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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15

themselves, When any Of their mem
beers become unable to support them
selves, and are enfeebled by age, in
stead of allowing them to become town
poor and taken to the county poor
house, the G. A. r. provides that they
shall be transferred to one of the many
soldiers homes where they receive
kind attention till the Great Com
mander calls them home.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
Low Rate. to MarshaIltown, lows.

On account of the annual meeting of
the Grand Lodge of the knights of
Pythias, the Northwestern line will, on
August 8 and 10, sell exclusion tickets
srom stations in Iowa to Marshalltown
and return at very low rates, good for
return passage until August II, in.
elusive. For tickets and full informa-
ton, apply to agents Chicago North
western R'y. 3l-2
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
Interfering With Natural Selection.

For countless ages hand to hand COM
bat has been the means Of selecting the
most hardy and robust individuals to
perpetuate their race. Now, however,
the magazine rife and smokeless powder
will probably exercise potent influence
in the reverse direction. Not only is the
smallest and most insignificant individ-
ual now capable of inflicting as much
injury upon the foe as the most robust,
but he offers much smaller target to
his adversary, and has therefore better
chance Of escape. Westminster Review
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15

Ib piCoOuLluS w Iuc puUilC VIC llIS
edition of the Womans' Column it il
with degree of no little anxiety
When we have accomplished or tried
to accomplish any good deed TIT
remembrance of the effort particularly
If successful will be source Of great
satisfaction.
1t shall be the aim of the societies tt
present the claims and purposes OF
which each one is interested to the
good of those about them.
The club movement among women is
one of the most promising movements
of this era. Far from jeopardizing the
future of the home, it enriches oul
home life, bringing there to a culture
which directly adds to its attractive
ness.
In Sweden they encourage literary
ladies instead of making fun of them
Miss Alice Brown has started for a
walking trip through England. Miss
Brown has books to her credit.
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett and
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, have
been capturing their customary En-
glish hOnOrs this season. They were
the literary representatives of America
at Il recent dinner of the "New Vaga,
bonde" a mems club in London.
"Is civilization failure, and is the
Caucasians played out?" This is the
| cOnundrum which Max Nondau is ask.
ing, and which he thinks he is answer,
ing i'll four languages. He does not
sleep, he does not dream, he sees no
visions about, but he wonders and he
doubts about everything, and he is
convinced that all things are not what
they seem. When his book "Degener.
alton" appeared in Germany not long
ago, it created decided sensation. Ii
has been done in French, Russian and
in its present English version it is
bound to make an impression if moth,
ing more"
In an old letter by George Sand
which is well worth copying. "Guard
within yourself" it reads shat treas
ure, kindness. Know how to give
without hesitation, how to lose with
out regret, how to acquire without
meaness, know how to replace in your
heart by the happiness of those you
love, the happiness you yourself might
have missed"
In England Ina Maclaren's "Beside
the Benny Brier Bush" has reached
10000 copies; The Heavenly Twins, AZ,
600; The Yellow Aster, $4,000; Dodo, is
in its fourteenth edition; and Trilby in
its seventh three-volume edition.
There are 5000 public libraries in the
United States.
Mrs. j. H. Kate leaves for Holdridge
Neb.. this week to visit friends and
relatives.
Mrs. f. p. Hooker returns home
this week from an extended visit.
The club will order $40 worth OF
books soon. Messrs. B. S. Phelps, Hon
w. II. Green, Prof. f. p. Hooker and
Geo. E. Thompson were chosen to
make out the list.
From the United States Bureau OF
Education, we are in receipt of a
catalogue of the A. L. A. library. Also
from the department of the interior
eleventh census report of population
part 1. A donation of the Library OF
Universal knowledge OF A vol.
III THE q AND wv. ID q
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
woMENss DEPARTMENT..

