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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-03-13
PROFUSE PERIODS.

=" l commenced
taking Lydia E.
Pinkhanl's Vege-
t a bic Compound
a bout 3 months
ago, and cannot
express the won
derful good it has
done me. Men
situations were SO
profuse as to leave
me very weak for
coma time after
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-03-13
CHANGE OF LIFE.

"Iwas taken sick
FIVE years ago with
THE Grippe and
had a relapse and
was given up by
the doctor and my
friends. Change
of Life began to
work on me. /
flowed very badly
until a year ago,
then my stomach
and 1unpe TOt so
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-03-13
rry Grain.O! Try Grain.O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack
age OF GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes
the place of coffee. The children may drink
it without injury as we'll az the adult All who
tryit. likei it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown
of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure
grains, and the most delicate stomach receives
It without distress. L the price Of coffee.
Is and Csc. per package. Sold by all grocers.
What they call the rainy season in Mex
leo comes only in the form of showers,
which fall in the afternoon. These show
ers usually occur every day, but sometimes
there will be two or three days OF per-
fectly clear weather. There is no steady
downpour, however, as in most tropical
countries, and in Mexico the rainy season
is regard "a the finest season OF the year
Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods
dved with PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. Sold by
all druggists.
Most suicides by drowning occur at
night.
Disinfecton Of houses is the only policy
pursued in Calcutta against the plague.
The Life Saver of hildren
ia Hoxsie's Croup Cure in attacks of Group,
Whooping Cough, Diphtheria and Pneumonia.
No opium to stupefy. so cts.
Rubber, spun glass, steel and ivory are
the most elastic substances,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-03-13
BRITISH DEFEAT De WET
The Invasion Of Cape Colony is a
Complete Failure.
B0ER FORCES ARE DISORGANIzED

Fifty Beers, Some Guns and Ammunition
Captured and the Invaders Put to
Flight - Steyn Said to Have Notified
the Burghers to Shift For Them
seIves-General Kitchener's Report.
London.-General Kitchener reports
that General De Vets invasion Of
Cape Colony has been a complete fall.
ure. General De Vets force has been
defeated and his two guns have been
captured. General Kitchener's dis
patch to the War Office follows:
General French. who was at Piet
Retief, February %, reports that the
result Of his column sweeping the
country to the east is that the Beers
are retreating and scattering in disor-
ganized parties, totalling some 5000
men, in front of him. Amsterdam and
Piet Retief have been occupied.
Troops are protecting the Swasi from
tier. General French will push on, but
he is much hampered by continuous
heavy rains.
"a summary of the losses inflicted on
the enemy to February 16 shows that
2S2 Beers were killed or wounded in
action; fifty-slX are prisoners Of war;
163 surrendered. One fifteen-pounder,
4G2 rifles, 100000 rounds Of small am
munition, $500 horses, seventy-four
mules, $3.50 trek oxen, 1900 cattle,
155, 400 sheep and 1910 carts were cap
tured. The British casualties were
five officers and forty-one men killed,
four officers and 10S men wounded.
Colonel Plumer reports that on Feb
ruary % Colonel Owen captured De
Vets fifteen-pounder, q pompom, some
carts full of ammunition and fifty pris-
oners. We sustained no casualties.
The enemy are in full retreat and are
dispensing. They are being pursued
vigorously. De Vets attempt to in
wade Cape Colony has completely
, failed"
The Daily Telegraph publishes the
following from De Aar:
"Mr. Steyn addressed the Beers and
told them they must all shift for
themselves, returning to Orange River
Colony as best they could. He and
General De Wet took 300 of the best
horses with which to escape"
Cape Town, South Africa.-Colone.
Piumer engaged General De Wet near
Disselfontein, on the south bank of the
Orange River, capturing a gun and q
pompom and taking fifty prisoners.
The Boers were scattered and were
pursued by Colonel Plumer.' 1t Is re-
nnrted that General De Wet escaped
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-03-13

Was also troubled with leucorrhoea,
tired feeling, bearing down sensation,
pain across the back and thighs. l
felt as though there was a heavy
weight in my stomach all the time.
I have taken two bottles of the medi-
cine, and now have better health than
I have had for four years"
Mrs. LIZZIE DICKSON HODGE,
Avalon, Ohio.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-03-13

Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods
dved with PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. Sold by
all DRUGGISTS
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
The Law Of Retrosression.

