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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04
BAYFIELD, County I owns

Yes, and celebrate in great style,
too.
Miss Alletta T. Dean came up
from Darlington Monday. She will
visit friends in this city and Ash
land for two weeks and then leave
for the east, where she will spend
the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. and Thos.
Cochran with their families spent
several days at Louis Jackson s re-
sort at Delta last week. They re
port delightful time and fish Of all
kinds plentiful.
Louis Jackson was up from his
summer resort at Delta Monday.
His buildings were damaged by the
wind storm of Sunday and he came
up here to get material to make re
pairs.
Thos. Mcdonald, who run camp
near Pike.Lake last winter, and who
left here few months ago for Ari-
IONA for his health, died Tuesday Of
last week at Phoenix. His remains
were taken to Ashland for burial.
Mr.. Mcdonald was we'll known
throughout this section.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04
For sale.

A six year old horse and double
harness. Apply to Capt H. B.
Elder.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04

Special excursion to st. Paul
and Minneapolis. June Is to Both
and July 10th to August 31st in
elusive. Excursion tickets will
be on sale to ST. Paul and Min
neapolis at rate of 81. so for round
trip. Good for returning until
October 31st, 1901.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04
Railroad Excursions.

On July 3rd and 4th the Omaha
will sell excursion tickets to all
points within two hundred miles
at rate of fare and one third
for the round trip. Good until
July 9Th.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04

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Annual Meeting National Edu-
cational Association, Detroit,
Mich, July 8-12. Tickets will
be on sale July 5, 6 and 9TH at
rate Of $18.35 for round trip.
Good returning until July 18th.
international Convention Bap-
fist Young Peoples Union of
America. Chicago, Ill, July 25-
%, 1901. Tickets on sale July %,
"a and 25th. Washburn to Chi
cago and return at rate of $14. 25
for round trip. Good until July
Both or upon payment of 50 cents
ticket can be extended until Aug.
31st.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04

Biggs (to wife)-"My dear, ] can
tell you how much water runs over
Niagara to a quart.
She-s'Well, how much?"
Why, two pints, of course. =
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04
&C" With a Tai.

The &C" with tail is the, trade
mark of Cascarets Candy Cathartic.
Look for it on the light blue enameled
metal box! Each tablet stamped
c. c. G. Never sold in bulk. All
druggists, 1oc.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-07-04

Thos. w Carter, of ASHORE, n
C., had kidney trouble and one bot
tie of Foley's Kidney Cure effected
a perfect cure. and he says there is
no remedy that will compare with
it Sold by Owen, Frost & Co.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
READING and Thinking.

There is absolutely no excuse for a
farmer being an ignoramus today.
There is every incentive and every OPP
portunity for him to become well in
formed as to his profession. The
best of literature touching all phases
OF las business, short courses at our
splendid agricultural schools, the
farmers institutes, cheap books on
agricultural topics, the bulletins of
the experiment stations are each and
all easily available and entirely with
in the reach of any enterprising
farmer. The use of modern farm
machinery gives the man who opper-
ates it plenty of time and opportunity
to at least work his grey matter and
think, and some sorts of his work
lne operation o. the sulky pillow, the
corn pillow after the corn is well up,
the mower on smooth meadows, will
permit his to pull a book or paper
out of his pocket and read bit as he
works. 1t may be put down for a
fact that the farmer who will take
fifteen minutes each day to read prac-
teal matter along the lines of his
work will not only make more money
but take pride and feel an ambition
in his work before unknown.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Cheaply Made Pork.

We can commend the following as
new and very practical way l
which to care for a lot of shotes from
the middle of August to the middle
of October-a method whereby the
health of the pigs will be promoted
and a gain in growth secured more
cheaply than by any other method;
if you have fifty young pigs plant
three acres of evergreen sweet corn
in May on good piece of land; at
tho time of the last blowing sow one
and one-half pounds Of dwarf Essex
rape per acre among the corn. AS
soon as the corn begins to harden up,
which will be from the LIST to the 18th
Of August, fence off half an acre and
turn the hogs in, giving them fresh
strip from time to time as they need
it; see that the pigs have enough
water and then let them alone, they
will do the rest and make you the
cheapest pork ever produced on your
farm; they will further splendidly
fertilize the land for succeeding
crop. This plan is well worth trying
by every man who raises hogs, of
course reducing or increasing the
acreage to correspond with the num-
Der of hogs in his herd.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Bronze Grass and Race.

