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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
TIE DIRTY PATRON.

Inc dirty patron is the bane Of he
creamery and of every attempt at CO.
operative butter making. Some folks.
the many, are instinctively cleanly:
others. h few. are constitutionany
n instinctively dirty. Paraphrasinc
me commandment. the dirty sins of
the one dirty patron are visited con-
tlhuously upon the ninety and nine
cleanly ones. The dirty patron as he
runs his dirty hand into the pail of
roaming milk to get a material to still
rufther Intricate the dirty teats of the
COW he is milking and lets the pasty
ana odorous product of the effort drip
into the pail can paralyze the best eff.
forts of the pest butter maker in
America. h constitutionally dirty
patron is proof against remonstrance
entreaty or threat, and there is real
~ only n thing to be done with him
that is to fire him. The tainted
product OF the Il dirty patron will
lower the grade of the entire product
OF the creamery with which he is con-
nected. and 1t may really be said that
he is the worst leak connected with
the management of nearly all cream.
cries. Fire him, gently if you can. but
lire him anyway.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
YOU KNOW THIS PLACE.

When you come to a farm honest
where there are 20 or 80 stacks
grain, a big red barn, a dairy hero
sleek looking cows, a hundred bl
hogs munching the new corn, a bri
l4-year-old boy with a team Of til
big horses turning over the stubble
the rate of three or four acres a q
a neat farmhouse with a few foy
n the front yard and a garden and,
chafd at the rear, you have come
the home of a man who controls {
enjoys as large a share of the g
things of this life as any man upon
face of the earth. He practically Ii,
In the garden of Eden, with nary
snake in the apple tree. And, best
all. you cannot go far in any directi
through any part of the northwest
day without finding this place.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
ONE LEAK ON THE FARM.

There are altogether too many things
consumed on the farm which are not
produced on the farm, as they should
be. To illustrate, two years ago we
one day took dinner at a farmers
house, and here is what we noticed:
The cloth which was spread on the ia
BILE was made in Ireland, the dishes on
which the food was served came from
England, the fried ham, for which our
host had paid Is cents a pound, was
not unlikely part of the same hog
which he had raised and sold some
months before at 3 cents a pound; the
pickles We're made in Chicago, the
%sauerkraut at Dubuque; the bread,
cake and pie crust were made from
flour made in Minneapolis; the short
ening used was packing house lard
from Chicago, the canned corn was
from Maine. and the sauce was dried
fruit raised in California; the butter
was apologized for as being made by a
neighbor. the family COWS being dry;
the salt came from New York state and
the coffee from Brazil, and for a fact
the only thing connected with that
meal which was really produced on the
farm was the blessing asked OH the
food and the appetites which consum-
ed the good things. And this man was
working like q slave to raise at that
time 10 cent oats and corn and hogs at
SO per hundredweight to pay the bills
for this sort of living. This is all
wrong. Just so far as intelligent skill
and care exercised both in the farm
home and on the farm itself will per-
NIT The raw material produced on the
farm should be there so used and con-
verified into finished products as to sup
ply as far as possible the home needs
of the farmer and his family. This is
one of the very best arguments in ia
vor of farm life-that the man on the
farm can have if he will the first fruits
of the poultry yard, the dairy, the field,
the orchard, and not only the first
fruits. but the opportunity, if he will
improve it. to so prepare and store
these products that it shall be harvest
day for him every day in the year. A
system of agriculture which contented-
ly raises 20 cent oats to pay for Is cent
ham, which willingly exchanges a
bushel of western field corn for a can
OF Maine sweet corn, has slipped q cog
and needs o%verhauling.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
PORK AND pnoGnnss