REPREsENTATIvEs:--W G. I. u, Columbian
Club and w. r. @.
w. G. T. U. meets the first Tuesday OF the
month at o'clock p. m Laura A. Hurd, pres
ident, Clarissa Overholtzer, secretary.
Columbian Club meets the first Tuesday even
ing of the month at the Library Parlor. Lydia
Turner, president; Gertrude X. Nash, secretary
W.R. G. meets the second and fonrth Fridays
of the month at 8 p. nj. Headquarters at G. A
II. hall. Della Ott. president; Lydia Rosenberg
secretary.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
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AGENTS WANTED

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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
THE G. A. r. AND w. r. C.

The Civil war has ended, and the
comparatively few remaining heroes
of that awful struggle have sought
their homes. Peace once more reigns
over North and South. But this peace
was saddened by the fact that thou
sands of homes were desolate; that
thousands of men, who four years be-
fore were the embodiment of health,
were now physically wrecked for the
remainder of their lives. OF these shat.
tered and broken men is the Grand
Army of the Republic composed.
The first Post was organized at De.
catur, Illinois, in 1866. Since that time
the organization has been steadily in
creasing, until now, nearly every town
in the nation has a Post.
Each year national encampment is
held, at which time representatives
from every Post in the Union meet
each other, and renew the days of 81.
One of the most sacred duties of the
G. A. r. is to properly observe Memoir
lal Day; and in the latter part of this
nineteenth century, when Memorial
Day; instead of being time of sadness
is made gala day into which baseball,
games, horse races, and picnics are
crowded, if it were not for the e. A. r.
the old soldiers grave would be un-
marked by flag or flowers.
When the time comes, as it surely
will, that all the members of the G. A.
r. are mustered out, let the coming
generations perform at Memorial Day
the sacred rites to those who endanger.
ed their lives or died for the glorious
cause.
1t is the work of the G.. A. r. to pro.
vide for the destitute widows and
children of veterans, and they also
have an especial care over the veterans
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
AFRAID OF PNEUMONIA.

Mrs. Catharine Black, Of Leroy, N. Y, took
severe cold. The physician feared Pneu-
syrup and shysi Itaeted like magic Stopped
my cough and am perfectly well now. / rec
ommepd 1t 70 everyone for Throat and Lung
Trouble as believed 1t saved my liie." Sold
BY A. II. Rober
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
A Solomon.

Judge-Your age, miss?
Elderly Female-Thirty-two.
Judge Ito secretary Put down born
1882. -Fliegende Blatter.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-08-15
PHYSICIANS AND DENTISTS.

J. MOLGAARD, M. D.
physician AND SURGEON, ONCE in Citi.
i Zen's bank building, Audubon, Iowa.
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L. BROOKS. H. ID. MILLER.
BROOKS & MILLER,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. OFFICE
Howald Block, Second Floor.
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DR.. c. Eyer,
n ERMAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
VI All calls are promptly answered, day or
night Office 1st door south court house.
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Nitrous Oxide, Cocaine, ChOlor0form, or Either
used In extracting teeth
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
All About Flavor" in Butter.

OD Is what the market calls flavor
and aroma in butter the direct irflu-
ence of the feed? Can flavor (market
kind) be secured by the feedP If so,
what rations fed to cows will give the
desired flavor? (2) Has butter fat,
when first drawn with the milk, any
flavor that has a resemblance, or rela-
tionship, to the flavor that is found in
the choicest-made and high-priced but
ter? (3) Would indigestion in COW,
or her being unable to digest the ra-
ton because so large in amount, or
gluttony, incident to a change of food
where the amount was unrestricted,
have any influence, bad or otherwise,
upon the taste of the butter? (4) What
causes butter at times to have taste
like the food the cows have eaten? (O
If food is the source of flavor in butter,
as some assert, of what use are start
ers," cutie, No. A." and the like, in
fine butter-making? The above impor-
tant questions will form the basis for a
valuable symposium, to be printed in
The Rural NeW Yorker of May %, by
such noted authorities as Prof. II. w.
Conn.,, Connecticut; Prof. S. M. Bah
book, Wisconsin; Maj. H. E. Alvord,
New Hampshire; Prof. j. l.. Hills,
Vermont; Prof. a. H. Dean, Canada;
Prof. j. W. Robertson, Canada; Prof.
w. H. Jordan, Maine; and Prof. H. j.
Waters, Pennsylvania Up to the pres
ent time, there is no published infor-
nation on this subject, and as this Sc
ries of articles is exhaustive, and by
unouestiOned authorities. thew will form
valuable addition to dairy literature.
The Rural New Yorker is giving just
such valuable matter as this every
week, and you can get it all for 81 a
year. Send two two.cent stamps for
this number. Address The Rural Ne,o
Yorker, New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
A Good Fertilizer.

