He knows but few. outside of
his own family. and those he meets in
! business. This Is the rule with fathers
and families in the city. and not the ex-
ceptIon. A man was murdered by foot
pads, at midnight, within a stones throw
OF his home. IN Louisville not many weeks
ago. His neXt-door neighbor looked at
his dead features and knew him not: he
dled at home, stranger. Who would
claim that the city is a solitude? And
yet, IN one sense, it is true. The principle
OF brotherhood does not implant itself
upon the character of men raised in the
city as 4 does upon that of those raised
IN the country. Each looks upon his fell
low being, to some extent. as his prev. or
as an enemy, to escape whose clutches he
/ must use his utmost vigilance. The CITY.
! like the desert, is full of lyons and hyeuas,
Is populated with gazelles and timid ante
lopes.
Dream not of going to the city. We stout
| country yeomen! Be contented to raise
your boys where you are. Spend the
long evenings of winter with them at
your country home. The fireside is a
wondrous schoOl-the best school for the
boy, because its curriculum is character
alone.
The country-raised man never ceases
to pine for his old surroundings. when
| transplanted to the city. He NAV be sue
cessful, and he usually is, in eluding the
/ lions which he Is a gazelle, or in slaugh-
terlng the gazelles when he becomes a
lion, but he never enjoys the feast The
school and the home are both necessary
/ to enable boy to fight successfully the
! battle of modem life. The city has its
/ schools. but not the homes. The country
I has its homes, but not the schools. Which
/ has the advantage IN the race! A count
/ of the lions on Main street to-day would
starsle the one who made the count. A
/ majority of the successful business men
I In Louisville. known to the writer, were
raised IN the country The lesson from
/ all this Is apparent. 1t Is to build up our
rural schools and tear down our city
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
MALIGNED MEXICANS.
They Do Not Steal Cattle Along the Border
St. Louis Republican.

o. LGuiS hse FuUlcHu.
Col. A. G. Bracket, an old-time army
officer, now stationed at Fort Davis, who
is proud of the honor of having made the
first Indian raid into Mexico in the fifties
writes as follows on the subject of the re-
ported Mexican cattle-stealing on this side
of the border:
A good deal has been said lately in the
public prints IL regard to cattle-stealing
along the Rio Grande by Mexican soldiers
1t is very strange, to say the least of it,
that we who live here have heard nothing
about it except as it was returned to us in
the columns of newspaper printed Il
long distance off Scouting parties of
United States soldiers are kept moving
along the river, and they know nothing
whatever about the sOcalled outrages.
What they do know is that American
cattle stray in large numbers across the
river, where the grazing is better and
where they are looked after by their own
ers as carefully as if they were on our own
grounds.
This certainly has not much the appear
ance of cattIe-stealing. Soldiers see hun
dreds of cattle crossing from Texas
Mexico, but nobody drives them over,
they are going of their own free will
=
in them, which they find is very difficult
to do in Preside county. The fact is
that there is an unprecedented drought
in this section of the country, and many
hundreds of cattle have died of starvation
This fact is an unpleasant one, but the
truth has to be told sometimes, however
much it may be against our interest tG tell
it. The carcasses of dead animals not
the plains and slopes III every direction.
Against the drought and consequent total
lack Of grass no man can successfully
combat, and the cowboys are only too will
ing to have their cattle lover in Mexico,
where the grazing is comparatively good.
knowing full well that they can drive
them back whenever they please. The
animals go over the slopes to drink in the
Rio Grande, and seeing the inviting pros
poets of the other side, cross over doing
no harm to anyone.
These are the facts of the case, and if
any Mexican has crossed on this side and
driven cattle over he has merely been tax
ing back his own property. the same as
our people do from the other side
Americans along the Rio Grande own Il
great many cattle, while our neighbOrs
own comparatively few. Our soldiers
keep good watch along the frontier, and
Gen. Stanley is well advised as to every
thing transpiring and looks well after the
interests of our citizens. Under the con
dition of things stated here, there must
aecessarily be some Irregularities, but
that the MeXicans come onto our side and
drive away cattle Is not true. If true.
though, it would be perfectly easy to do,
and still more easy to drive away Ameri-
can cattle already on their side of the Rio
Grande.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
Farm Work For June.

