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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
The United States Corn Crop.

In addition To the photographic abstract
of the agricultural bureau for September.
the follnwing from the report itself, Just
published, will be read with interest:
In good corn years the October returns,
the last record of condition, when the
crop is ready for harvest. are rarely much
lower than those of September. In the
regions south of 80 deg. north latitude
the crop is made, and the possibilities of
injury by frost in this month relate to
more northern belt. In the year 1881,
the worst corn season known since the
statistical inquiry was organized. the uni
yersal depression was formulated in
September average of 60, while the clear
er and more hopeful view of the first of
October, influenced also by the heat and
sunlight of the month of September, was
properly expressed by 66 as a general
average. In several other yers slight
advance appears in October, but more
frequently decline. Last year the aver
ages of September and October were alike
%, and the crop was above average. The
past month, on the whole, has been I'M
favorable to the improvement of the
present crop prospects. On the Atlantic
coast, from Maine to Virginia, condition
is little lower than in the August, re-
port, with larger reduction in New Jer-
sey. From North Carolina to Georgia
and Tennessee the depressed averages
were raised two TO four points by the
prevalence of better conditions. less rain
and more sunshine than before. In Flor
ida and Alabama there was some decline,
and in Mississippi and Louisiana an ele-
Walton of the average by single point
The crop Is late in New England, and in
sandy soils pinched by drought in many
quarters In New York the lack of need
ed moisture is shriveling the blades and
shortening the ears somewhat. In other
Middle States excessive rains in the early
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
The Profit from Poultry



I A dozen hens, valued at 50. may pay for
/ all their feed and yield profit of only
- cents each. Such a sum would seem
very insignificant, but it is $50 per cent.
on capital invested. True the hens re-
/ quire attention and labor while tae ex-
pense for buildings must not be overlook
ed. But buildings are permanent invest
meuts, and will last for several seasons,
/ while the labor bestowed upon a single
small dock would not be increased. if ten
/ times the number were cared for An at
/ teudant would find no difficulty in man
eglnE several hundred fowls, while 50
/ cents is estimated rs the proportion for
each hen to contribute us her share of the
expense for the poultry house.
\ dairyman will buy COW for $50. and
build large barn for his herd. He must
not only grow or purchase his grain and
other feed fed in the troughs, but he
must also provide n pasture. The cows
must be MIXED twice day. and the milk
hauled IN all kinds of weather. If butter
Is made the labor Is increased. The cap
ltal invested in single COW, estimating
use of land, labor, buildings and value of
the animal, seldom falls below 5000 and
If the COW gives profit of $50 per an
mum she Is considered n good one. And
yee the dairy business Is considered pay
ing one, although the profit does not
reach twenty-five per cent. on capital.
but, We have allowed 1t here. If the
poultryman realized twenty-five per cent
on capital invested in poultry, he would
be dissatisfied. 1t is a very inferior flock
that does not pay fifty per cent, and
hundreds of cases may be cited in which
two hundred per cent. ON capital invested
IN poultry has been secured.
When it is claimed that poultry returns
a larger profit for capital invested the
fact applies to both small and large
fiocks. Ii the hens are treated as stock.
and managed as is done for cattle, sheen
and swine, they give large profits for
/ labor care and capital invested. but the
great difficulty is that the majority of
farmers do not look upon poultry as
stock. Even where the focks are over
looked they give good profits on some
farms, though the farmer may not be
aware of the fact if he keeps no accounts
/ There are but few instances known in
which the hens have failed to more than
pay for themselves, and they yield hun
dreds of eggs to those who have never
considered poultry profitable, simply be
cause the amount received Is estimated in
cents instead or dollars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
A Goddess Tunnel to Clay.
Poston PacprI