A correspondent who asks if ashes
and ground bone make good fertilizer
to use in putting in spring grain is thus
answered by the Country Gentleman !:
" Fine ground bone meal makes an ex-
cellent fertilizer 30 far as it goes. 1t is,
however, far from being a complete
manure. 1t is comparatively rich in
phosphoric acid, but poor in nitrogen
and contains practically no potash.
Ashes will supply the potash, but will
hardly make it well-balanced fertilizer
for all kinds of spring grain, unless it is
to be applied to land that is compare.
lively rich in organic matter. If the
previous crops of grain on this land
have made good stalk and leaf de-
velOpment, the mixture mentioned will
probably give satisfactory results. If,
however, the crops have made small
growth of straw or stalks, more nitro.
gen should be applied than is contained
in the mixture mentioned If immedi.
ate results are to be obtained from
bone meal, it is essential that the
meal be finely ground. The plant
food contained in coarse bone will
in time, all or nearly all, become
available to the plant. In fact, it is
what we call lasting fertilizer. If,
however, the bone be finely ground,
large proportion of the fertility con-
tanned in it will become available to the
first crop, particularly if that crop be of
such nature that it has a long period
of growth"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
Plenty OF Good Water.

In the gro wing and feeding of stock
for market, the supplying of all the
fresh, pure water that the animals can
drink is an important item. Not only
is it necessary for the stock to have all
the water they want, but they should
have it when they want it, and in addi-
ton it must be pure and fresh. To
compel animals of any kind to drink
impure water is to greatly increase the
risks of disease, and the maintaining of
good health is always an important
item in the feeding of stock economi-
cally. When it can be arranged, water
from good running streams, and es-
pecially if these are fed by good living
springs, all the better. Still, there is
always risk of disease being carried
from one farm to another. The better
plan, whenever it can be done, is to
have good we'll, with tanks arranged
in the different pastures where the
stock can help themselves. With lit
tie are the water can be kept pure and
fresh, and wi good tanks there can
always be full supply. No other way
of watering will entirely answer. To
only supply water at stated times is to
compel the animals at times to posi-
lively suffer for it, and this cannot but
be detriment. So far as is possible,
there should be supply kept where
they can help themselves, and then if
it is pure and fresh it will be help in
keeping the stock thrifty.-Nebraska
Farmer,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22

were obtained in the clay loan soils of
Mississippi by use of fertilizer rich in
potash. In New Jersey and New Eng.
land the fertilizers rich in potash gave
excellent results; the average of ex-
periments in Massachusetts showing
an increase of 11.3 bushels of corn and
1908 pounds of stover from the use of
fertilizers rich in potash. In Kentucky
fertilizers rich in potash were profitable
for corn. In fact, we could give doz-
ems of experiments showing the beue-
fetal effects of fertilizers on corn, and
in many of them the land had previ-
ously had yearly applications of barn
yard manure, and, while rich in some of
the fertilizing ingredients, refused to
give good crops on account of poverty
in others.-Farm, Field and Preside.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
AGRICULTURAL.
Growing Cabbages,

