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The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-08-11
FROM COLFAX, WASH.
AN INTERESTING LETTER
Mr.. HERBERTGREEN.

FROMMR. HERBERTGREEN.
The following letter from
Mr.. HerbertG Greene, formerly
Of Mitchell county, and we'll
known in Morganton, where
he attended Patton School,
was published in the Bakers
Vile Mirror last week and is
reprinted in THE News bv
request of the writer:
| am still in the state of
Washington-a country offer
ing wonderful attractions to
homeseekers. There are the
most famous wheat lands on
the face of the earth, and for
fruit and vegetables it is un-
surpassed bv anv section of
the United States.
Wheat raising is the princi-
pal occupation of the farmers
and is grown on tracts rang
ing from 100 to $40 acres.
Wheat under good cultivation,
produces from 40 to 50 BUSH
els to the acre. Barley and
oats often make a Weld of 100
bushels to the acre. All kinds
Of vegetables grow luxuriant-
". Good farm lands can be
bought from $50 to S35 per
acre.
But | see nothing better
than the school system Of this
country. The people not only
give the rising generations the
benefit of muscular training,
but they also make them ac-
quainted with the advance
ments of the and arts
Of this the most enlightened
age of the worlds history.
Let US look at the advance
ments made. From the re-
hottest days of antiquity to
the present time the sciences
and arts of men have been de-
veloped till it seems but yes
terday the lightning dashed
and leaped among the clouds
unhampered by the hands of
men; to-day it is as gentle as
a lamb. ever ready to do the
willof it's master. Yesterday
we could speak to men only a
stone throw; to-day we recog-
nize their voices a thousand
miles. Yesterday the world
vas a sealed letter; TO-DAY it
is an open book. Yesterday
everything was darkness and
gloom: to-day it is light and
liberty. In the DAYS Of Boaz
and Ruth grain was cut with a
sickle. threshed bv the feet of
oxen. and winnowed BY the
breeze. In the DAYS of Abra-
ham Lincoln grain was cut bv
a>vthe. threshed BY machine.
and winnowed bv a hand mill.
To-day the grain is cut.
threShed. winnowed and
sacked bv the same machine.
In the DAYS of Cain and
Abel men walked from place
la.A - IL, L. H.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-08-11
CHERRY
WEATHER SIGNS.

DAX A>AA
THE ITRODUCTION OF THE
SIGNAL SERVICE.
CHERRY MOUNTAIN, July
31.-The different schools of
wise-acres are in revolt trying
to settle the date of the first
dog-dav. It is said that every
dog has his day and if all the
dates that are claimed as first
with 40 to follow there will be
plenty to go round. At any
rate, we are having rain to-day,
and have had several showers
on the first dog day which en-
braces a period of from 22nd
instant to 31st, inclusive.
Anent the products of Cher
nv Mountain, Dr.. F. Bright
has a pamphlet descriptive of
this far-famed region, with a
picture of the unframed and
irrepressible Amos Owens.
With the passing Of the
adroit and eloquent Colonel
Robert Ingersoll, we are i'm
pressed with some of his po-
etc word-imagerv as to his
belief in immortality, and APP
parently contradictory state
ments as to dreamless sleep.
It seems that in his latter
days he became more charit-
ably disposed, and his last re-
corded utterances as to Jesus
of Nazareth. were very nearly
orthodox. twill be, however,
remembered, that even nearly
two decades ago. he paid a
glowing tribute to the Savior
as a philanthropist and bene-
factor. and declared that
where man died for man that
spot is holy ground. | can't
help but have more federation
for the man who boldly and
fearlesslv attacked what he
was pleased to call supersti-
ton as an agnostic, than for
the traitors in the camp who
stab Christianity in the back,
and claim that all such is in
the name of the Lord.
In a few DAYS the town of
Ellenboro will have the advant-
age of weather signal service.
The weather prophets who
are ''agin' the scientific appa-
ratus are legion, and in open
and organized revolt. A sand
hill crane flying up the creek,
they say, knows more about
when 1t IS going to rain than
the government does. and the
grounding that sees his shad-
ow Is more weather-wise than
all the barometers and wind
gauges in existence. The dog
IS more sacred to US than ever
was the OK to the Egyptians,
or the crocodile to brown
skinned desotee of India. Be
sides keeping the sheep
thinned out, he circulates hv-
drophhobia and holds down a
Job for him that keepeth a
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
The Law of Reversion.

