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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-07-13

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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-07-13
AIabana's Property.

There is a great prosperity in Ala,
bama. The earnings of the railroads
Of that state for the year 1900 were
$40, SCI ,S53. an increase of $3024,S5
over the previous year.
In 1900 1,lS4,000 tons of pig iron
were manufactured which Is an in
crease Of 100000 tons over the previ-
GUS year. and S,25O,0OO tons of coal
were mined, which is an Increase of
100000 tons over the previous year.
The exports of pig iron during the
year from Alabama alone We're 23S 900
tons, 10000 tons of steel billets and
10000 tons of iron pipe. The exports
were limited because of the demands
Of the home market. Two new blast
furnaces. one new steel rail mill, and
100 new coke ovens were built dur
ing 1900, while the second new steel
rail mill was commenced last fall and
l. now very near cOmDlet ion
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-07-13
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The Wild IIOrse Almost Extinct.


1t is SAID that there were ut least
200, 900 mustangs scattered over the
plains OF Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas ten years ago, and that now
nearly all OF them are gone. A few
were caught and kept by she Indians
in their reservations, but the wild
horse, In his natural state, is practical
ly cXelct. Three causes are assigned
for this: First, the better horse of the
East, cheapcned by the trolley car
and the bicycle. could he bought at Il
moderate price and The mustang was
shot by the stOckmcl as useless cor
sumner OF paSturagc; second. that the
breed dctcriorated, and naturally died
out and third heaven save The mark.
that they were shot and made into
canned beef" The ranchmcn now
breed and rails high grade horses, .nd
find Il ready market for them, not only
in the Eastern States, but in England
and Germany for army use. The West
ern climate makes them hardy, log.
wndcl and speedy.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-07-13

Sarn! Rerniardts Accomplishments.
Besides being a world-famous act
ress, Sarah Bernhard models. paints,
writes, hunts, fishes, swims. fences, is
a bcyclist, and does all of these things
we'll
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-07-13
Your Tongue

If it's coated, your stomach
is bad, your liver is out OF
order. Ayers Pills will clean
your tongue, cure your dys-
pepsia, make your liver right.
Easy to take, easy to operate.
use. All druggists.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1901-07-13

DR.. David Kennedy, Kennedy Row, kingston N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29
A Sheep Story.

We are asked as to the relative
profits to be made in raising sheer
as compared with hogs, horses or eat
tie. There are so many conditions
associated with such question that
it is not easy to frame an answer
There is the difference in men, the
difference in farms and many other
things. This may be said, however;
the sheep is the cleanest animal or
the farm; ii is also, as genera.
thing, the healthiest; it produces two
crops in season, one of meat anC
one Of wool; it is the best and most
effective farm fertilizer we have; ii i,
an omnivorous feeder and a mos!
practical weed-destroyer; il is the
incest animal to care for and tho
most easily cared for of any kind OF
farm animal. LII to the foregoing be
added the fact that pound of NUT
ton can be produced just as cheaply
and II little more so than a pound OF
beef or pork, and that it will one
year with another bring just as gooC
price in the market, we think &
pretty good argument has been made
Tor the keeping of sheep, Perhaps
taking a series of ten years, the rate
OF dividend received on capital in,
vested in any of these varieties of live
stock would not vary very much, but
we believe that such dividend may be
secured by the owner of such stocl
with less fret and worry and Will
more ease from sheep than from
either of the others.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

We made a trip recently through
a section of the country, which in
an early day was considered too wet
for any other use than pasture land
This tract of country, embracing
three or four counties, has by rea,
son of continued pasturage, road
making, open ditching and cultiva.
ton become so much dried out that
land which would mire team twenty
years ago now produces as fine
cereal crops as can be grown any.
where. But we notice that through
this territory there is much LAND
broken up and being cultivated after
a fashion which not being sufficiently
drained, is not worked and cropped
with success. Until tile draining can
be secured for this class of lands
it will be found to be far better to
keep them in grass and not attempt
to cultivate them, as in a wet season
the only crop which they can be
depended upon to produce is weeds
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