This Is the busiest month for the farm
er. Corn planting, which is planting
par excellence, over large part of the
country is not over before corn tillage
presses, for the weeds grow very fast, and
the grass grows too, so that haying ought
to begin. Millet and fodder corn must be
sowed, and in many sections Swedish tur-
nips or rutabagas need to be in as early
as the 25th, though in others good crobs
may be depended upon when sown a
month later. Those who have orchard
grass and clover in some fields will be glad
that they may begin the hay harvest by
cutting these long before timothy and
red-top meadows are ready for the now
ing machine. This saves a great deal of
worry, and when the timothy is ripe it
may be cut at once if proper balculatians
have been made. As to the age when
timothy should be cut it is well TO bear in
mind that for ones own use it can hardly
be cut too green after the heads are well
out, but for sale for city feeding it is pre-
ferred as old as it can be without the seed
Smelling off from the heads. 1t is used
not so much as nutriment as for bulky
food with oats or ground feed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
MISSING LINKS

The first temperance agitation in the
United States of which there is any record.
it is stated, occurred in 1851, at Orient.
l.. L.
10 10 is in the center of the new oil
fields of the Allegheny mountains. When
last heard from every shanty i'll the city
was saloon.
The imports of olive oil for the eight
months ending Feb. %, 1888, amounted to
492, 4+3 gallons, valued for duty at S41S,-
80.
Frequent acts of incendiarism in Sche-
nectady, n. Y, have led to the arrest of
three prominent men as professionals in
that line of crime.
mass of lead III an elevated furnace i'll
Paris was completed dissipated by a stroke
of lightning, no trace of the metal being
found afterwards.
Colorado offers premium of So per
hundred for every line of trees maintain
ed along ditch. fences and highways and
properly cared for.
The first train over a new road to Dublin
Ga, attracted crowd of over 100 per
sons, many of whom had never seen a
train before.
In London last year there were 2,S51
alarms of fire, or an average of eight Il
day. OF these 2,27O wers vcritable fires
though only sixty resulted in serious dam
age.
Six years ago an artist gave citizen of
Auburn, Me- several sheep for an old VIC
lin, said To be Il cramona. The Auburn
man thinks he made good bargain for
his sheep Melted him 81 LEGO.
For some time past the sidewalks in
Vallejo Cal, have been disappearing.
Where or how they went no one knew, I'M
til week or so ago, a man was found in
dustriously engaged in tearing them up,
and arrested.
To promote economy the French gov
! eminent has established savings banks in
| connection with the public schools. There
| are no less than 24,OOO of these banks
and the 100000 boys whose names are ON
| the books have an average of So each to
their credit.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
Had Little Sympathy for the Queen.
D.Ar- LIZ,

When Queen Victoria lost her husband
there was deep and general sympathy
with her sorrow. OF course the news
papers echoed the thoughts of her sub
iects, and her feelings under the bereave-
ment were the common topic of CONVEX
sation. The writer was then a British
resident and subject. There worked in a
certain parsonage, in which he spent some
happy years, a good specimen of the
daughters of toll tfor the laborers, re
member, are not "sonS"f, whose nipple
ments of labor were soap, water aud
waShtUb. She was on easy terms in the
house, and not afraid to express her opin-
ion. She thought it was nonsense to talk
so much about the Queens troubles. she
didn't need to wet her hands once in Il
month unless she had 4 mind to-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04

Last evening pedestrians on Church
street witnessed a strange sight. Coming
from the direction of Congress avenue
was man on a bycicle. He seemed to
be an expert wheelman, and was going at
an exceedingly rapid rate. Instead of the
regulation wheelman's outfit he was
dressed in a long-tailed coat, the extrem-
tiles of which were ON fire. He seemed
oblivious of the fact that he was in dan
ger of being cremated, and was apparent
ly as deaf as an adder for he needed not
the warming cries of policemen and citi-
zens. The smoke and the odor of burn
ing cloth filed the air, but the rider sped
onward. When last seen he was going to-
ward Whitney avenue, and the light of the
burning coat-tails was visible after his
form had become indiStinct.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04
The Great German Physician.