II one could take six distinct and
different breeds of fowls--tor instance,
White Brahma, Leghorn, Houdan, Lang
shan, Plymouth Rock and Wyandotte--
and let the breeds mix, hit and go miss,
for six years, what sort Of a breed Of
fowls would one have at the end Of that
period? Well, for one thing, the law of
reversion would be very Licely illustrat-
these breeds would disappear. The
ultimate product would be just common
scrub stock, with the chance that the
Leghorn type would suffer the least in
the metamorphosis, as that breed more
closely follows the original type of
jungle fowl from which all our poultry
originally came. This same process of
deterioration and reversion to original
types, operates just as powerfully with
stock of the improved breeds as it does
with poultry, and it explains why, when,
a man starts out to cross Jerseys with
Holsteins, Shorthorns with Polled Angus
and all this sort Of cross breeding, he
soon finds himself breeder OF simple
and original scrubs. The improved
breeds of poultry and stock are, we
might say. purely artificial productions,
the results of careful selection by man,
and need to be continually reinforced
and fortified by additions of blood from
animals excelling in the particular
quality for which the breed may be
noted. Now you can see why the grade
sire viii always run herd Of stock or
flock Of poultry down, and how import
ant it is to select only the purest bred
sires IL herd Of cattle or flock Of
poultry is to be improved In quality or
even maintained in excellence.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
Preparing for Winter.

One watching the habits and ways Of
wild animals and bird life will note the
fact that when left to their own instincts
such animals and birds will always lay
on a surp us of fat in the fall to help
tide them over the seventies of the win
ter season. Thus we find all kinds of
game in it's best condition in the
fall; also the skins of fur bearing an
imals and the plumage Of all birds.
There is essen here which should be
needed by all stock raisers. An animal
poor in flesh in the fall is always hard
animal to winter and usually an un-
profitable animal to keep. This applies
with special force to milk cows and all
young stock. Stock allowed to become
thin in flesh during the fall months will
usually stay thin all through the winter
and come out next season spring poor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
Fake Doctors.

Among all the misei able frauds orig.
mated for the special purpose of swini-
ling the man on the farm, the fake
doctor takes the cake. He plays e
pretty shrewd game too. He first sends
some sharp agent through given ter
ritory and complies list Of all the in
valids he can hear Omen with rheu
matism and liver trouble, women with
nervous troubles, chronic ailments which
the best physicians can only palliate
and never cure. This list is then put
through sort OF Bradstreet rating. and
those whose note is good at the local
bank are selected as victims A call is
then made by the smooth tongued agent
upon the victim. and the latter is sym
pathetically informed that he repres nts
a physician of great rcnown and ability
whose special forte is the curing OF the
particular disease with which the victim
is afflicted The general incompetency
Of the local physician who has had the
case in charge is enlarged upon. and
with the fattering promise ofpermanent
cure offered, and all on the mo cure, no
pay" plan, it really does not take very
long to get the victim in good shape for
skinning. The promise is made that
the doctor will call in few days, aud
sure enough, he does-a sleek looking
chap in plug hat and creased breeches
who in reality knows no more about
medicine and surgery than his great
grandfather did about the late Spanish
war-and, duly posted as to the nature
OF his victims malady, he soon, under
the promise OF speedy and permanent
cure, has note, for whatever sum he
thinks will go through, given for treat
ment and medicine, and verbal promise
given by him that the note is not to be
paid unless cure results. The whole
swindle is effected as "easy as rolling OF
log" you see. A few days are tc
elapse before the medicine will arrive
just long enough for him to cash the
note and skip the country. You ask
whether anybody is fool enough to get
caught in this manner. Lots of them
but in most cases they keep very quiet
about it, and that's why you don't hear
of it. We know OF one very penurious
old fellow who was caught this way not
long ago. and the local doctor, to whom
he owed quite bill for medical services.
is so tickled over the matter that he
wakes up in the middle of the night to
laugh over it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
A Foe of the Sugar Trust.