Any corn land, we'll drained and we'll
MANFRED, will grow good crop of cab
bage, but new sod is the best. Plow
in the fall. Turn under the manure or
harrow it in in the spring. Well-rotted
barnyard manure is good or salt at the
rate of ten to fifteen bushels per acre,
with little fertilizer about the hill,
said H. B. Rice to the Massachusetts,
Horticultural Society. For early plants
SOW the seed in ho.beds. For late cab
bage SOW seed in May or even later.
For early, choose Pixley, Ear.y York
and Early Wakef field; for late, Stone
Hardy, Dru nhead, Succession and Mar
blehead Mammoth. Transplant to the
open ground of an afternoon or on a
cloudy day. Give thorough culture.
The turnip flea beetle, black insect,
can be largely prevented by the busting
in of slakt d lime or wood ashes. Cut
worms are also destructive at times and
are held in check by the application of
wood ashes. For the aphis, apply
slaked lime or tobacco dust. The green
worm is the larva of the white butter
fly; in large fields this will ordinarily
give much trouble. Use lime and he'll
re.-Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
Clipped and Condensed.

Do not attempt to fatten young pigs,
and make them grow. Pigs that are
made 10 grow rapidly when young will
make good hogs to fatten. Ground
wheat has large per cent of protein
for growth. So has wheat bran.
The weeds and grass are now in full
sway on land that has not been plowed
or properly attended to. A few days
work on such fields at this time will
save several weeks labor next month.
1t will pay to cease all other work in
order to destroy weeds when they are
young.
THE dwarf sweet corn is the kind
that comes early. The seed should be
planted as soon as the ground is warm.
The stalks will be short and the ears
small. For later supply use the Ever
green, which will produce abundantly
on good soil. Make two or three plant
ipgs in succession.
SHEEP enable the farmer to feed
many substances that would be other
wise thrown on the manure heap.
Bean vines, pea vines and weeds, if
given to the sheep, will be picked over
and eaten. Many weeds are dainties to
sheep, and serve just as we'll for food as
more costly materials.
THERE will be an excellent demand
for cattle for some time, and no doubt
farmers will give cattle more attention.
This implies also an increased demand
for grain for feeding purposes. Hay,
70 nd oh
bring good prices the coming year,
though much will depend on the sue.
cess of crops this season.
FARMERS should never dispose of
pure. bred stock to the butcher as long
as other markets are open to them, and
should never sell such stock at butcher
prices. A pure-bred animal will al
ways bring fair price. AS a rule,
thoroughbred stock is remarkably
cheap, considering the advantages
gained by the use of such.
ALL lambs intended for human food,
says writer in the Prairie Farmer,
should be kept growing every day from
birth to block; must be fed on nitro
genous food and have plenty of succu-
lent food; must be induced to eat all
they can digest and assimilate; must be
kept as quiet as possible consistent
with health; must be sold as soon as
ready.
GRAIN is, 80 far as nutriment goes
quite as cheap as hay, and hay is even
cheaper in proportion to its Dutriment
than is straw. But some portion of the
less nutritious food has to be given with
grain as divisor, lest it should heat in
the stomach, and do injury rather than
good. With very concentrated ration
as with oil meal or cottonseed meal
good bright straw is better as divsoi
than is the best hay.
THE hotbeds may be used to advan'
tage even after the early plants are
removed. Owing to the large proper.
ton OF manure used in hotbeds they af.
ford an excellent opportunity to some
plants of growing rapidly and produc.
ing largely. A tomato plant left in the
hotbed will soon fill the entire space
and will yield enormously during the
summer. The tomato, like the orange,
will have blossoms, green fruit and
ripe fruit at the same time.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22
Farm Products Containing the Most
Water.