Some writer commends the fac
of The large barn and small house
as an evidence of agricultural wis
dom and thrift. We take exceptions
to this. No man has right to take
better care of his stock than he does
of his family, and still we often find
men doing this very thing. The
are the most valuable possessions
he has and should always have his
first care and attention. We know of
more than one poor woman, who,
did she but possess a cash value equal
to that of good COW in the big
barn, would at least get as good
treatment as the cow, but as it is
she does not
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The natural law which governs fer
tilization and reproduction does its
most perfect work where the great
est variety of types of the same fam
lily OF plants or trees cooperate in
the act of fertilization. Thus it is
that corn, of different kinds, of same
period of pollenizing, will yield more
bushels per acre than if planted of
just one variety alone. So with plum
trees, the grouping of several differ
ent kinds insuring much more uni
form crop than if planted of any sim
gle variety. The same rule holds
good as to strawberries md many
other fruits. Diversity is one of ma
lures first laws and the exclusive cul-
tivatlon of any one variety is viola
ton of this law and is resented soon
or or later.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

More and more farmers come year
by year to an appreciation of the
value of corn fodder properly saved,
as food for stock. In every case
where man cuts up field of corn
for the first time, he is astonished at
the feeding value of the fodder
grown by him and wasted each year.
This suggests that if you have mat.
ter of twenty acres in grass of some
sort, which you are intending to cut
for hay, that you pillow at least hall
OF it up and plant it to corn. You
will obtain twice the amount of fod.
der that you would of hay and a CROP
OF corn beside, which with the pres
ent outlook is pretty safe to be worth
ont less than twenty-five cents a
bushel to you, either to sell or feed
This is no experiment, but hard
practical fact worth remembering.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

We have an inquiry as to what to
do with a field of clover which is
undermined from one end to the
other with pocket gophers, the field
being eighty acres in area and being
covered in a course of crop rota
ton. This is hard proposition tc
tackle. A few pocket gophers car
be handled with traps and poison anc
exterminated, but these means would
be almost useless on so large a tract
harboring so many gophers. Ii
would seem as if these pests were
finding specially good rations on the
roots of the clover and if this should
be the case the easiest way to rid
the field of them would be to change
the crop and probably no crop would
be better than blue grass, using the
field for pasture for two or three
years. The pocket gopher is a diff.
cult animal to trap, almost as much
so as the mole.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

Don't lie fooled, because Of thS low
rate Of interest and the difficulty OF
finding safe investments for your sur
pins money, into investing in ANY of
the hundreds of wildcat oil, option,
stock and mining schemes, the pros
pectuses of which fill the leading pa
Pers OF the country at the present
time. 1nere is day of reckoning
coming before long. 1t is pretty near
Understanding time on Wall street
and the poor little wretches will be
turned adrift minus their wool into
a cold old world. Your money is far
safer III some good bank even if it
draws no interest at all during such
a time of crazy imitation and specula-
ton.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The blackberry is one of our native
trees which have never been conceded
the merits which it clearly possesses.
We have found it a drought-proof,
hardy shade tree, always free from
insects, of graceful habit and beauti-
full foliage. Its one drawback is that
Il is not rapid grower the first few
years after setting. We notice that
under conditions of drought, which
have been fatal TO the hard and soft
maple and even elms, the hackbe. nv
has maintained its life and vigor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

A friend complains to us that his
blue grass pasture is largely dead
this spring. He admits that it was
overstocked last season. 1t is well to
remember that blue grass, tough as it
is, must still have a chance to grow
and make roots sometime during the
season. In the blue grass sections
they know better how to handle it
and divide their pa.tures, letting part
grow, while the other is being fed off.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The devotion to the dairy business
of country community we know of
in the west in twenty years lifted the
people up from debt and bank
ruptcy to a position financially where
tie deposits in the banks of the little
town today aggregate Sl,3sO,00O, or
an average of S627.25 for each inhabi-
tana of the place. 1t is a most per-
manent type of prosperity, too, for
old bossy has made each farm richie,
in fertility and more productive than
ii was twenty years ago.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

