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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-16

The great multitude take this remedy
without any other advice than the directions
to be found upon the bottle and in the
pamphlets. There are those who prefer.
however, to correspond with DR.. Hartman
during their sickness. To all such he will
make prompt and careful answer without
charge.
Hon. J. +. Crooker, Of Buffalo. N. K.
who was for years Superintendent of Schools
at Buffalo, In a letter dated October Is.
writes:
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-16
Little Over a Thousand.

When General Burnside was COIN
manding in East Tennessee he was in
vited to dinner by an elderly farmer
The invitation was accepted. At the
table sat the mother of the host.
lively old lady, but in appearance ex-
tremely old. Mother" said the Gen
eral, may ! ask your age? You ap-
pear quite old for n person who can
get around so lively as you do She
replied: Yes. my son, I am very
old. have lived here all my life.
don't know adzackly how old l am. but
I know that l am little over thous-
and years old"
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-16
OHIO'S WEEKLY OLIO.
BRIEF COMPILATION OF LATE
STATE NEWS.

An Interesting Sum mary of tho More
Important Doinss Of Our Neigh
bors-Weddings and 'Deaths-Crimes,
Casualties and General Buckeye
News Notes.
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> Mrs. Winifred AlIender's Letter.

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I feel it my duty to write
and tell you Of the benefit have received from your
wonderful remedies. Before taking Lydia e. Pink.
ham's vegetable Compound, was misery to my
self and every one around me. / suffered terrible
pain in my back, head, and right side, was very
nervous, would cry for hours. Menses would appear
sometimes in two weeks, then again not for three
or four months. was SO tired and weak could not
sleep nights, sharp pains would dart through my
heart that would almost cause me to fall.
MY mother coaxed me To try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. l had no faith in it, but to
please her did SO. The first bottle helped me SO
much that continued its use. am now well and
weigh more than | ever did in my iife."-MRS.
WIN1FRED ALLENDER, Pennington, Ill.
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Do you like Mrs. Austin's new dresse
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Do you like Mrs. Austin's new dress?
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\ good ostrich yields f4O worth {
feathers.
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Ono Cent n NTtIo

Do YOU like Mrs. Austin's new dress?
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81 have been a sufferer from

Cafarrh six or
s ven years,
and afferfrying
many remedies
I was induced
by a friend to
take Peruna.
The re S uIfS
have been high.
V satisfactory.
! take pleasure
In recommend
ing Pcruna to
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-16

When cheerful brave and ght-hearted woman is sud-
sad picture
1t is usually this way:
She has been feeling of for some tne expert
encng headache and backache sleeps yery poorv
and is exceedingly
Sometimes she is nearly by faintness dizz
and papitaon of the heart; then that
feeling is dreadfully wearing.
Her husband says, "Now don't get the blues You will
be all right after have taken the doctors medicine
But she does not get all right She grows worse day by
day until ali at she realizes that distressing female
complaint is established
Her doctor has made mistake
She loses faith hope vanishes then the morbid
melancholy everlasting blues She SHOULD told
just what the trouble but probably she withheld some
information from the DOCTOR who therefore, unable to
accurately locate her particular illness.
Mrs. Pinkham has relieved thousands of women from
just this kind of trouble and their grateful
letters her library proof of the great assistance
rendered them This assistance awaits every sick
woman in the land.
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a fortune tellef's succssaful days ara
Of course bis palMy ones,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
Corn MOVING North.

For many years the northern limit
OF the corn belt was supposed to be
along the northern boundary line of
the state of Iowa. The idea is now
exploded, for with certain change
in climatic conditions and the selec-
ton of proper varieties of corn to
plant, the culture of this crop has
been successfully moved north of the
old line at least one hundred and
fifty miles. We have an authenticate
ed report of fifty-five acre fell of
corn grown in central Nit ..esota
which yielded an average of 20 bush
els to the acre, crop which would
do credit to the hest corn-growing
sections of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas or
Nebraska. We further note that
South Dakota claims, and justly so,
to be in the corn belt and the corn
crop is also being considered by the
farmers of even North Dakota. This
means much, for there is no type OF
agriculture in the country which
rests upon so sure and safe basis
as that where the corn plant may be
made a staple crop. No other crop
draws so lightly on the soil and none
is capable of such wide use in the
production of all our meat foods and
dairy products. Good corn land
the best land in the world.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
Dressing Poultry for Market.

