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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-24

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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-24
RACE ECHOES.
FRIDAY. MAY "a.

pupils enrolled at Harvard TN
gear.
The State of Mississippi rank
next to Georgia in Negro popuIs
ton.
The colored inhabitants of Pen
sacola. Florida oSn more money
in proportion to their number
than the white.
There are a. present 1o. 900 Ne
gro Baptist churches in America
using the Nashville Baptist liter
AZURE and 5000 churches which
refuse, prefering to use while liter
ature. Not one white church
uses Negro literature.
Probably the first Afro-Ameri>
can to master the telegraph oper-
ator's profession in this country
was the late Chas. B. Leek, who
dropped dead at Ashtabula, o.,
on May 4th. For twenty years
he was manage. Of the Lake
Shore telegraph Office at Ashtab>
ula. His father conducted the
lunch room at the depot for As
years, and dropped dead at the
counter two years ago.
But very few ministers of his
time have died in better circum-
stances than the late Rev. John
Jasper, of Richmond. Va. Be-
sides his real estate, valued at
$4,000, he Iefs over $4,000 in mon
ey. It is said that Rev. Jasper
could easely have accumulated
q fortune, but realizing the fnan-
cial condition of the church, he
would accept only 5000 year
from his congregatien.-Alber-
querque American.
In Oklahoma there are 9,640
colored voters, most of whom
are owners of farms of 100 acres ,
each. There are $4,000 colored
children in the public scho ols;
and total population of 54,64O (
persons. Now the Review wants
5000 men to come here in August q
and secure farms when the Kiowa
opens up ussells :
Review, Mckinley, Ok. ,
4 VERY pRoafiss1NG !
REPRESENTATIVE. ;,
James F. Gregory, of Borden B
own, n. j., will graduate In June
rom the Yale Theological Semi ;
nary. The latest issue ofthe Yale
News contains an account OF his {
,aving won the first prize of$50
n the Downes prize contests. 4
The graduate is the son Of Prot. i
James n. Gregory, of Borden> =
own. He graduated from Am
1erst College June 20, 1898 He
vas the only Afro~Amsrisan stu.
lent in a class Of ninety members,
was class orator and also chosen Il
Is one of the eight from the whole
class to compete for the Hardy
prize in debate; was captain of the
Varsity" baseball team for SO,
md was tho first Afro-Ameriean !
% be elected as captain of y base
ball team in any Of the Eastern
colleges. In his Sophmore year .
,e won the Kellogg oratorical /,
,rizs Of $50, and in his Junior !.
rear he won the Ladd and the
logan ortorical prizes. !
This q remarkable career for
ny young man, and he has every
eason to be proud Of it. S
DOCTOR YOURSELF. &
.saonoya" Tablets are mailed and
aaanteed by Kidd Drug Company n
Iain, Ill. to cure all forms Of diseases =
Urinary organs, and system, Bladder, y
g.. Including Gouorrhoea, elect,
hites, Lucorrhoea. unnatural dis
an1es. irritations and alterations of 3
: urinary oroabs aad mucous mem
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-24
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-24
DOCTOR YOURSELF.

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1usranteed by Kidd Drug Company
Elain. Ill. TO cure all forms of diseases
ofUrinsry organs, and system, Bladder,
etc. Including Gonorrhoea, elect
Whites, Lucorrhoea, unnatural dis
charges, irritations and alterations of
The urinary orgabs add mucous mem
beanes never gives structure, harmless
mi nainless. An internal remedy
Nth infections combined; only one in
the world. Sent per mail on receipt of
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Des Meines. u. Full line Of Rubber
Goods; name what you want.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
Twenty Cows on Forty Acres.

A friend with only forty acres of
land wishes to keep dairy of twenty
cows and asks for information how
best to use his farm to this end. To
begin with, it may be assumed that
this number of cows cannot be kept
on such sized farm to be pastured.
They will have to be soiled, fed green
foods, of which more can be grown
than grass on q given area of land.
For the latitude where our friend
hves-central fowa--we would sug-
gest sowing of field peas and oats
every two weeks up to May 10. then
successive planting of corn in one or
two-acre tracts up to June 20, these
followed byia crop of millet or sorgh-
um on the land from which the oats
and peas had been removed. Enough
corn should be planted to fill a silo
for the principal forage ration of the
cows during the winter. Where this
course or one similar is followed, it is
possible to pretty nearly keep a COW
the year round on an acre and a half
of good land. In any event the ration
for twenty cows would have to be
fortified with some food bought from
outside, such as bran, oil, cottonseed
or gluten meal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
Buying Cows BY Test