We again have several inquiries
as to rape and Bronze grass. While
we have fully answered these in
quiries in former issues, we will do
SO once more in order to inform new
readers of this matter. Bromus In
ermis is grass specially suited for
semi-arid regions, and, in our opinion
has no place wherever the clovers
and timothy will grow. 1t makes a
good permanent pasture on dry and
sandy soils, the toughest sod of any
OF our grasses, responds quickly to
the action of moisture and warmth
and as hay has feeding value about
equal TO timothy. 1t has a place in
all the territory bordering the dead
line in longitude-the line where
other grasses fail for want of suffi-
cient moisture, but not where the
average rainfall is 80 inches or over.
Rape is new forage plant for this
country, though old as the hills in
England. 1t has much promise as a
late summer and early fall forage
crop for hogs and sheep. 1t may be
sOwn in the corn at the time of the
last blowing, or with any cereal crop
and be then pastured after the crop
is removed. We think that it has
special value for all hog raisers
and it is well worth trial by all
such. We regard it as the most prom
Using of any of the new forage plants.
SOW the dwarf Essex variety, one and
one-half pounds of seed to the acre,
either in the corn, or on>the oat or
barley field; if sown with small grain
ii should be sown about ten days
after the grain sowing, brushing the
field over with light harrow.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

Men will always seek to obtain their
sustenance in the easiest possible way
and thus it comes that where eli
matte conditions require effort for
man to make living he thereby be-
comes a better type of man. Work
thus becomes the worlds greatest
blessing and in all climates where
man is thus stimulated in the effort
to live there will be found the men
mighty with the sword, great in
story, art and song, inventive genius
and moral as we'll as physical and in
tellectual development. So don't
whine and fret young man that your
lot is cast where you have to work in
order to live, it may not pay the
world to raise you even where you
are, but had you been born where you
could live without work it would not
have paid the world to have raised
you to weaving time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Whose bees

It is a common belief that the stray
who discovers them, and that he may
enter upon the premises of other par
ties and take possession of them. 1t
is also believed that the finding of a
bee tree gives the right to cut down
such tree and take the honey, no
matter upon whose land it may ~
found. The supreme court of Iowa
has rendered a recent decision to
the effect that bees are not like wild
animols, since they have local resi-
dence at times, and belong to the per-
son on whose property they have
stored their honey; the forest as well
as the cultivated fields belong to the
owner Thereof. and he who invades
it is trespasser.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
The Selection of a Farm,

While all of Iowa's soil was when
first broken up for cultivation well
supplied with fertile constituents, it
is not so today. Forty years of crop
ping has made vast difference in the
value of farms. Some soils have worn
better than others. The light soils
with gravel subsoils along the river,
the grayelly hills, the acutely rolling
clay lands, once timbered, all show
the effects of wear and tear, resulting
from continued cropping and the ero-
sion of the elements. 1t may be said
that this class of lands will not with
average cultivation produce one-halt
the crop of 80 or 40 years ago. In
buying or even in the matter of rent
ing, not sufficient attention is paid
to this fact. We do not think that
we oyerstate the case when we say
that such land is not really worth
one-half as much as land that is rich,
fertile and unworn. AS between such
a farm and one regarded as wet, we
should choose the latter every time,
for il is easier and will cost less to
drain fertile soil than to restore fer.
tility to a semi-barren one. 1t is a
curious fact that in fixing the value
of land no attention seems to be paid
to this very vital and important mat.
ter, the worn out river farm com.
manding as much and often more per
acre than the black prairie land OF
the plateaus between the streams
This fact should be considered care.
fullyby every would be purchaser and
renter Of land, for it means practical.
" the difference between one and
Two tons Of hay to the acre, rs and
50 bushels Of corn, 20 and 40 bushels
81 oats. and one-half the dif'srenss
h the matter of pasturage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

The abrogation of the natural law
which provokes contests between the
males of the animal world to the end
that only the strongest individuals
shall be the progenitors Of the race
which is done when man domesticates
any type of wild life, explains many
of the mysteries, so-called, which
are associated with the diseases which
carry off the progeny of such domes-
..cated animals. A very large pro-
portion Of the sires used under do
mestication would be either destroyed
or absolutely prevented from propa-
eating their kind were the natural
law to get in it's work. This fact
should be needed far more than il is.
Man ignores it and arbitrarily breeds
to secure color, form, fineness or any
other special quality desired, and then
wonders why young pigs, calves, colts,
sheep, chickens and in fact all young
nfe, is subjected to epidemic disease,
when the real fault is all his own.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

rivalry and jealousy which are SO
strongly manifested In al the profess
sional and commercial lines of bust
ness are ever manifested on the farm.
If one farmer has found out better
way to raise a crop, so that the yield
and profit OF the crop Is increased,
he is perfectly willing to tell his
neighbor all about it, and takes a
worthy pride and pleasure in so do
ing. This utter absence of the COM
petitive element among farmers is
one of the reasons why it is almost
impossible to get them to unite for
their own protection. Every fellow
goes it on his own hook, and in the
selection of what crops he shall raise
is seldom Influenced by what other
rarmers-his competitors-are doing,
being governed more by weather con-
ditions and existing prices for crop
products than anything else.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