Boston Record.
4 Boston lady who returned from the
White mountains last week TOLD the his
torian about an interesting experience
that she had when she went there. She
was greatly taken on the train going to
the mountains with young woman on
the seat in front of her, who was in form,
in face, in bearing, veritable Juno.
During the long ride she built many airy
castles of Imagination around the form of
this godlike young person. She tried her
on as a society queen, but she looked
rather too sweet and unworldly to be thar.
She tried her as countess travelling in
the United States, but she didn't seem
exactly foreign. The lady couldn't make
anything else of her than a princess, tray-
cling incognito.
By and by her soiourning place was
reached, and what was her delight to
see the beautiful young woman alight
and go to the hotel where she herself
stopped
Now l shall have .n opportunity to
know her, or find out who she is said
the lady to herself.
That night at dinner the Boston lady
seated herself at the table and began
peering about among the guests to see if
the one who had charmed her so complete
IL on the train was there. Suddenly she
heard the voice of the waiter girl over her
shoulder:
Soup, ma'am2"
She looked up at the girl. Heavens and
earth! 1t was her Juno, her princess of
the journey from Boston!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
ELECTRICITY As A MOTOR

| Successful Experiment on the English Chan
mel.
Yesterday the channel between England
and Calais was crossed by a small launch,
the Volta, the motive power of which was
electricity The voyage was intended as
a scientific experiment the direct object
being the utilization of electricity for the
propulsion of launches and torpedo boats.
1t Is claimed by the owners of the boat
and the inventors of the apparatus by
which she Is driven, that by the storage
of electricity in accumulators. which only
require to be occasionally changed when
not III use, launches such as are always
attached to very large vessels may be
hanging IN the davits ready 10 make
voyage, the dormant motive power being
set in force by the mere turning of a
switch. The inventors. Msssrs Stephens
4 Co, of NiivaI, hold that this motive
power is peculiarly adapted to tor
pedo-boats, and yesterday the Vol
ia quilted Dover with an entire
absence OF that noise which characterized
steam launch, and which must be a great
disadvantage IN approaching an enemy's
vessel The speed at which the launch
travelled was low. about five miles an hour.
This Is difficulty which may be over
come By further scientific Improvements
or By the provision OF space for larger
number of accumulators, through the pur-
pose of yesterdays trial was not so much
TO obtain great speed as to put the princi-
pie to practical test. The day was IN
every respect favorable for the voyage,
the sea being almost dead calm The
boat had sailed down from the Thames to
Dover, and her masts had therefore to be
removed before she started. although
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
Geological Conditions of North America.

The geological history OF North Ameri-
ca, like that of Europe, indicates that
from very remote period there have
been changes of climate; ancient periods
of cold as well as of warmth. 1t is urged
that these are due not much to variations
IN the supply of heat from the sun, or to
changes, secular or periodic, in the rela-
tive position of the earth as to geographic
cal alterations on its surface. PaIeonto-
logical and biological evidence has next
to be considered. This also, on the whole,
| Is favorable to the view already express
ed. Recent investig ations tend to show
that to the majority of marine
animals the greater depths of the
sea are as impossible as the land
itself. Where many species of inver
tebrata are common to the opposite
shores of the great ocean it may be in
ferred that these have made their way
along coast-lines past or present. Now
of the existing molluSka of Europe and
Canada, 81 per cent. of the shallow water
forms and about IS per cent. of the deep
er sea forms are common, and the same
holds of other marine invertebrates
This fact suggests that comparatively
shallow water, and sometimes even land
must have divided the Atlantic from the
Arctic basin. Then separation is no
modern feature, for from the Cambrian
age onward we find ION the two sides of
the ocean many species of invertebrate
animals, which were either identical or so
closely allied as to be possibly 'varietar
forms. In like manner the early plants
of the upper silurian DevOnian. and car
boniferous present many identical spec
les; bat this identity becomes less mark
ed in the vegetation of the more modern
times" This might be held to indicate
that the European and North Amer
lean continents had become more
and more widely separted: but it is
pointed out that the earlier flora consist
ed mainly of cryptOgamous plants, the
spores of width in modern times have
proved capable of transmission for great
distances. Some, indeed, were actually
fitted for fotation. Yet another argu-
ment is advanced from the biological
side:
while many plants and marine inver-
tebrates are common to the two sides of
the Atlantic, it is different with land ami
mails, and especially vertebrates. l do
not know that any fossil sects, or land
snalis, or millipedes of Europe and Amer
lea are specifically identical, and of the
numerous species of batrachians of the
carboniferous aud reptiles of the meso-
zoic ali seem to be distinct on the two
sides. The same appears to be the case
with the tertiary mammals. untile, in the
latter stages of that great period, we find
such genera as the horse, the camel, and
the elephant appearing on the two sides
of the Atlantic; but even then the species
seem different, except in the case of a
few northern FORMS
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08