The remarkable phase, in the practice OF Or
Peter W. Schmidt Frequently called Dr. Petel is
he never asked one to describe their disease hut
tells each one their trouble without asking q
question. His Succts is phenomenal His prac
tice enormous. He is sought after by hundreds
wherever he goes, because he cures wher
every other physician and remeCy have failed
He has allow ed his great remedies Golden Seal
RitterS ami Lung Food for Consumption. TO be Of
fered to he suffering, and We assert without fear
of successful contradiction, that there is no dis
ease they will not cure. Thousands of bottles
have been sold, Thousands nj broken Gown and
discouraged invaiids savei Send TO Golden Sea-
BttterS Company, Holland City, Mich, for facts
for the millions, Free.
\ school bin has been passed by the
Legislature of Kentccky forlevylng school
taxes. One clause says; Any widow
spinster and alien, who is a taxpayer. and
has children of school age, shah be quail
flied to vote"
, months treatment for SOC. Pisu'S Remedy
for Catarrh. Sold 10y druggists
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04

From the Country Gentleman.


The man who is curing very green
clover, especially in showery weather. is
often tempted to put it into the barn be
fore it is very dry, and rely on salt to save
it. Salt will save it if enough is used:
but what will the cattle say? There is no
way to "freshen" the hay when it is want
ed to feed; therefore, no more salt should
be put on than the cattle can safely use
How much they will stand without injury
has never been ascertained with exactness
but, from my experience, L should say
that less than peck to the ton is enough
Probably four quarts is plenty.
Sometimes 1t Is practicable to use very
salty hay, as an occasional feed, to good
advantage. We had a few acres of second
growth clover that was cut while very
green and juicy. Several days of sun and
repeated turnings at last reduced il to
something like hay, and when big rain
could be seen coming up we stacked it.
It's weight showed it to be far from dry
and several buckets of salt were used.
The stack acted very strangely. settling
down to less than half its original size,
and we feared it was spoiled. But it
kept tirst-rate, and packed as solid as
plus tobacco, though it was very salt. We
put it before the cattle. and they ate what
they wanted of it, having plenty of other
feed all the while. 1t supplied them with
salt as well as part their food. But pre-
fer to give salt by itself, and feed by it
self, when possible.
We tried the plan, so often recommend
ed, of putting strata of dry straw in the
NOW OF green clover, only we used some
very poor bluegrass hay, several years
old. 1t Is apparently a success: and l
think also the claim that the dry material
absorbs some of the flavor of the green
hay, and so becomes palatable, has some
thing of truth. At any rate, it was all
eaten up close, which L think would hard
ly have been the case had the bluegrass
hay been fed before its use in the clover.
Yet the clover was IN places slightly
musty; probably too small a proportion
of dry material was used
In making clover hay, be not deceived
by an apparent dryness, when the stems
may contain moisture enough to iniure
the hay. There is danger of this while
the sun is very hot, when the hay may be
dry enough to rustic, and yet if put in
cock a while will appear as it is-damp.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-06-04

homes. We are going too fast, and our
chase is after an igais Jfatltus. Those who
acquire wealth may escape the slough,
but what is to become of the massive
cities:
A street-car driver told the writer, with
tears IN his eyes. that he had not for II
years eaten meal with his family. So
clety Is built on a wrong basis when 1t
thus condemns family of children to
orphanage; they might just as well no
father at never tee him.