All the rich prairie loan soils of the
west and northwest should be stirred
with the pl0w once in every six or
seven years to a depth of not less
than eight or nine inches. SO treated,
such soils will produce good crops if
plowed not over four inches deep in
the intervening years. This period
zeal deep blowing will further be in
valuable as a moisture conserver for
the crops in dry season. Four
horses on a sixteen inch pillow will do
this special blowing in good shape,
and when done it should be done
just as early in the fall as possible,
July and August being the best
months, and it should never be done
IN the spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Not IN Vain.

1t is suggestive fact that there is
no spot so wild, bleak or inaccessible
that nature will not try in some way
to use it. In a crevice of the rock
the winds and the rains will deposit
a handful of earth, and a bird flying
over will drop cedar seed, and out
of the rift in the cliff, hundreds of
feet in the air, there grows a cedar
tree, crooked, gnarly and seemingly
useless, until some day one comes
along and pays poetic tribute to
the heroism of the little tree and with
an artistic eye sees the beauty of it
as it's dark green foliage harmonizes
with the gray granite to which it
clings. and so the man sketches it as
a thing of beauty. So, no human life
struggling for existence, even in the
most inhospitable places and under
most adverse conditions, lives use
lessly, for some day one shall pass by
to whom the poor dwarfed life shall
prove an inspiration, and it shall
be that even this ones life shall not
have been in vain.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

Here IS a stock outfit for the aver
age prairie quarter section farm
four brood mares, pony or mustang
for the boys; sixteen selected cows
and "A registered Short-Horn sire at
the head of the herd; twelve year
lings, fed to be turned eff as beef
at Is to IS months; twelve calves:
so ewes of mutton breeds, lambs to
be fed to market at months old;
% hogs; 125 fowls of non-Setting va
rieties, 10 hen turkeys and gobbler;
four boys and two girls in the house
Going with this should be 10 acres
Of clover in some stage, and 40 acres
Of corn, stalks to be cut and fed. l.
there are more than four boys, SO
mucn the better. Two girls are
enough.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

The back acres on the tarm-the
far away fields which cannot be
reached by the farm fertilizers
should have special clover attention.
1T will be great Jay for the central
west when all farmers look at clover
rather as fertilizer titan as a forage
plant, for, grand forage as 1t is, it
Is worth far more on any farm as a
fertilizer. There is no single line of
farm economics which needs so con-
stantly to be kept to the front as
this OF the value of the clover plant
as soil fertilizer. Not one-third
Of the farmers in the west and north
west seem to know or care anything
about clover.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

While an advocate of early seed
ing for all small grains, early sown
seed maturing before the heat of the
midsummer, we still never did believe
in "mudding" the grain in but would
always rather wait until the soil be-
game in fit condition to work. The
discing, dragging and tramping of all
clay or gumbo lands as the frost is
going out in the spring is to put such
lands in the worst possible shape for
the proper development of the crop
sought to be raised upon them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Appointment of Administrator

of the estate OF Andrew A. Wick Deceased.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That the
subscriber has been duly appointed Admins
traitor 10 the estate of Andrew A. Wick late OF
Canoe Township, in the County OF Winnesheik
state of Iowa, deceased intestate, and has
taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds
as the law directs. All persons having dem
ands upon the estate of said deceased are re-
ouired to exhibit the same; and persons in
depted to the said estate are called upon To
make payment 10 A. @. HovERsoN, Admins
traitor Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, Feb. % 1901.
"a c. $. BoICE Atty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

sity be in very finely pulverized
state to insure the termination of the
seed, and such seed must not be bur-
led too deeply. Inasmuch as most
grain fields thus seeded are rarely
worked sufficiently to make model
bed for grass seeds, it follows that
more seed will be needed to insure a
stand. If every seed terminated, two
quarts of clover seed would be am
pie for an acre of land, but as the
land is usually prepared, it is better
to sow six quarts if one would be
sure of getting a stand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

Three men, neighbors, owned ad-
Joining farms through which passed
p small creek. Each kept many hogs.
It came to pass that the man furthest
up the creek lost all his hogs by
cholera as did the man furthest down,
the man in the middle losing none.
When the latter told us of this sim
Gular freak, we advised him to 60
out and cut off an inch from the tail
og every one of his pigs in the full
OF the moon and thus start q new
hog cholera remedy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