The writer recently made can.
vass among a number of the poultry
commission houses in one of our
large cities and found out that the
farmers suffer a great loss because
they do not properly dress their poul
try for the market. We were shown
tons of chickens and turkeys sent
in for the Christmas trade which M
buyer wanted and if sold had to &c
at a price far below what properly
dressed poultry would bring. The
consensus of opinion among thest
dealers was that want of proper care
in preparing poultry for the markei
reduced the selling price of it from
25 to 40 per cent. We saw one lol
of finely dressed turkeys which sole
quickly at IL cents, while alongside
of it was another lot torn and mu
tilated in picking, and equally wei
fatted, which the commission man
said was unstable at cents. There
is loss here which might easily be
avoided.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
Found Farm Life Monotonous.

The farmer and his hired man,
Jake, found life sort of monotonous
on the farm, it being a ceaseless
round of cow-millxing, pig-feeding
and corn-plowing, and having read
about such things they allowed they
would like to see a wreck on the rail-
road which ran through the farm,
and so these crazy fools tempered
with the track enough, as they
thought, so that the first train which
came along would be derailed, but
which obstruction strangely, the
train cleared, though their attempt
at train-wrecking was discovered.
The old man and Jake are now up
against very hard proposition and
the chances are that they will find
the monotony on a farm was, after
all, something far more endurable
than life in penitentiary.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

yearling colts, one will be found thir.
ty years hence general manager, o.
some great railway system, another
in congress representing his state
another learned professor in some
college, and should the dire need OF
II come, every one of them at the
front fighting for the honor of coun-
try and flag. This man may have
fine horses to drive, blooded cattle
on his farm, may take first prizes at
state fairs on the products of his
farm, but worth infinitely more than
all the best that his farm can pro-
duce is this lot of husky boys with
no bad habits. Use them well, old
man, give them chance, and when
your hair grows white and the steps
become feeble you will more than
ever before value the love and friend
ship of the boys, and you will find
their strong arms about you tenderly
caring for the father who was good to
his boys in the days gone by.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
About Roses.

What varieties of roses can l
plant, and how shall I care for
them?" writes lady friend living
in southern Minnesota. While we
have in a way answered this ques-
ton before, so many ladies are in
terested in the growing of this queen
of all flowers that we will say some
thing more about the culture of
them. The rose is gross feeder
and revels in a rich soil. Prepare
bed by deep spading, mixing with
the earth some clay if the soil is
sandy, and lot of rotted turf and
cow manure; let the location be
where the roses will be shaded from
the sun from one to four o'clock in
the afternoon, if possible. After a
thorough mixing of the earth and
the fertilizing material, compact the
sbed with a roller and you are ready
to plant. Now there are two types
of roses which may be planted-the
Hybrid Perpetuals, which will live out
doors through our northern winters
If properly protected, and the Tea
roses, monthly bloomers, which will
not so live and which will have to be
taken up in the fall and carried over
either in a greenhouse or cellar.
From the first named class select
Alfred Colomb, Anna de Diesbach,
Fisher Holmes, Jacqueminot, La Refine
Madam Chas.. Wood. Magma Charter,
Mrs. John Lang, Paul Neyron; and
from the Hybrid Tea class select Kas-
erin Augusta Victoria, the La France
trio, Meteor, Sow. de Wooton, Perle
de Jardin, Hermosa. Get two-year-
old bushes, plant them after danger
from frost is over, hoe often, spray
with WAGER under pressure every
evening, and you shall have glorious
boquet of the most beautiful and fra
grant flowers on your table from
June till October and plenty to give
away besides.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
ST. rar Beet Results.

Twenty-one farmers in the vicinity
of Fort Dodge raised all told ~ acres
of sugar beets the past year. The
crop brought them an average return
of $45.65 per acre, after deducting
the cost of seed and rent of the spe-
cial machinery used in the cultivation
OF the crop. There was a great varia-
ton. of course, in the yield and re-
turns received, for some the crop
being losing one and for others a
very profitable one. The average re-
suits, however. are such that larger
area will be planted next season and
with a better understanding of how
to manage the crop still better re-
turns may be expected.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
Pure Water.