While visiting recently at the patornal
homestead in Daviess county, Missouri,
says The Rural World, We saw field of
corn that had been cut with a reaper.
The work was done on the farm of Z. L.
Chubbuck. The corn was early planted
on good land and was large and heavy, at
least SO far as fodder goes, and the yield
of grain was estimated at thirty five or
forty bushels per acre. 1t was planted in
checks and cultivated with an ordinary
twO-horse cultivator. The machine used
was a No. & Osborn realrake reaper and
it was found to do the work in a most
satisfactory manner until a severe wind
storm blew the corn down so badly as to
make machine-cutting impossible. The
corn was laid off to one side i'll bundles in
Il perfect manner. Two horses only were
employed ON the machine, cutting one
row at a time. From seven to ten acres
per day can be cut and shocked ~ one
man and team and two men to do the
shocking. This anyone who has cut corn
by hand knows is far in excess of what
can be cut by the same force in the old
way. With corn planted in drills instead
of checks and the ground given level cuI-
ture there is no reason for employing the
old, laborious, slow and clothes-destroy-
ing method of cutting up corn. If three
men and team can put seven acres of
corn in the shock in day with machine
there is not much excuse for letting the
hundreds of thousands of tons of good
cattle feed go to waste that il annually
lost i'll this state
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
New Way of Raising Carrots,
Country Gentleman

NCuiiLiy otAit4t4ilaL-
Gerald Howard, of Newburgh, New
York writes:
Probably there is nothing new in car
rot growing, but my experience this year
leads me to believe that L have the best
field crop that have ever grown in my
long practice. What induced me to try
quick termination of seed before weeds
was an accident. l used fiber cloth for
covering potatoes. In throwing it off
one Saturday night, it lay on one end of
a parsley row seed sown), and on the
following Tuesday morning on moving
it | found the parsely seed up under
where the cloth lay. Where not covered
it was two weeks before the rest of the
row came up. All know that it quires
from a month to six weeks for the seed
to terminate. This gave me an idea how
to grow carrots at less expense than had
been practicing. June /, the seed was
sOwn on ground twice plOwed and har
rowed and rolled, using a marker with
teeth tsixl one foot apart to open the
drills, and man sowed by hand cover
with the feet, and forming rainbow, OR
herring back as the man moved along
drawing the heel of the boot into the hol-
low of the other foot. 1t is quite fast
varieties were long orange and white Bel
gian. When sown, the land was again
rolled. | used 500 yards three feet wide
of fiber cloth, ripped into, thus giving
me 600 yards in length, placed this i'm
mediately on top. 1t was kept in this
place by stones or earth. | had not
enough to cover my whole acreage. June
4, seed up under fiber cloth; June I, weeds
Just breaking, and l ran a smoothing
harrow lengthwise and crOsswise, killing
all weeds, but not thinning the carrots
sufficiently; June 10, seed coming up slow
Nv that was not covered with fiber CLOTH
and not evenly, while that under fiber
cloth came up quite evenly: June "a,
finished thinning with boys, and hand
hOed to soften and take out foot and knee
prints. Our severe draught is telling on
everything whitening all except those
carrots, which are green from top to bot
tom, and not a weed among them-the
shade of their own foliage keeping them
perfectly clean. lou can at this writing
see the difference in the growth of those
covered with n cloth and those not so
treated, and my opinion is that the diff
ference will be farther seen in the digging.
There is nothing in growing carrots thir-
ty inches apart in drills; the extreme hot
weather and sCOrChing sun can play all
around them; what stands green and up
right is simply the center. No one need
be afraid of using the smoothing harrow;
IN fact it will not take out enough of the
plants. Carrots so grown are a profitable
crop, but if the weeds once get ahead the
better plan is to pillow all up. In atten-
ton at the right time lies all the secret
of success with this and all other crops.
When you start growing keep it going;
once checked your would-be fine crop is
gone. This same treatment is applicable
TO other crops digging and storing in
their proper time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08