A late experiment, conducted at the
Kansas experiment station in the
feeding of young calves, showed that
q bunch of calves raised on sweet
separator skim milk made daily
gain of 1.54 pounds at cost of $3.42
per hundred pounds of gain; bunch
fed whole milk made gain of 1.95
pounds per day at a cost of $500 per
hundred pounds and another lunch
ALLOWED to run with their ." IS made
a gain of LII pounds per d"y at cost
of SAL per hundred pount%.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

2,7oJ,GVO French women are re-
ported by the last census of the coun-
try as employed in outdoor work on
the farms and gardens of France.
This condition would theoretically
imply large families of children, but
the last census dlscloses the fact that
the nation as whole is barely hold
ing its own in point of population.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

A prominent railway official told US
lately that it will pay to build line
of road anywhere in the west and
northwest where a belt of farm land
six miles wide on each side of the
road can be depended upon for pat
ronage. If this statement be true,
we have not got to the end of railway
construction by good deal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

One cannot gauge the value of a
cow by the performance of one day
or week. Some cows give lot of
good milk for short time; some
limited amount of very rich milk
for long time, and some give
large quantity Of very poor milk for
long time. A COW has to be MIXED
for one season to size up her true
value.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

An old boar or bull are neither one
desirable adjuncts of the stock farm;
they are very apt to be ugly and more
or less of a nuisance, but just the
same, any man can well afford to keep
such natural sires Gagged up like wild
beasts, if necessary, for the sake of
their value as sireS.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

One ton of commercial fertilizer
worth $2S is required for each acre of
farm land on Long Island in order
to insure a crop. And there are
thousands of men in the fertile west
who grow three tons of worthless
weeds on each acre of their cornfields
who would not know what a COM
mercial fertilizer was if they were
asked.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

Une of Americas great fortunes
awaits the discover of process
which at low cost will convert the
upper six inches of a prairie dirt
highway to a width of six feet into
q frost and rain proof strip. Here is
a problem for inventors and scientists
to work on win the certainty that
the fortune is theirs when the prob
lem is solved.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

! At the present prices of the staple
good cotton lands-those which Will
produce from three-fourths of a bale
to a bale per acre per acre-are easily
worth 500 per acre.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

Our tastes have become more re-
fined than they were $50 years ago.
Then a boar's head was the center
dish for all great feasts. Let a boar's
head be served to company today,
and see 'em scatter. In those days
the man who could drink all his fell
lows under the table was the great
est man. While humanity is none too
good, it is better than it once was.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
Goes Il Alone.

One Of the curious things about ag-
rSeuiture as a business IL that one
farmer never regards AlB neighbor
faSUss % a competitor. Nene OF Nat
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20

Poor stands of grass seed are very
often attributable to the failure 70
sow seed enough Most grass seeds are
very small and the soil must of neces-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
The dust and chaff from a machine

The dust and cnaH from machIn6
threshing fax was carried by a
strong wind over onto piece of land
q quarter of an acre in extent, which
had never grown a crop of fax. This
field sowed to fax next year produced
q fine crop with the exception of this
one quarter acre, which was so pois-
oned by the dust that the crop all
died off when it was two inches high.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-03-20
FARM, ORCHARD, 4
n 4 AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPINIoNby
J. S. TRI00. Rockford, Iowa.
Edited for PUBLIC OPINION BY
J. S. TRI00, Rockford, Iowa.

The colored brother needs freezing
up-putting into cold storage-tor
about three months every year. de
would then get hustle on himself.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-29
Poorly Drained Roads.

1t is tAe settled opinion of road ex'
perts that farmers would better aban'
don dirt roadmaking unless they do II
scientifically. If the dirt roadway be
left to itself, it becomes hard packed
at least in the course of years, while
the deliberately graded and good to
look at but insufficiently drained
handiwork of the unscientific road.
makers falls an easy victim to the
first severe rainy season, because II
has not had time to be packed by
traffic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-29
How to Stack Fodder.

Select some hillside where it will be
convenient to feed fodder, advises an
Ohio Farmer correspondent. Now go
down the hill to correspond with the
amount Of fodder you wish to put in
one stack and erect two poles twenty
or thirty feet high. a small tree is bet
ter. Commence and work up the hill
and keep your fodder level. This saves
pitching, and one man is all that is re-
quired to stack and haul it. Your stack
on the upper side when done should
just be the height.of the roof, and the
lower side may be twenty or thirty feet
high. Cover completely with fodder
and have 1t as steep as possible. When
you want TO feed it, put a straight
fence on either side close TO it. Throw
the fodder over these fences, and the
stock will work the stalks TO the lower
side and leave in a pile to rot. after
which you can haul and spread at your
leisure. Your poles and pen are ready
for another year.