we often wonder how it came about
that a modern and refined civilization
mas been able to override the Mosaic
injunction and adapt itself so willingly
to a pork diet. Not all the inevitable
as well as needless filth out of which
the sugar cured ham and bacon. orr
pork and beans and savory sausage
are evolved; not all the terrurs of a
living death by trichinae; not all the
horrible possibilities which SUCCESS
themselves during a hog cholera cpl
demic serve in the slightest degree to
a the American love for the hog
as q food animal. About all that we can
claim to our credit is that we do insist
upon having u hog meat cooked and
will not eat it raw. Out of this illogical
and perverted appetite is being built I'm
a financial prosperity for the west
which is better than the mines of
Alaska or the diamond reefs of johann
uesburg. The Poland-China pays the
rcnt aud interest, beauties the home.
pducates the children and, with the
COW and the steer, forms a tripod
framework upon which may tittingly
be erected the emblem of the vests
prosperity and independence.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
THE HARVEST SEASON.

The stormy. tempestuous and cleo
trical period of the year is now over.
Comes now, with it's ripening suns,
the glorious harvest season. The prom
Use of seedtime and harvest, faiths re-
ward and hopes fruition, is verified
and realized in the click of the har.
yester sickle. the portly shocks of
golden grain, the tropical fields of corn
and the big barns full of fragrant,
new mown hay. Fears of untimeiy
frosts. of cyclonic storms, of insect
pest and blight now fade away as the
memory of an ugly. tr%oublous dream
before the light of returning day. The
peace and plenty which gives to the
farm homestead such an indescribable
charm these golden harvest days is
from the Lord and is, among the clang
and clamor, the restless progress and
activities of the age, all there is left to
suggest that peace of living which
originated in the garden of Eden.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
TRUE A PHILOSOPHY.

II you have a little farm and are out
of debt, don't fret and work yourself
and good wife into premature graves
for the sake of getting more land and
making more money. You have but
n life to live, and 1T is a very brief
one at the best. Take a little comfort
as you go along day by day, and try to
do a little good to others. A morbid,
insatiate desire to possess the earth,
to grab everything in sight, lies at the
foundation Of more unhappiness in
this world than any other one thing.
After you are gone the world will not
long remember you by the size Of the
estate you have left behind you, but
a good life well lived will long keep
your memory green.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
THE DIRTY WORK OF LIFE.

Somebody has to do this dirty work
No matter to what degree of refine.
ment we may attain as a people, that
which we term the dirty, disagreeablf
work of life can never be eliminated or
lodged. Somebody must wash the
dishes, do the family washing, milk the
cows, clean out the barns. The very
effort to be refined and civilized but
makes more of this dirty work to do.
A type of education which leads one
to look contemptuously upon and avoid
II possluAe ,nese o%mnipreseur anu ulsa-
greeable duties Of life is. defective to
the core. That e%ducationf which ena-
bles the possessor to. dosthis sortSofadis-
agreeable work with true-manlysand
womanly dignity is ofathe right kind.
The true American is a man not,
ashamed to be seen dressed in wamns
and ~overalls.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
AMER5cAy LaNDLopn,sM-

No more detrimental economic sys-
TEN al affecting the agricultural in
terests of b great northwest can pre-
vail tina Il system of landlordism and
tenancy modelled after that which pre-
walls in the old countries of Europe,
a relic of the old feuual days. While
of necessity not every mar who works
a farm can own it. still our laws
should be so shaped that the absentee
landlord will find it more profitable 10
sell his land to the man who will live
on it and work it than to rem it and
spend the proceeds in some far coun-
try. his system Of landlordism is de-
structive to all the best interests of
II agricultural civilization. The per-
petually rented farm needs no written
certificate to prove the curse which
rests upon it. 1t ever advertises the
calamity which has overtaken ii. 1t is
the agricultural woman of the street,
whose virtue is for hire; an outcast. a
fair heritage gone astray and in TOO
many cases beyond redemption. Good
citizenship is very closely allied with
land ownership and occupancy. From
such homes comes all that is best. all
that makes for the highest type Of
American nationality.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
A CoincIIa,c.