All improved breeds of stock OF
whatever kind, as well as of flowers
and fruits, are the result of selection
and artificial propagation by man
The little gnarly sour crab, the pro,
genitor of the Baldwin, Greening
Wealthy and Jonathan apple; the
wild boar of the Black, Forest, the
original type of the finished and per.
fected Poland-China hog; the why
seven hundred pound wild horse the
ancestor of the 1000 pound Percher'
OF or Clyde or the two-minute PAGER
or trotter; the long-horned, loinless
udderless wild COW of the plains
the faraway dam of the Polled
Angus, the Shorthorn and Holstein
cattle; the perfected Southdown
Shropshire or Merino sheep descend
Ell directly from Notwithstanding
and rock-jumplng ancestors, the evo-
luton from original types being
slowly and laboriously wrought out
by patient care and selection on the
part of man, always to certain ex.
tent under protest as far as natural
law was concerned and each improve
ment secured ever and always haudi-
capped with the almost irresistible
tendency on the part of such animal
bird or plant to revert back TO its
type, the natural law being swift ret
repression, only held in check by the
ever watchful care of man. A better
understanding of this thing would
enable many a man to see the impera-
tive necessity of care and vigilance
in breeding and propogating any OF
these improved types if he would
maintain their excellences: in other
words, how very easy it is to lose
and how very hard ii is to retain
those good qualities which are thus
artificially produced. 1t is just as
It is with man and his religion-it is
mighty easy to backslide and to be
good he has to watch and fight and
pray every day of his life.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
Rural Telephones.

The rural telephone is rapidly win
ming its way through the best devel-
oped agricultural sections of the
country. And this is all right. 1t
does very much to mitigate the iso-
lation and monotony of life on the
farm. it puts the farmer in close
touch with the markets day by day,
the family physician and his business
associates all over the county, More
than all these things, it ministers
to the pleasure and comfort of the
wife and mother in a social way, who
can, without effort Of having to fix
uP-change her dress and dress her
hair-call up her neighbor and have
heart to heart talk-a rare privi-
lege when she gets into that mental
state somewhat peculiar TO her sex
when 1t seems just as though she
must say something to somebody.
There is no improvement which a
man can make for his farm and his
farm home which will pay so large
return as telephone. Most towns
in the country now have a local sys-
tenn, a central office and an op-
orator, and it is an easy matter to
build these country lines and connect
them with such town system. IF
this matter has not been looked up
in your neighborhood, suppose you
go at it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
The Farm Separator.

1t is surely, though slowly and un.
der protest, coming to this; that the
ultimate solution of modern dairying
will compel the separation of the
cream from the milk upon the farm
where it is produced, and the manu-
facture of the cream into butter by
some centrally located creamery. The
enormous cost of transporting the
milk to and from the creamery and
the poor quality of the skim milk
so obtained, are facts which will not
be ignored, and when to them is add
ed the curtailing of the work at the
farm, in caring for the cans as they
should be, and the further admitted
fact that just as thrifty, handsome
calves can be raised on the separator
milk when fed warm from the COW as
when they run with their dams. it is
not hard to realize that the fate OF
the creamery separator is sealed. OBJ
jections that the use of the farm sep
arator discrepancies existing meth
DDS, strong as they are, will not stop
the reform, for reform it is. The
best thing and the best method will
ultimately prevail, and the farm sep
arator is as much an improvement
over the creamery separator as was
the creamery separator over the deep
setting plan of ten years ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
Citv Men and Country Homes.

AS the facilities afforded by mod
ern inter-urban means of transit are
increased more and more are well to
dc city people seeking homes in the
country. Children ought never to be
born and raised i'll our cities; city
conditions with polluted air, water
and milk, lack OF play room, vicious
sights and associates imperil not only
the physical, but the moral we'll
being of the little ones. 1t is the
bottle baby of the cities which swells
the mortality lists in the summer
months, and the effort. to raise them
at all is like trying to raise cali
on the skim milk from separator
creamery. The desire for the coun.
try home by city men in giving q
marked increase of value to all farm
lands lying within reach of our large
eastern cities.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
Where Trees Grow.

Go into the woods where grows the
big timber and get lesson how t.
grow a tree. There you will find va
riety for one thing, the earth always
cool and moist around the roots, per-
ennially mulched with the falling and
decayed wood and leaves, ever en-
riching the store of humus in the
soil, the most perfect conservation
of moisture possible; see all this and
then go and buy tree of some ped
dler, dig a round hole in blue-gra IS
sod or on some sun-beaten sterile
hillside and plant your tree and eN-
pect the good Lord to make your tree
grow. Know this: that success with
tree-planting always lies along the
line of following natural conditions
as closely as possible.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
Strawberries.