While not very much is being said in
the rar ers about it, is one the less
true that the sugar tru st is bitterly OPP
posed to the development of the beet
sugar interests of is country. With
INDEPENDENT factories, which in the case
OF eet sug are also refineries, the
heets going in at one end of the factory
al d C, m ng out at e other as refined
glanulated sugar, it will he next to i'm
7 ossille or the trust to manipul te and
control tie Price OF sugar as it does
ted y. At the present time the trust
is taking all the product of the few
fac ores row in operation. and trust
prices govern the selling price of the
h me grown sugar. When we get more
factories, this will not be so easy to do.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE
FOR SALE.

FOn SAI@E.
25 acres Of heavy oak timber land from
which large quantity of lumber, piles, ties
and cordwood can be cut. IL Is located IN
Winnesheik County, low a, sl5 ler acre buys
II. The wood win more than pay for the
hnd.
Excellent ia, ms in Stevens County, Minn.
in The sure crop country. Improved or un-
improved.
Lands in the best counties in s. Dakota,
where land Is booming and advancing rapid
Is in price. improved lands from 81 to $40
per scr', unin, proved from S. to Sl2 per acre.
Buy now and make money. Reduced rail-
rad fare TO land seekers.
fine residence lot in the town of Calmar,
Afr ON house, with lots, good well, in
Calmar, Iowa.
Invest your money in real estate and make
more. Nothing more sure or safe. why
drudge along ON REL ted l~nd when you may
own farm that will g"w in value each
YEAR. Sell your $40 or $50 and and buy some
for less than half, which will make } on more
money.
leo acres of fine kind OF land. itch. black
soil, free fr m sand, gr vel, alkali "rgumbo,
l y IL lie n m lie. II, The county seat of Wichi-
Ia county Kansa.; price 81 per acre; will ex-
change foi good town properly.
60 acres In Nebraska, n lies FRI m Stuart,
black liam soil, good spring IN the place;
price 81 per acre; will exchange.
100 acres In southwestern Minnesota, In
we'll settled country where CT, ps never failed,
miles fr m tow OF 800 people; price ST. per
acre. -
24O acres well improved. flrst-class build
ings every acre iillab e; an all-improved iarm;
price SO.
lt0acres with excellent Improvements, all
the necessary buildings Tor a good iarm and
rood buildings at that The original owner
mortgnged the ,laee for s4t0. i'e died and
the mortgage was foreclosed, the holder OF
mortgage bought In the place at sheriff sale
70 siz7, and he has since died, AMI the farm
Ia now thr wn on the market for the low price
of SSA 0; a snap. Nu
S. r. WAGER, Agent,
Calmar. Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
A Rank Cross.

One of the men most extensively en-
gagged in dairying in southern Minnesota
told us lately that he was going to top
his carefully selected herd of Jersey and
Guernsey cows with Polled Angus
sire. He said that the calf had become
such an important factor in the profits
of 6airying that he could no longer fuss
with purely dairy bred steer calves. If
it were desirable to get this beef cross
on dairy herd composed SO largely of
Jersey blood, We should not have taken
his method, but would have made less
violent cross by using pure bred
Shorthorn sire, selected from family
of known milking quality We are
afraid that this Angus-Jersey cross will
in no sense be satisfactory one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
Animal Farming.