A good deal of country sickness
and contingent doctors bills may be
very easily associated with the farm
well. With unlimited supplies of
fresh. pure air. the best of food and
plenty of healthful exercise sickness
should be very rare thing in the
country home, but carelessness about
the water supply, sleeping in closed
bedrooms and too much shade over
and around the farm home get in
their work and neutralize the nor
NAL healthful rural conditions. Es-
pecial care should be taken to keep
the water supply pure, which can
not be done if stock of all kinds are
allowed to tramp around it. Impure
water does not always either look
bad or taste bad.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
Wealthy apples held in cold storap

Wealthy apples held in cold storage
would sell readily today in any west
ern town for 81 per barrel. Inasmuch
as this variety of apples can Oe
grown as easily as corn through a
very large section of the west, with
an almost absolute certainty of Sc
curing an average crop one year with
another of not less than one barrel
to the tree, after they are eight years
old, and as a hundred trees may ca s.
lily be grown on each acre. it would
seem as though the growing of the
Wealthy apple was good PROPOSE
ton, particularly so on the broken
and hilly lands which border all our
western streams and which lands are
are of no 'lue save for pasturage.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
One Probable Cause Of Hog Cholera

The following questions were sub
mitted by the writer to an audience
of $50 farmers, all hog-raisers, at n
Farmers Institute in Iowa lately:
1st, At what age does Poland-China
hog attain full maturity? End, What
is the average age of the sires and
dams, the parents of the 1901 crop
of spring pigs for this locality?
An interesting discussion followed.
1t was finally agreed that the Poland
China hog under normal conditions
would not attain full maturity until
one and half years old, and it was
further conceded that the average
age OF the breeding animals, both
sires and dams, the progenitors of
the 1901 crop of spring pigs did not
exceed eight months. Need we com
ment further on this showing? Are
we justified in saying that right here
may be found the primary cause of
the epidemics of disease which sweep
the hogs of the west away by the mil
lion? Are we justified in asserting
that hog cholera is just natures PEN
atty for violated natural law? Are
we not justified in assuming that if
all the pigs were the product of fully
matured parents the disease would
largely if not wholly disappear? Sup
pose mankind were born of such im-
mature parentage, how long would
it take to run the race out? India
furnishes afearful example on this
line. Science may hunt down the
cholera germ, may claim great credit
for devising system of innoculation
as preventive, quacks may claim dis
covery of sure cures. college profess
sors may seek to ward off the scourge
by balanced rations and hygienic
cranks may preach the gospel of hog
sanitation, but worth infinitely more
to all raisers of swine will be the full
realization of the simple fact that
was brought out at this institute
that the average hog of today is the
product of an immature ancestry for
generations back. 1t will pay to
think on this thing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The pay of the rural mail carrie
is just $500 year; he has to max
not less than twenty-five miles da'
rain or shine, for 313 days and ha
to furnish his own team and Wagon
The position is no snap and whe
the snow-drifting days of hard wi.
ter and the unbelievable mCd c
spring mud have to be encountere
he will think life is hardly worth IL
living. The maintenance of the
routes will almost compel an impror,
ment of the highways alaag t.
routes Travelled.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

Two things will attract thu atten'
ton of the inventors of the new cen
tury-one, how to utilize the wasted
power of the winds on larger scale
than has hitherto been done and the
other how to conserve the heat of the
summer sun for use when winter
comes. The winds which sweep the
prairie states are a limitless source
of power, but man up to this tim,
has stuck on ten-foot wind mill a
the best he can do. We believe hi
will do more yet and not more won.
deful than was the telephone would
be the discovery of some process
whereby the heat of the summer sun
shall be made to temper the cold OF
winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
A 20, Of Husky Bows.

A farmer reader of these notes
writes us among other things that
he has a lot of husky boys with no
bad habits. Now here is a man who
is rich, regardless of how many fer.
tile acres he way own or how large
his bank account may be. 1t is these
healthy, husky, clean, nice farm boys
who are the salvation of this coun-
try. While they are now milking
COWS, blowing corn and attending the
district school, raw and risky as
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

A log of wood, 80 feet in length and
10 feet in diameter, will be one of the
curiosities to be seen at the Pan
American exposition at Buffalo next
summer. This log will come from
the Pacific coast and would be of still
larger size did the railways permit
Of its transportation.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The South Dakota agricul'r~aI ex-
pertinent station has rec we'd 40
bushels of macaroni seed cheat from
the Don provinces of Russia FOR trial.
II this wheat is adapted 10 the Da-
kota conditions it will prove very
valuable addition to the agricultural
resources of the state.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

late government bullet tin places
the timber acreage left in this coun-
try at 1,094,000 square miles, of 81
per cent of the entire area of the
country. This per cent of timber is
above that which the German govern
ment requires to be maintained, but
the trouble is that ours is not at all
evenly distributed.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