Among three hundred farmers
raisers of corn, hogs and beef, as.
sembled at an institute meeting, only
three raised their own Strawberries
and this in locality where the
strawberry was as easily raised as
the potato, too. Some had tried and
failed; others said it was too much
bother; the many said they would
be glad to raise them if they only
knew how. AS the time will soon be
here when the bed must be planted
we give simple directions for making
one, which, if followed, will insure
any man all the nice berries his fam
lily can possibly use. Take strip OF
land, eight feet wide and ten rods
long, pillow it eight inches deep, then
disc and harrow it until it is put in
the finest filth; If the soil is thin and
poor, put six or eight loads of we'll
rotted barnyard manure on it before
blowing; get 400 plants from some
reliable dealer-some home man, il
possible-of four or five varieties
such as Lovett, Clyde, Wartield, Beder
Wood Crescent, Parker Earle, Bran
DIVINE or other varieties which the
home dealer can recommend, set out
the plants in three rows. three feet
apart, and plants two feet apart in
the row, mixing the varieties when
planted; keep well cultivated and
free from weeds the first season: GOV.
err with two inches of prairie slough
grass, corn stalks or clean straw
after the bed is solidly frozen up in
the winter; rake covering off after
plants commence growing in the
spring, and leave cover for mulch
between rows, then in June your re-
ward will come. After fruiting keep
the weeds and grass out of the bed
As much as possible, fruit next yeaI
and then pillow the bed up. The way
to be sure of plenty of berries is ia
plant a new bed every spring. We
have followed up this plan for twenty
seven years, and have never failed
II II worth knowing that II you can
irrigste the bed during the bloom
Ing and frniting season you can dow
~ Ne yisld.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

We do not know about sowing rape
ia corn unless both crops can be fec
off on The ground by either sheep o.
hogs. A friend sowed a part of hi.
corn field with rape at the time O
the last blowing. A big storm blev
the corn crop down in the early Aug
ust, and the rape started up ant
soon buried the corn almost out o
SIGHT, and he had to wait until tn,
frost killed the rape before he coulc
pick his corn. This combination
would be just the thing for hog pas
ture, where, with a portable fence
il might be fed off in sections.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
A Kansas agricultural college b,

A Kansas agricultural college bull
letin gives the average annual milk
and butter product of Kansas cows
at 1906. To test the matter, whether
this small return was the fault of
the cows or of the manner of caring
for and feeding them, the experiment
station bought lot of common scrub
COWS and by feeding them properly
made them average return of $37.7j
each, one of these scrubs producing
a product worth S60.SS. While dairy
form and dairy blood are indispensi-
BILE to large butter production, it is
still proven by the above that the
feeding of properly balanced rations
to even scrub cows will increase their
milk product four-fold. There is a
thought right here for every man
who keeps COWS anywhere.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

For the average farmer who wish
es to grow a supply Of good fodder
for his dairy cows there is probably
nothing better than to SOW corn al
the rate of about a bushel to the
acre along the last of June, and then
cut it with harvester, or corn bind
er if sown in drills, cure it well in the
shock, and later put it in the barn
or stack. This is a better crop than
millet or sorghum, so far as the feed
Is concerned, and is more easily and
satisfactorily handled. Five acres of
such corn if planted on good land
will easily yield twenty tons of very
choice fodder.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

A field said to be badly worn out
was divided; one-half plowed five
inches deep, dragged once and plant
ed to corn; the other half p,owed
twice, disced four times and dragged
six times before planting, and the
crop given precisely the same cuiti-
Walton afterwards. The first half
yielded thirty-fve bushels of corn to
the acre, the last, sixty bushels. Why
the difference? Well, the thorough
preparation and mixing of the soil
made available a lot of plant food
which in the first case was not liber-
ated. There is something to think OF
here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

The soy bean, which is being intro
duced in a small way into this coun
try, forms the principal heterogeneous
ration of the Chinese and Japanes,
and with their rice makes a finel,
balanced ration. This bean is richie
III protein than any other variety q
the legumes save the peanut, an,
where the soil and climate are adap'
ed to its growth should form a mos
valuable and much needed crop on ali
farms where there is a lack of pro-
tein-producing crops,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
"Iook Out fer the Cars. "

There are altogether too man
farmers killed each year in the effor
to beat an express train at railwa
crossing. Five farmers are dead an
buried, five widows are mournin
the loss of good husbands and fiy
attorneys are trying to collect dan
images in the territory near wher
the writer lives, each man killed h
reason Of the fact that he though
his team was faster than the mogI
locomotive. While widow may g.
Q matter of So, 500 or $4,000 damage
and thus be able to pay off the NOR
rage on the farm, there is also IL
liability that she will get anothe
husband. II is pretty good sense I
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

If you think that you cannot win
your case at the end of lawsuit. it
IL always best to arbitrate, for the
basis of arbitration is compromise,
and so arbitrating, you will be sure
to get some thing and save costs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