We use the term animal farming in
contradistinction to that type of farm.
ing where crops of grain and hay are
raised and sold from the farm. 1t is to
be the coming type of agriculture for
most of the northwest, certainly for all
that part of it embraced within the
limits of the corn belt. 1t means in a
word, making factory of the farm,
enlarging its mission as producer OF
raw material, by giving the machinery
and equipment wherewith to manufact-
ure those raw materials into finished
products for the worlds use. The dairy
COW, the fat steer, the horse, the sheep,
the hen, the hog, are the several
machines in this agricultural factory
each in its way having the ability to
take the raw material of the farm-corn.
oats, barley, hay and grassland convert
it into some form of finished product,
Now, it takes machinist to success ully
operate machine, and so it comes that
this sort OF farming or manufacturing
requires special sort OF training to
make it success. This is illustrated
by the fact that some men will under
take to run dairy machine. and the
best they can do is to get 150 pounds Of
butter from each of their cows in a year.
Another man, better educated as a farm
machinist, will take lot of cows and
get $50 pounds Of butter from each COW.
The first named man evidently needs
training and education to fit him for
this line of business, because i. is very
evident he is not doing as good work
with his machine as he might. One
man will raise four cent steers, while
his neighbor, better educated farm
machinist, will raise six cent animals,
using the same raw material. 1t is right
in this line where education on agricult-
ural lines is so much nee Fed to enable
the av erage farm machinist to 1.-Two up to
the measure of his opportunities. One
trouble is that the man with the $50
DOuuo COW oud bhO lOui CCut ctCCk 10
apt to be bit set in his way and very
conservative. inclined to do just as his
father and grandfather did before him.
But he should realize that there are new
ways and methods in agriculture, just
as there are in transportation and in
commerce, and that the new ways are
all in the line OF greater economy OF
production and larger financial gain.
No farmer can today afford to ignore the
scientific phase of his profession, for
knowledge is something more than
power. 1t is money, good hard cash,
when applied to the farm. 1t is being
already conceded, though little reluc-
family by some, that man really needs
course of study in animal industry,
elementary chemistry and soil physics
to properly fit him for farm, just as
the physician, the dentist. lawyer and
preacher are required to fit themselves
for their respective professions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29
FARM, ORCHARD, 4.
4 - AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC P.NIONb by
J s. TRlOO, Rockford, Iowa.
Edited for PUBLIC OPINION by
J S. TRlOO, Rockford, Iowa.

We notice that an eastern nursery
company lately Id nursery stock to
the amount of s3.5CO in one county in
Iowa here is lots of trouble and
appointment anead fer the purchasers
o this stock. Nearly all eastern vari-
cites OF fruit are failures in this latitude
and climate. The men who bought this
stock did not know, were fooled by
smooth tongued agents, and have thrown
most OF their money away. The only
safe way to do here in the northwest Is
to find an honest home nursery man. buy
sour trees of him and be guided by his
selection Of varieties II the trees fail
or are not true to name. you can then
get at him and lie him il you feel like
it, Will. the Ohio and New York man is
not to be reached
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Originally the hen. wild bird, laid
but one sitting of eggs and then pro-
ceeded to hatch them Nan has i'm
proved her egg producing faculty until
she may now be made to produce $50
eggs in a season. So don't blame the
old hen il. after she has laid $50 eggs or
such matter, she wants to sit for awhile.
Some men want her to lay all the time
and never 60 into the incubating bust
ness at all,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Now, here is another man who has
made mistake, ne having planted in a
family orchard more Whitney No. 20
trees than all other varieties put to-
gether This apple is like good many
babies-is real good for only just very
short time. 1t is probably the most
unstable apple grown in the northwest,
and two trees are more than enough for
any family orchard. Until some better
variety is found the Wealthy should be
the principal apple raised in the family
orchard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

An old army mule driver says that
the pretty story about the mule teams
hauling the British ammunition wagons
in the Transvaal being stampeded is all
bosh; that while horses under some cir
cumstances are stampeded, mules never
are. 1t was smooth way of explaining
how the Beers came to capture the am.
nunition train.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

How long should a SOW be kept as a
breederY Well. here in the Poland China
territory you won't often find a breeding
SOW over four years old. The average
breeder is not, We believe, over two years
old. But down in Tennessee an old SOW
sied lately which was 32 years old. hay
ing raised for her owner over 900 pigs.
She was Of the Arkansas rooter typss no
doubt. and did not have her years short
srsd by being the posssssor OF seod
bS,od.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