san FRANCISCO lnSt
His German accent was undeniable.
and as he tioated into the registers office
the boys all stood around to hear the
fun.
Name and residences" asked the clerk
IN Peremptory Sl26-a-mouth tone of
voice.
i live i'll dot same places wher live %
years"
well, where is that"
Don't you found dot in dose regis
tersY"
what is your nameI"
"Narrom you ask SO many iukivistif
Questions; ant dot name NIT de rechister
| like the odder. eh?"
but unless you give me your name and
| residence you cannot register"
IVY gand | rechister? l hat been a
citizen fourteen years, ind my name is
Ludwig Auerhausen."
"Oh, Ludwig Auerhauscn. Well. Mr..
| Ludwig Auerhausen, where do you re
side?"
Der teufcl! Don't | already haf told
| you dot dree times? l won't talk some
more. | Como pack here agaid und
talk nit your employer. For Wy you i'm
! dent nit me: If you gone to mine
house sometimes | don't tread you like
| dot"
Where is your house:"
lon Lombard street. between Mason
| and Powell, of course. | hat always lived
| dere"
"All right you are Thirty-fourth dis
trict. Take this slip and go over to that
counter and give it to that clerk"
"Vot | go Offer der for? don't l shust
haf gone away from dot blaze: ] won't
rechister some more at all, Ober Ill hat
you discharged NIT incompetency, shust
so soon | gam
And he went off i'll Il rage, neither turn
ing around nor stopping at the regrstra-
ton counter.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
Vine Dresser

Prepare the ground in fall. Give the
vine plenty of manure, old and we'll de-
composed; fresh manure excites growth,
but does not mature it. Luxuriant
growth does not always insure fruit.
Dig deep, but plant shallow. Young
vines produce beautiful fruit, but old
vines produce the richest. Prune in au-
tumu in order to insure growth. but in
spring to promote fruitfulness. Plant
your vines before you make trellises.
Vines, like soldiers, should have good
arms. Pruue spurs to one developed
bud, for the nearer the old wood the
higher havoted the fruit. Those who
pruue long must soon climb. Vine
leaves love the sun, the fruit the shade.
Every leaf has bud at the base. and
either a bunch of fruit or a tendril, OBJ
posite it. A tendril is an abortive fruit
bunch A bunch of fruit is productive
tendril-A bunch of grapes without
healthy leaf opposite is like ship at
sea without a rudder it can't come to
port. Laterals ars like politicians-if
not checked they are the worst of
thieves.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
The We're All Colonies.

man entered 4 saloon In Kentuck Y
the other day, stepped up to the bar and
said:
.'Oh, major. will you"
Before he could finish the sentence
thirteen men had ranged themselves be-
fore the bar, and replied:
Thanks! With pleasure
@Will you lend me S5:" continued the
stranger.
Thirteen men sighed and filed back to
their seats.
Whats the matted:" queried the stran-
ger.
'Oh, we thought you said colonel ex-
planned one of them There are no ma
jors here. We're all colonelfs-.
They've been promoted since morn
ing said the barkeeper. They were all
majors when Maj. Jones invited them 10
drink
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
\ Texas Journalist.
Texas SGtiuSs

LeAd> SIAluSS,
wealthy young man was couversing
with Col. Smart, the editor of The CroS-
by County Clarion and Farmers Nindi-
Gator.
Cool weather is coming On, remarked
the wealthy young man.
YES, it is beginning to be quite chilly
responded the editor.
Il believe I'll go and pick me out q
winter overcoat. Have you bought yours
yet, colonel"
Me, buy winter overcoat? | never
did such thing since l have been con
nected with the press. Do you know what
the difference is between my summer and
winter overcoat?"
No, what is it,"
I'm winter | rum"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
McWhackcr'S Denial.
San Francisco Pest.