There is ever so much n, ore in the
man than there is in his opportunity.
Smart men make opportunities or find
them where shiftless me. cannot see
them, Nature loves hard worker
and a TN mixer and son'e way will
seem to do m,. for hi,1 than she
will for Il lazy and stupid man The
first dollar which lay aS the founda-
ton of some CT the largest American
fortunes of t'tlay va. earned hy a
hard days work, ana i: was saved and
not fC ole, away.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

That willow hedge on the quarter
section line between you and your
neighbor robs him of the use and pro-
fit of two acres of land every year. II
he is a Christian he may submit to
this fraud year by year and say moth
ing for the sake of living at peace
with you; if he is sinner he does
more or less cussing over it. Any
how, you should cut it down. If YOU
want to raise willows. raise them en-
tirely on your own land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The seemingly small difference be-
tween ten below zero in the winter
season and thirty below as maxi
mum degree of cold, means more TO
the man who raises fruit than many
people think. A large number OF
our very choicest varieties of fruit
will endure the ten below zero tenn
perature without harm. but utterly
fail when exposed to the thirty de-
grees below.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

We are inclined to think that the
best way in which to protect tender
plants and vines from the rigors of
our northern winters is to. lay them
down and cover with V shaped
trough made of inch boards, then
covering the trough with coarse
manure or earth. We find stuff so
protected during the past winter to
be in the finest possible condition
this spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

According to Prof. Atwater, two
quarts of skim milk have more nutri-
ents than quart of oysters, and that
five pounds of skim milk will furnish
the same amount of nutriment as a
pound of beef. All the same we will
still take oysters and feed the skim
milk to the calves, eating them as
beef later.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The only way in which to have really
dine lettuce is to transplant the plants
when in the second leaf on to good
rich soil and set them out foot
apart each way You will then get
fine and tender lettuce heads of enor,
nous size.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

We passed over four miles of grad
ed highway recently left so full of
holes and ruts that it was almost
impossible and we just wondered why
the road supervisor of that district
did not have sense enough to have
run drag over the road couple Of
times. There is no tool so effective
for improving the condition of our
dirt highways as drag used at the
proper time.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The hired man of the farm todar
getting his $25 or $50 per month.
board and washing and the keep of
horse, has a decided advantage
over the dry goods clerk who gets
but $25 per month and has to board
himself while he works fourteen
hours a day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

We would not feed cow bran
when she has full ration of blue
grass. If supplemental food is
given we would make il of ground
corn and oats. The blue grass is
almost perfect milk-producing ra.
ton of itself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

Cabbage and tomato plHnts may
be well-protected from the ravages
of the cut worm by Wrapping the
stem of the plant with piece of pa
per when they are set out We have
found this the best protection we
have ever trieL.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The possibilities connected with
fruit culture on the Pacific slope are
almost beyond comprehension.
Enough prunes, grapes, citrus fruits
could be there produced to supply the
whole world.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The man who owned a good quar-.
ter section farm in any of the north
western states during the past year
has made over $1,000 in the rise in
the value of the farm. In very many
cases it has been more than this sum.
Such farm is still good PROPOSE
ton to stoy by and many a man sell
ing out at the advanced prices is find
ing it hard job to better himself.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

A dog should be made to pay his
way, and sometimes, we might say
very often, he better pays his way
tenderly planted under a Worden
grape vine than he can in any .other
way. The finest grapes that we ever
saw were raised in this way. This IL
good way to use cats also.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

For southern Minnesota and north
srn Iowa and kindred ATTITUDES in
other western states the Scotch pine
will be found to be one of the very
best trees for use in planting an
evergreen windbreak.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

After the man with a narrow tired
wagon has cut holes in the highway
two feet deep it is asking a good deal
OF his neighbor with a wide-tired
wagon to go over the road and
smooth it down again for him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

By using care in the selection of his
seed and keeping his crop free from
all foul seed friend of ours has been
able to sell 1000 bushels of oats this
spring for seed at twenty per cent
above the market price of this grain
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

This season for the first time we
notice that the sparrows, having pre-
emptied every available nook and
Granny around the buildings for nest
ing places. have gone to building their
homely nests in the trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

When the new things in cabinet
work made from the rich and rare
woods of the country's new island
possessions come onto the market
there will be an artistic surprise for
the people.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