More water is sold by farmers than of
any other substance, and it is at times
the most valuable assistant he has.
When gallon of milk is sent to market
about eighty-seven parts is composed of
water-not added by the pump, but by
the COW. When pound of butter is
marketed it takes but little from the
farm, as it is derived almost entirely
from the air. The plants take carbonic
acid from the atmosphere, and the cows
convert the plants into butter. A large
proportion of the flesh, wool, hair and
other substances composing an animal
are also indirectly derived from the air
through those plants that gather the
nitrogen from such source. 1t is the
mineral matter which is mostly derived
from the soil. The farmer can, by a
judicious selection of crops, really add
something to his soil from the air, but
he must always be willing to replace the
mineral elements taken from the soil,
as there is no way for the soil to recover
assistance of the farmer. A crop of
potatoes contains about seventy-fve
per cent of water, and crop of green
clover about eighty per cent. This
varies, however, according to the stage
of growth. In selling ton of clover,
therefore, the farmer sells 900 pounds
of water, which has cost him nothing at
all. A crop of potatoes costs but very
nominal sum, so far as the actual plant
food derived from the soil is concerned,
as there is not quite two per cent of
protein and only one per cent of min
eral matter in potatoes, the fat and
starch being derived from the atmos-
phere. Thus the air and water are the
two largest sources from which plants
derive their subsistence, and many
crops may be grown that will cost but
little if the refuse is added to the
manure heap, such as potato vines, to
be again returned to the soil. 1t is
true there is cost for labor in produc-
ing any crop, but the farmer who can
grow crop and avoid loss of fertility of
soil will be better prepared to increase
his profits the succeeding season.
Many of the cereal crops tax the soil
more from the production of stalks than
by the yield of grain. Corn contains
about fourteen per cent of water, but
it's yield in weight of product is much
less than potatoes if the stalks are ex.
cepted. There is also difference in
the amount of water in hay and grass.
The dry substances, however, always
contain water, and no matter in which
form the crop is marketed there is a
proportion of water sold, it's price being
the price obtained for the crop. The
land is taxed most by those crops that
take nitrogen and mineral matter from
the SOIL Clover re luires from the soil
a larger share of mineral matter than
some crops, but takes most of it's nitro
gen from the air.-Troy Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-05-22

ture is sure enough now to make every
farmes feel confident that he can raise
a fair crop even in dry seasons, but he
markets. 1t is the uncertainty of the
price OF corn that bothers him. His
whole crop of fine, well. matured corn
may bring in only little more than
enough to pay for expenses. What is
he to do in such case? He is power
less to change the markets or influence
prices, and he must stand aside and see
all of his labor count for nothing. This
would not be if more corn was raised
for feeding directly at home. A corn
farmer ought to be a stock-raiser as
well. He has no business to put all of
his eggs in such risky basket. Where
corn natures well, as in the corn belt,
the feed for stock can be raised at
mere nominal cost. Nearly one-half of
the crop should be used for feeding the
cattle grain and preserved for winter
feeding in the si'o. If the corn in the
grain does not sell at profit the cattle
will, and rather than ship the grain to
market at a loss 1t is better to increase
the stock and feed the grain to them.
This is the only sensible view that any
farmer can take. During the last sea-
son farmers, for the want of ready
money, have sold corn that would not
net them dollar in profit. But if cat
tie had been fed with the grain, the
ready money would have been obtained
and more of it. The restriction of our
cotton, wheat and other crops has been
talked of great deal lately, but the
question that is more important to the
farmers is to diversity their farming 30
that they will never have to depend
upon one crop. Wheat and corn can
be used in other ways than selling to
the marks Imam, but, unfortunately for
the cotton-grower, this crop cannot.
The low price of wheat this season has
taught many good lesson, and it is to
be hoped that corn growers will see
light for them in the same experience.
Corn must be raised for the silo more
than it has in the past, and now is
good time to begin it. There is money
in ensilage corn, and in green corn fod-
der, if we only study the situation 80 as
to see it.-American Cultivator.