A writer in a dairy journal advises
buying cows by the Babcock test.
This is all right as far as it goes, but
the simple test of cows milk for
butter fat is alone a poor guide in
the selection of cow Quantity of
milk given and length of milking per-
look ahead and provide against such
the butter fat test. We once owned
a COW which would make ten pounds
of butter week for the first thirty
days after she was fresh. The next
month, in spite of all that good feed
ing and care could do, she would drop
off to six pounds, the next month to
four pounds, then to three, and when
she struck three she would keep that
gait up just as long as one cared to
milk her. She was thus not profit
able COW to keep. OF course you will
say that the time to have sold her
was during the first thirty-day period.
Yes, of course, but just the same we
made beef of her.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
Successful Forestry.

One of the most interesting and
successful attempts at forestry work
we have come across is that made in
1878 by the Memphis Railroad COM
pany in the vicinity OF Pennington,
Kansas. Under the direction of the
president of the road two sections of
land, or 1,2S0 acres, were planted with
catalpas, the trees being set out four
feet apart each way, or 2,7a0 trees to
the acre. This tract of timber has be-
come literally an impenetrable forest,
the trees shooting up tall and slim
like tamaracks and now of size suf-
ficiently large 70 make ties, telegraph
poles and fence posts. 1t is estimated
by the company that this tract viii
supply the road with all the timber
which il needs for these purposes
from now on.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
A Cheap Bath Room.


There are no emo of farm homes
which have no facilities for bathing
other than those afforded by tub
and a towel. So much of the work
on the farm is calculated to make
the worker sweaty, that some easy
way of getting good bath is al
most as much OF necessity as a
luxury. Now here is plan which
costs but trifle and has proven a
perfect success: Get a galvanized
iron tub made twenty inches in diam
eter and foot in depth, giving it
flaring sides, cut square so that it
will Just fit in little bath room
three feet square, which room may
be built in one corner of the kitchen
or wherever it may be most out of
the way. In the top of this bath
chamber place a pan which will hold
a pailful of water, fitted with rose
sprinkler and faucet. Put pail of
tepid soft water in the pan, get under
it and enjoy as fine shower bath as
can be obtained anywhere. The
whole cost of it is not over IS. A
pipe to conduct the waste water
from the bath tub should be at
tached. This is one of the hest and
most practical suggestions which we
have ever given in these notes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
A Serious Problem.

The question of help in the house
tor the farmers wife is one of the
most serious problems connected
with the management of the farm.
The work in the farm home is so
perfectly merciless and ever present
during the crop season, so closely
associated with the actual work of
the farm, that when the wife and
mother is not equal to the burden
imposed upon her it becomes a most
serious matter. Three meals day
and pretty good ones at that, must
somehow be got up, for hired men
win not stand cold snacks or picked
up. lunches. Help for the wife is
hard to get and becomes more so
each year. Now, there are few
things which any man can do if he
has not already secured them, which
wiii greatly tighten the work in the
nome. These may be named as fol-
lows: A supply of soft and hard
water to be obtained without work;
plenty of dry fuel easy of access;
well-supplied vegetable and fruit
garden to draw upon for supplies:
hard wood floor i'm the kitchen;
modern range or oil stove TO
cook with; a generous supply of
kitchen utensils. 1t will cost far less
to procure these things than il will
to chase around after hired girl
and pay her wages, or pay doctors
DILL. The wife Is by every right en-
titled TO just as much of modern
equipment and conveniences in the
kitcnen as her husband is in the con,
duct of the farm work, and she
should not have to ask for these
things either.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

We have two or three inquiries as
to which is the best way to get rid of
quack grass. This grass, like the
Canada thistle, does it's propagating
under ground by means of suckers
so, when it is plowed up or in any
manner disturbed, such process gives
the very best conditions for its spread
and multiplication. Close pasturing
of the land by sheep; the sowing of
an early crop of millet to be har-
vested in July, the land to be then
plowed and sowed to another crop
of millet, are two ways which have
proven successful in DISCRIMINATING
this pest. III a very dry time can
be secured in August in which to
do the work and the land can be
plowed two or three times, ten days
between each blowing, it can be killed
out, but this method is useless should
rain come and moisten the earth. II
we had field infested with it we
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
About one hundred new creamerie.