III the small boys of the neighbor-
hood don't like you it is not wise for
you TO plant melon patch very far
from the house. There is no way to
the small boy which seems so proper
to get even with the cross old man as
to take ii out in melons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

While the farmers do not as a
general thing approve of the board
of trade gambling they always feel
more kindly towards a bull on grain
options than they do towards a bear
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

Complaint is made that some of
the gravelled highways caved in, so
to speak, during the prolonged wet
weather of the late spring. The
truth is that under such weather
conditions nothing short of macadam
or paving is mud-proof.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The tendency of graft is to
grow much faster than were the
shoot a part of the original tree.
This is doubtless caused by the cut
ting back of the tree in order to per-
init of the grating to be done. Such
free growing CRAFTS need watching
and pinching back, otherwise they
are liable to be broken off by the
wind
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

We have friend who always wipes
on and oils his hoe blade when he is
through using it. 1t is of no use to
ask him to lend that hoe, because he
would refuse even his best friend:
then he has not any boys, either.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

No tool on the farm of recent adop-
ton does as much to insure good
work in the preparation of the ground
Tor good crops az does the disc har.
row.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

If the grated top of a young tree
seems to be outgrowing the mother
trunk, draw a sharp knife down
the trunk splitting the bark any time
in late May or June.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The west viii have to brag on the
good roads of that section. Good
corn land is poor material out of
which to make a good road and al
ways will be.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

1t is an unequal fight between the
apple tree and the soft maple and the
cottonwood where there is only room
for one to grow. This class of shade
trees should never be within 100 feet
OF the orchard tree.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The heated term during the first
week of May throughout the north
west put the foliage on the trees a
long way ahead of the corn planters
in the field.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

pair of sparrows will build nest
and have an egg in it inside of
twenty-fcur hours from the time that
tae site for the nest is selected.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

There is an active and increased de-
mand for pure bred cattle, and the
prices asked and realized for this
class of stock are very encouraging.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

More dogs are earning their living
In this section than ever before-they
get two hours solid work a day run
ming the tread power for the separa-
tor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The main secret in transplanting
evergreens is to see that the roots
are not allowed to become dry even
for minute. Once dried the tree
is as good as dead.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

Strawberries are 81 per cent water.
Thank the Lord for the other nine
per cent.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

The average rooster in the poultry
yard is of no more practical use than
q town dude.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29
FARM, ORCHARD, =
n 4. AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPINIoNby
J. S. TRI0O, Rockford, Iowa.

dlsced pulverizer runs easier than the
one with small discs, the latter being
OF much lighter draft than the for,
mer doing the same work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-29

Because the high-wheeled wayoa
runs easier than the low-wheel ono,
- aoes not follow that the arxs
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-30

range No. 10 west). as set forth and de-
scribed In the application for patent and
plat on file In this office, and being more
corner to sections and IS, township 4
particularly described by metes and
bounds as follows. to-wit:
Beginning at the southeast corner, a
sand stone boulder 22x1oxe inches, set
1C inches deep. with mound Of earth and
stone along side. and marked l-4295 for
corner No. l, from which the Il section
north, range 10 west. bears north 80 de-
grees 10 minutes west $50 feet, and rum
ming thence north degrees 10 minutes
east 1920 feet: thence north SO degrees
10 minutes west 954 feet; thence north 0
degrees 10 minutes east 1920 feet; thence
north SO degrees 10 minutes west 124S
feet: thence south 0 degrees 10 minutes
west $50 feet; thence north 50 degrees 10
minutes west ga feet: thence south de.
grees 10 minutes west $50 feet; thence
south 80 degrees 10 minutes east 1248
feet; thence south 0 degrees 10 minutes
west 1920 feet; thence south SO degrees
10 minutes east 1873 feet to corner No. /,
the place of beginning, containing an
area of S5.0S acres in this survey claimed
by the above named applicant.
The location OF this mine is recorded
IN the office of the recorder of Deer Lodge
county, on page 1 in book of placer
records The adjoining claim is on the
southwest survey No. 1745,a placer
GEORGE D. GREENE, Register.
JOSEPH H. HARPER, U. S. Claim
Agent.
First publication August 16. 1901.