We know of one orchard specially
scourged by blight, alongside of
which were four Transparent crab
trees which almost always badly
blight. These Transparent trees were
cut down and blight disappeared
from the rest of the orchard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

Congress is asked for $4,000, 900 for
the maintenance of the Agricultural
department in the pending appropria-
ton bill. There is no money appro-
priated which brings the American
people a larger return.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

A discussion at the Minnesota State
horticultural meeting developed the
fact that deep planting of the or
chard tree was much in favor-eight
inches to foot deeper than the tree
grew in the nursery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The stakes for the Futurity race
at Sheepshead, L. l., the coming seas
on will be worth $4,000, one of the
richest prizes ever offered on an
American race-track.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

A friend told us lately that he had
just lost a $3.50 horse as the result
of sheer carelessness on the part of
his hired man. This sort of work
makes pretty expensive hired help on
the farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

japanese labor where put in compe-
tition with white labor is not worth
SO much by 20 per cent. Where eli
matte conditions will permit him to
work the white man can do more and
better work than any other man on
earth.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

We met lately a poultry raiser of
the state of New York who keeps
5000 White Leghorn laying hens and
enjoys an income from his poultry
yard of $50 per day. His poultry
houses cost over $1,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

A dressed duck sold in the Chicago
market not long since was found to
have gold nuggets in its crop to the
value of S25 and there has been much
curiosity to know where that parti-
cular duck was raised.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The Red Polled cattle are fast
growing in favor with men who wish
to combine, so far as possible, milk
and beef in one animal. We know
of number of men who have tried
this breed in small way and in every
case they are well pleased.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

We have two or three inquiries
about the Columbian raspberry. We
are now growing 1t with much salts
faction. IL is one of the most ram
pant growing raspberries, bears enor-
nous crops of purple berry Of
large size. 10 not, we take II, very
good berry to ship. must be protect
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The worlds beet sugar product IS
very rapidly outstripping that of cane
sugar, the cane product for 1900 being
2,S50,000 tons, while that of beet SUI
gar was 5,95O,O0O tons.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

We notice in a late English mar
ket report that choice Ben Davis APP
Piles are retailing in the London mar
ket at $40 per barrel. Old Ben ranks
high away from home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

Germany is doing much more than
any other nation to promote the es-
tablishment of electric motor lines
all through the empire. There is a
great field for this work in America,
also.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The several state institutions OF
Minnesota produce on the state farms
and gardens connected with them
about one-eighth of the SUPPLIES con-
sumed by them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

It requires the labor of one and
one-fourth hands to properly care for
an acre of tea plants. Thus the cul-
ture of tea becomes almost wholly
q question of cheap labor.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

Feed-cookers do not pay. Where
bought and tried they vii usually
be found piled away with other ole
truck after the first seasons use.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

If you want to sell real estate
III you want to bug real estate
If you want a situation
IF you want to make a loan
And have quick returns
--Advertise In PUBLIC OPINION.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
Marde Gras Carnivals.

On Feb. l1-12- the Mil
waukee will sell excursion tickets to
New Orleans or Mobile s32.45, good tC
return until March Z, 1901.
Inquire of S. V. Potter, Agt.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The Surprise plum, one of th'
Americana type, is rated by the Mir
nesota plum growers as the best o
all.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

In 1899 the railway mileage % The
country was 100,951 miles, whiCh earn
ed for the year S7o0,313, 900, AN in
crease in earnings of $6G,116,1Co.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

Kansas lost cattle to the value o.
100000 by blackleg the past season
Vaccination at cost of fifteen cents
q head would have saved them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The Wild Goose plum, a native. is
credited with being the earliest pluH
to be had for planting in the ncrth
west.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27
FARM, ORCHARD, 4
n 4 AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPNIoNby
J. S. TRI0O. Rockford, lows.

ed in winter in latitude AZ and north
We commend it heartily for plantin.
in the family garden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-02-27

The Argentine republic has 10000,
600 bushels of wheat for export thi'
winter, which is their summer.