A hawk had been troublesome to the
gamekeepers on an English estate, and,
being watched to it's nest, was shot
and the nest taken, when it was MOTTO
ed that a piece Of paper had been WOW
en- into the nest. The nest was pulled
to pieces and a letter was found. clos
ed' but without Il stamp. 1t had been
written 10y the guard of Il train to 4
friend on the railway and had probably
been blown Out of a passing train, but
how the hawk came to make use of 1t
annot be explained. as The nearest
railway line is three miles away. In
qulrles We're made for the man TO
whom the note was directed, and it
was found that he was dead, a strange
coincidence being that his name Was
Hawke.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06


The farm and farm interests have SO
far been less directly touched by the
developments of electrical science than
has any other line of the worlds lead
ing industries. Still it is none the less
interesting for the farmer to note the
wonderful progress being made. Min
ing, manufacturing in all lines, trans
portation. Illumination, power trans
mission, municipal administrations, are
all undergoing a metamorphosis be-
cause Of the utilization of this subtle,
unknown and unknowable element,
which for the barbarian and Our ia.
theirs but rifted the summer cloud and
Illuminated a hemisphere with it's wild
and riotous manifestations. Conquered
and harncssed at last. it is fast becom-
ing one of mans most useful servants.
Here it cooks a dainty meal, moves a
mighty engine or transmits a message
by a dive under fathomless seas and
over vast continents. Here it seizes a
human voice and records 1t for repro
duction on the resurrection morn or
sends it greeting to it's fellow a thou
sand miles away. There it makes a fur
mace hotter than that through which
the Hebrews passed u%nscathed, reduc-
ing the most refractory elements to
gases and contributing new elements
aud factors to the development of the
century's civilization. 1t Eliminates
the city with a white light like the I'M
tanned lightning, sweeps the horizon
with an eye Of fire in the searchlight or
glows in the happy homes of the peo-
pie. soft, radiant and mellow, like a sum-
mer sunset. Here it comes as life to
the dying, restorative for crippled
limbs. becomes a healer of human in
tirmities, While there it takes a human.
life in obedience to the mandate of tie
law. \ power immeasurable, a light
sublime, n heat Uncomfortable, ua-
bounded by distance and linked close
with every waterfall. the moving winds
and lunge of the waves of the sea, it
but awaits its seizure by human genius
and Intelligence to revolutionize the,
earth.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
TIDE Csc OF THE sPUD.

A great convenience upon Il farm is
a spud. AS some readers may not
know this implement by name, | may
say that it is Il steel blade set chisel
fashion into Il long handle. Three six
teentL.s steel cut two inches wide is
about right. The blade should be four
or five inches long and may be fastened
in an old fork handle. 1t should be
kept sharp and is then Il handy tool for
cutting out such weeds as the dock,
plantain, etc, that must be cut below
the crown to be killed. Such weeds are
apt to appear around farm buildings,
and moving does not kill them. A
sharp spud is a most satisfactory tool
and te1npts one to constant warfare
with all u%llsiSltly weeds on the
grounds about tile louise and barns,
says a Farm a4a i4..eside corresponds
ent.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
conNsrALKs AS A FERTILIZER.

An objection is raised by some to
the utilization of cornstalks as fodder
because, it is claimed. these stalks are
needed to maintain the fertility of the
soil by blowing them under. The dry
stalk plowed under does very little
for the soil save to increase the humus
in the soil and in this way serves a
very good purpose on stiff clay soils.
Aside from this they are worth but
little as a fertilizer and can be far
more profitably used as fodder, to be
returned to the soil later on as barn
yard manure. Further, the rotation
of the cornfield with the clover field is
every way better as a means of keep
ing UP soil fertility than blowing un
der the dry cornstalks.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
COOPERATION AS A ECONOMIC
II