About one hundred new creameries
are to be started in the state of
Minnesota this coming year. A new
creamery costs from $4,000 to $4,000
and should be started only where
there are at least four hundred cows
in sight tributory to it. and with a
community and conditions which will
permit of an increase of this number
up to 1000. Probably the same mis-
take will there be made as in Iowa
and Wisconsin of establishing cream
cries in localities before the cows are
in sight and before the people as a
whole are ready to take up the dairy
business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

1t is almost impossible to obtain
in any of the creamery territory o.
the country any more of the nice old
fashioned dairy butter made by the
nice old-fashioned dairywoman. Than
this there never was any better
butter made nor ever will be. Here
and there a woman still makes her
own butter and supplies few Gus
toners in town, but such butter is
not found on sale at the grocery
stores.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

While the limited advantages con-
nected with the average country
school are very often deplored, it
should not be forgotten that the
child in the country has hundred
opportunities for acquiring know
ledge of practical things almost
wholly denied to the child of the city.
Not all lessons are to be had from
text books. Country life offers ma
ture as teacher with object lessons
on every hand.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

Fifteen or twenty boxes a foot
square and six inches high, without
any bottom, covered with piece
of mosquito netting, will protect the
squashes, melons and cucumbers of
any family garden from the stripped
bugs better than it can be done in
any other way. A pane of glass
laid over the boxes will be a great
help to the young plants during the
early summer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

And now the scientists tell us tina
the fine flavor of butter is not
derived from buttercups, blue grass
and corn, but from bugs-bacteria--
of refined and pedigreed sort and
that by innoculating the milk or
cream with starter containing these
bacteria, fine flavor can be pro-
duced in any cream not spoiled. The
secret of successful butter-making
is hereafter to lie in getting the
right sort of starter. Great is
science.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

cry in the west, operated on the
farm separator plan. told us recently
that his patrons place value of 30
cents per cwt. on their skim milk
for feeding their calves. 10 cents per
cwt. would be big price for the
skim milk as usually returned to the
dairyman from the creamery separa-
tors. There is a point here worth
thinking over.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The sensible landlord can do no
more sensible thing than to sub
scribe for practical farm paper,
one which treats of farm conditions
as they, exist where such landlords
farm may be located, and furnish it
to the man who is working his farm.
1t will further help the man if the
landlord will read such paper himself
before handing it over to his tenant
end mark such articles as may be of
special value and interest to both.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

Men will always succeed the best
with that kind of live stock which
they like the best A man who does
not like sheep should never attempt
to keep them. just the same with
horses and cows. Men with violent
tempers should not have much to do
with stock anyway; it is better for
them to pitch hay, chop wood and dig
potatoes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The only consolation connected
with the failure of the Grout bill to
become law is the fact that the
river and harbor bill failed also. If
an existing fraud could, not be stop
ped it is some satisfaction to know
that at least another was not per-
petrated. The dairyman must wait;
old bossy will be heard from at the
next session.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

would plan to crop the land for two
or three years with some heavy
foliage crop, such as rape, millet,
or sowed corn, expecting to smother
the quack grass out. Where it has
got foothola in field, it is worse
than useless tn SOW it to small grain
or plant it with corn, as the condi-
ton incident to growing such crops
simply promote the spread of the
pest
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

1t was first the OK team of the pio-
neer settler, then the two horss
team, then ten years ago the three
horse team, and this year we have
noted more four horse teams at work
putting IN the crops than ever before
Every corner is being cut where hired
help may be dispensed with and q
horse made to do the work of man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The most beautiful bird in North
America is the male wood duck, its
plumage combination of delicate
shading and pencilling and brilliant
coloring not excelled in artistic
beauty by any bird in any country.
1t seems pity that they are never
seen but to be killed if possible. The
Mongolian pheasant, which has been
acclimated in Oregon and Washing
ton. is the next most richly piumaged
bird we have.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

Everybody is busy these April dag.
raking up and burning the dea,
leaves. There is better use to max
of them. Put them around>and und
the currant and berry bushes, IL
rose bushes, wherever mulching wi.
b'e beneficial Leaves make the yeyi
best mulch of anything to be Oh
tanned.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

A man is never poor when he has
good health, the ability to eat three
square meals day. and is the owner
of a home never so humble and out of
debt. If in that home there be those
who love him and look for his coming
when the toll of the day is ended, then
is he rich, possessor of treasures
which the millionaire cannot purchase
if he be denied them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The best remedy we know of for
hog cholera may be summed up thus:
breed only from well-matured par
ents and keep corn away from the
pigs until they are a year old, then
finish them for market. There may
be no money in raising hogs after
this rule, still, we believe it would
pay better than maintaining hog
cemetery on nearly every farm in
the country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

