Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-08-30
Howard County Notes.

The long continued dry weather
has injured the corn crop of the coun.
try at least one fourth. In the early
season the tassels were out but the
silk had not appeared to receive the
pollen, and the consequence is con.
siderable of corn with fine growth
OF stalk with ears but partially filled
with kernels. Some fields as we drive
about the county we observe are fresh
and green while in adjoining fields
the blades are dry and the corn has
ceased to grow. Is the cause of this
difference in conditions owing to
preparation of the ground, the plant
ing, the seed, the tilling of the crop,
or to other causes? The intelligent,
practical farmer ought to study these
conditions that remedy and solu-
ton may be reached.
A more thorough establishment of
the gold standard has brought timo-
thy seed to the lowest price known
in our history. The farmer pays 8
cents bushel for threshing, markets
and gives the use of his land, valued
at 1856 an acre and harvests five bush
els of seed which sell for about $3.50.
The courts of the country owned by
the railroads and other corporations
hold that transportation charges on
these cannot be reduced by law so
that the roads will not realize profit
on their investment after defraying
expenses OF operating them. No such
charitable decision will come from
them for the farmer, because that
will be socialism"
I. s. johnson, at Bonair has been
making a great drive in the grain and
seed business and to use the surplus
power furnished his elevator, is ad-
ding q feed mill, and will furnish 1t
with the best appliance for grinding
feed to be had.
r. A. I. Meyer on the Jones farm
in Forest City, we are glad to know
is getting in prosperous circumstape.
es.
On our way to Lime Springs a farm
er east of the village asked to ride to
town, privilege cheerfully granted.
We soon learned that he was an ar
dent admirer of the wisdom of presi.
dent Mckinley inasmuoh as he had
levied a tax of $500 a head on Texas
steers sought to be brought into the
United States in competition with its
cattle, and that this was the cause of
the better price of our cattle in the
markets. OF course the man whose
head contains this bit of political
wisdom is one of the republican vot-
erss of Forest City, and a fit subject
for political shysters and demagogues
At Lime Springs the Central House
has again changed hands but the
Hotel Restaurant under the excellent
management of G.. 81. Wattar L-4:
right along just the same, with square
meals and clean beds. Harry Moore
having bought the Harrington resi-
dence has good new house to sell.
The flour war in that city has reach
a stage that he is selling the best flour
at $1.10, cheap enough, and dear en-.
ough at the price paid for wheat.
HOLMAN q Riechers, the successors
to L. H. Burns are meeting with
gratifying success.
A. @. McCollooh, the Love Bros,
D. D. Dayton and others there are
doing a good business in their several
lines of trade. Jas. Stafford is adding
to the storage capacity of his mill at
the old town and makes the very best
of corn meal and buckwheat flour,
the former of which as we'll as the
latter should be in the hands of every
Cresco dealer.
The favorite family horse of Fred
Hill, brought into the county by
Bradford Hill in 1868, and which had
done service in the family for more
than thirty years, died of an accident
short time ago.
Chas. 8. BLY, who has stood near
deaths open door is on the mend.
A ramble about the farm of DIR. j,
w. Reed, one mile west of the village
shows one of the best farm plants in
the county. A large barn with two
silos which he is having filed, capa-
BILE of holding 150 tons each, and sta
BILE room ample and stock enough to
eat it, a good herd of Shropshire
sheep, a creamery with separator and
all appliances for successful dairying,
model hog house and with a full
section of productive land which he
well knows how to manage he has no
difficulty in keeping the wolf away
from his door.
The farm of Charles Parchman con-
tains young orchard bearing boun-
tifully, and very wisely he has plant
ed out large proportion of trees of
varieties that will supply his family
with apples through the late fall and
winter. Two years ago he planted
out 100 grape vines some already pro-
ducing fruit. or other small fruits he
is literally supplied.
@. E. Morey, one of Chester's most
enterprising young farmers had the
misfortune to lose over 100 high bred
Poland China hogs in the spring, but
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