The American people are, perhaps
largely unknown to themselves, very
actively at work on the economic
problem of cooperation. AS invention
and genius have brought men closer
together and well nigh annihilated the
factor Of distance, mems commercial
relations with each other have under.
gone md are still undergoing a.. a
Vicious change. 1t has been and is to-
day a contest between the intelligent
man and the wonderful modern ma
chine-a competitive strife between
man and the machine. labor and capi-
tai, those benefited by the new order
of things and those who are having
the life crushed out of them, which
will and must compel some sort of an
adjudication of the interests involved.
Cooperation in a hundred different
forms is seeking to solve the problem.
1t Is begettlng the trusts. the console.
dalton Of corporate and commercial in
%terests, and in an agricultural way
finds expression in the creameries. ele-
vators and mills operated by
tive capital all over the country. An
other phase of the principle is found in
labor unions. trade agreements and the
like. While old things and old meth
DDS shall not all pass away, it is true
that out Of the seething and disturbed
economic condition shall be evolved,
either by cooperation or some other
means, a system which shall be more
in harmony with the progress of the
lOR
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

The breeders on the cattle ranges are
paying vastly more attention to i'm
proving the quality Of the stock which
they raise than does the average farm
er Of the more thickly settled states.
These men are buying thoroughbred
beef sires by the hundred, with the re-
suit that the Doddies, Herefords and
Shorthorns which come from these
ranges are now as finely graded ami
mails as can be found anywhere.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

Take cuttings of currants in Ser
Der after the new wood has ripene
may be seen by having turned bry
Make them about six inches in lei
from the new wood, removing
leaves. Plant them so that only
bud is left above the surface, and I
will take root in the fall and be re
to make growth promptly in the spri
according to Wick. Some leaves or Ii
should be laid around them when
weather comes
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

This farmer had a hired man, as
farmers do. and he also had a pretty
daughter. and, as so often happens, it
being the old, old way of the world.
the h. IN. fell in love with the p. d..
Now. sad to relate. when the old gran
ger got on to this fact he gave the H..
m. a charge of bird shot in the tender
part OF his anatomy, which so touched
the womanly sympathies of the p. d.
that the loving pair ran off and got
married. After it was all over the old
man could do nothing but shoot off his
mouth and finally relented and gave
his blessing. and now, when he goes
to visit his new grandson, he and the
n time h. m. have a good time count
ing the shot marks in the son-in-law's
back.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

Many who read this item will be de-
batting whether to take the chances
and thrash their grain from the shock
OF go to work and stack it. 1t is large
ly a question Of weather for the next
three weeks as to which is the better
thing to do. If it should be fine and
dry weather, shock thrashing is all
right, and the job is done at less cost
than in any other way, but if we get
some heavy rains and you are last on Il
thrashing circuit you will wish that
you had stacked your grain.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

1t is only a very few years ago that
the agricultural department was en-
gagged in an experiment which cost the
government many thousands of dollars
trying to shoot rain out of the heavens.
Fact! The theory n thai if it was
true that heavy rains almost invaria-
bly, followed great battles then all
needed was to get up Il commotion in
the upper air like that produced by the
discharge of artillery in an engage
ment and the skies would leak at once.
The fact was apparently lost sight Of
that there Gus be moisture in the SUI
%pervening air stratas in order to get it
out, and SO the attempts to make rain
in the arid districts of the far west
proved a most dismal failure. The
department is being run upon more
sensible ines nowadays.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
DOING one TYING WELL.

Educate your boy for some one prac-
teal, specific thing. He should be
taught that excellence and experiences
in any one thing is of vastly more i'm
portance than a Smattering knowledge
of many things. 1t is 81 per day for
the man who knows nothing, $1.5O per
day for the man who can do most ev-
erything poorly, and $40 per day for
the man who can do some one thing
better than anybody else.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