One of the greatest wastes in the
northwest is in the fax straw. In few
places this straw is utilized for the MAX
ing Of tow, but through most of the fax
growing territory it is total waste. 1t
is now thought that it may be used for
paper pulp, and il it can be so used it
win be a very great advantage to the
farmers of the newer portions of the
northwest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Nearly every man owning $50 acres Of
land anywhere in the northwest has
made Q clean $500 since last March in
the increased value Of his land. In
many localities the advance has been
more than this.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

The value of one good horse ruined by
q barbed wire fence would build good
manv rods of woven wire fence. With
the increased value of horses, it will pay
to keep them clear Of the barbed wire.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

There is more activity in the wool
market now than there has been for
several years. 1t is not so very long ago
that sheep man could not send con-
signment of wool to market unless he
would prepay the freight. 1t is differ
ent now. Wool is good property. The
future of sheep farming is brighter. 1t
beats raising cholera hogs all to pieces.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Pecause man lives on farm that is
no reason why he should not keep his
hair and beard neatly trimmed. Some
Ore farms have frowsy looking old fell
lows rur ming them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Paper Is now being specially made for
roofing purposes. 1t il claimed that it
makes a very durable and desirable roof
ing material.
Several OF the finest brands OF i'm
ported cheese are made from milk from
which either all or a good part Of the
butter fat has been removed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

June creamery butter held in cold
storage. bought at Is or 16 cents. sod
the fore part of November at % and %
cents. As the storage and insurance
charges are not over 3 cents pound,
the buyers made good thing out of it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

1t has been pretty good year for the
owners Of thrashing machines, the daily
income running up between s25 and $40.
Still, we never knew man to get rich
running a machine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

A man in Mis- ouri gave his daughter
two chickens and agreed to feed the in
or. ase for her for four years. He evil
IDENTIFY didn't realize just what sort OF
contract he had entered into, for at the
end of two years the girl had se4 egg
money in the bank and zoo chickens for
the old man to winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Fruit men all over the country will
note with regret the recent death of
Peter Gideon of Ninnetonka, the man
who originated the famous Wealthy
apple. He was an old man and conferred
lasting benefit upon all lovers of fruit
through the northwest.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

ANY good corn land WIN produce good
bets.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-29

Sixty-one thoroughbred Hereford cat
tie brought an average of s442.67 each
at a sale at Kansas CITY last month. AS
a purely beef animal the Hereford is
taking the lead in all the range country
Of the southwest. A bull of this breed
recently sold in Missouri for $500.
At test recently made at the Yer
mont experiment station with the new
tangled gravity serarators the gravity
can left 13 per cent Of the butter fat Of
Jersey milk in the milk and 40 rer cent
in Ayrshire milk. These machines do
not seem to separate, and they spoil the
skimmilk besides.
The Mena star., 1899-03-08
Seeds

Biiiousness and constipation are the seeds out of which spring many of the serious diseases that afaiict the human body. Sound judgement would de- snand the immediate removal of this condition before it develops into some thing more troublesome and difficult to cure Prickly Ash Btters is reliable cure for constipation and disorders of a similar character. 1t not only thor oughly empties and purifes the bowels but strengthens the bowel channels and regulates the liver and stoma ch, hence it performs a radical cure. Sold 5y Jackson Drug Go. 9-2t
The Mena star., 1899-03-08
Oranness Efappenings.

March has come-so have the winds. To-day is skip" day, that is, it is the day for ''toughs'' to skip across the line
 Yesterday was meetln' day for fruit growers, but no business of importance was transacted.
 Spring must be near, as the green flies have already arrived
 Mir. Foster, section foremaa. paid his fine. fifty dollars, for carrying con cealed weapons and then left for Alma, his future home.
 The important ones have cleared off lin side in town and hanged thereon a croquet set.
 Dr Brownfield bas moved the post office from the Sargent building to the new NortL building, to the great satis. faction of many.
 Ye scribe having worked in store Saturday, feels justified in saying that the farmers in Polk are going to have plenty of vegetables this year.