Rev. Joel McWhacker, of Tombstone.
was seated in the Office of the Palace last
evening smoking his after-dinner cigar,
when a worldly acquaintance approached
with a clerical-losking person in tow.
Mr.. McWhacker," said the acquain-
lance, gravely, 'let me introduce my
friend, Parson Davies, of Chicago.
"Delighted to know you, sir said Mr..
McWhacker, rising and offering his hand.
with what branch of the great Chris
tian church are you connected:'
Church! the DEVIL" said the stranger
calmly. I'm no preacher. I'm sporting
man, and the hacker of Johnnie Burke,
the best middle-weight slugger in these
here United States
Sir, cried Mr.. McWhacker, turning up
on the introducer. " this is an unseeming-
ly jest. You have trifed with my sacred
character, sir, and have taken an unwar-
rantable liberty"
"Oh, you needn't cut up so high and
Eighty about it." observed the rebuked
one coolly; Il was reading the other day
that you used to be a clown in a circus
yourself
at is false" said Mr., McWhacker. 1T
is UNANIMOUSLY false. | was ringmaster."
And the good man strobe off, red with
righteous indignation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
To Suburban Residents.
Ma N-s-y-h- -

Get on good railroad that runs fire.
quent trains.
Get your house near the station,
whether you buy or rent.
Get rid of all notions about farming.
Get an acre of land if you can afford
it, but no more.
Get small house at first. 1t is more
pleasant to go up than come down.
Get near good schools, churches and
stores.
Get over any desire You may have to
'paralyze the natives withiyour wealth and
style;' you can't do it; they are just as
used to nice things as you are.
''Get a drain in your house, furnace
in your cellar, and tank in the attic
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
FARM. HOME AND GARDEN
II 4 ROW BOAT.
BESSIE CHANDLER, IN BROOKLYN MAGAZINE

Were off for a on The briny Atlantic.
In a boat that's not "bonny,' nor given to
dipping
It wont even "curtesy," it isn't romantic. @
And the waters a harbor, filed up with ship
ping.
Yet what do we care for the "blue Danube liver,
For Venice, the Rhine or Geneva's fair shore.
The splash OF blade, with its ripple and culver.
Sings just the same music the universe Ger.
And beneath this mall ship-house-peaked and
roomy.
And yoDder old hulk, without bow-sprit or
mast
We glide into shadows as graceful and gloomy,
AS the Doge's palace itself can cast
a ferry boat comer-she's thing of beauty.
See her colored ligbls on the waves shine down
They are nly her signals doing their duty,
But they CLEAN like jewels in a monarch )
crown.
There are no weird legend" in any quarter,
No ''madrigal floats to the listening ear,
No mandolin tingles, but over the water
Come fresh, laughing voices, jolly and clear.
And so on we go, in the deepening twilight,
Without any sentiment romance or stuff!
The same moon gilds all, with It's touches of high
light
We're perfectly happy, and that is enough!
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
DoEBT.
JACKSONVILLE NEWS
,iime in each mans lif

Sometime in each mans life
Comes the strange spirit-doubt
He cannot shut il out,
or Danish it by pleasure, rest or strife
He doubts humanity:
He questions whether Providence exists;
And swathed in binding mists,
Religion seems to him profanity.
Then, once again, goes up
That question: Is there any God,
or any life beyond the sod
With which the sexton rounds the grave mound
upl
And as Of old. he asls:
Where IL the promise Of his coming:' for
Since patTiarchs fell asleep, even as before,
Evils foul serpent form 4 the sunshine b1sks:
While contradiction strange
Sill makes a paradox OF human life
The sacred books with errors clouds are rife
And through their volumes devils seem to
range.
But though he gropes right on
No answer comes distinct to give him rest;
lie too must live in darkness ike the best,
VINO in the vanished pas. no vision won.
Yet, when the shifting band
or myths and phantasi9s have lefs him lone
Steps down the angel Duty from her throne
And takes him by the hand.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
Why He is Bilious


Wife Ito husband)-Ido n'tsuppose that
there is man in this country whose say
ings are more repeated than those of Mr..
Taimage.
Husband-Yes, and that accounts for
the fact that he Is always bilious.
Wife-Bilious! What has that to do
with it
Husband-Don't you see? Can't you
understand anything! His tongue is
quoted"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-10-08
An Undoubted Blessing.

About thirty years ago, prominent physician
by the name of DR.. William Hall discovered, or
produced after long experimental research, q
remedy for diseases Of the throat, chest, and
lungs which was of such wonderful efficacy that
it soon gained wide reputation in this country.
The name of the medicine is DIR. WIN HALLS
BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, and may be safely
relied on speedy and positive cure for coughs,
colds, sore throat, etc.