While the Jersey is a typical milk
Jag breed, it does not follow that be-
cause you have an animal with the at
tractiye fawn color, With black points.
fine neck, deerlike eyes and all that,
that You have a valuable mixer. The
most utterly worthless COW which we
ever owned was simply immaculate in
appearance. style and color. 1t is with
the Jersey as with the mamie may
have a religious pedigree rs long as
your arm, his theological escutchcon
may be most perfect. out If he will lie
10 the assessor about mis- moneys and
credits Ills piety is only,the very poor.
esi KIND of skimmilk Apply the Bah.
cock test to your Jersey md the as
,sol's rest 10 your map. If thcy pass
t-..s, they are o. X.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

About the best fixed farmers Of the
northwest are those where the dairy
COW holds a leading place. 1t doesn't
make very much difference whether
the milk is sold right out for city use,
furnished to a creamery or whether
the calf just sucks the COW. The fact
is it is almost impossible to divorce
profitable agriculture from the COW.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

There is many a section in the south
which is 40 or so miles from a railway
In the northwest it has come to the
point that a man located Is miles from
9 railway depot keeps at it until he
Interests capital, without very much
trouble. to build a road to let him out.
The average northwestern farmer has
the choice Of two or more market
towns.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06
Russia builds the great Siberian rail

way as a purely military enterprise
to solidify her power, transport her
armies, acquire new territory. Strange
ly, evolved and constructed as a mill
tary enterprise as it was. it is going to
have far greater power and signifi-
canoe as a civiliZer of the peoples of
interior Russia and as a developer of
their material than it will
ever have as q military measure.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

A farmer wrote to us not so very
long ago complaining that it was cost
ing the taxpayers in his district the
sum of $44 per annum to educate each
child which attended the district
school. there being but six scholars.
He wanted to know what had better
be done in such a case. as this business
did not pay. There are two ways out
one to raise more kids, the other to
consolidate the schools.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

The best all round shade tree for the
northwest is the common water elm.
The hard maple is perhaps a more
snowy and densely foliaged tree, but
one has to wait SO long for them to be
of any value. The elm is bug and
drought proof and if properly trimmed
when young will give as dense a shade
as need be desired.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

There is no more pitiful sight in all
this great northwest than the vandal
and wanton stripping of all the native
timber growth from the bluffy and
billy lands which border all the
streams and water courses. These
lands are in the main entirely worth
less for the purpose of cultivation, be-
ing too broken, and are only available
for pasture. Why not let a part Of the
trees remain and thus improve the pas
ture, furnish a welcome shade for the
stock and compel a compliment from
every lover of landscape beauty? The
man who saves a tree which the Lord
has planted is twin brother to him who
plants one, and both love their coun-
try.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

Some literary fellow has made the
discovery that cheese is Of very an
Gent origin, saying that Aristotle re-
fers to it in his writings. Pshaw!
That's nothing. The Kurds occupied
central Asia long before the time Of
Aristotle.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

A fact which should never be lost
sight of is that bearing fruit trees
need fertilization and plenty of it, and
this, too, even on the naturally good
soils of the northwest. Lots of orchard
trees are simply starved to death.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

Any of the legumes, such as beans.
peas, clover and vetches, when grown.
always leave the land on which they
were grown more fertile thar it was
before. The legumes are soil enrich
ers, not soil robbers.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

A Shylock who has grown fat on 20
per cent during the pioneer days of the
northwest told us a few days since
that he had hunted in vain for a
chance to place money at 5 per cent.
Shylock's business is done for, and no
n regrets it save him and his heirs.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

The tramp, upon leaving the pest
house, was not wholly in lack of sym
patty. He was at least pitted by the
smallpox.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

If you gave your boy a pig or a calf
and after he had cared for and reared
it you sold it and pocketed the pro-
ceeds, don't join the church until
you have squared things up with that
boy. 1t will be hard work to keep him
from playing with the cats tail while
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

The automobile carriage and the BIZ
cycle, working with the intelligence
of the people, are the two apostles of
the good roads d~ispensation.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-06

The dairyman who has a field of
sweet corn upon which to draw for a
ration for his COWS is not complaining
If s%hrinkage of the milk yield.