Ten beet sugar factories were in
operation in Michigan last year which
used 250,000 tons of beets and paid
the farmers over 81, 100000 for them.
4s,00Q00O pounds of refined granulat-
ed sugar were made. The crop is be-
coming a favorite one with Michigan
farmers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

We never knew a man to have very
good luck with the mammoth clover
as a hay crop. 1t is too coarse, is
apt to lodge when the big stems be-
come mildewed and unpalatable. AS
a fertilizer, the green crop to be
Flowed under, it is better than the
medium clover and is all right for a
pasture.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

Russian thistles, which are a near
relative of the common tumble weed,
were blown and drifted in such guam
titles on the Dakota prairies this fall
as to entirely fill the railway cuts
and block the passage of the trains.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

stituting one Oh the advantages of
living on a farm is the fact of being
able to enjoy a degree of exclusive
ness which city residents are denied.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

We are asked how few cows will
justify the use of farm separator?
We should say fifteen, though we
know of dairymen with only ten who
think they could not get along with
out one.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

In certain parts of Mexico and Cen
trail America are caves of large di-
mansions, which for ages have been the
roosting and breeding place of millions
OF bats, whose excrements have accu-
mulated to such an extent that q
most valuable fertilizer is available
One man owning such caves has sold
l,700 tons of this fertilizer at S4S per
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

1t is said that the United States
secures 500 varieties of timber more
or less valuable in the new island
possessions, and we are quite likely
to get introduced to 500 types of alb
original cussedness also.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

II a man wishes to raise SITS horses
to sell he had better dispense alto
gether with barb wire on his farm
fences where the horses and colts
run. A barb wire cut which will in
no manner injure a horse for useful
ness will always take $25 off him
when he is put on the market.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

A reader wants to know what to
do with red ants, which ruin his
strawberry bed. We would move the
bed, for we know of no way to get
rid of the ants. An old hen turkey
with lot of little turks will, if coop
ed near an ant hill. clean them out
the quickest OF anything we know Of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

An improvement in the manner of
branding stock is noted, process
which effectually and permanently
removes the hair on the surface
branded without pain to the animal
or injury to the hide.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

So great is the fertilizing value OF
the clover plant that we had as soou
have field in clover two v"arS rc.
moving the crops of hay AL ned, a.
to have fifteen good load manure
spread on each acre of t. 'ald. AnC
there is besides the aa.iei fertility
a better condition of the soil Securc(
with the clover than is possible II
any other way
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

The farm separator calf is always
a healthy calf. He is never troubled
with Indigestion, scours, loss of ap-
petite or lice. There is a vital and
health-giving property about the
milk fed warm from the cow which
can never be impaired to it artificial
" after it has once become cold.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

We came across one of those tree
pcddlers few days ago who was sell
ing fruit trees TO farmers at more
than twice the cost at which they
could be obtained from any home
nurseryman. Don't pay such prices
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

The white ash is generally suppos-
ed to be a tree of slow growth, but
we have specimens of last years
wood of this tree showing "a growth
of thirty-fve inches.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
BARNARD manure is the best cor

Barnyard manure is the best cor
receive for soils carrying an excess
of lime, such as the calcereous dePos-
its to be found around the edges of
tiled swamps, where the soil is large
~ made up of the minute shells. Such
soils are deficient in humus which
the barnyard fertilizer furnishes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

Glover is not only a fertilizer but
a subsoiler. Glover roots penetrate
deeply into the subsoil, and as they
decay certainly open up the subsoil
for the use of other crops.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

The prize consignment of America
apples, which won for the State Hor
tcultural Society of Iowa the frs
prize at the Paris exposition. cor
sisted of one bushel of Wealthvs. orr
peck each of Wallbridpe. Plum Cider
Melinda. Longfeld. Tallman Swee
and Duchess. and one peck ~ soulart
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

Skunks do not hibernate as do
bears, but will come out of their dens
Oh the river bank during the milder
days of the winter in search of food.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13
FARM, ORCHARD, 4
r T. AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPINIoNby
J. S. TRI00, Rockford Iowa.

New milk and rats constitute a bal
anced ration for the barn cats. See
that they have this milk if you want
them to catch the rats.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

25,165 human beings were killed i,
India during the year by wild beast
and reptiles; 927 oy tigers, 462 b
wolves, 394 by leopards and $1,000 y
snakes, mostly by cobras. Year /
year this terrible slaughter goes or
the religious fanaticism of the pee
venting themselves from lifting
hand to protect themselves froI
these, their foes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

Now is the time to get paper of
pansy seed and SOW in box of earth
i'll the kitchen, if you want a lot of
strong plants in June to set out.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

look both ways for Sunday when ap-
preaching railway crossing, and
concede the train the right of way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-13

crabs. The fruit was raised by MIR.
L. Reeves, OF Waverly, Iowa.