The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-05-20

Dned sweet potatoes are coming Into
the market as a valuable and whole
some addition to our food supply.
Family pets are all right if they only
would not grow into domestic nuisances.
The getting rid of one of these pets is
always a serious affair
The waste land on the public high
ways and railroad rights Of way III
the state of Iowa would, if cultivated.
produce enough food to feed the people
of Ireland.
Looking back forty YEARS we find
that twenty farmers become financial
ly independent where, one business
man does Farming may be slow. but
it is pretty safe.
AS a rule, all hped vegetable crops
eAldllSt lliG !Siti.til VI tiitr '7oit. ti-.e
exhaustion i; TO some extent compen-
sated for by the mechanical conditiup
in which such crops leave the soil.
In the piGneer days when men were
fighting to live and hold their land
they did as well as they could in their
methods of farming. Now they may
and should do as we'll as they know
how to do.
The man who used to move his barn
to get rid of his manure piles has most
ly disappeared from the west. He
went with the man who burned his
straw and stole wood from the specu-
lators' timber lots.
1t is this way out west: More hired
men are wanted, more hired girls,
more teachers-in fact, more of any
kind of people who are willing to do
the hard and dirty work of life for
reasonable compensation.
Some deer from England which were
turned loose in the forest regions of
Molokai, one of the Hawaiian group of
islands, many years ago have so in
creased in numbers that they threaten
the destruction of the forests.
One of the April magazines had no
fewer than nineteen different adver-
tisements of automobiles, prices rang
ing from $3.50 up. The auto is here to
stay and will be cheaper in price be-
fore long. just as it was with the
bicycle.
Interest and rent are two things
which we do not like to have to meet.
OF course men can't dodge them al
ways. but there really is lots Of salts
faction in owing no man a dollar and
In living in your own house or on your
own farm, and lots of men die in ig-
porance of this pleasure.
And now comes q college professor
with the honesty and good sense to af-
firm that it is better for girls to put in
the time usually devoted to the dead
languages and higher mathematics in
securing a practical knowledge OF home
making and home keeping. This pro.
fessor should have his salary raised at
once
Where the desert lands of the west
are not impregnated with alkali they
are wonderfully productive just as
soon as water Is brought into contact
with them, far more so than ordinary
soils within the rain belt. The very
aridity which has rendered these lands
worthless has resulted in storing up in
them almost unlimited fertility.
One of the best farm hands we ever
lnew is an old bachelor bit bald
with sandy chin whiskers, who got
shook by girl some years ago anG
who has had it in for the girls ever
since. This man stays at home nights
and is willing to do the Sunday chores
aud enjoys the good home and freedom
from family cares which are his lot
The country needs more of this kind
The three states of Minnesota, Wis
consin and Michigan have furnished
tie country with 1873, s91 900, 900 feet OF
white pine during the past thirty years
and are we'll nigh stripped clean Of this
most valuable timber. Unlike the con
ifers on the Pacific coast, the white
pine does not reproduce itself, but
when removed its place is taken by
other and less valuable varieties OF
timber
This is day Of large things. Here
Is the state of New York proposing tc
spend $1OO,00O,0O0 to enlarge the ole
Erie canal and secure water transpor
tation from the great lakes to New Yorl
city for barges of 1000 tons capacity. Il
this canal is built, it will remain for
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