Wild creatures-birds and animals
are infinitely more law-abiding than
man. They rarely ever fight among
themselves and always recognize a
community of interest which is uD'
selfish.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

With the annual "butchering" has
also departed the former almost uni
versal job of soap making on the
farms of the north. The old I've vat
and the big soap ket e have departed
with the other accessories of pioneer
life
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The right time to buy is when
everybody wants to sell, but few do
so. Once in a while some wise man
will act upon this theory and always
makes money. A safe rule to be
governed by is this: whenever any
commodity is selling below the cost
of production it is safe PROPOSE
ton to invest in it. This motto should
be learned by heart.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

There are plenty of small boys who
will be glad to dig a bushel basket
full of dandelions out of your lawn
for a nickel and it is the cheapest
way in which to get rid of these
pests.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

1t never pays to keep dairy COW
which is natural born kicker. No
return which may be obtained from
such a COW is any compensation for
the provocation incurred to break
the fourth commandment.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

A busy day at the Chicago stock
yards will include the receipt of $4,000
cattle, 10000 hogs, $4,000 sheep and
1000 horses, which would make
train of freight ears sixteen miles in
length.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

A New Zealand paper makes the
statement that a certain dairyman
and his wife regularly milk seventy
nine cows between them twice each
day, furnishing ton of milk per day
to the creamery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

Where the grain is needed for feed
on the farm, more oat hay--oats cut
just as the kernel gets into the
dough stage-should be put up. For
feeding on the farm there is no way
In which to get so much good out OF
the oat crop as Ivy this method.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The price of hay nearly doubled
in the community where the writer
lives during three weeks of the
worst spring roads we have ever
known. This need not be IL men
would have forethought enough to
iod are just as important factors az
conditions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

We feel like commencing red
clover as the best grass in the or
chard. 1t fertilizes the trees, makes
fine mulch and does not rob the
soil of moisture as do other grasses.
1t is never mistake to aet clover
in the orchard.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

A writer on timber culture in one of
the agricultural journals gives the
bur oak tree as a rapid grower. This
is mistake, the bur oak being the
very slowest growing of any of our
native forest trees.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

We recommend the Golden Gl4
as a very hardy and snowy plan. -
lawn decoration. From the midd.'
of august till the frost comes it
produce an almost unlimited amour
Of ye-ow bloom, the blossoms &c
ing almost equal in beauty to thoe'
of the yellow chrysanthemums
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

of Canadian foods and conditions.
Any type of bacon hog would become
under corn belt conditions in course
OF time lard hog, and the Poland
China fed only heterogeneous foods
would in time be converted into a
bacon hog.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

docking of horses should be perrnittef
on the horses~used for the court. Thi'
action will result in making the docl.
ed horse questionable and thus thr
cruel practice will be stopped.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
The large sized thing is all right (,

The large sized thing is all right for
culverts, providing it is placed where
water will not stand in the tile.
Where it does, the freezing of the
water in winter is almost sure to
crack and spoil the tile. The sixteen.
foot culvert where thing is used
should have fall from end to end of
not less than four inches.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The Jewish rabbi who fell from
grace and lost his job because he fell
victim to the seductions of dish of
smoked ham is entitled to public SYM
pathy on general principles.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

With the fat steer and the fat hog
each bringing five cents pound the
average farmer will make a good
deal more money out of the hog
than he will out of the steer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08
Three hundred farmers

Three hundred farmers, some
young men and some of them gray
headed, took advantage of special
three weeks course at the Iowa
Agricultural college this winter, the
special work IF this course being in
struction in stoclI-iudging. Several
who attended tell us that it was the
most instructive and profitable three
weeks they ever put in on farm work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

A carload of oats is 1900 bushels,
of corn 900 bushels, of wheat 800 BUSH
els, of barley 1000 bushels, this rating
applying to the car of $4,000 pounds
capacity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

The Vassar college girls, if they are
counted pretty, ethereal and intel
lectual, manage to get away with
several barrels of potatoes for each
meal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

A growing tree acts just as pump
In extracting the moisture from the
soil. This is why in the beginning of
drought the grass viii first dry up
under the tree.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-05-08

One man whom we know drives a
double sulky pillow with four horses
and has a STEADY old team hitched
to his pillow behind dragging the land
as he turns 1T over.